Jack the Giant Killer || Faerie Daels

This time on MonarchsFactory, Dael Kingsmill tells the story of Jack the Giant Killer ( not the beanstalk guy, that's a different Jack).
Video edited by Omar Najam, find him being funny on twitter @Omar Najam
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[@fhuber7507]

"Really the DM has overpowered him at this point" Like a true gamer.

[@notoriusc]

F Huber I was looking for this comment! Lol 😂

[@wrt424]

No giants left, except for his friendly cousin of course!

[@scottsmartky]

Anytime it's a young stud of a guy being the main character of the story, and the story goes "And the hero grew restless so off he went.", I take that to mean "And our hero slept with someone's wife and was run out of town." Great story as always, Dael. So happy you're going back and doing these stories again.

[@johnpotts8308]

Yeah, Jack wouldn't get the "Adventurer's Itch" if he used "protection"!

[@Alefiend]

I've heard *of* Jack the Giant Killer, of course. But I've never heard the actual story until today. Thanks, Dael. Well told.

[@adampurdy1333]

The rocky outcroppy thingy ya was trying to describe is called St Michael's Mount they say the giants heart is still buried there.

[@MonarchsFactory]

That's so metal

[@jiribaran1843]

Isn't there a monastery or castle of some sorts? I drove past it not so long ago and had to stop to enjoy the magnificent view. No idea there is a story like this tied to it :O Even less I expected to hear it from our Australian d&d delight Dael! Research well done and amazing video as always, thanks!

[@adampurdy1333]

@@jiribaran1843 Yes there is it was first a Priory then became a castle later... It's a great place to visit lots of history and legend surrounds it.

[@BennysGamingAttic]

22x22ft hole in one night? That's impressive, Jack.

[@BlueSparrow23]

Mold Earth can excavate a 5^3 cube in 6 seconds. That means it would take 48 seconds to make a 10^3 ft cube, or 6.4 minutes to make a 20^3. 22^3 would take about 8.5 minutes meaning a level 1 Druid could make 3 of those holes in the time it takes to watch this video, and still have time to Druidcraft a Flower Crown.

[@pedroscoponi4905]

@@BlueSparrow23 Yeah, but all he had was a shovel I also must wonder how did he climb the 22ft back up, can't have been easy, even with a ladder

[@nottelling9581]

@@BlueSparrow23 Mold Earth moves the 5' cube, a whole 5 feet from the hole you just excavated. Even it the DM allows that "excavate". means that the earth lifts it out of a 20' hole, you still have a huge mound of earth sitting around. Yeah, you can mold earth that away by shifting a 5' cove a whole 5 feet. Gonna take a tad more than 8 minutes. It's a handy cantrip, but still just a cantrip.

[@gauracappelletti3893]

"they had a Giant Problem"

[@stercasmr7345]

the one about Mr Giant sounds very similar to a norwegian folk tale about Askeladden, where he challenges a troll to a eating contest and drops food in his bag and slices it and convinces the troll it is his trick for eating more, the troll then commits sepukku

[@MonarchsFactory]

Holy moly, that sounds EXTREMELY similar!

[@Bluecho4]

Folktales get mixed and iterated upon all the time. It's no surprise that by the time the writer of Dael's book put the story of Jack the Giant Killer down in print, it had absorbed basically every notable story of a human killing a giant. See also the bit with the "fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman".

[@miramajdan9160]

We have the exact same folktale in Hungary with a clever shepherd boy and the giant slicing its own belly!

[@StubbornProgrammer]

Clearly giants have a racial ability that lets them sacrifice half their birth name to grow an extra head.

[@screaminggecko7660]

I mean, I fell like "slayer of lucifer" is a better title than "giant killer", though I guess he probably got better

[@ceciliasobo281]

"He cut off my head!" "He cut off your head?" "...i got better..."

[@screaminggecko7660]

"it's basically a vorpal blade, it goes snicker snack" ah yes sword sounds

[@Madhattersinjeans]

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

[@screaminggecko7660]

@@Madhattersinjeans I had forgotten about that and I love how relevant your username is

[@jasonscarborough94]

Jack and the Welsh giant sounds like the mirror universe version of Thor's meeting with Utgard Loki

[@ingridplata2411]

I love that the three-headed giant just had random magic items around his room which he totally didn't use against those attacking him. Jack did say he was an idiot after all

[@ericbuchner2982]

That last giant gave me an idea for a trap. It's the same set up as the story but blowing the bugle transforms you into a beast. The old man is the sorcerer.

[@Vegas242]

While a part of me loves how hilariously overpowered Jack becomes, I wish there was more of that trickery and trap setting in the later stories like there were in the beginning, but I mean this was an amazing video

[@patrickedger2448]

Prince : *Lift's Satan's head* Demons: "Aight imma head out."

