Stone giant

"We all know of dwarves who fell so deep in love with their craft, or the seeking of treasure or ale, that that they forgot how to live in any other way but in pursuit of it. That's what stone giants do."

- Elminster

A stone giant was a type of giant.

Description
Adult stone giants averaged about in height and weighed.

Stone giants had an excellent sense of smell and had infravision to. They spoke Jotunstein and Jotun. Stone giants were the longest living of the giants, despite their low position in the ordning.

Subraces
A subrace of stone giants known as ash giants lived in the Black Ash Plain in east Faerûn. They were approximately the same size as stone giants. They had hairless grey skin and deep-set black eyes and often smeared themselves with ash as camouflage. Some ash giants were shamans.

The subrace of craa'ghoran giants was created by druid worshipers of Gond by exposing stone giants to the energies of elemental earth.

Stone giants that spent too much time on the surface, either during their dream quests or as a result of banishment from their communities, became dreamwalkers, driven so far into madness by their isolation to the point that reality itself bent around them.

Combat
Stone giants preferred to fight using ranged weapons such as boulders but if forced into melee they wielded gigantic stone clubs.

Society
Stone giant family bonds were less important than the bonds between a master and his pupil. The ordering of stone giant society was based upon an individual's artistic ability.

The strongest stone giant nation was Cairnheim in the Underdark. It was a village located in the western part of the Darklands in the Upperdark inside the Giant's Run Mountains under the rule of the stone giant lich Dodkong.

Lands
Stone giants preferred temperate mountain ranges as their habitat.

Stone giants were powerful enough to survive and make a living in the Underdark in the face of competition. They had a tendency to gather in larger individual groups the deeper the given group was located, but were primarily denizens of the Upperdark, though their numbers were small even there.

They carved their homes out of the rock and had a reputation as good artisans, though they generally maintained an uncaring stance towards other denizens of the Underdark and expected the same stance from the others.

Notable Stone Giants

 * Yauln
 * Kayalithica

Appearances

 * Adventures:
 * City of the Spider Queen
 * Hoard of the Dragon Queen
 * Khamsa's Folly
 * Out of the Abyss
 * Storm King's Thunder
 * Szith Morcane Unbound
 * Board Games:
 * Assault of the Giants
 * Novels:
 * The Captive Flame