Ettin
An Ettin is a foul, two-headed giant with the crude characteristics of an Orc. It never bathes if it can help it, and its thick skin is usually encrusted with a thick layer of dirt and grime beneath the stinking hides it wears. Its long, stringy hair hangs in an unkempt mess about its faces, and its breath reeks from mouths filled with crooked teeth and tusks.
The twin heads of an Ettin are two individuals trapped in the same brutish body. Each head has its own mind, personality, and name, and possesses unique preferences and quirks. Bound from birth, both minds only rarely experience privacy or solitude. This familiarity often breeds contempt, and a Ettins are often observed bullying and arguing with itself constantly.
Most Ettins are intolerant of the company of other Ettins (except during reproduction), since a conversation between two Ettins almost always amounts to a shouting match between a crowd of four belligerent heads. An Ettin's twin heads are always of the same sex. Females are the dominant sex among Ettins, and they initiate the Ettins' mating rituals. After finding a suitable den, a female Ettin hunts and conquers a male, which cares for and feeds her during her six-month pregnancy. Once the child is born, the male Ettin is released from servitude. When the child is old enough to hunt for itseld, the mother sends it away and abandons the den.
