The Great-Thewed
21 creatures confidence: medium community #47
oversized humanoid monsters and makers whose shared note is sheer bodily strength (minotaur, cyclops, ogre, oni, golem, daidarabotchi) [named at the growth-04 gate, owner-approved 2026-07-25] [carried from v15, overlap 0.41]
What binds them
The shared documented vocabulary this family coheres around — each link lists every carrier of that motif or power.
- superhuman strength (power, shared ×33)
- heightened senses (power, shared ×4)
- keen scent (power, shared ×3)
- glowing red eyes (motif, shared ×1)
- grants boons when bound or bested (motif, shared ×1)
- made of smokeless fire (motif, shared ×1)
- reluctant servitude through magical binding (motif, shared ×1)
- symbiotic bond with a human master (motif, shared ×1)
Spans 7 tradition families: south-asian ×5 · middle-eastern ×5 · east-asian ×4 · european ×2 · south-american ×2 · celtic ×2 · slavic ×1
Members
- Astomi
- Cabal
- Capelobo
- Cikavac
- Daidarabotchi
- Daitya
- Div
- Fenodyree
- Garuda
- Ifrit
- Illuyanka
- Jataya
- Jiangshi
- Kijo
- La Llorona
- Marid
- Minotaur
- Og
- Ogre
- Oni
- Vetala
Affinity families assert documented resemblance — shared motifs and powers that beat a null model — never genealogy. Descent is a different claim, made only by the gold curated-kinship edges on the constellation. Discovered by deterministic community detection; see all affinity families.