[MW Voidsea] Sea Giant Jotunbjerg - CR 20 Gargantuan Giant

“Sing, o skald, of the lost children of ice, who gave us our home beneath the waves! Sing, o skald, of the first to descend, and all those who followed! Sing, o skald, in praise of those who embraced the surf!” 

—Hymn of the First of the Sea

Once, the songs of the sea giants rolled across every coast, shaking the cliffs and beaches with their rumbling bass… and then the krakens came. In the wake of the Sjøhjem massacre, both the giants and their hymns all but vanished, scattered to solitary settlements in the ocean’s deepest trenches. Nowadays, one fortunate enough to hear a sea giant’s guttural melodies should strive to appreciate them at a brisk run in the opposite direction—for they herald a vengeful, bloody kraken hunt.

The Descent. The sea giants trace their origins to the mountaintop monastery of Hoytkloster, which their frost giant predecessors inhabited during the Great War of Thunder. Though these uncharacteristically peaceful giants chose to withdraw from the conflict, the war found them nonetheless, shattering their sanctuary and hurling them into the icy abyss of the ocean below. There, the giants wove ancient magic to reshape their bodies for this new environment, trading white capped peaks for white capped waves. Not only adapting but thriving, they forged a glorious kingdom in the depths, raising the sunken monastery into the grand capital of Sjøhjem.

Silenced Songs. The peace of their new home wasn’t to last, as the resonating hymns of the sea giants carried across the depths to the earholes of envious krakens. Seething with spite for the invaders from above the waves, the betentacled sea titans ripped apart the fledgling giant cities in a devastating massacre. The few survivors were left to rebuild in silence, shackled by fear—to this day, sea giant communities still suppress the joyful songs that once defined them, lest they draw the krakens’ ire anew. Only the bravest and most wrathful among them dare to reject this indignity, hunting their sworn nemeses in the hopes that their people may one day join their voices in harmony once more. 

Ascendant Hunters. In order to avoid fighting krakens in the crushing depths of their underwater lairs, where they’re at their most dangerous, the giant hunters devised a cunning strategy to lure their foes to land. Upon approaching a kraken’s lair, all but one giant ascend to the surface on their buoyant ice until they vanish from sight. The lone decoy lingers below, intoning somber, half-remembered hymns from the hollows of its chest to needle the kraken’s ancient spite. When the mighty titan surges from its nest in a blind fury, hoping for an easy kill, the giant rockets upward, drawing its prey to the ambush above.

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