Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Giant Gods

[@justinbaskall8291]

Timestamps and Spoilers Below! 0:19 Intro, Become a Member 0:38 Giantcraft, and the Many, Many children of Annam 1:50 Ordning, Clerics, and Parley 4:33 Annam, His Worship, and Conditional Return 7:20 Ceremonies and Gudheim 9:57 Stromaus, The Eldest Son 14:09 Hiata, Nurturer and Destroyer Goddess 17:49 Grolantor 20:05 Memnor 22:50 Iallanis 24:51 Skoraeus Just got back from holiday, and turns out there are three more videos waiting for me when i get back. Well rapid fire it is! In case you didnt watch the first part of the series, AJ is revamping the Giant videos, making them cleaner and easier to listen to, as well as updating some of the lore. This is part two of that, and Ill link parts one and three down below. Also thanks for everyone who watched the History of Netheril video in December. While we did fall a bit short, AJ has been very generous and promised to put up part 2 anyways soon! Keep an eye out for it in the new year, and I hope everyone has a wonderful new year. History of the Giants (Part 1 of the Remake Giants Series): kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJeZaaawa5qsitE Giant Kin (Part 3 of Remake Giants Series): kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6DXmpR6fN2Bldk

[@AJPickett]

In the new year you say? (sips beer) challenge accepted.

[@dillongage]

Man this video is a good reminder that not all the giants are evil. When you usually only encounter Hill and frost giants it's easy to forget that. Even the frost giants aren't necessarily evil, just fairly competitive and aggressive and prone to not caring about the small folk.

[@carloss3499]

3:00 I just love this image, it perfectly embodies the 1000 year war between giants and dragons.

[@AJPickett]

Agreed.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

“Welcomed” = “Not immediately killed on sight.”

[@AJPickett]

This man gets it.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

AJ Pickett It’s very similar to the concept of “Tolerance” in the South.

[@Jackb290]

@@Im-Not-a-Dog I like your comment.

[@eldarhighelfhealermiriella7653]

@@Im-Not-a-Dog DM: You encounter a gigant and it's ready to attack you. You rolled a nat20 in charisma and convince the gigant not to kill you, and he/she welcomed you on it's land You: Thanks god... DM: HOWEVER Welcomed = Not inmediatly killed. The gigant lift you up with one hand and told you "Hu, punny little human. You will be a good servant". He put you on a bag and carry you on his house. Now you are forever a slave of a gigant. The End!

[@UserRedZero]

When regular sized Gods won’t cut it

[@That80sGuy1972]

I see the giant gods of the Forgotten Realms are majorly inspired by the real-world Norse gods and mythologies... with totally nice original twists. Great video, AJ. I never really looked into these guys because my campaign world was my own creation. I see I should have got that for inspiration, would have saved me hundreds of hours of world-building time.

[@ChayComas]

Running a game with a PC playing a half-giant Paladin of Annam. Thanks for this

[@jgr7487]

"He also advocates victory via cunning & secrecy & surprise" meanwhile, the race of Giants that was his offspring is the stupidest & least stealthy of all! Annam really has a great sense of ironic humor!

[@AJPickett]

Well, they have survived, you have to credit them with that. :)

[@AmigoRoberto]

Part 2 was an inspiration goldmine. Thank you Professor! I can tell this series is going to reach great heights.

[@henryboard317]

Happy Yule AJ! You posted just in time for my break!

[@AJPickett]

God jul! De beste ønsker for det nye året!

[@supersmily5811]

I'm conflicted by the giants. On one hand, most of them are cool. On the other hand, they hate ALL dragons, even good ones. If the historia is restored, dragonkind (Including lesser dragonkind like dragonborn and draconic bloodline Sorcerers) are going to be in mortal danger. No wonder it hasn't happened yet, that would actually break 5e for these worlds. I'm wondering wherein this rivalry started, were Annam and Ao enemies?

[@AJPickett]

Io is the dragon god, not Ao. The fact is, the giants were on Toril first and the dragons attacked the giants first.

[@jaylonrobinson7092]

Dragons have always been since before the law and chaos wars Giants are like humanoids in that they are a new race of beings that developed as the prime material and outer planes were created and devopled substance as a plane bound by reality rather then elemental chaos.... Dragons flew thru the world LONG before most beings and devoured the nutrients of the elemental chaos to grow.hence why they are soooo elemental driven powers.... When law fought chaos Dragons so ancient that they are long forgotten fought for law and maybe also chaos.... Asmdoues is actually a ancient red dragon god And the god of coutls is his consort Lg and Le dragons led the charge againest chaos and created the outer planes we know today

[@Journey-of-1000-Miles]

Thank you for revisiting Giant lore! I am currently running Storm King’s Thunder, so this is relevant and interesting information, if not useful!

