Jotun

Ancient empires once cast tall shadows over a world that quaked beneath the giants’ feet. In those lost days, these great creatures were dragon slayers, dreamers, crafters, and kings, but their kind fell from glory long ago. However, even divided among secluded clans scattered throughout the world, the giants maintain the customs, traditions, and order of old. Each of the main giant races—the cloud, fire, frost, hill, stone, and storm giants—are related by common elements of history, religion, and culture. They view one another as kindred, keeping any inherent animosity over territory and ambition to a minimum. Giants belong to a caste structure called the Ordning. Based on social class and highly organized, the ordning assigns a social rank to each individual giant. By understanding its place in the ordning, each giant knows which other giants are inferior or superior to it, since no two giants are equal.

Civilization and Culture

Major Organizations

The Giants organized into a continental empire known as the Jotunate. A feudal society structured under the basis of the Ordning. All giant-kin wield higher status than any other creature. Among the giants themselves, there is a strict hierarchy internalized into every giant species.

Genetic Descendants

Conservation Status

Giants experienced were near extinction by the dawn of the Fourth Age. In the millennia since, the giant population has steadily gone up. Nowhere near the tens of thousands there used to be, but in still in the hundreds.

Geographic Distribution