Goliath
Goliath
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 Goliaths. Few folk can claim to have seen a Goliath, and fewer still can claim friendship with them. Goliaths wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone and give 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 Goliath with the responsibility to earn a place in the tribe or die trying.
ability score increase:
Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.
age:
Similar to humans, reaching adulthood in their late teens and living around a century long.
alignment:
Often Neutral
Size:
Large
speed:
30 ft
Languages:
Common, Giant
race features:
- Natural Athlete: You have proficiency in the Athletics skill.
- Stone's Endurance: You can focus yourself to occasionally shrug off injury. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to roll a d12. Add your Constitution modifier to the number rolled, and reduce the damage by that total. After you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
- Mountain Born: You have resistance to cold damage. You’re also acclimated to high altitude, including elevations above 20,000 feet.
Goliaths are massive. They average between 10 and 12 feet tall, making them even taller than Dragonborn and Half-orcs. Goliaths have noticeably bony or prominent supraorbital ridges above their eyes. Goliath eyes are often a bright blue or green and sometimes glow a little.
Goliath skin is often gray or brown and is extremely tough (often compared to stone). One of the most distinctive features of the Goliath was the darker (often vertically symmetrical) patches of skin that covered their entire bodies. Goliaths believe that these markings somehow explained or controlled their fate or destiny. For this reason, goliaths never tattooed themselves as this could affect their future.
Goliaths, much like Firbolgs, are completely and truly native to Gebrocha, originally Vrituom. The survival of many of the individuals inhabiting the island can be attributed to the Goliaths coming down from their tribes to protect the innocent during Kadamitas. They were also completely complacent and sometimes even encourages the coup that took down the ruling power of Vrituom.
