The Cyclops

I've never been a huge fan of 4e's take on cyclopses. Basically, they're giant fey "muscle" for the fomorians. That's fine and all, but it seems a little dissonant compared to how cyclopses have been portrayed in earlier editions of D&D and their classical sources (where they more like brutes if anything).

In my campaign, I think I'll make cyclopses related to orcs. Perhaps during Gruumsh's mythic battle with Correllon, some of the spilled blood from Gruumsh's eye washed onto Gruumsh's most loyal servitors. "Anointed" by this blood, they became one eyed like their patron and transformed into cyclopses.

I'm not sure if making cyclops into bigger orcs is necessarily a move up in the world , but I like it. It feels truer to mythology and D&D lore, which is a good thing in my opinion.