Mountain giants were a breed of brutish giants given to acts of cruelty.[3]
Description
Edit
Often living to be 100 years old,[3] mountain giants resembled hill giants,[2][3] standing over fourteen feet (four meters) tall, and weighing over 1,000 pounds (500 kilograms).[5][note 1] Their skin tones ranged from tan to reddish brown,[2][3] their bulbous faces covered with greasy,[3] straight,[2] black hair.[2][3] The males had heavy beards but no mustaches, and they had large pot bellies. They were typically clothed in rough hides or skins and carried huge clubs as weapons. The stale reek of a mountain giant could be detected several hundred feet downwind.[3]
While shorter than hill giants, mountain giants were about as strong as fire giants.[2][5]
PersonalityEdit
They especially enjoyed crushing people under boulders.[3] They spoke Jotunhaug and Jotun.[4]
SocietyEdit
Typically mountain giants lived alone in in their mountain ranges and volcanoes. Despite often resenting intruders, they would occasionally keep a few dwarves or humans as pets. If found in groups, they were usually a pair of mates with children.[7]
Mountain giants stood just above hill giants in the giant heirarchy, or ordning, and just below stone giants.[8]
HistoryEdit
Mountain giants descended from hill giants, and so they were still considered true giants. They broke off from their hill giant ancestors after a civil war in the ancient past of Faerûn.[9]
AppendixEdit
| This article is incomplete. You can help the Forgotten Realms Wiki by providing more information. |
NotesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The size of mountain giants in core 3rd edition changed drastically from that in earlier editions. However, mountain giants in the Realms were explicitly described in Giantcraft to follow the 2nd edition sizes, so those values are presented here.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ed Bonny, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, Skip Williams, Steve Winter (September 2002). Monster Manual II 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 112. ISBN 0-7869-2873-5.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Doug Stewart (June 1993). Monstrous Manual. (TSR, Inc). ISBN 1-5607-6619-0.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Ed Bonny, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, Skip Williams, Steve Winter (September 2002). Monster Manual II 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 113. ISBN 0-7869-2873-5.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ray Winninger (August 1995). Giantcraft. (TSR, Inc), p. 27. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Ray Winninger (August 1995). Giantcraft. (TSR, Inc), p. 19. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.
- ↑ David Cook (1991). Monstrous Compendium Forgotten Realms Appendix (MC11). (TSR, Inc), p. 24. ISBN l-56076-111-3.
- ↑ Ed Bonny, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, Skip Williams, Steve Winter (September 2002). Monster Manual II 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 114. ISBN 0-7869-2873-5.
- ↑ Ray Winninger (August 1995). Giantcraft. (TSR, Inc), p. 25. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.
- ↑ Ray Winninger (August 1995). Giantcraft. (TSR, Inc), p. 16. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.
ConnectionsEdit
Cloud giant • Ettin • Fire giant • Fog giant • Frost giant • Hill giant • Mountain giant • Stone giant • Storm giant • Titans (Fire titan • Storm titan)
Giant-Kin
Cyclops • Cyclopskin • Earth giant • Firbolg • Fomorian • Ogre • Oni • Verbeeg • Voadkyn
