The Book of Giants

Giants
Behemoths of the mortal worlds, and the founders of
civilization. Before there were dwarves, gnomes, elves,
halflings and human, two races populated the world, the
giants and the dragons. When the realms were new, and the
sun had yet to shine on the mortal planes, the gods promised
their children the right to the mountains and oceans that had
formed in the material planes. The mistake that was made,
was that the gods who made these promises never relayed
the information to others, and so the giants and dragons were
placed into the realms without the knowledge of the others
presence, at least, until they made contact and all out war
broke.
The Grilarstór War. During the 0th Era, otherwise known
as the Ingens Era, the gods placed their children upon the
mortal realms Muncaelo, Sanctus, and Relicta, as a gift to
their ultimate creations, hoping to bear witness to the growth
of their children as the too created and transformed the
realms. However, when the children of the god--the dragons
and giants--came into contact with each other, they entered a
bloody war that would last 1500 years, and become known as
the Grilarstór War.
The war wrought destruction across the realms, creating
mountain ranges, ripping continents apart, and bringing
about the creation of the several ancestral races, including
the dervern, and the The Scalnatus, who would evolve to
become dwarves and dragonborn, amidst other offshoots.
While most forget the finer details of the wars today, and the
first giants of Asguard retain the histories with failing
memories, all that is well remembered was that Draco came
down from the heavens to wipe the giants out, his legions
upon failure were then used to forge the first cursed blade of
victory; Draco's Folley, A dwarf betrayed the giants, allowing
for the dragon queen to escape from death, and subsequently
was cursed and turned into a dragon by Odin himself, and
that most of the sentient races, specifically humans, rose
from the blood and destruction of the war, and became the
dominant races of the Material Realms.
More than the Six
Ask about the many citizen residing in the town and villages
of the realms what giants there are, and you'd hear of the
original six--cloud, fire, frost, hill, stone, and storm--and other
simple facts, though often misconstrued by the lack of
experiences of those people. Ask a knowledgable man, or
parhaps an experienced adventurer, and you'd hear of the
giant kin--firbolgs, goliaths, and ogres--and learn that there
are more giants than at first presented.
Like the fearsome dragons, there are many more giants
than what is first presented with an introduction to the true
giants. Their hierarchical structure expands to include other
lesser known giants, such as the death, desert, forest, and
jungle giants, and within the many giant races, variants such
as the craa'ghoran, mountain, and phaerlin giants exist. Many
variants and irregular giants exist within their ordered
culture, however there are more who break away from the
hierarchy and enact as opponents to the true giants, despite
being giants themselves. These rare giants expand to include
the likes of the eldrtich giants, the Geriviar, and the
spriggans.

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Cloud Shadow Giant
Huge giant, neutral good (50%) or neutral evil
(50%)
Armor Class 14 (Natural Armor)
Hit Points 200 (16d12+96)
Speed 40 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
27 (+8) 10 (+0) 22 (+6) 12 (+1) 16 (+3) 16 (+3)
Saving Throws Con +10, Wis +7, Cha +7
Skills Insight +7, Perception +7, Stealth +8
Damage Resistances necrotic
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 17
Languages Common, Giant
Challenge 14 (11,500 XP)
Keen Smell. The giant has advantage on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Living Shadow. While in dim light or darkness, the
giant has resistance to damage that isn't force,
psychic, or radiant.
Innate Spellcasting. The giant's innate spellcasting
ability is Charisma. It can innately cast the following
spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect magic, fog cloud, light
3/day each: feather fall, fly, misty step, telekinesis
1/day each: control weather, gaseous form, darkness
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the
giant can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the giant has
disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Actions
Multiattack. The giant makes two morningstar
attacks.
Morningstar. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit,
reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 19 (3d8+8) piercing
damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach
60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 30 (4d10+8)
bludgeoning damage.
Shadow Giants
Shadow giants are giants that were either born in Malumtra
or transformed by years spent within its dark domains. Some
shadow giants embrace the Shadowfell for its desolate
landscapes and dreary demeanor. Others seek to return to
the Material Realms, to spread or escape the darkness of the
Plane of Shadow.
Dark Portals. Portals to the Shadowfell manifest in
forgotten caverns and the dark gloom of abandoned
structures. The giants that explore such places often discover
these portals and find themselves transported to the dark
realm. Elder giants who would explore these locals might
find themselves spirited away, never knowing that a portal
had appeared and taken them away.
Recast in Shadow. The transformation to a shadow giant
happens over a period of years, during which time a giant's
skin loses it's pigment, fading to a gray or charcoal hue. Its
hair become translucent and takes on a texture akin to wisps
of shadows flowing from their heads, and its eyes paling to
pools of opalescent grays and purples. Shadow giants find
sunlight abhorrent, and they are weaker in bright light than
they are in darkness. Malumtra also has a dispiriting effect
on its denizens, such that the longer a creature remains on
the plane, the more in tune with the planes distraught and
unforgiving nature it becomes. As months and years pass for
a giant on the Shadowfell, it becomes aware of the
transformation being wrought upon it, and yet can do nothing
to prevent it.
Back in the World. A shadow giant is so suffused with the
power of the Shadowfell that even a return to a Material
Realm can't undo their transformation. While some shadow
giants will work to trick others into suffering the same
destructive fate as themselves, other will leave the first
chance they get, recognizing that living in the shadows of the
mortal realms is still a better life than living within Malumtra.
Shadow Giant Template
Any giant can transform into a shadow giant, whether it is
born in Malumtra or remains there for several years. When a
giant becomes a shadow giant, it retains its statistics except
as described below.
Damage Resistances. The giant has resistance to necrotic
damage.
Skill Proficiency: Stealth. The giant's proficiency bonus
is doubled for its Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
Living Shadow. While in dim light or darkness, the giant
has resistance to damage that isn't force, psychic, or radiant.
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the giant
can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the giant has
disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom
(Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Variant Elements. If the giant has a feature that deals acid,
cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage , change that damage
type to necrotic.
Craa'ghoran Giants
Craa'ghoran giants are the descendants of stone giants that
were magically transformed by the elemental plane of earth
and it's elementals.
More Stone Than Giant. The appearance of the
craa'ghoran giants would lead one to mistake them for a
completely different species of giant, or even go so far as to
call them a cross between an undead and an elemental. The
energies of the elemental plane withing them warp their
bodies, treating it as untempered clays causing it to sag and
sludge across their skeletons, while their chests and backs
sprout stone spikes often to the point where a craa'ghoran
natural balance is offset by their earthen growths.
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 Not all craa'ghoran giants suffer these physical defects, and
the older giants who are more attuned to their powers are
capable of forming a more solidified body, and even passing
themselves off as normal stone giants.
Masters of Mazes. The craa'ghoran giants are a solitary
species, preferring to live along away from other of their or
any giant kin. the only exception to this rule is when
craa'ghoran giants form small direct families, though one will
never find more than four or five craa'ghoran giants living
within close proximity. To maintain their solidarity, a
craa'ghoran giant will seek out a large natural space of stone
within the Material Planes, or the Elemental Plane of Earth,
such as a vast mountain, or just beneath the surface of a vast
untouched local.
When a craa'ghoran giant descides upon their territory,
they will start to transform it into a vast maze. This is done
for a variety of reasons, in part because the craa'ghoran as
part elemental consume stone as a form of sustenance, and
in part because their newfound control of the earth is well
equipped for the construction of such large and sprawling
structures. Beyond this, the craa'ghoran giants retain the love
of artistry that is preeminent within stone giant culture,
working this into their ever expanding mazes with beautiful
murals covering their passageway wall, ornate statues
housing within the many corners of their structures, and fine
detailing permeating the bridges that cross the many caverns
that the maze cuts through.
Many travelers stumble upon these boundless passages,
mistaking them for uninhabited ruins, to be explored and
looted. Unfortunately for them, craa'ghoran giants tend to find
visitors very unpleasing, and soon any intruder will find
themselves lost and in imminent threat of death at the giants
hand. Some adventurers and merchants may try to barter
safe passage through a craa'ghoran giants territory with a
bribe, though in all likely hood, the giant will take the bribe
and then renege on the deal soon after.
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Craa'ghoran Giant
Huge giant, neutral evil
Armor Class 17 (Natural Armor)
Hit Points 127 (11d12+55)
Speed 40 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
23 (+6) 15 (+2) 20 (+5) 10 (+0) 12 (+1) 9 (-1)
Saving Throws Dex +5, Con +8, Wis +4
Skills Athletics +12, Perception +4
Damage Vulnerabilities thunder
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and
slashing from nonmagical attacks
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses Darkvision 60 Ft., passive Perception 14
Languages Giant
Challenge 8 (3,900)
Innate Spellcasting. The giants's innate spellcasting
ability is Charisma (save DC 10, +2 to hit with spell
attacks). The giant can innately cast the following
spells, requiring no material components:
At will: mold earth, wall of stone
3/day: earthquake
Earth Glide. The giant can burrow through
nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing
so, the giant doesn't disturb the material it moves
through.
Stone Camouflage. The giant has advantage on
Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky
terrain.
Actions
Multiattack. The giant makes two greatclub attacks.
Greatclub. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 15
ft., one target. Hit: 19 (3d8+6) bludgeoning
damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach
60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d10+6)
bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it
must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or
be knocked prone
Reaction
Rock Catching. If a rock or similar object is hurled at
the giant, the giant can, with a successful DC 10
Dexterity saving throw, catch the missile and take
no bludgeoning damage from it.

