Long before the small and mortal folk fought during the First War some thousand years ago and drove the giant's back over the Great Wall to the East, they ruled the lands between the Great Wall and the Great Sea, the lands that the adventurers now call home. This legend is widely known and accepted to be true. The remnants of their civilization litter the countryside and the party even recently explored one (Skekenhall)!
The Giants had a chosen, mixed humanoid and giant-kin race, the Goliaths, who served and worshiped them. Many of the human-sized ruins, like the dungeon beneath Skekenhall, were actually the living quarters of the Goliaths that served their Giant overlords. Much of the Runic language that drives the Northern understanding of Magic was transcribed by the Goliaths from the knowledge gifted upon them by the Giants. However, the Goliaths were on the wrong side of the war against the Giants and have been driven into hiding in small tribal pockets all across the North and the West.
As things stand now, the Giants typically tend to themselves, often isolated in small groups. The only remaining large tribe actually worked through a treaty with the mortals who would eventually become Uthgard. There are the Uthgard Frost Giants and humanoids who live in "harmony", they tolerate each other.
All of the types of giants are present in the Realms; frost, fire, storm, cloud, stone, hill, troll, ogre, and cyclops. Frost giants ruled most of the northern territory, fire giants who ruled under the mountains, storm giants who ruled the sea, stone giants who ruled the mountain surfaces, cloud giants who ruled the skies, hill giants who ruled the rolling hills, trolls who ruled under the hills, and finally ogres who are the half-goblin and cyclopes the one-eyed cursed giant-kin. As of today, they can be found in their native regions but in much less number.
- Notes from the Library of the Listeners,
Documented by Val'antheius of the First Circle.
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