Giants

Species

This is the list of the known Giant species:

• Cave Troll
• River Troll, also called "Hill Troll" or "Ogre"
• Frost Giant

History

The Harlork, the Original Giants

The Giants (also called Harlork in some old legends) are probably the oldest sentient creatures of Eseron, so ancient that the origin of their race, who walked in the continent tens of thousands years ago is a mystery.

Some ancient rock paintings tell about giant humanoids that came from the North, invading the continent in ancient times.

The Origin of The Giant Races

Ancient elven myths, never proven, said that some individuals, among the ancient giants, were so powerful that they could use magic spontaneously, without the need of particular knowledge, casting items or other particular requirements.

These powerful giants rose above the others. They called themselves “Trolls” and organised themselves into a kingdom that forced many giants deemed seditious or weak to return to the northern mountains, where they had come from.

Here in the inhospitable North, a mythical settlement of warlike expelled giants standed, waiting for revenge.

The Giants of this settlement were the first in Eden to have contact with the Void forces, and used the powers of a Dark Eclipsis to ally themselves with demons of Hemon and defeat the proud Trolls of the South.

None of the factions were able to prevail over the enemy in this long destructive clash, until a Titan of the Hellpits, known as “The Mediator”, offered to help the Trolls in the south by giving them a rare artifact, which would have made them stronger than their rivals.

The Southern Harlorks accepted the gift, and their strength and capabilities were amplified. The Trolls won the war and established themselves in all Eden.

The Trolls and the Frost Giants

The defeated Giants retreated to the ice of the north, where they were ultimately betrayed by the Demons and forced into a barbaric life of hardship. These Giants are now called Frost Giants. But the Mediator’s gift of the Legend had in the end corrupted the Trolls, making them violent, stupid and incapable of producing advanced magic they had at their disposal.

Unexpectedly, their bodies had conversely become immune to Voidal Magic, a development that not even the Mediator had foreseen. The so-called Trolls roamed Eden for generations, hunting the demons of the Void that had marred them.