Death Giants
Collectors of lost souls, death giants traverse between
Malumtra, Limbo, and the Material Realms to collect any and
all souls for their own purposes. Before the appearance of the
goddess of the dead, the first death giant--Hel--was the
collector of all souls. During the Grilarstór War, she collected
any and all souls of the deceased and, using a technique she
acquired through nefarious means, empowered herself,
becoming the first goddess of the dead, and overshadowing
all other children of the gods, while preventing the souls she
collected from reaching their proper afterlives.
Withdrawn from the Hierarchy. After achieving divinity,
Hel taught her children the secrets of manipulating the souls
their swore to collect, tainting the death giants, but causing
them to grow in power. While they, for a time, grew to be
more powerful than any other giants or dragons, they refused
to participate in the Grilarstór War, suggesting that their job
of collecting souls was all that matters, and that they held no
stake in who one between the giants and the dragons.
Eventually though, their desire for more powerful souls lead
them to manipulate the actions of both sides of the war,
leading the the deaths of several prominent giants and
dragons, and catching the eye of the giant king Odin. Once
Odin was made wise to the actions of Hel to consolidate
more power by leading her own kin to their deaths, he
decided to take action, partitioning the gods to strip her of
her divinity, and then sealing the majority of her powers
himself, trapping her true body within a new realm, that now
acts as her prison. Following this turn of events, Odin exiled
the death giants, forcing them to fend for themselves, and
creating the first of the renegade giant tribes, of many to
come.
Adapted to Exile. After their exile from Giant Society, and
the subsequent imprisonment of their only leader, the death
giants were left to collect themselves and start a new society.
Turning to magic, they adapted to their new predicaments,
changing their bodies to be immune to the transformations of
the shadowfell, and attaching their souls to that of Hel and
her new prison, forever feeding her and assuring she did not
die. Because of this, a death giants soul is not theirs, and they
can't be revived after death, with their soul leaving to
empower Hel in the hopes of one day being able to break free
from her prison. However, the souls of the death giants alone
were not enough, and while it will take eons to free Hel, it
would take eons more if they did so through simple sacrifices
of their kin, and thus the death giants returned to what they
do best, collecting souls and empowering themselves.
Collectors of Souls. A death giants position within the
death giant's society is determined by the amount of souls
they have collected and infused into their bodies, with the
greatest collectors being treated as leaders for the smaller
clans. This in term feeds into empowering Hel from beyond
her prison, with the empowered death giants souls going to
Hel's new realms; the death giant afterlife, where only the
souls of the death giants may go.
Death Giant Chain Reapers
While most of the death giants are focused purely on the
collection of souls, the exceptional few dedicate themselves
to following in the ways of Hel, empowering themselves and
taking up chains to bind the souls they take.
Hunters in Sight. While it is common for death giants to
seek other creatures to slay and collect souls, a death giant
chain reaper will excel in the task, gaining power quickly, and
seeking targets to slay, fearing next to no consequences.
While often a bit more brutish than other death giants, the
chain reapers required success elevates their confidence,
causing them to risk hunting in more dangerous local, and
often targeting small to mid sized settlements within the
Material Realms. This has the strange side effect of having
more people see death giant chain reapers than death giants
n general, as the actions of the chain reapers are often
accounted by many survivors, where regular death giants
target smaller groups, and leave less evidence of their
presence behind.
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 Death Giant
Huge giant, neutral evil
Armor Class 17 (chain mail)
Hit Points 230 (20d12+100)
Speed 50 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
28 (+9) 13 (+1) 21 (+5) 12 (+1) 17 (+3) 18 (+4)
Saving Throws Con +9, Wis +7, Cha +8
Skills Arcana +5, History +7, intimidation +8,
Perception +7
Damage Resistances cold; bludgeoning, slashing and
piercing damage from non magic weapons
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 17
Languages Common, Giant
Challenge 12 (8,400 XP)
Innate Spellcasting. The giants's innate spellcasting
ability is Charisma (save DC 16, +8 to hit with spell
attacks). The giant can innately cast the following
spells, requiring no material components:
3/day: dispel magic, inflict wounds, blight
1/day: flame strike
Soul Healing. The giant is immune to necrotic
damage, and instead is healed by it. for every point
of necrotic damage dealt to the giant, add the
damage to its hit points.
Sold Soul. A death giant cannot be raised,
resurrected, or reincarnated. A death giant's soul is
utterly destroyed 1 round after the giant's death.
Actions
Multiattack. The giant makes two greataxe attacks.
Greataxe. Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 5
ft., one target. Hit: 26 (5d6+9) slashing damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach
60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 31 (4d10 + 9)
bludgeoning damage.
Frightful Keening. The souls around the giant give off
a frightening presence. Each creature of the giant's
choice that is within 120 feet of the giant and aware
of it must succeed on a DC 19 Wisdom saving
throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A
creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of
each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a
success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or
the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the
giant's Frightful Keening for the next 24 hours.
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Death Giant Chain
Reaper
Huge giant, neutral evil
Armor Class 17 (chain mail)
Hit Points 230 (20d12+100)
Speed 50 ft., fly 50 ft. (hover)
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
30 (+10) 14 (+2) 21 (+5) 14 (+2) 19 (+4) 20 (+5)
Saving Throws Con +9, Wis +8, Cha +9
Skills Arcana +6, History +8, Intimidation +9,
Perception +8
Damage Resistances cold, lightning, necrotic
Damage Immunities poison; bludgeoning, piercing,
and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 18
Languages Common, Giant
Challenge 19 (22,000 XP)
Innate Spellcasting. The giants's innate spellcasting
ability is Charisma (save DC 18, +10 to hit with spell
attacks). The giant can innately cast the following
spells, requiring no material components:
3/day: dispel magic, inflict wounds, blight
1/day: flame strike, power word kill
Soul Healing. The giant is immune to necrotic
damage, and instead is healed by it. for every point
of necrotic damage dealt to the giant, add the
damage to its hit points.
Sold Soul. A death giant cannot be raised,
resurrected, or reincarnated. A death giant's soul is
utterly destroyed 1 round after the giant's death.
Actions
Multiattack. The giant makes three chain attacks.
Reaper's Chain. Melee Weapon Attack: +14 to hit,
reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (7d4+10) slashing
damage.
Frightful Keening. The souls around the giant give off
a frightening presence. Each creature of the giant's
choice that is within 120 feet of the giant and aware
of it must succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom saving
throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A
creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of
each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a
success. If a creature's saving throw is successful or
the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the
giant's Frightful Keening for the next 24 hours.
 Desert Giant Sand
Shifter
Huge giant, neutral

