Mountain giant

Mountain giants, called fjelljotunen in their own language, were a brutish giant offshoot race of hill giants.

Description
Mountain giants largely resembled hill giants, though they were slightly smaller and roughly as strong as fire giants.

Male mountain giants often had heavy beards, but never mustaches, as well as large pot bellies. They were typically clothed in rough hides or skins and carried huge clubs as weapons. Due to poor hygiene, their bodies often had foul odors lingering off them that could travel along the wind for over a distance of a or more.

Personality
These giants were often suspicious of outsiders and reluctant to interact with them. However, they were more than capable of agreeing to peaceful relations with other creatures.

Mountain giants took great joy in crushing people under their boulders.

Abilities
Though not the most charismatic of giants, whenever this race called for aid a number of monsters would quickly arrive to fight alongside them. Most often these calls for help were answered by ogres, though trolls and occasionally hill giants were also known to come at such calls.

A mountain giant had some degree of control over these other creatures, able to issue them broadly defined commands, but they still valued their own lives over that of their summoner. Often times this ability would be used to acquire guards and underlings for their cavern homes.

Combat
Mountain giants were rarely known to use any form of tactical planning, deceit, or ambushing maneuvers. Rather, they preferred to straightforward approach of tossing down massive boulders at their foes from afar and rarely took cover while doing so. When fighting in close quarters they were known to use a club that were the size of logs or tree limbs.

History
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. The exact date in which this civil war occurred was unknown, but it happened sometime prior to -339 DR.

Society
A mountain giant tribe was generally a very loose network of several families, scattered across a given mountain or range. These families were polygamous, typically in the form of multiple men sharing a single woman. Tribes were led by a 3-level shaman, who typically lived alongside other friendly creatures rather than their own race. They presided over a tribe's occasional gathering and would counsel those willing to travel in order to talk with them.

Mountain giant shamans typically derived their powers from the spheres of All, Animal, Charm, Combat, Elemental, or Healing. They also possessed an innate ability to locate any cave or cavern entrance within a half mile of them, with the exception of those hidden through magic.

Diet
Mountain giants were foragers and hunters who ate a variety of nuts, tubers, and other edible mountain plants. Their most favorite food was typically mountain sheep.

Homelands
Typically mountain giants lived solitary lives in mountain ranges and volcanoes. During the days of the Netheril empire, mountain giants were known to inhabit the Eastern Forest.

Relationships
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.

Mountain giants stood just above hill giants in the giant heirarchy, or ordning, and just below stone giants.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * How the Mighty Are Fallen
 * Cards
 * Spellfire: Master the Magic