Ordning

The Ordning is the caste structure of Giant culture. Based on social class and highly organized, the Ordning assigns a social rank to each Giant. By understanding its place in the Ordning, a Giant knows which other Giants are inferior or superior to it, since no two Giants are equal. Each of the Giant races analyzes a different combination of skills or qualities to determine the Ordning. Giants make excelling in these qualities the purpose of their lives.
At the highest level of the Ordning, the races of the Giants are also ranked according to status. Storm Giants are the highest in the Ordning, followed by Cloud Giants, Fire Giants, Frost Giants, Stone Giants, Hill Giants, and finally giant kin such as Fomorians, Ettins, and Ogres.
Regardless of a Giant's rank among its own race, the Chief of a Hill Giant tribe is inferior to the most common of Stone Giants. The lowest ranked Giant of any type is superior to the highest ranked Giant of an inferior type. It isn't considered evil to disrespect or even betray a Giant of another type, merely rude.