Armor Class 17 (Natural Armor)

Hit Points 175 (14d12+84)
Speed 40 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA

22 (+6) 10 (+0) 23 (+6) 11 (+0) 16 (+3) 13 (+1)

Saving Throws Str +9, Con +8, Cha +4

Skills Perception +4, Stealth +3, Survival +4
Senses passive Perception 14
Languages Giant
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP)

Desert Camouflage. The giant has advantage on

Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in desert
terrain.
Raise Ancestor. Once per week, a desert giant sand
shifter can raise 4 (1d6) dead ancestors to aid it. the
raised ancestors use the desert giant stat block, and
fade into sand after 24 hours, or when their hit
points hit 0, whichever may come first.
Actions
Desert Giant Multiattack. The giant makes two scimitar attacks.
Huge giant, neutral
Scimitar. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5
ft., one target. Hit: 20 (4d6+6) piercing damage.
Armor Class 17 (Natural Armor)
Hit Points 138 (12d12+60) Earthen Mount. The giant can mold the sand into a
Speed 40 ft. giant horse. when this horse is summoned, the
giants size is gargantuan, and its speed is 120 ft.
The giant also follow mounted combat rules.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
22 (+6) 10 (+0) 21 (+5) 10 (+0) 12 (+1) 10 (+0)
Desert Giant
Saving Throws Str +9, Con +8, Cha +3
Skills Perception +4, Stealth +3, Survival +4 Gigantic shepherds of the wastelands, the desert giants are a
Senses passive Perception 14 nomadic species of giant found wandering the endless seas
Languages Giant of sand and stone with their tribes and cattle. They cared
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP) little for outsiders, preferring to remain independent to their
own tribes, and scarring off those who would oppose their
Desert Camouflage. The giant has advantage on wills.
Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in desert Nomads. Desert giants are nomadic in nature. After the
terrain. events of the Grilarstór War, the desert giants set off to settle
the vast deserts of the Material Realms, and establishing a
Actions couple grand desert empires. These empires didn't last
Multiattack. The giant makes two spear attacks. however, and the desert giants were cursed by the gods and
broke into tribes who wander the planes of sand to this day.
Spear. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 5 ft., In modern times, desert giants maintain free roaming
one target. Hit: 16 (3d6+6) piercing damage. cattle, following the herd and the rain to wherever they may
Spear (Thrown). Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, find what they need to survive. Nomads would only settle
range 60/180 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (3d6+6) down to wait out sandstorms, finding walled cities willing to
piercing damage. let them shelter behind their walls for a short period of time,
before taking off again to find new vegetation.

