![]() They struggled to retain their storm giant culture while scratching out a meager existence underground. Their bodies were pale and so malformed that they couldn't even stand up straight. Sub-Races Maurs A band of storm giant who were cast out thousands of years ago and overtime degenerated while imprisoned in the Underdark. When it came to close quarters combat, they typically favored greatswords as their weapon of choice. Whenever one did resort to throwing boulders, a storm giant's tremendous strength allowed them to be hurled as far as 60 to 240 feet (18 to 73 meters). Combat īecause of their high affinity for spellcasting, storm giants were the least likely of giants to throw boulders at their opponents when engaging in ranged combat. Some storm giants held the ability to mark and claim a mortal humanoid as a sea spawn, either by cursing them or making a pact with them. Because of this they were often responsible for sightings of lightning bolts streaking across mountain peaks. They were even capable of generating and throwing bolts of lightning themselves, at distances of up to 500 feet (150 meters). Their bodies were impervious to harm from lightning and thunder, even that discharged by a blue dragon. They were generally known to be capable of casting the spells call lightning, control winds, levitate - though unlike the standard spell, they were capable of lifting weights equivalent to their own - predict weather, weather summoning, detect magic, feather fall, light, and water breathing. Storm giants were known to innately have a high affinity for runecasting as well as traditional sorcery that surpassed the capabilities of other giant races. Likewise, their lungs were adapted to surviving in underwater conditions. ![]() Storm giants had vision that was well adapted to underwater conditions, where they saw equally as well as they did in the air. ![]() When it came to armor, they often favored the use of scale mail. They tended to wear fine tunics and belted sandals. ![]() There were two ethnicities of storm giants most had pale, light green skin and dark green hair and eyes, but a small number had violet skin, dark blue hair, and silver eyes. Storm giants were the tallest of the true giants to remain on the Material Plane, standing a full 26 feet (7.9 meters) in height and massing out at around 15,000 pounds (6,800 kilograms). ![]()
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