[@nafereuskortex9055]

JACK YOU FOOL THE SORCERER WILL BECOME THE BBEG

[@LongRest]

One of the favorite tales of my childhood. I really liked how most of his ways of defeating giants were pretty logical (you can imagine such traps in DnD, for example). Many other tales have this faerie logic, were everyone except hero is unbelievably dumb, so "cunning" hero just says complete nonsense and everyone believes him. Most of the Jack plans had sense.

[@lilsworld2801]

"oh! you killed my kingsman? neat" XD im dieing rn thats so funny!!!

[@RebelstarDawn]

Better than my Welsh accent, and I've been using it for two years for D&D...

[@Monteloke]

I love your story telling please keep it up!

[@jakoblien5907]

The part with Jack cutting open his own stomach reminds me of the norewgian fairytale: "Askeladden som kappåt med trollet", tranlsated: "Ash-lad, who race-ate the troll".

[@stefanhansen8623]

We have the same story in Sweden

[@Fantafaust]

Faerie Daaaaels, that's cute

[@Bluecho4]

That's one hell of a DnD campaign. Jack bests gryphons, an evil wizard, several giants (and ettins), and even _the fucking Devil himself._ The difficulty falls off a bit when the DM gives Jack several OP magic items midway through, though. Those could have done with spreading them out over multiple quests, to keep things _slightly_ challenging.

[@BrooksSligh]

Love that he spends so much time absolutely wrecking face while running around in slippers & an extremely ratty robe. Speaking of the Welsh, when I saw Joy Formidable open for Fang Island their lead singer told a Welsh joke. She said "What do you call a Welsh person with a stick up their rear end? A toffee apple" which absolutely killed in South Carolina because man I tell you, nobody had the slightest idea what she was talking about.

[@LawsonPhoenix89]

Serendipitous vid as my players just entered the dungeon that will eventually become essentially their version of the giant beanstalk.

[@SanJacintoArtGuild]

A delightful rendition!

[@gmscott9319]

I'm so glad you decided to remake these videos, thank you! Also, nice MCDM shirt. ;)

[@quinnsinclair7028]

This adds a lot of context to the Oce Upon a Time episode "Jack the Giant Killer" which now that I hear it appears to have merged elements of this story with more classical ones from Jack and the Beanstalk.

[@BenA514]

Loving these fairy daels! It's great to hear real world fairy tales as inspiration for writing in-universe legends for my D&D setting

[@purpleghost106]

That one plank reminds me very much of the story "Molly Whuppie and the Giant" where she runs across a bridge that's made of a single golden hair after having enraged the giant so much that he chases her without thinking-- makes me wonder if the original Molly story that Joseph Jacobs wrote down from Scotland (which wiki tells me was called Maol a Chliobain) was sort of a local a variant of the Jack the giant killer tales? I still like Molly Whuppie one a lot, she's got a lot of sass and it's awesome - Maybe while you're on Giants you should look her story up! :D

[@MonarchsFactory]

I'm starting to think Jack the Giant Killer is probably the one pulling stories from everywhere else (I mean, I already had my suspicions based on structure, but hearing all the different variants from all over the place is totally dope)

[@kevingriffith6011]

Yep. This reads like one of those "check out how great my character is" stories you see from time to time. "My guy has a magic instant kill sword and is invisible and is super fast and killed the devil once and everything is super easy for him and everyone loves him." Of course when this was written we didn't have hundreds of years of people figuring out exactly what makes an exciting story, so I can't give them too much grief about it.

[@josephcohen734]

It makes me happy that jack didn't actually need any of his magic items to kill the last giant. Like, maybe the slippers, but I think he could have dodged those attacks regular style. Shows he's still a legit badass. Edit: I guess that wasn't the last last giant I was talking bout, it was the second to last. Still cool though.

[@TheLastVampireSong]

man... how I adore your narrations.. : D

[@crows2808]

Makes me wonder if it was the inspiration behind The Brave Little Tailor

[@sartonian]

Thanks for covering this story, one of my absolute favourite growing up and it was a great reminder. You did an amazing job summarizing it

[@davidleonardflanagan]

I've actually been to the place in Cornwall this story is meant to have been in and visited the island. You can walk to and from on the causeway at certain times of day 😁

[@frabjuosity]

Omg I've never heard the story of Jack and Mister Giant, but there's a Norwegian fairy tale character called Espen Askeladden who has various adventures where he uses his wits to outsmart people and creatures, and he has that exact porridge story but it's with a troll and they're having a porridge eating contest.

