Voadkyn

The voadkyn were a kind of giant-kin sometimes also known as wood giants. A large population lived with the wood elves and the treants in the Cold Wood.

Abilities
They had the ability to magically disguise themselves as a generic specimen of any humanoid creature 3 to 15 ft (1 to 4.6 m) in height.

Personality
A voadkyn was usually chaotic good in alignment.

Lycanthropy
Voadkyn were known to be highly susceptible to all forms of lycanthropy and were one of only two giant races in which "true" lycanthropes were known to exist. These true lycanthopes were a form of werebat that the voadkyn referred to as shadkyn and a great enmity existed between them and their non-afflicted brethren.

Society
Voadkyn believed themselves to be superior to the other giants and giant-kin, and believed that they were unfairly placed near to the bottom of the ordning in terms of racial status. They disliked jovial behavior and preferred brooding and silence. Voadkyn respected their forest environment and took it upon themselves to tend to it, creating vast landscaped gardens and large labyrinths.

Homelands
Voadkyn lived in temperate and warm forests. As of 1368 DR, voadkyn inhabited the Chondalwood.

Myths and legends
In the Ice Spires there were stories that there were huge voadkyn mazes in the Forgotten Forest that contained treasures at their centers.

Religion
Voadkyn primarily worshiped the goddess Hiatea.

History
There was some dispute as to whether the voadkyn race was created when Othea, wife of the giant deity Annam All-Father, had an affair with Ulutiu, or whether the race was the product of Annam. A giant stormazîn apparently once proved that Dunmore was Ulutiu's child and that Othea tricked Annam into believing that he was his own so that Dunmore could spy on Annam and his children, meaning that the voadkyn were giant-kin and not "true giants", but the voadkyn preferred to believe the opposite. They decided that because Annam had not given the forests of Ostoria to any of his sons, they would take it as their own domain, after which they cut off most relations with giants and giant-kin.

In, the entire population of the Netherese enclave of Jockteleg were turned into voadkyn by a failed experiment by the city's founder, Quantoul.

Appearances

 * Card Games
 * AD&D Trading Cards