3
The Giants
Once the ordning is undone, each giant
race seeks to stand at the top of the new
hierarchy. Because each giant race has
a diî–»erent view of how giants achieve
greatness, each race has a unique goal to
pursue in the game.
Storm Giants
King Hekaton of the storm
giants has been imprisoned,
and his wife, Queen Neri, has
been murdered, both by the evil
machinations of the blue dragon,
Iymrith. Hekaton’s youngest
daughter, Princess Serissa,
assumes the throne in the
undersea fortress of Maelstrom
and seeks desperately to restore
order to giantkind. She wishes
to pursue her mother’s goal of
making peace with the small folk
of Faerûn, including the humans,
elves, dwarves, and halî—‰ings who
live there. Serissa hopes that
after she makes alliances with
the cities of Faerûn, the greatest
heroes of the land will help her rescue her father and then
turn the tables on Iymrith by assaulting the blue dragon in
her desert lair.
Cloud Giants
Countess Sansuri of the cloud
giants is a powerful spellcaster
who seeks to acquire a legendary
trove of dragon magic. She hopes
to use the power of these artifacts
to overthrow Princess Serissa
and secure the cloud giants’ place
at the top of the ordning.
To this end, Sansuri has decreed that her î—‰oating castle,
Lyn Armaal, shall depart its usual place above the
Evermoors and seek out the hidden dragon treasure.
And she will allow nothing to stand in the way of her
lofty ambitions!
Fire Giants
Duke Zalto of the î—‚re giants
yearns to wreak vengeance on
the dragons who have plagued
the races of giantkind for untold
ages. To this end, Zalto has
occupied the ancient forges of
Ironslag in the Ice Spires, and he hopes to light the forges
by stealing the î—‚re primordial Maegera from the dwarves
of Gauntlgrym.
Zalto then plans to heat the forges of Ironslag to rebuild
an ancient dragon-slaying titan known as the Vonindod.
By using the mighty titan to destroy the giants’ ancestral
dragon enemies, Zalto hopes to prove his worth as the new
leader of the ordning.
Frost Giants
Jarl Storvald of the frost giants
seeks a powerful artifact called
the
Ring of Winter
, known to
the Frost Giants as the “Ice
That Never Melts.” Storvald has
reclaimed the iceberg fortress
of Svardborg and is sending his
frost giant warriors out to raid the
Sword Coast in search of clues as to the powerful artifact’s
whereabouts.
Once he has acquired the ring, Storvald plans to blanket
the world in snow and ice to prove the frost giants’ rightful
place at the head of the ordning.
Stone Giants
Thane Kayalithica of the
stone giants believes that the
civilizations of the small folk who
live above her underground home
in Deadstone Cleft are part of a
delusional dream. She believes
that this terrible nightmare must
be scoured from the face of Toril
if the stone giants are to see the
world as it truly exists.
Kayalithica commands her stone giant forces to leave
Deadstone Cleft and ravage the cities of the small folk,
hoping to restore the reality of the lost giant kingdom of
Ostoria. This, she believes, will prove the stone giants’
rightful place at the top of the ordning.
Hill Giants
Chief Guh of the hill giants
believes that a giant’s size is
the only quality that deî—‚nes
its greatness. And so Guh has
married all the male hill giants
of her tribe in Grudd Haug and
commands her new husbands
to bring her food. Lots and lots
of food!
Guh plans to stuî–» herself so fully that she will become the
largest giant in the world. This will prove once and for all
that the hill giants deserve to stand, or perhaps sit, at the
top of the ordning.