Armor-Faced Ogre

Armor-faced ogres are a group of hominids in the family, Stultibrutidae. Ogres often trade on their strength, despite having 'better than average' intelligence. They live as scavengers, bullying humans (formerly), dylanuses (formerly), and other animals into giving up their food, land, and wealth. Luckily, ogres are both vain and lazy, attributes often leading to their downfall. Descended from a group of surviving Neanderthals, ogres are quite large in their natural form. They have the ability to shape-shift into creatures both smaller and larger than themselves, but they then share the strengths and limitations of each. In order to shift into a form, the ogre must have previously seen the creature it wishes to become, and it can only remain in that guise for a limited duration. In the fable "Puss in Boots", written in the eighteenth century, the clever Puss outsmarts one nasty, conniving ogre by convincing him to turn into a mouse.'' Ogres are solitary animals and it would 'be highly unusual to see more than one in the same place. Abandoned mansions, factories, hospitals, and other massive, isolated buildings may house ogres; they find such places more to scale for their size.

Known species of ogres

 * Perrault's Ogre (Horrifer perraultanus)
 * Spiny-Crest forest Ogre (Horrifer ocedontelus)