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 Lawless Lands. The desert giants took from the lands what
was required to survive, and maintain their herds. They
believe that the boons of the land--water, vegetation, spices
and more--belong to whoever takes them, and see the farms
and settlements of other races as nothing more than an
obstacle.
Most people who live within these harsher landscpaes will
ignore the actions of the desert giants, seeing them as a form
of inescapable plague, and often bribing them with salt, cloth,
spices, and metal to leave the lands be. While a few larger
cities have employed adventurers to ward off the actions of
desert giants, the size of a tribe and the strength of the giants
often lead to battles being drawn out and bloody.
Mercenaries and Thieves. Not all desert giants remain
with the tribe throughout the year. Young males will often
leave their tribes for extended periods of time to act as
mercenaries, guarding settlements, and sultans, or acting as
both guards and guides for caravans making their way
through the desert. Once they have completed several jobs,
they'll return to their tribes with any boons they have earned
and then distribute it among the people.
More often then that, younger members of a desert giant
tribe that has come on hard times, or lost their herds, will use
their natural ability to blend in with the desert terrain to set
up ambushes. These ambushers will target any unlucky
merchant or adventurer who stumbles into their trap, and
plunder them of any resources the giants find to be useful to
them.
From Flesh to Stone. When a desert giant nears the end
of its lifespan, it start to turn into sandstone or salt. This is a
curse placed upon the desert giants, by the gods for the
misdeeds of their ancestors, and has been with the
descendants of the desert giants for millenia.
Due to their inevitable, and unpreventable deaths, desert
giants, upon witnessing the first sings of their decay into
stone--their eyes turning brown--will migrate away from their
tribes, leaving all but a few supplies and traveling towards the
nearest desert giant burial grounds.
Once a desert giant has reached their final resting place,
they will spend their last days resting amidst the stone bodies
of their kin and tending or consuming the few cattle they take
with them. Eventually, when the end has come, the desert
giant will pick a spot and transform into a rocky pillar, never
to revive again.
Desert Giant Sand Shifter
Among the desendants of the cursed desert giants, some are
born with an innate control over it. These desert giant sand
shifters are capable of summoning their dead bodies of their
ancestors to fight battles for them, and can control the sands
of the lands they wander to create creatures for them to ride
into battle upon.
Sought or Shunned. Giants born with the powers of a
sand shifter are rare amidst the tribes of the desert giants.
Because of the spread of the desert giant culture, different
tribes react to a desert giant sand shifter differently, with
some tribes raising them to be leaders and protectors of the
tribe, using their abilities to raise their dead to guard the new
generations, while others reject sand shifter, viewing them as
necromatic monsters who disrupt the remains of the dead.
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Desert giant sand shifters who are rejected from their
tribes may wander the deserts alone, maintaining their own
private herds, or working with other races to survive, but
more often than not, a sand shifter will settle in or near a
desert giants graveyard, guarding the remains of the dead,
using the stone pillars to ward off any intruders, and aiding
any desert giants who come to settle down for their final
days.
Controllers of the Curse. Desert giants born with the
innate power to control the remains of the cursed ancestors
do so through control of the curse itself. A desert giant sand
shifters curse is actually hampered by their abilities, allowing
them to temporarily release the curse on the corpses of the
dead, and temporarily animate them, while also delaying the
onset effects of the cure upon themselves. While most desert
giants can only live to 400 years before the curse turns them
to stone, a desert giant sand shift can live to 600 years, with
some even staving off the curse beyond that.
Sand Riders. A desert giant sand shifters ability goes
beyond reanimating the stony corpses of their dead however,
and extend to full control over the sands they walk upon.
Sand shifters can manipulate the particles of dirt to craft
animalistic creatures for which they will ride. Reports even
exist of a sand shifter who warred against a large city with an
army of dead desert giants rider various horselike creates
made entirely of sand.
Eldritch Giant
The forgotten brother of the storm giants, and the direct
offspring of Odin, and his search for the wisdom of the
worlds, the eldritch giants are formidable masters of swords
and magic. Seeking out knowledge and creating powerful
artifacts, these giants are one opponent even other giants
would avoid fighting.
Arcane Seekers. As descendants of Odin, eldritch giants
experience an unearthly drive to seek out the secrets of the
realms, focusing on unraveling the many secrets of magic. To
this end, eldritch giants would seek out ruins and temples to
help with their personal research on spells, and collect
forgotten magical relics, or they would take the time to craft
their own magical items, as a means of manifesting their
arcane knowledge or testing their magical hypothesis.
Their desire for knowledge leads them to live solitary lives,
only ever interacting with other eldritch giants to share notes
and ideas, but more often than not keeping their knowledge
to themselves and hiding away in their studies or in long lost
ruins. The eldritch giants were more likely to meet with
settlements, seeking out materials that they themselves could
not produce, then to meet with other eldritch giants.
Beyond this, eldritch giants also liked to collect lores,
secrets of forgotten civilizations, and the stories of the
happenings of the cosmos. To this end, many lore seekers
would attempt to meet with the eldritch giants to try and
learn their forgotten secrets, however while eldritch giants
would conduct business with the settlements of humans and
other humanoids, they didn't like to be bothered and would
turn hostile if offended.
Runechild. The eldritch giants were created by Odin after
his discovery of runes and their magical abilities. Using this
newfound source of power, he crafted the verve rune as a
powersorce and then made the first of the eldritch giants,
based on the structure of the storm giants, the difference
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Eldritch Giant Some adult eldritch giants can channel arcane
Huge giant, neutral evil power through their bodies and release it with a
destructive stomp. This ability is represented by
Armor Class 18 (plate) the following action option.
Hit Points 230 (20d12+100) Eldritch Stomp (Recharge 6). The eldritch giant
Speed 50 ft. stomps the ground, releasing a wave of eldritch
energy. All other creatures within 15 feet of the
giant must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA saving throw or take 33 (6d10) force damage. On
a successful save, a creature takes half as much
27 (+8) 14 (+2) 20 (+5) 20 (+5) 16 (+3) 18 (+4) damage.
Saving Throws Str +13, Con +10, Int +10, Cha +9
Skills Arcana +10, Athletics +14, History +10,
Perception +8
Damage Resistances cold, lightning, thunder
Damage Immunities force
Senses passive Perception 18
Languages Common, Giant
Challenge 18 (20,000 XP)

Arcane Eyes. The giant is capable of discerning what

is magic and what is not. the giants vision is
constantly under the effects of the detect magic
spell.
Innate Spellcasting. The giant's innate spellcasting
ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 18, +10 to hit
with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following
spells, requiring no material components:
At will: dispel magic (5th level), magic missile (2nd
level)
3/day: dimension door
1/day each: globe of invulnerability, magic weapon
(6th level), shield
Magic Resistance. The giant has advantage on saving
throws against spells and other magical effects.
Actions
Multiattack. The giant makes two greatsword attacks.
Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach
10 ft., one target. Hit: 29 (6d6+8) slashing damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, range
60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 34 (4d12+8)
bludgeoning damage.
Arcane Strike (Recharge 5–6). The giant releases a
magical bolt at a point it can see within 500 feet of
it. Each creature within 10 feet of that point must
make a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw, taking 54
(12d8) force damage on a failed save, or half as
much damage on a successful one.