[@Greenscyth22]

There seems to be a lot of ritualistic hunting across all tribes as a display of strength or competence. I wonder what beasts are commonly hunted besides the occasional dragon whelp?

[@AJPickett]

All sorts of giant megafauna you would find in the ice ages, plus Behir, Yeti, supernatural threats, drakes, purple worms, gray renders, and lots of big, mean and very dangerous White dragons, plus tons of Ogres.

[@AfroChef]

Having almost no knowledge of the Giant Pantheon I feel very intrigued and want to delve deeper into the squabbles you mentioned

[@AJPickett]

Oh we have just gotten started!

[@gageabdul]

*starts doing push ups vigorously*

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Good editing good audio quality .Adding to my dnd playlist .

[@AJPickett]

Always happy to get the DBT seal of approval.

[@cerevrus]

Hey AJ, these giant lore videos have very quickly become some of my favourites, thanks for putting these out.

[@purplehaze2358]

Just to let you know, you said “some of my favorites” twice.

[@cerevrus]

@@purplehaze2358 Thanks buddy ^^ just edited it

[@fririkgretuson6971]

Cool to see Anam was heavily inspired by Odin and I think both he and the Head of the Dwarf pantheon share the title "all father"

[@jaylonrobinson7092]

Friðrik Gretuson also DND canon has Norse mythology,Olympian mythos,and Egyptian mythology As official canon Ysgard is a plane and Odin rules a pocket of it and his god pantheon. And this lore predates the FG giant lore and dwarf lore by quite a bit I would say they are the allfathers to their paetheons

[@Skin1in]

Thank you, your lore video is miracle for me.

[@gabrieladerre2862]

Fantastic! As always, many thanks AJ! 😊

[@zmishiymishi5349]

Nice intro! I can almost smell clear, cold wind of wild parts of mountines

[@zacharygadzinski3147]

You think with the Dragonspire destroyed that sooner or later the giants might build their numbers in another realm. Yet if another war broke out between dragons and giants neither would win since humans would find a way to subdue them.

[@LurkerDaBerzerker]

*Relevant and Supportive Comment*

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

can we get a video on Glasya (Asmodeus's daughter) at some point?

[@AJPickett]

possibly.

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

@@AJPickett ever made you're way as far into the interior as coruscant?

[@AlexLopez-xo1tc]

Oh hell yeah. Hey i was wrong about my last comment regarding waiting for pazuzu since pale night. I was actually curious about him since the kenku vid and was bummed his connection with them was expanded upon more in his vid. Thanks for reading my novel.

[@AJPickett]

I think I talk about that in the Aarakocra video, Pazuzu and the Kenku. (it's been a while)

[@AlexLopez-xo1tc]

@@AJPickett ima go check

[@AJPickett]

@@AlexLopez-xo1tc Hmmm, may have been the actual Kenku video...

[@AlexLopez-xo1tc]

@@AJPickett yeah you speak about a breath in the Aarakocra video.

[@johngleeman8347]

Splendid video Sir. I look forward to your coverage of Karontor and Vaprak! Glory to the Twisted One, with his heart of ice. Father of the Verbeegs and Fomorians. And quake before the indefatigable fury of Vaprak the Destroyer! Even the Ice Giants covet his power. Bwu ha ha ha ha!

[@dboy2432]

Will you ever do the real mythological creatures DnD stuff is based off of? Like the militarized lizard-men are based on the African mythical 'Intulo', and that myth story is the most metal shit I've heard. Oh, and the Yuan-Ti are based on the actuall mythical creatures called the 'Chitauri' from Xhosa and Zulu myth. The funny thing is, the ones in the myth are way more insane, brutal and OP'ed than the DnD versions.

[@AJPickett]

While I do talk about mythical inspiration that many D&D creatures are based on, I'll be sticking with my usual format. 😊

[@Kyllleur]

Damn, stupid me looking for details on Thrym but I realise only after 20min that it will be only on the 1st generation of Annam's children xD Well, the video was as good as always to keep me hooked so long on things I didn't really need haha

[@mudshrooze]

The Hill Giants of Dnd have always been one of my top races. My closest bros prefer Fire and Frost and Storm respectively. But I'm the odd one haha.

