Great Barrows

This complex of crypts and barrow mounds differs from the ancient Cairn complexes and is of more recent origin. The barrows appear to be burial sites of great hill giant chieftains, and are fairly crude and devoid of sophisticated traps or magical guardians. Hill giants regard these bar- rows as sacred sites, and attack on sight all who approach.

All this would not be interesting except that the giants appear to have stumbled on some magical ore, bane, or artifact buried below these barrows. The effect is that the normally mundane remains and poor possessions of buried gi- ants have been transformed into semi-magical items. Specifically, the bones of the giants are usable for preparing potions of giant strength, and recently, retrieval of the skull and armor of one chieftain is said to have allowed a skilled enchanter to manufacture a girdle of hill giant strength. What magic affects the remains in the barrows to give them such latent power is wholly unknown.