Frost Giant

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Frost Giant
Harper Field Dossier
Combat reference
Type Giant (frost) — a blue-skinned colossus of the glaciers, raised to raiding and war
Vulnerabilities None discovered
Resistances None known
Immunities Cold of every kind
Condition Immunities None known
Strong Saves Mighty of body (strength and constitution); a hardy will
Senses Keen of sight and scent
Movement Strides through deep snow and ice unhindered; wades frozen water
Notable Abilities A felling greataxe in reach, and hurled ice or boulders at distance; a chieftain's war-cry that steels its warband's resolve; endures the deepest cold
Provenance
Knowledge Well-attested — fought, and fought beside
First Encountered Session 49; allied: Hurum Thur
Filed by Agent Wren, of the Tellstone circle

A kind of Giant. See also Stone Giant.

The Harpers' Read

A frost giant is a mountain that swings an axe. Cold does nothing to it, so the frozen north is its ally and your disadvantage. It fights at two ranges — a greataxe that fells a front rank, and hurled ice and boulders for those who keep their distance — and a leader's war-cry can harden a whole warband at once (the company's own giant ally, Hurum Thur, used just such a cry to steel their line). Frost giants respect strength above all else; one bested in a fair trial of arms may sooner be turned than the dragon that enslaved it.

Encounters of Record

The company has fought frost giants and fought beside one. They thawed Hurum Thur from Arauthator's gallery of frozen victims, and he stood with them against Old White Death (49); their whole road through the Sea of Moving Ice (47) runs through giant country. The ice-giant Bernie, pilot of Skyreach Castle, has been landlord more than foe.