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'''True Giants''', or simply Giants, were the original progenitor race for all of giantkind. They were one of the earliest recorded civillizations in the world and once ruled over much of [[Halcann]], sharing it with their [[Dragon|draconic]] and [[genie]] counterparts.

==Appearance==
True Giants generally stand at about 18 - 20 feet but other than that have similar appearance to humans. Most giants don large beards and muscular physiques, wearing the aged clothes and attire of aeons past.

==History==
===Origins===
====In Cannorian Myth====
According to the [[Cannorian Pantheon]] the giants as well as the genies were the initial servants and creations of the Primordials and fought for their respective creators during the [[Primordial Wars]] against [[Castellos]] and his siblings.

After the primordial defeat, the giants, along with the genies and the newly created [[Dragon|dragons]] helped the gods mould and shape the earth. By the outbreak of the [[Timeline|Godswar]] amongst the gods the giants were split with some favouring [[Castellos]] and others favouring his brother [[Agrados]]. With the end of the war and the [[Godly Decrees]] in place the gods left for the heavens and left their creations to their own vices, leaving the dragons to rule the skies, the genies to rule the sands and oceans and the giants to rule the land and mountains in their stead. It is said that those that favoured Agrados were banished to the hells along with the traitorous gods and dragons, with giantsblood forming the basis of large [[Demon|demons]].

Some suggest that one of the reasons of the [[Inheritance War]], in which the dragons attempted to claim the divinity of the gods, was the fact that the dragon lineages were on a war of annihilation against both giant and geniekind. With the draconic victory of the Inheritance War the giants became their foremost enemy and the two races warred upon each other for millenia upon millenia. This would be known as the [[War of Ages]].

At around 100,000 BA the dragons were beaten back, and many fled to Aelantir to rule there and settled on an uneasy truce. The true giants were said to be content with this, and resorted to war against the different subtypes and [[giant realms]], much like how the dragons of Aelantir did with their [[draconic lineages]].

===Rule of Giants===
The period that came after the draconic defeat is known as the [[Rule of Giants]]. It is unknown when this period started exactly, but we do know that it ended around 12,000 BA, which marked the end of the last ice age.<br />

====Realm of the Ice Giants====
With the breaking of draconic rule over Halcann the giants and the remaining genies partitioned the lands to themselves, with the frost giants of the north ruling over much of [[Cannor]] with their monarch, the [[Frost King Gerud]] (which is also where [[Gerudia|the landmass]] gets its namesake).

The [[Realm of the Gerud]] was marked by its icy domain which back then stretched over much of northern Cannor, with the seas of the [[Giant's Grave]] still encased in ice. Throughout their domain dotted [[Ice Giant Palaces|magnificent palaces of pure ice]] which caused this [[Spell of Eternal Winter|icy phenomenon]].

====Realm of the Cloud Giants====
Another realm that still exists to this day is the [[Realm of the Cloud Giants]] and their floating castles on clouds. Due to their relative isolation and the loss of draconic dominance of the skies it is unknown how prosperous or vast this realm is, but many tales throughout history speak of sightings and tales of floating castles with [[1282 Incident|one supposedly falling in 1282 BA]].

===Fall of Giants and The Last Dragonflight===
It is said sometime in 11,000 BA that the last surviving dragons in Halcann (after the rest of their kin fled to Aelantir) embarked on [[The Last Dragonflight]]. They used their remaining power to melt the ice palaces of the [[Frost Realm of Gerud]], the strongest of the giant realms, to break their the [[Spell of Eternal Winter]] that maintained their dominion over the land. This proved catastrophic to the true giants, with many of them drowning in what is today known as the [[Giant's Grave Sea]] that lies to the south of Gerudia.

After this period the true giants as a whole faded to obscurity, as it was said that a great many of the last true giants had gathered in Gerudia during the attack. Eventually, these giants would be succeeded by their descendants, the [[Giantkin]].

==Varieties==
*'''Ice Giant''': the most well-known type of giant, had an empire thousands of years ago, and drowned.
*'''Cloud Giant''': A more mysterious type of giant that live in castles in the clouds. Occasionally, an airship spots one of these castles. Whether they have any nations that are larger than a castle is up for debate, although there are increasing sites of a 'Palace in the Sky' above the Uelos' Lament.
*'''Fire Giant''': An almost extinct, at least on Halann, type of giant, pushed back to a few volcanoes across the world. They maintain cool relations with outsiders, but seem to be willing to give magical knowledge that involves [[Planes of Existence|interplanar]] travel.
*'''Stone Giant''': Not much is known about them. It is likely they are extinct on Halann, eaten by [[Giantkin]] during the Rule of Dragons.

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