#stone giants

[cagemasterfantasy]

Dnd monsters explained Stone Giant

Stone giants are reclusive quiet and peaceful as long as they are left alone. Their granite gray skin gaunt features and black sunken eyes endow stone giants with a stern countenance. They are private creatures hiding their lives and art away from the world.

Secluded caves are the homes of the stone giants. Cavern networks are their towns rocky tunnels their roads and underground streams their waterways. Isolated mountain ranges are their continents with the vast spans of land between spans as oceans that the stone giants only rarely cross.

In their dark quiet caves stone giants wordlessly chip away at elaborate carvings measuring time in the echoing drip of water into cavern pools. In the deepest chambers of a stone giant settlement far from the chittering of bats or the patrols paced out by the giants cave bear companions are holy places where silence and darkness are complete. Stone takes on its most sacred quality in these cavern cathedrals their buttresses and columns carved with a beauty that shames the legendary stonecraft of the dwarves.

Among stone giants artistry ranks as the greatest virtue. They create intricate murals paint sprawling murals across cavern walls and indulge in a wide variety of other artistic disciplines. They esteem stone carving as the greatest of skills.

Stone giants strive to draw shapes out of raw stone which they believe reveal meaning inspired by their god Skoreaus Stonebones. The giants appoint the tribe's best carvers as their leaders shamans and prophets. The holy hands of such giants become the hands of the god as they work.

Despite their great size and musculature stone giants are lithe and graceful. Skilled rock throwers are granted positions of high rank in the giants ordning testing and demonstrating their ability to hurl and catch enormous boulders. Such giants take the front ranks when a tribe has cause to defends its home or attack its enemies. However even in combat artistry is key. A stone giant hurling a rock performs not just a feat of brute strength but also one of stunning athleticism and poise.

Stone giants view the world outside their underground as a realm of dreams where nothing is entirely true or real. They behave in the surface world the way humanoids might behave in their own dreams making little account for their actions and never fully trusting what they see or hear. A promise made above ground need not be kept. Insults can be made without apology. Killing prey or sentient beings is no cause for guilt in the dreaming world beneath the sky.

Stone giants lacking in athletic grace or artistic skill dwell at the fringes of their society serving as the tribes outlying guardians and far wandering hunters. When trespassers stray too far into the mountain territory of a stone giant clan those guardians greet them with hurled rocks and showers of splintered stone. Survivors of such encounters spread tales of stone giant violence never realizing how little those brutes dwelling in the unreal dreaming world resemble their quiet and artistic kin.

[archaicheartstonemage]

Quarry, the minotaur stone giant. Protector of the lands. 🐂

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Still technically a wip, I still need to add cracks and damage to show some wear and tear. I might ink the drawing as well. I'm not sure yet. He also has a war hammer that I'll add in another drawing.

[muchpreferredcustomers]

Stone Giants (Amon Tobin) - Metropole - from West Coast Love Stories

[ancientstuff]

This face is fascinating. It looks unlike any other stone face I've seen from the ancient Mediterranean.

[the-last-broadcast-dnd-ttrpgs]

Zhumma the Stone Giant - Pic I did for my Friends DND game Hope you enjoy, and if you are looking for art for your game Fell free to DM me here! 

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Look if the Hobbit movies are going to go all-in on that scene with stone giants fighting in the mountains, they should have brought them back for the final battle at the end. Make it the battle of the six armies. The stone giants want the arkenstone or something. One of them cries when Thorin dies. One of them has a romance with an elf. Whatever.

[galadhremmin]

I really like the idea of the stone giants mentioned in The Hobbit as Aulë's counterpart to Yavanna's Tree-Shepherds....maybe they protect the mountains from erosion and excessive mining. :)

[svart-sjo]

[mxdwn]

Amon Tobin Releases New Song “Metropole” Under New Alias Stone Giants

https://music.mxdwn.com/2021/05/22/news/amon-tobin-releases-new-song-metropole-under-new-alias-stone-giants/

[pistachiozombie]

How did Leanna react to the Storm Giants during the thunder battle? :) Love your art and Leanna! Her and Bofur are so damn cute.

Regardless if they were "legends," she felt more fear than when they were being chased by Wargs and captured by Trolls. When it couldn't have gotten any worse, here she is clinging to the side of a slick mountain that is now moving, thousands of feet in the air in the pouring rain. Knowing clinging to her companions wouldn't be useful, nor would be cowering into a ball, she tries her best to follow the line and stay behind the heavy dwarves that shield her from the potential fall. She watches her cousin Bilbo's moves, knowing him the best out of this company, hoping she could find some peace in his expression - as if, "things will be alright Leanna." Unfortunately, the hobbit from the same home felt just as terrified as the lass.

Once they were safe in the cavern, Leanna barely felt any relief and had to deal with the adrenaline shooting through her body for the rest of the night. She found herself speaking with Bofur, who was on watch. She decided that if she made it through something as dangerous as those stone giants, that she saw potential in herself and could make it through anything. She wanted to stay with the dwarves regardless of Bilbo's desire to go back to Rivendell.

Thank you for the kind words!! Sorry this ended up being a longer response that went beyond your question.♡♡

[critrolestats]

What Does The Mighty Nein Have Left: Possessed Stone Giant Edition

Thanks to @JDIllustrates for this art piece! See the original at https://twitter.com/JdIllustrates/status/1097874392925831168

The Mighty Nein took out the more obvious demons Soorna told them about in the giant fortress with relative ease, but something else was lurking in the shadows. This week’s “What Does the Mighty Nein Have Left” is a little more optimistic than usual; Fjord’s in rough shape, but everyone else has nearly every tool at their disposal.

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[origami-goblin]

Episode 82 - Looper Duper

Ep. 82 - Looper Duper! Our epic fight continues! Will our heroes win the day? #RotRL #Campaign #Summary #Spoilers

Trace holds his shield steady as the dire bears and stone giant close in on them. Fyn quickly casts an invisibility spell on Barnaby, allowing him to quickly scramble out of the way and avoid attacks of opportunity on the way out.

As Barnaby chugs a potion, Krask fires a barrage of arrows at the two dire bears. Both of them collapse from their wounds as the stone giant swings at Trace. With…

[oldschoolfrp]

Bilbo ... saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out, and were hurling rocks at one another for a game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among the trees far below, or splintered into little bits with a bang ...

--JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit

This pair of stone giants has made a playground of an area where a minor rockslide once obstructed the pathway.  They have cleared the area to make a broad ground to run around on, and there they play catch with boulders.

--Gary Gygax, AD&D module S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, TSR, 1982

[legendarylandscapes]

Stone Giants by OlliSiponkoski

[mxdwn]

Amon Tobin Reveals New Alias Stone Giants and Announces Plans to Release Two Albums in 2021

https://music.mxdwn.com/2021/03/29/news/amon-tobin-reveals-new-alias-stone-giants-and-announces-plans-to-release-two-albums-in-2021/