Homebrew Ettin Species Details

At the highest mountain peaks — far above the slopes where trees grow and where the air is thin and the frigid winds howl — dwell the reclusive Ettins. Few folks can claim to have seen an Ettin, and fewer still can claim friendship with them. Ettins wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone which gives them great physical power. Their spirits take after the wandering wind, making them nomads who wander from peak to peak. Their hearts are infused with the cold regard of their frigid realm, leaving each ettin with the responsibility to earn a place in the tribe or die trying.

Play Dirty

Ettins are no noble creatures and if they are in a fight they don't care how they do it or who they hurt along the way they are going to win so if you see an angry ettin just get out of the way and prey it is not you they are after

Survival of the Fittest

A permanently injured ettin is still expected to pull his or her weight in the tribe. Typically, such an Ettins dies attempting to keep up.

the ettin drive to outdo themselves feeds into the grim inevitability of their decline and death. An Ettin would much rather die in battle, at the peak of strength and skill, than endure the slow decay of old age. Few folks have ever met an elderly Ettin, and even those Ettins who have left their people grapple with the urge to give up their lives as their physical skills decay.

Because of their risk-taking, Ettin tribes suffer from a chronic lack of experience offered by long-term leaders. They hope for innate wisdom in their leadership, for they can rarely count on wisdom to grow with age.

Ettin Names

Birth names are rarely linked to gender. Ettin sees females and males as equal in all things, and they find societies with roles divided by gender to be puzzling or worthy of mockery. To an Ettin, the person who is best at a job should be the one tasked with doing it.

 

Birth Names: Aukan, Eglath, Gae-Al, Gauthak, Ilikan, Keothi, Kuori, Lo-Kag, Manneo, Maveith, Nalla, Orilo, Paavu, Pethani, Thalai, Thotham, Uthal, Vaunea, Vimak

 

Ettin Traits

Ettin's share a number of traits in common with each other.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age

none have ever seen an old Ettin ore one that felt bad. so none now how old they can get

Size

Ettins are between 12 and 13 feet tall and weigh between 560 and 680 pounds. Your size is large.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Your base climbing sped is 40 feet

two heads

you have 2 heads so your Perception modifier increases by 1

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Giant.