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 is their connection to the verve rune granted them powers
over magic that normal storm giants didn't have, and caused
their skin to grow purple and eltricth birthmarks to appear
across their bodies.
Odin had hoped these new giants would act as a more
powerful replacement for the storm giants during the
Grilarstór War, however his own destructive desire for the
truth was indicative of the nature of his new creations, and
despite being powerful, the eldritch giants shunned the
waring nature of the children of gods, and abandoned the
giant clans to act upon their own desires, sometimes even
trading information with the dragons, causing many giants to
see them as a threat to themselves.
Cousins of Thunder. Being created by the first storm
giants as an improved version of themselves, the eldritch
giants shared a lot of similarities with that of the storm
giants, including similar constitutions, strengths and wisdom
of the elder storm giants. Even so, the eldritch giants
connection to the verve rune caused them to connect to the
pure magical energy of the realms as opposed to the energies
of the stormy skies.
At first, this difference did not lead to too much enmity
between the storm giants and this newly created race, but
when the eldritch giants stared to show signs of disrespect to
those who came first, and started to show their true
capabilities, the storm giants--lead by Thor--sought to
eradicate the eldritch giants to eliminate the new potential
threat of them changing the hierarchy of the giant races and
removing the power of storm giants.
This, paired with the trading of information between the
eldritch giants and dragon was used as an excuse, and the
eldritch giants were hunted down as traitors and removed
from the greater giant society. The eradication wasn't all too
successful, thanks in part to the great strength of the eldritch
giants, but feeling abandoned by Odin, and no longer a part of
the giants culture, the eldritch giants made it a point to kill
any storm giants they come across, and a never ending
message to those who betrayed them.
Forest Giant
Forest giants are benign, nature loving caretakers who
maintain and nurture the forests they live within. Allied with
the elves, forest giants will create animal sanctuaries,
protecting the wildlife from hunters and growing the plantlife
within these giant, natural gardens.
Guardians of the Woods. When the averians--ancestors of
the elves--first entered the Material Realms, they aligned
themselves with the newly independent forest giants, living
amidst their terrain and impacting each others culture to the
point where the will of nature became more important than
the bickerings of giants and dragons to the likes of the forest
giants. While still apart of the giant hierarchy, the forest
giants rank lower than the likes of the hill giants due to their
disposition and dislike of the greater actions of the giant
races, preferring to maintain their territories and work
together with the smaller races as opposed to causing
ruckuses and fighting for strength.
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Nowadays, it is most common to find a forest giant within a
secluded thicket of woods, or living nearby some sort of
natural grove. Forest giants don't live together, only doing so
to raise kids until adulthood, and live individually nearby
these natural locations. While forest giants are by no means
completely solitary creatures, often living and interacting
with druids and elves, they as a people have determined that
spreading their influence is the best way to maintain the
environments they protect.
Serene. Forest giants are peace keepers by nature. Their
beliefs to the forest cause them to view humanoids as
another creature that needs direction and upkeep. Because of
this, forest giants are not hostile, and will leave fighting to the
last option. Do not mistake this for infinite patience however,
as if a forest giant believes they have been greatly slighted, or
that their domain they protect is in danger, they will forsake
their peaceful ways and decimate any opponents they may
meet, even if they are other giants.
Beyond this, most forest giants are primarily herbivores.
While they are capable of eating meet, their preference to
avoid killing leads them to limited dietary options. To prevent
themselves from starving, they maintain certain editable
plants and supplement the rest of their livelihoods with
magic. This has the adverse effects of shortening their
lifespans, causing forest giants to be one of the most short-
lived of the giant races, often making it no longer than 150
years.
Forest Giant Prognosticator
While most forest giants find them selves in tune with nature
and protecting it, some go a step farther, communing with it,
and becoming druids. These giants are revered as elders and
exemplars within forest giant culture, and many hope to one
day achieve this level of coexistence with the gardens they
tend to.
Holistic Endeavors. While many forest giants guard their
patches of woods as outsiders and controllers, a forest giant
Prognosticator will often attune themselves to the forest
itself, only acting when they feel that inactivity is most
imperative. Beyond this, they let the cycles of their garden
progress naturally, with plants and animals dying as death
comes for them, and new life growing from what is left
behind. Some forest giant prognosticators will even allow the
wisps of flame to engulf their homes in wildfires if they
believe it is time for a rebirth of the land, allowing the
nutrients of the charred wood to start growing anew.
Masters of Nature. Although they prefer to remain
inactive, allowing the progression of the forests they call
home to follow their natural paths, forest giant
prognosticators can enforce their will on the plant-life they
surround themselves in. Using this innate understanding of
the fauna and flora they connect with, they can enact magic
to combat and control, and even see into the future.
They use these skills to prepare for up[coming events,
coming to grips with the way the world is to be. Some who
attain this power will act more stern and cave to their desire
to protect their homes, but these prognosticators are few and
deemed as improper by their peers.
 Forest Giant Forest Giant
Huge giant, neutral
Prognosticator
Armor Class 14 (leather armor) Huge giant, neutral
Hit Points 147 (14d12+56)
Speed 40 ft. Armor Class 13
Hit Points 147 (14d12+56)
Speed 40 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
22 (+6) 16 (+3) 19 (+4) 10 (+0) 16 (+3) 18 (+4)
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
Saving Throws Dex +7, Con +8, Wis +7 22 (+6) 16 (+3) 19 (+4) 16 (+3) 19 (+4) 18 (+4)
Skills Nature +7, Perception +7, Stealth +7, Survival
+7 Saving Throws Dex +7, Con +8, Wis +8
Senses passive Perception 17 Skills Arcana +7, Nature +8, Perception +8, Stealth
Languages Giant, Sylvan +7, Survival +8
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP) Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and
slashing from nonmagical attacks
Forest Camouflage. The giant has advantage on Senses passive Perception 18
Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in forest Languages Giant, Sylvan
terrain. Challenge 11 (7,200 XP)

