Oni

The Broken Land is full of wild places, from the scattered forests, the various mountains which thrust from the earth, to the river ways, and hidden swamps. And within these wild places the Oni dwell. 

There are few creatures more respected or feared than they. 

Oni come in a variety of sizes yet are similar of form: humanoid, often with pot bellies, powerfully muscled, skin and claws like iron, wide staring eyes, vivid skin tones and wild manes of hair. They are respected and revered for their inexhaustible strength, prowess as warriors and immortality, and they are feared for their bottomless appetites and bad tempers. An oni can in a day consume enough food to feed a family for a week, and a small group in a week, enough for an entire village in a year. Despite their near constant and ravenous hunger it doesn't seem that they actually need to eat to survive, starving one only serves to shorten its already limited temper. 

They seem to have no settlements and disdain large gatherings of their own kind. For these reasons it is difficult to say if there exists such a thing as Oni "society". Their homes are often little more than caves or crude huts. Clothing and modesty is not a concern of theirs either, they often wear little more than animal skin loincloths, with tiger skins being the most prized. Their preferred weapons are large iron swords or tetsubos, some also carry javelins or throwing axes. However they are strong enough that small trees and boulders are perfectly valid options as well. They practice poetry, meditation, and caligraphy.

Some consider them as spirits of the Broken Land, others merely a strange and enigmatic people. Whatever the case may be they are innately magical beings. Their spirits are so strong, that if their bodies are slain they manifest. A ghostly vaguely oni shaped form appears, unless destroyed in this form the oni spirit will eventually form a new physical body. In addition many seem to be natural sorcerers, capable of hurling magical bolts of flame and cold, whatever else they are capable of is unknown.

They respect power and strength, and can be quite good conversationalists. In exchange for food, some oni will serve as mercenaries, the hard part is finding them. Certain sorcerers have learnt of rituals capable of summoning them. Despite their gusto for food they don't actually need to eat, so what they do with it all is a mystery. Some (more learned types) believe that they use it form new bodies.

Their word for own people is Yomi, and this is the name of the land they claim to be from as well. A wild land of towering mountains, primeval forests, and raging seas. No such land fitting this description has ever been found, and oni are notoriously tight lipped about it. Their names are actually haikus, but it is the best identifiers they give; Since they insist that these names are only for other's benefit to themselves they are all Yomi. Thses are names like: Old Pond Frog Leaps In Water's Sounds, or Winds of Jifu I've brought my Fan Gifts of Yomi