ability_mods:
  cha_mod: 2
  con_mod: 5
  dex_mod: 1
  int_mod: 1
  str_mod: 7
  wis_mod: 4
ac: 32
ac_special: null
alignment: CN
automatic_abilities:
- action_cost: Reaction
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Catch Rock
  range: null
  raw_description: '**__Catch Rock__** [Reaction]'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
- action_cost: Reaction
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: The taiga giant's ancestral spirits intervene and protect the giant from
    taking up to 20 energy damage or 30 mental damage. The giant takes any remaining
    damage; if it does, the spirits depart and the giant is no longer protected by
    the ancestors.
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Guardian Spirit
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Guardian Spirit [Reaction]** **Trigger** The taiga giant has
    Ancestral Guardian active and would take energy or mental damage; **Effect** The
    taiga giant''s ancestral spirits intervene and protect the giant from taking up
    to 20 energy damage or 30 mental damage. The giant takes any remaining damage;
    if it does, the spirits depart and the giant is no longer protected by the ancestors.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: The taiga giant has Ancestral Guardian active and would take energy or
    mental damage
description: 'Taiga giants prefer a nomadic lifestyle, both to keep from depleting
  any one area''s resources while satiating their massive appetites and to satisfy
  a constant wanderlust. They are deeply spiritual and frequently commune with their
  ancestors'' spirits for guidance and knowledge. Taiga giants are happiest when they
  are left alone to live out their traditional lives, and their impressive size and
  strength are enough to persuade all but the most dangerous foes to do so.




  Taiga giants subsist on migratory herds of aurochs, mammoths, and elk. They occasionally
  raid humanoid villages, but such cases are opportunistic rather than malicious,
  with a focus on stealing away livestock for food rather than people. Nevertheless,
  the arrival of a group of taiga giants is a potentially devastating event to any
  town or village, so many communities attempt to placate the giants by creating a
  yearly offering at those times when they know the giants are scheduled to come close.




  Most taiga giants venerate their ancestors and seek to honor their works in everything
  they do. This deep connection makes them ferociously proud of those legacies, and
  little can compel taiga giants to go to war more swiftly than insulting their ancestors.
  Merely mentioning the false rumors that ancient taiga giant spellcasters were responsible
  for the creation of the first rune giants is a surefire way to earn a taiga giant''s
  unending wrath.




  A taiga giant stands 20 feet tall and weighs 10,000 pounds.






  **__Recall Knowledge - Humanoid__ (__Society__)**: DC 30'
hp: 230
hp_misc: null
immunities:
- controlled
items:
- +1 striking longspear
- sack with 5 rocks
knowledge_checks:
  dc: 30
  skills:
  - Society
languages:
- Common
- Jotun
level: 12
melee:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d8+15
    type: piercing
  name: longspear
  plus_damage: null
  to_hit: 26
  traits:
  - magical
  - reach 20 feet
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 3d6+15
    type: bludgeoning
  name: fist
  plus_damage: null
  to_hit: 25
  traits:
  - agile
  - reach 15 feet
name: Taiga Giant
perception: 23
proactive_abilities:
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: null
  effect: The taiga giant must be protected by the ancestors
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Ancestral Guardian
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Ancestral Guardian**   (__concentrate__) **Requirements** The
    taiga giant must be protected by the ancestors; **Effect** The taiga giant calls
    upon their ancestors'' spirits to rise up and protect them, causing a cloak of
    spectral faces to shimmer and swirl around them. The taiga giant''s AC increases
    to 34 until the start of its next turn.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - concentrate
  trigger: null
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: A taiga giant's prayers to their ancestors grant them spiritual protection.
    If a taiga giant loses this protection (such as by taking too much damage when
    using Guardian Spirit, or if the ancestors are counteracted by __dispel magic__),
    it loses its immunity to the __controlled__ condition and its status bonus to
    saving throws against enchantment and illusion effects. A taiga giant can once
    again be Protected by the Ancestors by performing a 10-minute prayer as an activity
    that has the __concentrate__ trait.
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Protected by the Ancestors
  range: null
  raw_description: '**Protected by the Ancestors** (__divine__) A taiga giant''s prayers
    to their ancestors grant them spiritual protection. If a taiga giant loses this
    protection (such as by taking too much damage when using Guardian Spirit, or if
    the ancestors are counteracted by __dispel magic__), it loses its immunity to
    the __controlled__ condition and its status bonus to saving throws against enchantment
    and illusion effects. A taiga giant can once again be Protected by the Ancestors
    by performing a 10-minute prayer as an activity that has the __concentrate__ trait.'
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits:
  - divine
  trigger: null
- action_cost: One Action
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: ''
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: Throw Rock
  range: null
  raw_description: '**__Throw Rock__**   '
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
ranged:
- action_cost: One Action
  damage:
    formula: 2d10+15
    type: bludgeoning
  name: rock
  plus_damage: null
  to_hit: 25
  traits:
  - brutal
  - range increment 120 feet
rarity: Common
resistances: null
ritual_lists: null
saves:
  fort: 25
  fort_misc: null
  misc: +2 status to all saves vs. enchantment and illusion effects
  ref: 20
  ref_misc: null
  will: 22
  will_misc: null
sense_abilities:
- action_cost: None
  critical_failure: null
  critical_success: null
  description: 'A taiga giant can see invisible creatures and objects as translucent
    shapes, and they are __concealed__ to the taiga giant.


    '
  effect: null
  effects: null
  failure: null
  frequency: null
  full_description: null
  generic_description: null
  name: See Invisibility
  range: null
  raw_description: '**See Invisibility** A taiga giant can see invisible creatures
    and objects as translucent shapes, and they are __concealed__ to the taiga giant.


    '
  requirements: null
  success: null
  traits: null
  trigger: null
senses:
- Perception +23
- low-light vision
- see invisibility
size: Huge
skills:
- bonus: 22
  misc: null
  name: 'Athletics '
- bonus: 16
  misc: null
  name: 'Genealogy Lore '
- bonus: 20
  misc: null
  name: 'Religion '
- bonus: 10
  misc: +22 in undergrowth
  name: 'Stealth '
- bonus: 25
  misc: null
  name: 'Survival '
source:
- abbr: Bestiary 2
  page_start: 126
  page_stop: null
speed:
- amount: 30
  type: Land
spell_lists: null
traits:
- CN
- Huge
- Giant
- Humanoid
type: Creature
weaknesses: null