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Ettin ETTIN

Habitat: Mountains and Forests
Seeks Out: Gold and other Ettins
Diet: Carnivorous
Size: Large
Other: Intelligent

Description:
Ettins are the largest of Britannia's humanoid races by far, but their great size is less remarkable than their two heads. It is said that the heads of an ettin often quarrel together, but this may be a fancy. Ettins live together in family groups, and are most numerous along the Serpent Spine mountains. They are stupid and vicious creatures, but have some degree of reason and speak a debased dialect of Britannian. Ettins are common brigands, who slay travellers for their gold, which they love dearly and hoard whenever they may. (Some of the wilder tribes hew gold directly from the ground in crude mines.) They are most notorious for their cowardly habit of hurling boulders of great size down on travellers in the high mountain passes.