Storm giant

Storm giants resemble well-formed humans of gargantuan proportions. Adult males and females are about 26' tall and weigh about 15,000 pounds. Storm giants have pale, light green or (rarely) violet skin. Green-skinned storm giants have dark green hair and glittering emerald eyes. Violet-skinned storm giants have deep violet or blue-black hair with silvery gray or purple eyes. Storm giants can live to be 600 years old.

A storm giant's garb usually is a short, loose tunic belted at the waist, sandals or bare feet, and a headband. They wear a few pieces of simple, but finely crafted jewelry: anklets (favored by bare-footed giants), rings, or circlets being most common.

Storm giants usually carry pouches attached to their belts. These hold only a few tools, necessities, and a simple musical instrument -- usually a panpipe or harp. Other than the jewelry they wear, they prefer to leave their wealth in their lairs.

Storm giants are gentle and reclusive. They are usually tolerant of others, but can be very dangerous when angry. When they do enter battle, they wear elaborate bronze plate mail and use weapons befitting their size -- gigantic two-handed swords and massive composite bows. They also have a number of special abilities, mostly related to storms -- control weather, levitate, call lightning, lightning bolt, control winds, and weather summoning -- and some are spellcasters in their own right. They can also move, attack, and use magic under water as if they were on land.

Storm giants are retiring and solitary, but not shy. They live in castles built on cloud islands, mountain peaks, or underwater. They live quiet, reflective lives and spend their time musing about the world, composing and playing music, and tilling their land or gathering food. Land- and air-dwelling storm giants usually are on good terms with neighboring silver dragons and good cloud giants, and cooperate with them for mutual defense. Aquatic storm giants have similar relationships with merfolk and bronze dragons.

Storm giant lairs are always protected by guards. Land or aerial lairs have rocs, which also serve as mounts, or griffons. Underwater lairs have sea lions.

Storm giants live off the land in the immediate vicinity of their lairs. If the natural harvest is not enough to sustain them, they create and carefully till large areas of gardens, fields, and vineyards. They do not keep animals for food, preferring to hunt.

Note: Storm giants originally appeared in this form in the 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual for the AD&D game from TSR. Their use here is for the purposes of providing context for the campaign only.