[@snurgumwurgum8238]

I like cloud and stone giants, how odd am I compared to you?

[@davidfletcher6703]

Hyatia sounds a lot like Skädi from Norse Folklore

[@movespammerguyteam7colors]

Why are the giant goddesses so attractive compared to common female giants?

[@AJPickett]

Because they have a different mother.

[@volstad44]

Because gods have character creation screens instead of puberty.

[@thezerowulf507]

@@AJPickett So what you are saying is Othea does not have an alibi.

[@AJPickett]

@@thezerowulf507 These are not photos of giants, these are drawings... blame the artists.

[@bahamutkaiser]

The Daughters of Hekaton in Storm King's Thunder are all attractive.

[@purplehaze2358]

This might well be the last AJ video of 2019.

[@AJPickett]

Nope, I have at least one more on the way this week :)

[@tatsusama3192]

Was too interested to come up with a clever comment😋 Here's my offering to the algorithm Gods

[@antwan1357]

I sometimes wonder about one race deities that can ONLY source prayers from a specific source if that source is lost then so are they.

[@volstad44]

Ahhh. The Great lords of the Giants. I know the giants are no boyscouts, but their gods are just dicks...... like a dad who walks away from their children when they argue instead of resoring order. Ungratefull parents. I mean, burn down, and destroy one little empire, and dad throws a hissy fit, then moves to mystical Aruba....

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Can you do "little" gods next? 😊

[@AJPickett]

You laugh, but I could make that video!

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

He laughed, then you made that video.

[@Sisyphus317]

Can you make a playlist for the history of fae run.

[@Andy_466]

great video matey 👍

[@jamestitus472]

You left out the Fire and Frost giant gods???

[@antwan1357]

James Boll good point

[@AJPickett]

Aha! Wise sage, they don't actually show up until after Giantcraft was published, in the next vid (as you can see from my community tab post) I will be covering the modern pantheon, the relationship between Annam, Othea, Ulutiu and Vaprak, all the Giant Kin and the first True Giants (including Hartkiller).

[@jamestitus472]

@@AJPickett Ah! Forgive me. While I have you, these religion and culture videos are fantastic. I'd be very happy if that happens to be the direction your content went for awhile!

[@AJPickett]

@@jamestitus472 I am quite enjoying them. After the many giant vids, there are all the dragon vids, and the Dragon pantheon.

[@jamestitus472]

@@AJPickett You love to see it! Would you consider doing analysis like that for the playable races like Elves and Dwarves as well? (If you haven't already, and I've just missed it) Or perhaps even exploring the religion of aberrations like Illithid and Beholders if they have any? (I remember a lot of good culture stuff from the Mind Flayer video, but don't recall if religion was addressed) Or demons, and their cults?

[@anathema1828]

Godlike Information!

[@danagroupsrl6613]

Thank you.

[@nickroden4292]

Im trying to plot out a cult of Memnor for an adventure, what kind creatures and monsters would follow the god of the cloud giants?

[@AJPickett]

Evil air elementals, invisible stalkers, ethereal filchers, awakened clouds of perfume, glass golems, frost giant skalds...

[@jasonsantos3037]

Yeah you should talk about that half-breeds throughout the different races I like learning about these different hybrids

[@galvaton10000]

I've never been so early before... So weird

[@philippegauvin-vallee9371]

I decided to mess with my fellow players by creating a mostly nonviolent cleric of Knowledge worshipping Annam himself...

[@onisinn1]

Allen Scott

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Meow

[@jackiesantos2121]

You know what happened you ever met a giant is a atheist doesn't believe in any gods alvead

[@DeanNatheos-eq3hl]

I don't see how the giants held their own against the dragons unless the titan did most of the work. O.k storm and cloud giants but still even they are not as strong as a dragon oh sometimes yes but mostly no. So the story doesn't sound believable it's only fantasy but still it's good to have a believable story. I think they should have used a different race besides giants. The giant gods are excellent and thank you for the video and have a good evening 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊.

[@Gloomdrake]

Not Mini Gods?

[@AJPickett]

Stay tuned for the gods of the hobbits

[@dragonballtalk8527]

When my playgroup is struggling to kill a giant I don't worry about the gods it worships but I'm a dragonborn that hates other races and teams with a warforged and a aerokoka bird man and a orc

[@jeffjohn2931]

Hey aj othea cheated on annam several times ??

[@AJPickett]

At least twice