Ogre

Ogres were a race of giant-kin.

Description
Ogres appeared as giant humanoids with very muscular bodies and large heads. They stood between 9 and 10 feet tall and could weigh 600 to 650 lbs.

Personality
They tended to be lazy and brutish, preferring to rely on ambush and overwhelming numbers in battle. Ogres often worked as mercenaries, hoping for easy plunder.

Some ogres enjoyed the taste of raw dwarf flesh.

Language
Ogres spoke Jogishk, a patois of the Giant or Jotun tongue.

History
According to legend, the ogre race was formed when Othea, wife of the titan Annam All-Father, had an affair with Vaprak.

In 1357 DR, a small army of ogres served the monstrous extraplanar being Imgig Zu. He gathered them in the caverns beneath his tower to witness the Great Awakening of his people from Selûne's Eye, and to provide defense during the deed. The heroes Priam Agrivar, Vajra Valmeyjar, Timoth Eyesbright, and Onyx the Invincible fought through the ogres to confront Imgig and free Cybriana. Though the ogres clubbed them down and caught them, the roof of the cavern miraculously tore open and the brilliant light of the full moon shone through, blinding the ogres long enough for Priam to slay Imgig. As the ritual was undone, the surviving ogres fled.

Subtypes

 * Half-ogre: Half-ogres were a crossbreed of ogre that were somewhat smarter and weaker than the standard ogre race. They could sometimes pass as unusually large, albeit ugly, humans.
 * Merrow: Merrows were ogres adapted to the water.
 * Ice Spire ogre: An ogre subrace found in the Ice Spires region.
 * Ogrillon: The result of ogre-orc crossbreeding.
 * Zakharan ogre: Civilized ogres common in the southern continent of Zakhara.