Gigant

Gigants once ruled the graggy reaches of Abalathia's Spine. Towering twice the height of a Roegadyn, their upper torsos are exceptionally broad and corded with thick muscle. Though capable of speech, giantkind are notoriously slow-witted, and it is unlikely their discourse would ever be described as intellectual.

Classes of Gigant

Gigas

As the "brightest" amongst the gigants, the gigas have long subjugated their less-gifted kin. They believe hair and beards to be a sign of wisdom, and customarily wear theirs long, binding the coarse strands with decorative metal or leather. Gigas also favor jewelry and other bodily adornments, but lack the dexterity to craft such items for themselves. Forced to trade with Goblin or Qiqirn merchants, they barter away trophies obtained through hunting and pillaging.

The Gigas were drawn to Mor Dhona following the emergence of the Crystal Tower, and appear to venerate the glittering spire as a holy place-a gateway to the heavens. The kin that served them as slaves rebelled at this migration however, and the established order of giantkind was plunged into lasting chaos.

Gigas are omnivores, but will eat meat whenever possible. Charring haunches of beast-flesh over an open fire appears to be the extent of their "cooking", although there are accounts of them boiling some manner of soup in large pots purchased from Goblins.

Giant

For much of their history, the giants lived as slaves of the Gigas. When their masters grew distracted by preparations to migrate to Mor Dhona, however, the Giants seized the opportunity to revolt. Those who escaped the shackles of servitude fled to distant lands, with many finding refuge in the snowy fields of Coerthas.

In contrast to the red-hued skin of the Gigas, the coloring of Giants tends towards blues and greens. Giants are also commonly hairless, and a characteristic endlessly mocked by their dominating kin. As former slaves, they were given little in the way of clothing, and have since hung their meager loincloths with shields and scraps of armor won from unfortunate adventurers.

With a preference for meat matching that of their Gigas cousins, Giants will feast on whatever flesh-bearing creature their formidable strength can overpower-including the occasional traveling merchant or unwary hero. They possess neither the wit nor the patience for cooking, and generally consume their prey raw.

Hecatoncheir

Similar to the Giants, the Hecatoncheires were once thralls of the Gigas. Some three hundred years ago, however, history tells that these Gigants were sold as slaves to the Thorne Dynasty. Their monstrous Strength controlled by means of ensorcelled helms, the Hecatoncheires were forced to toil with pick and hammer in Copperbell Mines.

But it seems the helms were somehow flawed, their magicks fleeting, and the Gigants suddenly turned on their Ul'dahn overseers. The slave masters retreated from the onslaught, then deliberately collapsed the mines' supports to trap the rampaging Hecatoncheires underground. Centuries passed, and the invention of new technologies enabled a scheme to clear the rubble-choked shafts of Copperbell. When miners of Amajina & Sons Mineral Concern blew apart the bedrock, however, they found themselves face-to-face with the tool-wielding descendants of the Gigant slaves-Hecatoncheires possessed by a simmering rage that had festered from one generation to the next for nigh on three hundred years.

During the centuries of their subterranean existence, the Hecatoncheires learned to subsist on giant worms, living fossils and other denizens of the underground. When such prey was scarce, they would also supplement their diet with various species of fungi.