Cyclops & Ettins | D&D Monster Lore | The Dungeoncast Ep.166

Will and Brian are announcing their new big topic of the year! it's so big, you might even say it's giant. It's Giants! Year of the Giant is here and we are starting on the smaller side with these two 13 foot tall monsters this week on The Dungeoncast!
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[@Lionlord1000]

plot hook. a Ettin hires a party to assasinate their other head.

[@dorianrobinette9712]

This could also be used with demogorgon.

[@ashenwuss1651]

"I'm willing to be shamed by my kin. Just kill him."

[@lordhogwash8393]

Ettins are my favorite giant kin

[@dorianrobinette9712]

*I raise my weapon in the air, and a grand lightning bolt strikes it as I yell with intense ferocity* I have liked and commented! As the year of the giant begins I continue to serve the dungeoncast! While I still mourn the passing of the grand year of the Dragon, I have renewed joy in my heart. For now i can celebrate the birth of the titanic year of the giant! After giants all I need are gem dragons, miscellaneous dragons, and beholder kin and my life shall be complete. Also on an unrelated note I've been thinking, I believe it is time to expand the pantheon of the dungeoncast. The great lords of knowledge and laughter are obviously worthy of greater deity status but I would like to include freeland and the special guest Jake in the pantheon. The only question now is will they be lesser deities or more like saints of the dungeoncast? I will have to contemplate this dilemma in my short rest... Hey there everybody welcome to this comments short rest where I'm not talking about what I used to be talking about. No! I'm talking about...love! Yes that's right, love. I love each and every last one of you, for you are all fellow lovers of the great dungeoncast! In fact I love you all so much that like a female ettin looking for a mate, I am going to hunt you down. Yes I will hunt you down and fight you, for what better way is there to show my love for you than coming after you to mercilessly beat you and take you home with me. . . . Ok I'm going to end the short rest now because this got weird. Yes been waiting for my weekly dungeoncast episode all day, wooh! For those underdark cyclops I just get the image in my head of a party running into one but it's just sitting around sucking the farts out of a flumph and its one eye is all red and its just high out of it's mind. Oh my god! That image of a nude cyclops Just automatically makes them way more terrifying! I can't get that out of my head! I'm just imaging one flailing around with a club or something while fighting the party but it's huge dick is just flopping around everywhere! It's just as bad as the titans from attack on titan would be if they were anatomically correct! I need to go bleach my brain for the next week straight until the next episode comes out have a good day everybody!

[@sonichalo1527]

Actually Ettins are true giants. in the D&D giant language, Ettin means runt. The Ettin god was the last of Annam's children. If you want to know more, look up AJ Pickett here on KZbin

[@Smokinindachi]

Happy New Year's can't wait for another year with you all.

[@vernonhampton5863]

I'm actually planning on using cyclops in my next one-shot. This video dropped at the right time. Thanks guys, looking forward to more success in 2020.

[@fracros95]

Happy new Year!

[@Ocaisionallysane]

i liked the demogorgon cult

[@lntnchrs1]

I like Will's hat

[@lntnchrs1]

Also the bad ass d&d lore

[@DoWhatNowQuestionmark]

This is a BIG deal! Titanic even! Dare I say...Giant 😂

[@bz7672]

Darn, I was hoping for the Year of the Oozes (I'm kidding, I was actually hoping for Ettins)

[@ashenwuss1651]

Great. Now I want a year of the Ooze Thanks for being fantastic. Sheesh

[@dorianrobinette9712]

Year of the ooze would be great lol

[@justsomerandomyetiwithinte4005]

I was your 100th like, this channel is truly amazing

[@themarsh429]

Got two players who just can't ever seem to work together? Have a hag curse them into an Ettin. It's a great team building exercise!

[@mcswaggerduff8946]

*insert two heads are better than one joke*

[@ashenwuss1651]

*two eyes > one eye*

[@GodzillaRex100]

Ashen Wuss four eyes > two eyes

[@ashenwuss1651]

@@GodzillaRex100 GRANT US EYES!

