Stone Giant

A stone giant seems to be an especially large golem but lacks Magical inscriptions. it is made up of about 10+ boulders with one boulder seemingly mimicking a face. its size varies depending on the number of boulders that make it up and the size of the boulders in question

Culture

a stone giant is not one creature but many pretending to be one. each boulder is bred by a stone giant hitting a normal boulder until a crack forms then one of the boulders that make up the giant will split a part of itself into the crack. over the course of many years the living matter placed into the crack will continue to split the boulder spreading to the openings it makes. once it is finished a new "living boulder" is born. These "living boulders" make up what a stone giant is.

once a living boulder has full control of itself it will either wait for other boulders to reach its level of maturity or it will smack itself into a non-living boulder until theres a crack and act how a giant would. eventually once 10 or so boulders are mature enough and close enough one of them will start to go to an extra level of maturity, forming a 'face'. once that is complete they will strategically ram into each other and hold on with the one with a face as the head they become a 'stone giant' all thats left for them to do is focus all their lesser intellects into one boulder(the 'head') allowing it to go from 1 int per boulder to 2-4 as a stone giant.

because a stone giant is actually 10 or so creatures combined it has 10 or so hp bars. and unless you kill every boulder that makes up the stone giant it will still technically live on. the head is the hardest part to replace so if you kill a stone giants head it will collapse unable to reform. should you kill the middle boulder(s) it will simply use one of its arms to replace the missing parts. should the giant lose too many boulders it will pretend to be killed and collapse. sneakily assisting allies if there are any

a living boulder survival instinct is play dead until attacked, then run, then attack in groups. normally one will never find a living boulder since they can go years without moving and look exactly like normal boulders. but if one does discover one and attack it it will roll away with surprising speed. if you continue to chase after it somhow then it will find other living boulders or dwarves and stop. the other boulders will surprise attack you or the dwarves will arrest/kill you while it surprise attacks you.

on that note the stone giants have for eons been very close friends with dwarves due to their mutual love of stone. the stone giants are to the dwarves what treants are to elves so in any war-zone including dwarves a stone giant is sure to be seen

when not assisting their dwarven friends stone giants are passive creatures that hate killing and will avoid fights unless forced and when forced will fight alongside any allies it can find. they feed off the moss, fungi, and other bacteria that gather on them overtime so they have little complaints with sitting still for years.

should a creature die nearby a living boulder or stone giant unattended by anything the living boulder may purposely crush the corpse to smear themselves with its blood in order to encourage moss, fungi, and other bacteria to grow on it for the living boulder to feast on

History

during the War of Vengeance the magical siege weapons the elves used were powerful enough for the dwarves to fear for the lives of their giant brethren so they constructed massive suits of armor for them to wear. seeing these massive suits of armor as foes was a truly terrifying sight only made worse when they shrugged off their siege blasts with ease. elven historians refereed to them as "Juggernauts" and "Colossi". while stone giants normally dont need such armor should a need ever arise the dwarves wont think twice about bringing the armour out once again