[@ingridplata2411]

"Jack gets a little prejudiced at this point" lol

[@tychoinshadows]

This story is so much more interesting than I thought it would be. Awesome! Thanks for sharing it.

[@foxross]

I thought that this might be coming when I saw the D&D video! I am always glad to see more Faerie Daels.

[@Knightmare_69]

just love listening to your stories... Great story as always :)

[@gawayne1374]

Really liked this one

[@Wirstead]

Lots of great campaign ideas in one video tbh

[@TheBurgerkrieg]

This is the bloke who just sort of stumbles into a dungeon before he's accepted the quest in town, then fixes the whole thing without understanding the context.

[@joaomrtins]

That sound you make when pretending to play an instrument is really similar to a bird.

[@VanFloral]

This was *chef's kiss* amazing!

[@Gildagnir]

sounds like an amazing 1 player campaign

[@willowpackerthestoryteller135]

I feel like the welsh giant story is way more plausible if they were doing a lot of day drinking during that breakfast.

[@grindsaur]

Hey... wait a minute. Wasn’t Jack a cornishman?

[@micahhearn4429]

Super entertaining story! Thank you!

[@michaelsommers2356]

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

[@MonarchsFactory]

Cue the joyous chortling

[@scook9999]

Of course the Welsh giant has two heads...of course! Jack is missing one thing.....a flag to claim everything for the Empire. Freaking Jack!

[@KarolinaKiryjczuk]

"Stub wound and all the GIZZARDS" - learnt a new word :D Thanks! PS More Faerie Daels!!

[@Huw_Morgan]

So why did Mr Giant prepare a bowl of porridge for Jack in the morning when he thought he was already dead? Really entertaining Faerie Dael, and a brave attempt at the Welch accent. Can we have a dramatic reading of Under Milk Wood next?

[@martonjuhasz1544]

haha that was so awesome :D i will definitely e-mail this to my grandma

[@jessmith7324]

I never understood the humor the Brits see in picking on the Welsh. Aren't they like the only real native remnants on the island?

[@timothyheimbach3260]

Exactly

[@Jenked]

It's mainly the English that make fun of Wales. Us Scots and the Irish aren't big on picking on a fellow ancient land and people. The English suck when it comes to dealing with any of us three. Historically and recently.

[@jessmith7324]

@@Jenked Why do they? Was there some sort historic bad blood?

[@trikepilot101]

@@jessmith7324 Google Saxon invasion. The "invasion" part is under debate lately, but you'll get the point.

[@RedshiftButterfly]

tldr: You know when a group of (typically) young guys all make jokes at each other's expenses, but then all end up laughing? It's like that. But just like that, sometimes someone takes it too far.

[@ceranko]

Thats cool never heard the actual story.

[@darenkellensi9677]

19:20 well jack... you could have just given the princess a kiss while she sleeps... but I guess decapitating the devil is cool too.

[@My-name-is-Kit]

Giantkiller Jack, Beanstalk Jack, Molly Whuppie, and The Brave Little Tailor should start a club.

[@kensvideos1]

Smart Princesses carry a knife.

[@hotscottrulz]

Thunderdelve? More like One Dead Delve! Hahaha gottem coach

[@yakumofujii886]

Incoming story! Ok when you didn't know what to call the rocks out in the water where the first giant lived I had to look it up. Oddly enough I could not find any common name for this feature besides Protruding Rocks. So I looked in the Cornwall area to see if the locals called them anything specific and I could not find anything, but I came across another Giant story you may be interested in with a heroine in it. They even have a local holiday named after this giant called Bolster Day go ahead and look it up it is a pretty interesting story.

[@adampurdy1333]

The place from the first story is called St Michael's Mount... if you visit they will show the place where the giants heart is buried :)

[@yakumofujii886]

@@adampurdy1333 Thanks for the info. I think I went down the rabbit hole to quick to see the name and got fixated on the Bolster giant myth. Still odd there is no single term for places like that and a lot of the local places seem to name them something different. I guess an island would be the best generic term for them.

[@BlackFireLily714]

Wait...these are different Jacks? Not the beanstalk Jack? Why so many Jacks? Was it a particularly popular name at the time? Or... Hmmm

[@oskaradams1331]

Don't forget his sister jill

[@Fantafaust]

Jack is just a shorthand for a common fellow where today we might use dude.

[@BlackFireLily714]

@@Fantafaust actually, that makes alot of sense. Thanks!

[@BennysGamingAttic]

@@Fantafaust so it's basically "Dude the giant Slayer"... That's cool

[@Fantafaust]

Yep, dude killed them all. Every man Jack of them. Lol And before anyone asks: Every man Jack of them is a phrase that means every person in a group, but emphasizes the fact that it is every single one.

