Geriviar

Geriviars were giants…

Description
A gigantic and imposing figure, a geriviar stood tall and was around  in weight. With a small amount of black body hair, its hide was various shades of gray, rough in texture, and ensconced with thick plates like armor. These plates bristled with spiky spherical nodules, not unlike huge caltrops, that could be broken off. The geriviar had six limbs in total: two legs and four arms, which had two elbow joints. It had a smooth and rolling gait, despite its massiveness, and could sprint by going to all six limbs. Its head was sunken below its bulky, hunchbacked shoulders.

They wore a little clothing as necessary to keep warm, as they did not like the cold, and a few wore armor. They carried their possessions in a sack or portable container.

Personality
Geriviars were characterized by a strange yet all-consuming loathing for permanent structures of any kind. Buildings provoked a pathological rage in them and practically offended them on a personal level, driving them to immediately destroy them and those who built them.

Inflexible, stubborn, and utterly unyielding in almost anything they did, a geriviar that had started a task or set its mind on a course could not be stopped from finishing it, except through death or an equally forceful will.

They were highly hostile and hateful to any being they saw as a threat—seemingly just about anything that moved. They were especially suspicious of any person or race that erected buildings to lay claim to land, as well as those who trespassed in their territory.

Society
They were a nomadic race, always on the move out of a paranoia that someone might be building something on some other piece of land they claimed, and intending to find it and tear it down. Fortunately for those who built, wherever geriviars went, they usually sought isolation in remote places, even from each other. The majority were solitary or paired wanderers who lingered in remote spots, patrolled their territory, and drove away so-called "invaders". Others roamed in small family groups, in bands of six to nine active members with one or two non-combatants. These geriviars were utterly dedicated to their family and fought to the death to defend a member who was attacked, but those very rare few who could not keep up because of age, injury, or sickness were just left behind.

Some geriviars might've been found serving in military forces, whether voluntarily enlisted or forcibly conscripted. Either way, they acted as siege experts, or as living siege weapons, a task for which they were perfectly suited. Some even enjoyed this for the chance to destroy their hated buildings. However, commanders of geriviars had to be just as hard and uncompromising, and they would still struggle to order them to change tasks or retreat.

In contrast to a lot of giants, geriviars seldom captured slaves.

History
Because of their strange habits and unique array of powers, geriviars were theorized by scholars to be an artificial race created for use by warlords as mobile siege engines in ancient times. Few could doubt this after witnessing them in battle.