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Your description led me to the truth of Nortelbean swiftly and without force, even before you stated the truth. .
The sub leaves me hungry for more, though - after the aperitif, a chunk of meat should come.
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Please do ;)
So...like...if I painted eyes on my fingertip, it would look like that?
I like the idea of the fallen but it is a bit vague, but that might be the point. I think I am confused too. Not quite sure what to do with it although I am intrigued.
This gives a whole new meaning to "giving somebody the finger."
I am absolutely uncertain what to think of this :D
Must ponder.
Very unique, and intriguing although it does leave me with a few small questions.
Are these creatures able to reproduce like normal? (Similar to mermaids and naga) Or are they essentially asexual in nature?
From what's been observed of these creatures is their life span significantly longer or shorter then the human norm?
Is the upper torso always of human appearance or have Elven, Dwarven etc.. features been seen? (Assuming such creatures exist in the world)
These questions aside it's an interesting piece, I look forward to seeing more of the setting.
Like Echo said, I am not at all sure what to do with this. It is an interesting concept, but I don't think I'd like to play one. But it is unique.
Tools out of bone and stone...giant bones? Bones of their ancestors? Their size makes me think they might use mammoth bones or other large creatures you mentioned but I wonder if using their own people's bones might make it more interesting. Could be an interesting concept for a creation of weapons too if they could get a hold of some bones.
As it stands, its a good start, but a little more in the line of how they might be expected to behave when you interact with them would be good. What do they generally think of the little men? Will they strike you down for bearing a torch or having a campfire? Do they make merry at their camps when you encounter them, or are they a dour bunch?
Also, to Muro's comment: We expect that a creature five times taller, five times thicker, and five times wider than a natural human should weigh not five times what a man does but 125 times his weight. At six foot, a human is 'supposed' to weigh about 165 pounds, so we expect a 30 foot giant to weigh about ten and a half tons.
Rather than painting a picture, it throws up questions.
As for their dimensions, they'd have to be disproportionately thicker than a simply enlarged human, as strength of bone increases with its cross-sectional area, but the burden placed upon it with the volume of flesh. Hence, why elephants are so stocky.
A nice take on the frost Giant take. As for dimensions, I don't worry about them for fantasy, because as soon as you do, Dragons, really Giant Bugs, etc, become impossible or twisted from our intent.
If more was added, I'd like more on their motivations and culture :)
An interesting culture, though a bad one to spring on PCs who like wearing gaudily-colored adventuring outfits. Perhaps a little bit of warning from the townfolk would be in order before the PCs set out into the wilderness. Also, the rime-fire intrigues me. Could some frost-giant blood be"harvested" and kept in a vial for later use? Would be fun to use it as an impromptu grenade . . .
I like it. The rime-fire is interesting, as is their mythology.
Like Siren, after reading the summary I was curious about how these giants react to men and their torches.
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The Spirit and Blood
Blood and spirit are one and the same. To weaken the spirit is to weaken the blood. The strength of the blood is in direct correlation to the strength of the spirit. A timid or weak subject will supply weak blood. A starved subject will likewise supply weak blood. Some dark wizards have been known to rely on torture, as this paradoxically concentrates power in the blood, although the effect on spells can be quite unpredictable.
A blood pendant is an object filled with the blood of a poor soul whose mind has been wiped. With no soul, the blood becomes empty, and a great vessel for storing the wizard’s own power. It can be recharged at most 3-4 times before it disintegrates into a useless fluid and must be replenished. An average human can supply enough blood for 4-6 such pendants. The process which extracts such blood requires time. Time to break the subject’s spirit, time to blast the subject’s mind clean, time to extract and distill the blood into a usable form, and time to charge it. Only a truly despicable fiend would perform such magics and any found wearing one would be subject to execution.
Written by Theolannis, from the order of the Mystic Moon.
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