Jotun
Str + 2, Con + 4, Dex – 2, Cha – 2
Medium Size
Speed: 30 ft
Troll Blooded: A jotun's flesh heals faster than others, but is more susceptible to burns. This feat grants fast healing of 1 point per round for every two levels in any class, minimum of 1. A jotun take 1 extra point of damage for every two class levels when hurt by fire (minimum 1).
Poison Resistance: Jotun receive a +2 on fortitude saves to resist poison.
Roaring Howls: Jotun can communicate over long distances using a pattern of loud, roaring howls.
Focused Hearing: Jotun have a +2 racial bonus to listen checks to locate the general direction of a sound.
Weapon Familiarity: All Jotun are proficient with great clubs, flails, and heavy flails. Dire flails are considered a martial weapon.
Jotun are troll-like, with shorter legs and longer arms than other humanoid races. They have greasy skin that varies in color by climate. The color is not an indication of breeding – rather, if a jotun changes climate, his or her skin color will change in about a month. In hot climates, a jotun's skin takes on a reddish hue. As the temperature drops, the skin changes from reddish, to brown, to green, and finally to blue hues in icy climate. Ritual scarring indicates which tribe a particular jotun is from.
The jotun usually live on the sunlit side of Phaetos, lacking natural adaptations for living in a world of darkness. Often seen by other races as brutes, most lack much of the noble savagery of the tribal orcs. Their captives often die in rituals of sacrifice to appease their bloodthirsty gods on alters of stone. Sometimes the alter is intricately carved, and other times it is a simple boulder. The race has a reputation for backstabbing, survivalist tactics. In their savagery, civilized folk often forget that jotun are not stupid.
Most jotun are warriors of one sort or another, but some are clever and sneaky. Jotun leaders are usually evil clerics or warlords, although the occasional sorcerer crops up.