[@ianswinford5570]

I would love an episode about the Naga, the snake creature with a humanoid face. They look awesome!

[@NamelessKing1597]

I hoped you'd do year of the Giant next.

[@icywinterof88]

I also like lady in the water!!

[@silverman785]

Dieties and Demi-Gods in D&D covered the greater and lesser Cyclops. They were much bigger and over 20 feet tall

[@svofoy_tre]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do a video on the lore of Kas I haven’t really been able to found what I wanted to know online and I was hoping you guys could cover it please!!! Btw I really enjoy your videos!

[@KS-PNW]

Kas the minotaur? Or Kas the Destroyer (aka Vecna's homie)?

[@Hawkray]

I love the idea of a cyclops just reacting with wow to anything slightly magical

[@wh3nderson95]

An idea I had was that a group of Cyclopes were capable Sheep farmers and had lived on a series of small islands to use for livestock grazing. However, a group of humanoid settlers wish to use the fertile grazing fields for their building homes and converting the land into farmland. A group of adventurers learned the Cyclopes weren't barbaric and felt bad for wanting to wipe them out. So instead, the party sided with the Cyclopes and established a trade agreement to ensure the Cyclopes won't be attacked unless a local government will come in and assist them. I know that isn't how real life works, but my players loved the idea of helping Livestock giants thrive within a region.

[@phobilao]

Very much love the idea of an artisan-type cyclops who plays the goofy apprentice of a small wizard. So the year of the dragon has come and gone, where are my gem dragons guys?

[@draxthemsklonst]

A two-headed cyclops would be different.

[@ashenwuss1651]

Looking forward to post-work, bois. Curse da foo who leave a dislike

[@ashenwuss1651]

@Herald of dissonance *Right?* We could show up at their home dressed up like the monsters they left a dislike for.

[@dorianrobinette9712]

*Reads this comments and checks only to see there are 2 dislikes* Me: it's time for a crusade...*draws morning star*

[@iratevagabond204]

I think folks are missing out on something when it comes to solitary sapient beings. I think it's worth exploring given our knowledge of how humans react to prolonged isolation. Perhaps self imposed isolation is a social/cultural construct for some strange reason in their past? Perhaps these solitary beings, if raised and nurtured in a social environment, it might counter act much of their negative behaviors. /shrug

[@dorianrobinette9712]

This is something that would be interesting to deal with in someway. The one thing to keep in mind is that since these fantasy races aren't human isolation might effect them differently as humans suffer from isolation due to being mentally wired up to be social creatures.

[@nerdiboy5128]

I am currently interested in Giant lore (both Real World and Forgotten Realms), because of this realm I'm designing, where Humans live alongside Hill and Stone Giants, Trolls and Ogres, due to the humans having some Giant blood in them. It's also influenced by Germanic folklore and the Nieblunglied. Half-Ogres and Half-Giants are a common race in my kingdom (which is located near Damara).

[@mattrondeau2]

Brian's reaction to Demogorgon getting mentioned (shout out to Demogorgon) is the same reaction I get when The Dungeoncast uploads a new video

[@Buildpaintplayrepeat]

Giant announcement this episode! Billiam and Wrian back at it again.

[@bugglemagnum6213]

Ah yes, Lyle's classic one eye

[@llewballantine6678]

WOOO, I FREAKING LOVE GIANTS, I AM SO PSYCHED FOR THIS.

[@OccultistCaveman2112]

There is a magic based Cyclops in the Tal'dorei campaign setting book by Matt Mercer its pretty cool. It's a CR 10 I think.

[@ZemosMacleod]

Try "Krull" for another cyclops inspiration for campaigns.

[@dakotarobertson3208]

Will Empyreans be covered this year?

[@D1LLDozZer135]

Oh yeah guys happy new year I forget that this is in the past lmao!!!

[@Qwfvhjxf]

Cyclops is a big guy 4 u

[@sentryward8744]

14:07 Im picture a Bill and Ted wow and the funny thing is they can actually have the same hair cut

[@TheSlackerNamedJack]

Since superquest saga is in space, do you think you will do an episode on spelljammers?