[@DREWSONofthe43]

Is it weird that my biggest problem with this story is that he dug a 22x22 foot hole in one night? Also that an 18 foot tall giant couldn't climb out of said hole? Otherwise that was a great story, I learned a lot!

[@InnoVintage]

We should rename him jack the genocidal... It's definitely more accurate to his motivation of "kill giants"

[@FlyingAxblade_D20]

well an english story wouldn't have him play reveille! thank you kindly, I was highly entertained, and edumuhcated. I was expecting a bean stalk, not Wales. =) do you sing?

[@foxross]

'edumuhcated', it's Lilarcor!

[@manuelalvarado8752]

LOVER

[@likeafoxDM]

The story of Jack and the two headed giant kinda reminds me of Thor and Loki in the city of giants, when the king giant used illusions when thor tried to whack his head and made them compete against friggin FIRE in an eating contest etc etc

[@Ryquard1]

King Arthur Son hears about a Beautiful lady possesed by 7 demons Ban, Merlin, Meliodas, Escanor, Diane, King and Gowther

[@nottelling9581]

I had always wondered why it's Asmodeus in charge of the 9 Hells, and not Lucifer.

[@TheGrumpyMinstrel]

Thunderdell ? HAH, More like ThunderFELL. Get it ? Cause his heads fell off. Lol.

[@MonarchsFactory]

Damnit, it was right there

[@TheGrumpyMinstrel]

@@MonarchsFactory It's ok Dael, not many people can beat out a bored Irish Student when it comes to puns XD But your videos never fail to make me laugh so you're obviously doing it right.

[@qirat73]

Why didn't that 3 headed giant notice the golden belt that said jack was a giant slayer?, if some guy showed up to my door with basically a flashing sign that said murderer I wouldn't trust them

[@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw]

After the 19:27 mark, calling him "The Giant Slayer" is sort of like refering to Neil Armstrong as "The Former Boyscout".

[@kaelhound]

Jack; He killed them Giants.

[@jacobwillis7596]

Honestly I first assumed the giant slayer was another title for the beanstalk guy. Why are there so many jacks? Also didn’t expect Mordred

[@carveorpawley4406]

Cormoran lived on St. Michael's Mount. if that helps.

[@MagnusMendax7]

More giants :)

[@alexanderlundberg5644]

Mr Giant is the best character.

[@Dinuial]

Not knowing how it got spelled, it sounds like it might have been a truncation of "God's Blood on her nails".

[@Dalarish]

That part about the welish giant tricked into sucide is also a tale in norway exept its a troll not a giant and the dude were not called jack

[@sebbychou]

Medieval Anime

[@jebprendergast101]

“Tantovee” doesn’t seem like a half-bad Giant name

[@Swaney01115]

That's a fucking ace sound Welsh accent 😂 and why dose all the cool Arthurian shit only happen in Wales and Cornwall ?

[@brabra2725]

amazing movie, so weird it did so bad at the box office.

[@7488rusty]

I'm saddened that 4 people didn't like this hahahaha

[@rasnac]

Wait... Lucifer does not have Truesight? Dont all archdevils have truesight? Is it homebrew?

[@shybard]

I clicked yo face so fast and so hard, a video started playing.

[@mercyvanzyl316]

I need the secrets to Dael's hair. Please.

[@MonarchsFactory]

[I wash it at night, dry by putting it up in a t-shirt for 45mins-1½hr, let it air dry for another half hour parted where I want, then sleep on it. ;)]

[@MonarchsFactory]

[These are my whisper brackets on account of the secrecy]

[@mercyvanzyl316]

@@MonarchsFactory [one last question. Do you brush it before , during or after you shower?] Also thanks so much for replying I am basically sitting on my kitchen floor fangirling! You are amazing and I adore your channel.

[@MonarchsFactory]

@@mercyvanzyl316 [Oh, of course! My bad! Brush during. 😊]

[@CptnHammer1]

Listen, not all the giants are did. because the three headed guy who dun gave jack all the items did not die. or did he?

[@Xsuh]

... What IS the drink version of feed???

[@buckbumbleenjoyer]

where in the world do you find these, please tell me i wish to gain your knowledge

[@alexanderrealegeno1129]

Where can I get this book

[@django3422]

This might be a dumb thought but... could "Hur" be the name of the Welsh giant?

[@Phoenix-wh1vh]

How do you spell that Welsh giant's expression?

[@turoni314]

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[@itsjungus]

누나 사랑해 ㅎㅎㅎ

[@ctso74]

Jack was not a GWS fan, I take it.

[@akraftybasterd3489]

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