Giant



Giants are humanoid creatures, usually of great strength and size. All giants have low-light vision. As a group, they have no other special abilities or immunities. Dwarves as a race are experienced at fighting giants, so they are more adept in combat with them.

Society
Some people, especially those who live exclusively in the cities, do not believe that giants even exist.

Myths and legends
Some giants believe that the stars are dragon queens preparing to scatter dragon eggs across the land. There is a legend that a dragon god lives in the sun and leads the dragons in war.

Festivals and events
Once a year, the chiefs of the largest giant tribes on Faerûn make a pilgrimage to the Twilight Vale where the Twilight Spirit appears to them, asking for their help in fulfilling the prophecy of the return of Annam All-Father. The Twilight Spirit appears as a very large, shadowy giant, whose identity is not known.

History
Giants were inhabiting Abeir-Toril before any of the other humanoid or demihuman races. The first of their kind and the source of the entire species were the sons of Annam All-Father and his wife Othea, who settled on the planet to form a kingdom known as Ostoria. Each of his sons led to a different type of giant.

The giants were soon at war with the dragons. This conflict was to last for over a thousand years. There are differing accounts of its conclusion, although the giants believe it was a result of a stalemate in a game of wah-ree between Annam and the dragon god, while dwarven accounts say that the dragons needed to declare peace to conduct a civil war in which the metallic dragons fought the chromatic dragons.

True Giants
There are six types of classic "true giant" races:
 * Cloud giant : A giant race that believes itself superior to all other giants, with the exception of storm giants.
 * Fire giant : A militaristic giant that looks somewhat like a huge dwarf.
 * Frost giant : A giant who lives in areas frozen year-round and participates in raids.
 * Hill giant : A selfish giant inhabiting hilly regions.
 * Stone giant : A shy giant that is nevertheless dangerous when aroused to anger.
 * Storm giant : A gentle giant that lives mainly on cloud islands.

Further Giant Species
These are other giant subraces found throughout Faerûn. When turned to life as incarnate constructs, large-sized or larger artificial humanoids, such as golems, are also defined as giants.


 * Craa'Ghoran Giant : Rare stone giant offshoots created when earth elemental energy warped and twisted their ancestors. They can glide and walk right through stone like earth elementals and raise walls of stone from the ground with their supernatural powers. They resemble tanned, bestial and deformed versions of stone giants.
 * Desert giant
 * Death giant
 * Eldritch giant : These ancient giants spend their years seeking out fragments of knowledge.
 * Fog giant
 * Forest giant : An elven giant that is amongst the tallest species of giant.
 * Jungle giant
 * Mountain giant : A brute that is amongst the largest species of giant, and loves to squash people under boulders.
 * Ocean giant : A merfolk-like giant that can assume a more humanoid form to walk on land.
 * Reef giant
 * Sand giant
 * Sun giant : A grim, nomadic desert-dwelling giant that survives by raising livestock.

Notable Giantkin

 * Cyclops
 * Ettin
 * Firbolg
 * Fomorian
 * Ogre
 * Troll