Changeling - Players Guide.pdf

Among the Iroquois, rock giants are known as fearsome
predators who are rumored to be the children of the spirit
known as Cannibal. With their ravenous appetites and unpredictable
tempers, rock giants are both feared and highly
respected for their strength. Most legends of rock giants
feature them in the role of terrible foes, though a few tell of
kindly giants who befriend a worthy warrior and fight by her
side against all her enemies — even when mortally wounded
and certain to die. Such unswerving devotion is one of the
main positive sides to these enormous Nunnehi. Darker tales
speak of their rapacious plundering of all who live near their
homes and of their penchant for consuming human flesh.
Other tales of rock giants tell of the smaller ones' raids on
Iroquois camps, where they search through the ashes of the fires
for scraps of food and tobacco that
may have fallen
nearby. Though
mischievous,
these rock giant children (as the natives called them) are not
dangerous, and they willingly trade their healing powers for
tobacco or fresh meat.
Because they are kin to the Iroquois tribes who once
inhabited the Northeast, rock giants most often manifest among
the Mohawk and Seneca. Many rock giant braves have found
their mettle tested as steelworkers atop the highest skyscrapers in
Manhattan. Working without safety equipment gives them almost
as big a high as a six-course dinner or a fistfight in an
alleyway. Their greatest dreams include winning worldwide
Toughman contests — especially the females. Since rock giants
come from a matrilineal society, the males —as rough as they are
— cannot even begin to hold a candle to the granite resolve and
unbudging tenacity of the females, who are trained from birth to
be leaders of the Nation. This is not to say that males never assume
leadership positions, but they are always conscious that their
rulership depends on the consent and support of the females.
Rock giants were bom to eat and fight; it's what they do best,
and they know it. They are very straightforward, being little
concerned with pleasantries and trivial chat. They speak
when they have something important to say, and prefer
others not to clutter the air around them with too many
unnecessary words either.
Rock giants live near their mortal kin, either in
the cities where they have been dispersed or on reservations
near mountains and rocky outcroppings. Rumors
persist of a rock giant city high in the mountains where
they hibernate during the winter months. It is said that
when spring comes, hikers and wilderness aficionados had
best beware lest they become the main course at the
rock giants' winter's end feast.
Appearance:
Depending upon their current
aspect, rock giants may appear as
huge (troll-sized), fearsome-looking
creatures who look as
though they are gigantic
humans encased in
flint coats.
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