Actions Forest Camouflage. The giant has advantage on

Multiattack. The giant makes two attacks with its
spear.
Spear. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to hit,
reach 15 ft. or range 60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 16
(3d6+6) piercing damage or 19 (3d8+6) piercing
damage when wielded with two hands as a melee
weapon.
Log. Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach
60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d10+6)
bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it
must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or
be knocked prone.
In a given situation where a forest giant prognosticator finds
that their only solution to a problem is to act, they will bring
the forest itself to life, allowing the trees they live between to
uproot themselves and take form, becoming treant like
creatures that will combat anything they believe is a threat to
themselves, their homes, and the forest giant prognosticator.
Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in forest
terrain.
Innate Spellcasting. The giant's innate spellcasting
ability is Charisma (spell save DC 16). It can innately
cast the following spells, requiring no material
components:
At will: detect good and evil, detect magic, locate
animals or plants, mind spike
3/day each: foresight, true seeing
Actions
Multiattack. The giant makes two attacks with its
staff.
Staff. Melee: +10 to hit, reach 15 ft. or range
60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (3d6+6) bludgeoning
damage or 19 (3d8+6) bludgeoning damage when
wielded with two hands.
Animate Trees (1/Day). The giant magically animates
one or two trees it can see within 60 feet of it.
These trees have the same statistics as a treant,
except they have Intelligence and Charisma scores
of 1, they can't speak, and they have only the Slam
action option. An animated tree acts as an ally of the
giant. The tree remains animate for 1 day or until it
dies; until the giant dies or is more than 120 feet
from the tree; or until the giant takes a bonus action
to turn it back into an inanimate tree. The tree then
takes root if possible.

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 Geriviar
Gigantic beasts with an inherent rage towards structures, the
geriviars are a rare breed of giant, not normally witnessed or
even references amidst the hierarchical structure of the
giants overarching society. Often living within secluded
environments, the geriviar were often contracted to help
armies to deal with fortified cities and other structures.
Pathological Rage. For reasons unknown by all but the
gods and elder giants, the geriviars possess a strange, all
consuming loathing for permanent structures of any kind.
The sight of a structures, such as a tower of fortified wall
pulls a rage from deep within their subconscious, and offends
them on a personal level.
Paired with their inflexible, and stubborn personalities, the
geriviars are known to immediately destroy any structures
they come across, and those who built or reside within them.
Unyielding in this pursuit of destruction, once a geriviar had
set it's mind to something, death was usually the only means
of stopping it, unless one with a will as strong as the geriviars
were to step in.
Siege Engines Manifested. While it is unknown--the
cause of the gerivars inherent hatred--it cannot be disputed
that gerivars are the perfect siege weapons. Skilled in the
dismantlement of structures such as siege towers and
defensive walls, being able to convince a geriviar to aid your
armies can act as a great boon for you, assuming you yourself
do not use any fortifications while in the presence of the
giant.
It should be recognized however, that while great aids in
war, the geriviar themselves often avoid armor and weapons,
fighting in a more primal style with their fists and their
naturally produced nodules. Paired with their enhanced
healing, one might mistake them for gigantic mindless
beasts, if not for their capability to communicate when not in
a blind rage.
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Geriviar
Huge giant, chaotic evil
Armor Class 19 (natural armor)
Hit Points Hitpoints
Speed 70 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
30 (+10) 18 (+2) 24 (+5) 12 (+1) 10 (+0) 10 (+0)
Saving Throws Str +17, Dex +9
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing, and
slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't
adamantine
Damage Immunities fire, poison, thunder
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses passive Perception 10
Languages Giant
Challenge 21 (33,000 XP)
Innate Spellcasting. The giant's innate spellcasting
ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). It can innately
cast the following spells, requiring no material
components:
1/day: invisibility
Magic Resistance. The giant has advantage on saving
throws against spells and other magical effects.
Siege Monster. The giant deals double damage to
objects and structures.
Regeneration. The giant regains 10 hit points at the
start of its turn. If the giant takes acid or cold
damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the
giant's next turn. The giant dies only if it starts its
turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate.
Actions
Multiattack. The giant makes two slam attacks.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +17 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 20 (3d6+10) bludgeoning damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +17 to hit, range
60/180 ft., one target. Hit: 32 (4d10+10)
bludgeoning damage.
Explosive Nodules (3/day). The giant rips off one of
its nodules and throws it at a spot with 30 ft. of it.
All creatures within a 10 ft. radius of the nodules
landing spot must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving
throw, taking 18 (4d8) fire damage and 21 (6d6)
piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much on
a success.
Jungle Giant
Cousins to the forest giants, the jungle giants are descended
from those who sought out other lands, disconnected from
the ways of Freya and her kin, the jungle giants live in a more
tribal society, living off the land and hiding amidst the tall
tree, without the interactions that you would see from a
normal forest giant.
Top of the Food Chain. Withing the southern jungles of
Ildebadric continent, the jungle giants seek out prey to
sustain themselves. Jungle giants are carnivores, seeking out
and hunting any game they can find amidst the dense bush of
the outback. While smaller creatures are less likely to be
hunted, seeing as they are little more than a snack to the likes
of a giant, large cats, lizards, and snakes are often hunted
within an area until the giants decide to move onto locations
with better game.
After they have skinned the creatures and consumed the
meats, they utilize the bones and skins to craft themselves
cloths and tools, often creating axes, spears and daggers out
of them along with boulders and trees. With these tools,
giants will set up large traps designed to incapacitate and kill
their targets. Often carrying large knives with them, many
jungle giants are trained to be efficient with their kills and
work, allowing their lifestyle to be maintained.
Respect of the Hunter. Jungle giant--unlike most of the
other giant kin-- prefer to work alongside the likes of humans
and other humanoids. Often joining other humans for hunts,
the jungle giants have garnered an appreciation for the sheer
volume of humans, often working to have a large group chase
off prey into the waiting ambush of the jungle giants. Because
of these cooperative hunts, many jungle giants are sighted in
the presence of human tribals.
Jungle giants respected the assistance of these littlefolk,
and believe that any creature brave enough to participate in
the hunt was worthy of respect, no matter their size or race. If
game became scarce, or the population of giants grew too
large, many would wander from the jungles, heading to hunt
in nearby safaris and grasslands, though their natural
disadvantage in these locals would eventually lead them back
to their preferred habitat.
Mountain Giant
Brutish cousins of the hill giants, the mountain giants are
cruel and erratic hill giants that adapted to living within
mountainous terrain over the course of generations. Often a
little smaller than the likes of your typical hill giant, their
reduced stature was made up by their extreme hardiness and
strength, being capable of feats on par with the likes of the
fire giants.
Civil Split. The clans of hill giant who would give birth to
the line of giants that would one day become the mountain
giants split off from the hill giant society in the later half of
the first era. While specific records of these event have been
lost through the generations, primarily to a lack of
documentation and an inconsistent oral tradition maintained
by both hill and mountain giants alike, but both sides claim
that the split was due to a civil war within the hill giants
society, that inevitably ended with either the abandonment, or
exile of the forest giant forefathers.
Mountain Networks. Mountain giant clans would consist a
several groups of small families living throughout a mountain
rang, with each family being regulated to a single peak. Often
lead by a shaman who leads the occasional gatherings of the
families, and visitors who come seeking an audience with the
tribe, the giants would share information between the
families to help maintain their control over their shared
territory.
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 Jungle Giant Mountain Giant
Huge giant, neutral Huge giant, chaotic evil

Armor Class 14 (leather armor) Armor Class 15 (natural armor)

Hit Points 147 (14d12+56) Hit Points 126 (11d12+55)
Speed 40 ft. Speed 40 ft.

STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
22 (+6) 16 (+3) 19 (+4) 10 (+0) 16 (+3) 18 (+4) 21 (+5) 8 (-1) 20 (+5) 9 (-1) 9 (-1) 10 (+0)

Saving Throws Dex +7, Con +8, Wis +7 Skills Perception +2

Skills Nature +7, Perception +7, Stealth +7, Survival
+7
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 17
Languages Giant, Sylvan
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP)
Jungle Camouflage. The giant has advantage on
Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in jungle
terrain.
Actions
Multiattack. The giant makes two attacks with its
spear.
Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to
hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/40 ft., one target. Hit: 13
(3d4+6) piercing damage.
Giant Bow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, range
150/600 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (3d8+3) piercing
damage.
Log. Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach
60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d10+6)
bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it
must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or
be knocked prone.
Senses passive Perception 12
Languages Giant
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)
Domineering Words. Mountain giants are skilled at
convincing other creatures to do work for them. The
giant has advantage on all Charisma checks to
persuade or command beasts, monstrosity, swarm
of tiny beasts, and even some types of giants (hill
giants, ogres, and trolls).
Keen Smell. The mountain giant has advantage on
Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Actions
Multiattack. The giant makes two greatclub attacks.
Greatclub. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 10
ft., one target. Hit: 18 (3d8+5) bludgeoning
damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, range
60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5)
bludgeoning damage.

It is in the best interest of any adventurers and other typical

travelers who enter the territory of a mountain giant tribe to
seek out an audience with the shaman, as most other
mountain giants will attack or rob you outright otherwise.

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 Ancient Prisoners. Long ago, the stone giants who would
come to be the first of the phaerlin were enslaved, and
Phaerlin Giant imprisoned by the drow, treated as large brutes forced to
perform tasks within mines, creating new tunnels and
Huge giant, neutral structures, and fending off monster attacks for their new
masters. Their presence helped the drow to eventually create
Armor Class 18 (natural armor) a permanent foothold within the underdark that has proven
Hit Points 202 (13d12+78) to be resilient to this day.
Speed 50 ft. This slavery would not end however, and eventually lead to
drow experiments with dark magic being performed on the
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA phaerlin to enhance more desired features for combative
purposes, as well as dumb them down to make them easier to
23 (+6) 15 (+2) 22 (+6) 7 (-2) 12 (+1) 15 (+2) control. These experiments failed in the end, and the
resulting mutations would bee seen within the phaerlin for
Saving Throws Dex +5, Con +8, Wis +4, Cha +5 generations to come.
Skills Athletics +12, Perception +4 Solitary Beasts. Eventually, some of the phaerlin broke
Senses blindsight 60 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive free from their restraints and ran with wild abandon into the
Perception 14 winding tunnels to be unseen for years. While these wild
Languages Giant phaerlin have reproduced--making them a normal part of the
Challenge 9 (3,900 XP) underdarks ecosystem--they are a rare species, living solitary
lives of hunting and having low numbers.
Stone Camouflage. The giant has advantage on
Dexterity (stealth) checks made to hide in rocky
On rare occasions, two to three phaerlin would cooperate,
terrain.
but this was always temporary, and they would soon after
return to what would be their marked territories. This is
Keen Smell. The giant has advantage on Wisdom consistant with most interactions with the phaerlin who,
(Perception) checks that rely on smell. while sentient, were barley capable of speech, and held no
culture. This incapability of forming social connections and
Actions repressing their instinctual desires prevented them from ever
Multiattack. The giant makes two attacks, one with leaving their dark homes and returning to the society of other
its bite, and on e with its claws. stone giants, furthering the divide between the two now
distinct species.
Bite.* Melee Weapon Attack:* +9 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 16 (3d6+6) bludgeoning damage.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, reach 10 ft.,
one target. Hit: 13 (3d4+6) bludgeoning damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, range
60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (4d10 + 6)
bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it
must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or
be knocked prone.
Frightful Howl (Recharge 6). Each creature that is
within 120 feet of the giant and can hear it must
succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or
become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can
repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its
turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a
creature's saving throw is successful or the effect
ends for it, the creature is immune to the giant's
Frightful Howl for the next 24 hours.

Phaerlin Giant
The phaerlin giants were migratory stone giants who moved
deep into the underdark. Hunched over due to the restraining
space of the many caves, and often crawling on all fours as
opposed to standing, the phaerlin were mutated and adapted
to survival in the harsh environment of the underdark,
abandoning their reason, and becoming a feral monstrosity to
be feared withing the howling caves where the light doesn't
shine.

