Hill Giants are a race of extremely destructive Giants from the popular fantasy role-playing franchise Dungeons & Dragons, they are also the lowest of the True Giants and the most profoundly stupid - this does not stop them from having decent fighting skills, and from being among the most likely kind of Giant for adventurers to face due to their relentless hunger and uncaring nature for those below them.
Biography[]
The Hill Giants are a truly barbaric society who barely function beyond the most basic and brutal of concepts, they fight both for entertainment and to assert dominance, having a "stronger is better" mentality, but they are driven far more by their infamous hunger.
Hill Giants will travel entire realms and devour everything in their path, including smaller humanoids and livestock, they will destroy anything unfortunate enough to get in their way while they do so. They will also force weaker creatures to do their bidding.
Due to their stupidity, their violence and their hunger they are the Giants most closesly resembling what we see as the fairytale "evil" giant stereotype - while a completely lawless brute by design a Hill Giant can be guided by Giants higher in the Ordning, who may set them loose on villages or other targets in order to provide distraction or to weak potential enemies.
Mouths Of Grolantor[]
Mouths of Grolantor, are those hill giants who have been isolated from the rest of their kind after contracting a persistent disease due to eating something spoiled or rotten, and who have become completely insane due to their prolonged starvation. They are far more violent, psychotic, voracious, fearless as well as being faster and stronger. Due to their starvation, unlike the regular hill giants, they are extremely thin.
True Giants[]
Hill Giants are one of several Giants in Dungeons & Dragons that are considered "True Giants" (in contrast to "Giant Kin", the most common of which are:
- Storm Giants
- Cloud Giants
- Fire Giants
- Frost Giants
- Stone Giants
- Hill Giants
All True Giants in Dungeons and Dragons obey a system of rules known as the Ordning, which ranked the Giants into a hierarchy, Hill Giants are the lowest of all the True Giants but still outrank Giant Kin such as Ogres - though mostly only because of their sheer size.