Giant, Abaasy

Abaasy are horrid one-eyed giants. Gangs of therse creatures roam the underground, seeking food and sport. The singular eye of an Abaasy holds supernatural terror, a single look able to leave a victim frozen with fear. The entire gang will then decent upon the unfortunates to rip them apart with their many-tonged iron lashes.
The body of an Abaasy seems infused with metal, their teeth and nails are iron-like and make for deadly weapons. Their skin is iron hard and able to turn or blunt even the sharpest blades.

Abaasy will eat any kind of meat they can get, but dwarves are their preferred meals, not least because they often come with good ale.

CR 8
CE Large Humanoid (giant)
Combat Role: Brute

Abaasy are close combat brutes like most giants, though they lack even the rock throwing common to most giants. They do have a secondary role as debuffer through combat maneuvers and intimidation. Intimidation is augmented by Freezing Gaze(su), improving shaken effect to stunning. Abassy's also get a bonus to disarm and trips to use with their lash.

The best classes to advance them in are close combat ones like barbarian and fighter, especially if taking options that make for a stronger intimimancer.

At 14 intelligence Abaasy are fairly intelligent, making them potential mid-level leaders of bands of murderous humanoids.

When the Earthfall came a few communities of cyclops fled underground. By what ways they became Abaasy no one knows. Now these giants seek to regain their prophetic powers, seeing it as the way to rebuild the ancient cyclops empires.

When the flayed and gnawed remains of dwarves are found below the hold, the local militia quickly readies to search for the Abaasy responsible. In truth however it is a group of Derro hidden among the dwarves themselves who are committing the murders.

Though hard to manage, many drow consider Abaasy excellent mercenaries. The giant’s ability to freeze creatures with fear makes them particularly useful as slave takers.

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