(Today, in church, I was inspired by a line from Isaiah 40, which in the King James describes the "mighty men of Moab." I changed the spelling a bit to weird-fantasy it up a little, and used an idea I had prior about a community to write up. This particular settlement has not been placed on the map yet. I think I'll save it for a hex crawl.)
Mo-ab is a town located deep in the wilderness, where all the inhabitants are eight to nine feet tall, but otherwise appear as any other human being. They use bronze more than any other metal, preferring its look and feel, and almost to a man their soldiers wear scale mail and wield hefty battle axes. Women do not serve as soldiers in this community, and instead take care of the homestead. If a male Mo-abite is not employed as a soldier, he will be a trader or a farmer.
They worship the Nameless God, who is also worshipped in the city-state of Megiddo, even though they are not Megiddians. There is a legend the wise men of the town tell that suggests they do, however, have a common ancestor. This ancestor would be the Nephilim, a people born of human and angelic stock, who were also rumored to be giants.
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