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Spriggan
Medium fey, chaotic neutral
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 190 (20d8+100)
Speed 30 ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
18 (+4) 13 (+1) 20 (+5) 10 (+0) 16 (+3) 12 (+1)
Skills Animal Handling +4, Perception +6
Damage Vulnerabilities fire
Damage Resistances bludgeoning, piercing
Senses passive Perception 16
Languages Giant, Sylvan
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)
False Appearance. While the spriggan remains
motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal
tree.
Innate Spellcasting. The spriggan's spellcasting ability
is Wisdom (spell save DC 14, +6 to hit with spell
attacks). The spriggan can innately cast the
following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: enlarge/ reduce (targeting self), flesh to
stone (wood)
1/day each: detect magic
Magic Resistance. The spriggan has advantage on
saving throws against spells and other magical
effects.
Magic Weapons. The spriggan's weapon attacks are
magical.
Actions
Multiattack. The spriggan makes two claw attacks.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft.,
one target. Hit: 11 (2d6+4) slashing damage.
Children of the Forest (1/Day). The spriggan magically
calls 2d4 swarms of wasps, ravens, beetles, or rats.
While outdoors, the spriggan can call 3d6 wolves
instead. The called creatures arrive in 1d4 rounds,
acting as allies of the spriggan and obeying its
spoken commands. The beasts remain for 1 hour,
until the spriggan dies, or until the spriggan
dismisses them as a bonus action.
Spriggan
The spriggans were a race of giants abandoned in the
feywilds by the giant kin during the Grilarstór War. Ghosts of
their former selves, the arcane energies and curse of the fey
have transformed them into living trees, guarding treasures
and playing pranks upon any who accidentally wader into
their territories.
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Forgotten Giants. In times forgotten, the spriggan were
giantkin, weaker than the likes of the firbolg and goliaths with
whom the spriggan were closer to within the ordning. During
the war between giants and dragons, the spriggan were
positioned within the feywild, seeking allegiances on behalf of
the storm giants from the fey lords that resided there.
Unfortunately, the Spriggan were abandoned by their kin
within Mystramm, and over generations of missteps with the
courts of the fay, and the magics of the realm, they were
transformed into the tree-like humanoids they appear as
today, abandoning the giantkin outright in anger of the
betrayal they feel, and acting against the natural denizens of
the realm they now call home as petty revenge for the curses
that have permanently transformed their species from the
powerful beings they once were to the musks of wood they
have become.
Grudge-Bearers. With a history wrought with betrayal and
malefactors, the generations of spriggan grew up learning
and inheriting the hatred of their ancestors towards all who
have wronged them. Due to this form of upbringing, the
spriggan hold an undying grudge against both fey and giants
alike, and have grown to remember all accounts against
them, and to pay people back, albeit in a more mischievous
way more often than not.
Having found themselves more connected to the plant-life
around them has helped to soothe their cultural anger over
the years, changing them to be more fey-like themselves, with
their desire to gain vengeance through simple pranks and
shocking surprises. New grudges are easily forgotten with a
simple unexpected gust of wind, or the replacing of a
woman's child with a changeling, but their deep grudges
towards the courts of orderning will always remain with their
people, until the archfey have been duped into obscenity, and
the giants have been cursed to a similar fate.
Guardians of Troves. Given their extensive lifespans,
many Spriggan find purpose in their life by guarding hidden
glades, cave entrances, forest ruins, or any form of treasure
they can find, no matter how insignificant. Spriggan who
chose a life of guarding, will spend months and years, hidden
around their grounds, waiting to attack any and all travelers
who seek to explore or take their treasures, becoming
extremely hostile whenever the chance appears.
Spriggan who chose to spend their extensive lives guarding
these places, may eventually die where they stand, if ever you
find a burrow underneath roots, a tree within an abandoned
temple, or a single gold coin in a branch, you may be looking
at the remains of an ancient spriggan.
Verbeeg Lycanthrope
Verbeeg are giants that resemble oversized humans with Verbeeg Lycanthrope
gangly limbs and elongated faces. Thanks to their similarity Large giant (giant, shapechanger), chaotic evil
to normal humans, the verbeeg were genetically susceptible
to all forms of lycanthropy, though they have been proven Armor Class 14 (hide armor, shield) in giant form,
immune to the curse of the wereraven. 15 (natural armor) in dire wolf or hybrid form
Giant Werewolves. Lycanthrope, specifically the curse of Hit Points 85 (12d10+36)
the werewolf, had an adverse effect on the verbeeg giants. A Speed 40 ft. (50 ft. in dire wolf form)
verbeeg afflicted with a curse of lyncanthropy would proved
vile and violent, even more so than their traditional
lycanthrope cousins. This more animalistic nature lent a STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
verbeeg lycanthrope to act vile in or out of transformation, 20 (+5) 11 (+0) 16 (+3) 11 (+0) 10 (+0) 9 (-1)
and attempt to spread the curse of often as possible.
Due to how dangerous a verbeeg lycanthrope often proved Saving Throws Dex +2, Con +5
to be, the many clans and tribes of verbeeg had it ingrained Skills Animal Handling +2, Athletics +6, Perception
into their traditions that the immediate eradication of any and +4, Stealth +2
all verbeeg lycanthrope, and normal lycanthropes by Damage Immunities bludgeoning, piercing, and
extension, was a must to protect the best interests of all slashing from nonmagical attacks that aren't
verbeeg giants. This lead to verbeeg tribes actively hunting silvered
down and killing any member that became afflicted with the Senses passive Perception 14
condition. Languages Common, Giant (can't speak in dire wolf
form)
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)

Shapechanger. The verbeeg lycanthrope can use its

action to polymorph into a dire wolf-giant hybrid or
into a dire wolf, or back into its true form, which is
giant. Its statistics, other than its AC, are the same in
each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying
isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Keen Hearing and Smell. The verbeeg lycanthrope has
advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely
on hearing or smell.
Simple Weapon Wielder. A simple weapon deals one
extra die of its damage when the verbeeg
lycanthrope hits with it (giant form, included in the
attack).
Actions
Multiattack (Giant or Hybrid Form Only). The verbeeg
lycanthrope makes two attacks: two with its spear
(giant form) or one with its bite and one with its
claws (hybrid form).
Bite (Dire Wolf or Hybrid Form Only). Melee Weapon
Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 18
(3d8+5) piercing damage. If the target is a
humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution
saving throw or be cursed with werewolf
lycanthropy.
Claws (Hybrid Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +5
to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 17 (5d4+5)
slashing damage.
Spear. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +7 to hit,
reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 15
(3d6+5) piercing damage, or 18 (3d8+5) piercing
damage if used to make a ranged attack or used
with two hands to make a melee attack.

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Art in Order of Appearance
"Kangrinboqe Warrior" by yinyuming
"Giant castle" by Paul Chadeisson
"Craa'ghoran Giant" from the Monster Manual IV
by Wizards of the Coast
"Shadow giant" by Tsabo6
"Sand Giant" by Mathias Kollros
"Eldritch Giant" by Lucio Parrillo for WotC
"Geriviar" by Wayne England for WotC
"Ondu Giant" MtG Art from Rise of the Eldrazi by
Igor Kieryluk
"4e Hill Giant" owned by WotC
"Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn" p.
50. owned by WotC
"sketch of a Spriggan" by allthingstamriel
"Fenric Gore-Claw" card from Heros of Camelot