Gran-Maku (Mountain Gaint)

The Gran-Maku are the mountain giants of Aradaea. They descend from the Gran-Stona, and magic set them apart from the stone giants some 100,000 years ago. In turn, the Gran-Haku later branched from them.

Appearance

Mountain giants stand around 15 feet tall and weigh some 3,500 pounds. Their skin runs to greys, whites and blacks, and they are hairless.

Society and Culture

Little is recorded of mountain giant customs. They live among the giant and half-giant peoples of the valleys of Sylvaria, where strength and kinship tend to count for more than settled law.

Homeland

Their home is Vargal, a valley of Sylvaria that they share with goliath and Grekkin tribes, ogre and goliath clans, and the human villages those clans hold as vassals. Mountain giants feel tremors through the ground out to about 60 feet.

Life Cycle

A mountain giant can live around 500 years, half the span of the elemental giants of Vogdu but far longer than most of their neighbors.

Relations

Their nearest kin are the stone giants and the hill giants who descend from them. Through the stone giants they are related to the titans and to every other Gran heritage, including the Gran-Gola and Gran-Grek who share their valley.

Heritage Facts

Home Plane

Aradaea

Category

Gran (Giantfolk)

Ancestor Race(s)

Gran-Stona (Stone Giants)

Home Region

Vargal

Racial Abilities

Strength, Constitution

Years of Existence

100,000 years

Average Lifespan

500 years

Average Weight

3,500 lbs

Average Height

15 ft

Skin Tones

Greys, Whites, Blacks

Playable?

No

Extinct?

No

Size Category

Giant

Speed

45

Movement Types

None

Hair

Hairless

Body Features

Enlarged

Divergence Cause

Magic

Average Generation

100 years

Vision Type

Tremorsense

Vision Distance

60 ft

The compendium entry lists the heritage’s features in full.