Ettin – Twin Eyes of Gruumsh

“An Ettin with magic power? It’s… absurd! And unfair!”
“Wait… did they just hit their other head with magic missiles?”
” …We might get out of this pickle after all!”

It so happens that some ettins, who are distant cousins to the orcs, live among them, following a more or less mutually beneficial agreement (Ettin, Monster Manual, p132). Even if they are not in general extremely loyal towards their allies, the two-headed creatures sometimes pay a strange attention to the rituals of the ones they are supposed to protect.

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Runic Skeleton

“Look out, skeletons over there!”
“Shoot an arrow into the shiny one!”
*KABOOM*

Necrotic magic enables bones to be turned into animated and obedient skeletons. Exceptionally powerful rituals imbibe the corpses with such quantities of negative energy that it must be channeled into the bones by means of runes, that shine with a toxic glow.
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