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[[folder:Chuhaister]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* BarrierWarrior: When the chuhaister or an ally within 30 feet is hit by an attack, the chuhaister can create a magical, wooden barrier that interrupts the attack.
* FantasticRacism: Chuhaister detest fey creatures, taking delight in capturing them and destroying their villages. Many chuhaister carry an unfortunate fey as a pet in a wooden cage atop their heads.
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[[folder:Dvarapala]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' Any
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* CarryABigStick: Huge gadas (maces) are preferred by most dvarapala to knock intruders down or bludgeon them into submission.
* GuardianEntity: Dvarapala are semi-divine giants who serve the various gods of the East, standing guard over their most sacred temples and shrines.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Forest Marauder]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* VillainTeamUp: The cruel, savage forest marauders get along well with orcs and goblins, who appreciate their brute strength and their skill at night raids.
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[[folder:Giant]]
!!Blood Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
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* AncientOrderOfProtectors: Blood giants belong to a primordial tribe of giants that swore an oath to a long-forgotten god. They stand as guardians to secret holy places of great power and as wardens to keep ancient enemies of their god from ever seeing the light of day.
* BloodyMurder: Blood giants have great control over their blood, congealing it to a solid and liquefying it at will. Their weapons are all made by this process.
* DemBones: Blood giants' mortal flesh has long since fallen away, leaving them as frames of bone wrapped in vessels of frozen blood.

!!Cacus Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* DeathActivatedSuperpower: When a cacus giant dies, it exhales a final breath of divine essence in a gout of intense fire.
* PlayingWithFire: Cacus giants, spawn of a lesser deity of fire, can exhale fire.

!!Cave Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* TakenForGranite: The sun's glare slowly turns cave giants to stone.
* ToServeMan: Cave giants prefer the flesh of humanoids and other giants above all others. While they can subsist on animal flesh, they consider it disgusting and bad luck, to be undertaken only if absolutely necessary for survival.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Cave giants shun sunlight and fear its touch. They lurk in tunnels and caves beneath the earth and deep in the hearts of mountains.

!!Desert Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
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* DarkSecret: While in ages past the desert giants lived in stationary settlements and cities, the fall of their ancient empire drove them into the dunes. The truth behind their nomadic lifestyle is a sore spot; should any outsider learn the truth, the desert giants stop at nothing to permanently silence the inquisitive soul.
* DueToTheDead: The desert giants' tattoos tell a tale that, if woven together correctly, reveals an entire tribe's collected discoveries. For this reason, the desert giants hold the bodies of their dead in sacred esteem. They go to extraordinary lengths to recover their dead, so they can divide the knowledge held on the deceased's skin among other tribe members.

!!Flab Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* FatBastard: The flab giant is one of the shortest breeds of giant and comically obese, to the point their hands can't even wield weapons.
* NemeanSkinning: Flab giants wear only scraps of clothing made of loosely knotted skins.

!!Haunted Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* DueToTheDead: Haunted giants are plagued by the spirits of their ancestors, who cannot be destroyed permanently unless their bones are found and laid to rest.
* SeeTheInvisible: A haunted giant can see invisible creatures and objects as if they were visible and can see into the Ethereal Plane.

!!Jotun Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 22
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Foes of the northern gods, Jotun giants plot to regain their former status as lords of Creation.
* StealthyColossus: The Jotun giant's immense size often causes those near it to confuse one at rest for part of the landscape.

!!Laestrigonian Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ImAHumanitarian: Laestrigonian giants, who violated the taboo against cannibalism, can go without sustenance for long periods of time, but lose all desire to eat anything but humanoid creatures and can barely digest anything else.
* LogicalWeakness: A Laestrigonian giant is particularly susceptible to the diseases and parasites that accompany cannibalism, a diet of raw meat, and a lack of other sustenance.
* WasOnceAMan: Laestrigonian giants are what becomes of castaways who violate the taboo against cannibalism and undergo a monstrous transformation resulting from of an ancient curse.

!!Mountain Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 21
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* DishingOutDirt: The mountain giant commands the earth itself.
* RentAZilla: The mountain giant is so large and inscrutable that it considers smaller races as mere pests. If they become too much of a nuisance, the mountain giant acts, crushing whole towns and villages as a person might step on an anthill. Even the largest stone giants are little more than pets to a mountain giant.
* RockMonster: When at rest, mountain giants resemble large hills.
* TerrainSculpting: The mountain giant can move and shape the terrain around it.

!!Thursir Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil or LawfulEvil
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* BigEater: A thursir giant can consume half of its weight in food without ill effect. When not toiling at the forge, these giants entertain themselves with gluttonous feasts.
* StayInTheKitchen: Most female thursir giants, except for priestesses, are drudges, considered fit only for child-bearing and menial work.

!!Void Giant
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 11
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
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* PowerOfTheVoid: Their void dragon masters provided void giants training in void magic.
* PowerTattoo: Void giants are covered with writhing tattoos, arcane writings of the Void made manifest on their flesh, in dark rituals performed by their void dragon masters throughout their upbringing. These writings are the source of their spellcasting ability.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Gug]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 12
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
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* FoodChainOfEvil: Gugs devour ghouls and darakhul as their preferred foodstuffs.
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[[folder:Ogre]]

!!Tusked Crimson Ogre
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* BioweaponBeast: A creation of the cult known as the Sanguine Path, tusked crimson ogres became widely known in the expansionist wars of the Mharoti Dragon Empire, who employ them as shock troops.
* BloodBath: Tusked crimson ogres often bathe in blood before battle, which they believe makes them more powerful, offers them protection, and guarantees them an afterlife of joyous slaughter should they fall to the enemy.
* BloodyMurder: When it flexes and roars, a tusked crimson ogre sprays blood from its wounds.
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[[folder:Troll]]
!!Desert Troll
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* ScissorsCutRock: Water is the bane of desert trolls, dissolving their flesh and bones like acid. Many adventurers have died after falling back on old standbys to defeat trolls, only to see their fire and oil slide harmlessly off the desert troll's stony flesh.

!!Lake Troll
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* WeakToFire: A lake troll's regeneration is shut down only by cold and fire damage at nearly the same time, making them tricky to fight and exceedingly difficult to kill.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zimwi]]
->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
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* HungryMenace: Most zimwi attacks are driven by hunger. Its stomach is larger than its body, extending extra-dimensionally and driving the zimwi nearly insane with the constant sensation of emptiness, as though it is starving to death.
[[/folder]]
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