CLOUD GIANT
Clomd giants live extravagant lives high above the world,
showing little concern for the plights of other races
except as amusement. They are muscular with light skin
and have hair of silver or blue.
High and Mighty. Cloud giants are spread to the
winds, encompassing vast areas of the world. In times
of need, scattered cloud giant families band together as
a unified clan. However, they can seldom do so quickly.
Attuned to the magic of their airy domains, cloud
giants are able to turn into mist and create clouds of
billowing fog. They dwell in castles on high mountain
peaks, or on the solid clouds that once held their fiefs.
Stili gracing the skies on occasion, these magic clouds
are a lasting remnant of the giants' lost empires.
Better spellcasters than most other giants, some cloud
giants can control weather, bring storms, and steer the
wind almost as well as their cousins, the storm giants.
Affluent Princes. Although cloud giants are lower
in the ordning than storm giants, the reclusive storm
giants rarely engage with the rest of giantkind. As a
result, many cloud giants see themselves as having
the highest status and power among the giant races.
They order lesser giants to seek out wealth and art
on their behalf, employing fire giants as smiths and
crafters, and using frost giants as reavers, raiders, and
plunderers. Dimwitted hill giants serve them as brutes
and combat fodder-sometimes fighting for the cloud
giants' amusement. A cloud giant might order hill or
frost giants to steal from nearby humanoid lands, which
it considers to be a fair tax for its continued beneficence.
On their mountain summits and solid clouds, cloud
giants keep extraordinary gardens. Grapes as big
as apples grow there, along with apples the size of
pumpkins, and pumpkins the size of wagons. From
· the errant seeds of these gardens, tales of cottage-
sized produce and magic beans are spread in the
mortal realm.
As humanoid nobles keep an aerie for hunting hawks,
so do cloud giants keep griffons, perytons, and wyverns
as their own flying beasts of prey. Such creatures also
patrol the cloud giants' gardens by night, along with
trained predators such as owlbears and lions.
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