Hill giant

Hill giants are a type of lowborn giantkin.

Culture
Among the giantkin cast out of highborn society, hill giants were forced to fight and forage when Hillqueen Ovam'mura was banished from the Council of Seven Scepters.

Among the settlements created by hill giants, cyclopes tend to rise as rulers among them and other lowborn giantkin such as ogres. As such, it is not uncommon for hill giant warriors, out of a want to emulate their cyclopes rulers or out of zealous worship towards the Ruiner, to ritualistically tear out an eye. Wealthier hill giants sometime create fanciful eyepatches to wear over one eye.

The Pools of Wittebak
Hundreds of years before 812 PD, hill giants moved in to the area around the subterranean gnomish city of Wittebak, stomped around in the geothermal pools like it was a water park, and ended up filling the entire city of Wittebak with fumes and poison. This killed most of the gnomes living there, and the rest fled to Kraghammer. In the side of the mountain not far from the pools there are large mounds of mud and scrap wood that have been built into large hill giant domiciles.

Igrathad
As of 736 PD, hill giants were among the factions that battled over the region south of the Sorrowseep Waters. Then the Kryn Dynasty reached out to the village leaders and brokered a peace between the warring tribes, getting the factions of various races to settle together in a collection of villages collectively called Igrathad. The southernmost of these villages, Dodafir, is the crudely constructed fortress village of the hill giants.

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As one of the one of only two groups to advance into the final round of the Victory Pit tournament during the Harvest Close Festival in Zadash, the Mighty Nein faced off against a hill giant, purposefully agitated by means of small embedded spines and wielding a giant greatclub. The party defeated the giant by forcing it into sleep.