Mountain Family

The Mountain Family are a tribe of mostly Goliaths who live far north in the Frostweald Highlands. Over the past few generations this tribe was founded by Goliaths who wanted to break free from their primal and animalistic fury. This was achieved by extensive meditation and self control. The warriors of the tribe refer to themselves as Mountains and will even be sell-swords for the right price. The more gentle of the tribe, whom have severed all ties with their blood lust and rage refer to themselves as Hills as they are more gentle by nature. The Hills are usually doctors, merchants or general aids to the tribe, while the Mountains take on the more barbaric and brutish jobs of protecting their lands and fighting.

The tribe are not all that religious and have severed ties to Gruumsh. However through dreams and visions they believe that they have been approached by other deities looking for followers. These visions came to them as part of a ritual where they would consume a herbal concoction that causes hallucinations. It is unclear weather or not they were truly approached by deities, however many of the tribe have admitted to feeling a higher presence during these visions.

Despite severing ties with Gruumsh the Mountains still struggle with their blood lust and their primal tendencies, this has only gotten harder to maintain since they were approached by some cosmic enity through their rituals. The Hills of the tribe however remained docile and when the tribe snapped back to becoming savages they murdered all but one of the Hills who managed to escape, Zel Big Mountain a half orc goliath who managed to escape the purge and live silently alone in the woods far away from her savage tribe.