[@imlaughing2death]

Man, I like Giants more than Dragons, but I think part of the reason that alot of people don't use them is alot of them just boil down to "big dumb humans". Personally, I'd give Ettins a bit more to accentuate their duel personalities, like they actually get Diplomacy as a skill because they're so used to compromising with the other head. I'd also give them a quirk where they intentionally use people's assumptions against them, like the snaggle toothed battle-scarred head turns out to be pretty sophisticated, and the other, more put-together head is the belligerent one. Or you could give them one male head and one female head, and essentially have them identify as both genders, since they're basically two individuals sharing the same body. Basically, I feel like the phrase "two heads are better than one" should be taken literally, and should lead to them having a surprisingly good Int score. Cyclopes difficulty with depth perception might lead them to rock side to side before they throw boulders, so they can aim better, leading to the phrase "teetering like a Cyclops" becoming a common saying to describe someone who's drunk off their ass. You could also have Cyclopes gain either Darkvision, Heatvision or Truesight depending on their eye color. I also imagine that while their long distance vision is very poor, their short term vision is actually insanely good, and they have an incredible eye for detail, leading to them making exquisite, intricately detailed works of art, or even lead to them getting the Investigate skill.

[@lordhogwash8393]

Home brew the Hesiod cyclops out of maybe a storm giant- larger, more powerful and more intelligent

[@darrellwiles9507]

Ettins are not D&d exclusive, they exist in both Norse Mythology and are also in The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. Do better research guys. I figured that out with just a Google search.

[@Thedungeoncast]

The word Ettin is an old word meaning Giant. It is derived for the Olde English word eoten which can be traced to the ancient norse word Iotunn or Jotun (Also just means giant). The Ettins from C.S. Lewis' work are also simply giants reminiscent to those of norse mythology. None of these have an semblance to the D&D Ettins introduced in the original monster manual by Gary Gygax, save for a name that is a permutation of a permutation.

[@dorianrobinette9712]

Dungeoncast is flexing with that knowledge.

[@RyanWBL]

@@Thedungeoncast I remember seeing a two head giant "ettin" in old the old "Popeye Meets Sinbad" cartoon. That was made in 1936 (my mom was into retro stuff I guess). Definitely well before Gygax. I'm sure there are some other stories that go way back that describe giants with some variation. You can watch the cartoon if you search on KZbin at: skip to 3:00 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioPUapKGl8Z8eKs In Norse myth giants (Jötunn) and trolls might have many heads depending on the text. Kind of like how some titans in Greek myth were said to have hundreds of arms and would throw rocks one at a time to the point it was like a machine gun. Tolken mentioned a two headed troll in the Hobbit (which are basically two headed hill giants) lotro-wiki.com/index.php/Ettens Growing up with Norwegian grandparents, I remember many statues and art pieces around their house of two headed troll that were basically our equivalent of an ettin. That being said, great videos, you guys have the best banter.

[@KS-PNW]

Yeah the ettins of DND are unique

[@BryantVonMiller]

Good grief. A nudist cyclops colony. Due to how much food and water they would have to consume, I can only imagine about ten of them living together before they would have substantial food/drink problems. But the idea of nudist cyclops.. Uhhhh. That is terrifyingly disturbing. The size and everything! Disturbing thought. Could you milk/drink milk from a female cyclops and would that help in the strength of a babe?

[@dorianrobinette9712]

It was bad enough imagining nude cyclops...then I read the last part of your comment.

[@BryantVonMiller]

@@dorianrobinette9712 hahaha! I am sorry but at the same time I take great joy at this statement

[@dorianrobinette9712]

This image only keeps getting worse. Now I'm thinking about a farm but instead of cows you just have a bunch of female cyclops crawling around on all fours mimicking cows.

[@BryantVonMiller]

@@dorianrobinette9712 Good grief! I was not thinking to that capacity! I thought of that Red headed wildling man from Game of Thrones.

[@dorianrobinette9712]

Bryant Van Miller I unfortunately don't get that as I have not watched game of thrones.