THE
GIANTS
OF CAELERETH |
The Giants are a
humanoid race living in the far northern reaches of
Sarvonia and rumoured to exist in the lands
of Cyhalloi as well. The giants are undoubtedly the largest race in
Caelereth and perhaps the deadliest.
Fortunately for many of the "smaller" races, the Giants are content to live
among the mountain tops of the Icelands, under a deep volcano or in the vast
wastes of the Stone Fields of Peat. With a typical height of over seven
peds and possessing the
strength of a dozen men, the giants are known to be short-tempered, territorial
and barbaric. More than one warrior from the
Ice Tribes will probably tell you
that it takes a small army to battle a giant and there are some areas that the
Ice Tribes dare not intrude upon
for fear of being victim to massive boulders thrown at them or being crushed
under a single blow from a tree-size club. Of the three known tribes of giants,
the stone giant is probably best known with more research done on them than the
frost or fire variety.
Appearance. The
Giants share several typical features - they are tall being well over seven
peds in height. Some giants
are reported to be at least ten
peds in height with a massive shoulder width of almost two peds. The giant
appears as a very tall, muscular human with mottled white, gray, black or brown
skin. They are usually hunched over with their massive heads hanging low over
their chests. Some Giants possess no hair upon their heads while some grow heavy
and thick matted hair, usually the females. They all possess large hands and
feet capable of grasping weapons and tools
much longer, wider and heavier than those used by the smaller races. The Stone
Giants are known to use tear down a single tree and create a single club with
it.
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Clothing typically consists of animal hides. Stone Giants wear little to nothing
except a single loin cloth, and perhaps a cloak composed of crudely sewn animal
hides. The giants wear thick soled wrappings upon their feet, usually hides,
tied around their legs using strips of leather or rope. All known tribes of
Giants wear similar types of clothing without the need to cover up more of their
bodies as the giants really have no use for heavy armour of any kind as they
have very few enemies or predators. What they cannot strike with their hand
weapons, they bash with their clubs.
Territory.
The Giants are known to be found in northern
Sarvonia and rumoured to be found in Cyhalloi. In the
Stone Fields of Peat, giants
inhabit the desolate fields, though usually only around the periphery of the
fields, where they find caves and places of shelter among the rocky terrain. The
Giants, due to their light-hued colouration and bulky shape, find they are
easily camouflaged in the fields. They rarely journey too far into the center of
the fields, doing so only when food is scarce, and they are willing to take
their chances in the fields trying to take down a cragok goat or perhaps capture
a gynnia. Otherwise, they usually stay just inside the perimeter, where they
aren’t a bother to the rock trolls, but rather to the
ice tribes and surrounding.
Frost Giants are rumoured to live on the peninsula of Aeh’Os’th’er’oc, a small
peninsula in northern Caael'heroth. If so, then these giants would have to be
immune to the extremely cold temperatures so far north. The Aeh’Os’th’er’oc
lands possess a great many tall snow covered peaks and unexplored passes that
could very well house a number of Giants. Very few researchers have ever tempted
that harsh landscape to find real evidence of them.
Old myths tell of the race of beast people - the ulvur -
also have a word for giant, further making the assumption that frost giants live
in the lands of Cyhalloi. However, these are simply myths and no eye witness
sightings have ever been told of Giants there.
Of the three possible tribes of Giants, the Fire Giant is probably the most
rare. The many underground caverns that exist underneath volcanoes and mountains
where molten rock flows freely and temperatures reach extreme highs are rumored
to house giants as well. The Celeste
Mountains of Northern Sarvonia
is known to house a fire giant or two from the scattered stories from the native
Kuglimz and even
orcs. Again however, much like the snowy peaks of the North, very few would
dare enter a living volcano to search for a monster twice their size and three
times their weight.
Diet.
Giants are known to be meat eaters primarily. The Stone
Giants of the Fields of Peat hunt
thunderfeet, other giants, cragok goats and gynnia and even human flesh. Whether
giants eat any kind of fruit or vegetable is unknown, but assuming that a Giant
will eat just about anything (and some will tell you that they do) then it would
be safe to say that they harvest various berries and fruits.
Mode of Living/Habits. The race
of Giants is known to live among the wilds of nature. Caves are their preferred
habitat as giants are not known to live among constructed dwellings of wood or
stone. Giants are very simple in their living habits and exist as a
hunter/gatherer culture living of whatever they can find. However, this is not
always the case as there are very few documented sightings of Frost Giants and
Fire Giants who live in large settlements as a group with a defined hierarchy in
place. From what is known about the Stone Giants, they exist primarily as loners
and rarely group together in large numbers.
The Stone Giants of Peat make
their homes in the vast wilderness along the borders of the
Stone Fields of Peat. There are
several unexplored areas there that are believed to exist a large network of
caves from which the giants make their homes. Like most living beings, the giant
is a flesh and blood creature and would seek shelter, warmth and a supply of
food. Among the wilderness of the
Stone Fields of Peat, the Stone Giant hunts the larger prey animals and uses
them for food and clothing. Occasionally, the Stone Giant will make themselves
known among some of the Ice Tribe
settlements sometimes stealing livestock or even an occasional warrior. The
Stone Giants are thought to eat anything, even humans
and each other if the situation warrants.
What is known of the Frost Giants is little. This tribe of giants live high in
the colder reaches of Northern
Sarvonia in the vast unexplored peninsulas of Iol and Caael'hereth. Many
myths exist of these creatures as very few have explored the cold reaches of
these ice peaks let alone seen a Frost Giant's living habits. There is a well
known myth among the Osther-Oc of a
group of big people who live and even have relations with the lost
Osther-Oc tribe in the Icelands of
Aeh'os'th'er'oc. There is even some among the
half-orc Kaaer'dar'shin tribe
who have heard legends that the Frost Giants were used as labourers during the
construction of the Deep Winds Portal of Osthemangar. If these myths have any
truth to them at all, then it would not be so strange to assume that the orcs of
Caael'heroth and the Frost Giants once had, or maybe still do have, a sort of
friendly or neutral working relationship.
Of the Fire Giants, even less is known.
Kuglimz myths tell of a giant man who bellows and seeths on occasion under
the Prominent Mountains causing
the land to shift and form. The Ashz-Oc
maintain that a walking creature of flame prowls about under the ground stomping
and howling in anger. It is said among the
Ashz-Oc, who revere elements of the flame in many of their creation myths,
that this walking flame monster helped create the first fire and perhaps had a
role in the creation of the orc tribes. Even so, the Fire
Giants are considered so rare to be mythical, moreso than the Frost Giant where
at least there have been some sightings of, even among the
Osther-Oc. Of the Fire Giants, no one
known as ventured into a live volcano or so deep in the mountain to have seen
one.
Overview. The following tribes of giants have been recorded so far throughout Caelereth:
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FIRE
GIANT,
THE |
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FROST
GIANT,
THE |
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STONE
GIANT,
THE |
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