History Characters / DungeonsAndDragonsGiantDeities

* TheAce: All giant breeds tend to portray Annam as the ultimate champion of their Ordning talent. To hill giants he's an insatiable glutton, to frost giants he's an unbeatable wrestler, to stone giants he's a master craftsman, et cetera.

* FertilityGod: Annam is, among other things, the giant god of fertility. He is the fertile progenitor of worlds and possesses a lustful, instinctive, and unpredictable nature, which causes him to make a considerable number of mistakes when governed by his instincts. Following his departure from the Prime Material Plane, his daughter Iallanis has taken over some of his role as a fertility god.

* ArcherArchetype: She carries a longbow +5 with triple the normal range and a quiver of +3 arrows.

!!Interloper Gods

The following deities are excluded from the ordning and generally rejected by most giants. The most prominent interloper gods are Ulutiu and Vaprak, both of whom had an affair with Othea, the wife of Annam, thus producing the races of giant-kin and ogres respectively. While Ulutiu was an unrelated, minor sea god, Vaprak is generally accepted to at least be descended from Annam, being most commonly identified as his son. Additionally, a number of prominent tanar'ri have also encroached on the giant pantheon, or at least on their followers. Kostchtchie has a following among frost giants who've rejected Thrym, while Baphomet has gained the loyalty of a number of ogres by promising to aid them in getting vengeance on Annam and the Jotunbrud.

* DropTheHammer: His favored weapon is a warhammer.

* DropTheHammer: Stronmaus' favored weapon is the warhammer (although its sometimes stated to be a mace), and he always carries a hammer of thunderbolts with all special powers.

* DropTheHammer: Thrym forged the magical warhammer ''Matalotok'', currently in the possession of the archdevil Zariel.

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Other gods associated with the giant pantheon have unrelated or uncertain origins. As such, they are excluded from the ordning and rejected by most giants. The most prominent interloper gods are Vaprak and Ulutiu, both of whom had an affair with Othea, the wife of Annam, thus producing the races of ogres and giant-kin respectively. While Ulutiu was an unrelated, minor sea god, Vaprak is generally accepted to at least be descended from Annam, being most commonly identified as his son. Some tales tell of a hideous, vastly tall ogress who used magic to conceal her appearance in order to attract Annam, who mated with her to engender Vaprak. This is a typical instance of giant myth often interweaving themes of the birth of gods with the concurrent existence of races of proto-giants and proto-ogres (and proto-hags, etc.).

What is distinctive about the secondary pantheon, however, is the existence of a number of great tanar'ri who have bcome part of it, with differing degrees of direct association. At one end of the spectrum is the god Kostchtchie, who has a distinctive following among those frost giants who do not worship Thrym (although they may still revere and propriate him). A second power of importance is Baphomet the Minotaur Lord. Minotaurs are often associated with giants in legend, although the stories which are told of this association are various. Sometimes in pre-history, the two races are enemies who have a mutual respect. Sometimes there is limited interbreeding which produces either heroes or monsters (or both). Sometimes minotaurs conspire with evil giants. Sometimes giants and minotaurs are regarded as the two earliest and this co-existing ancient races. Be this as it may, Baphomet has a tiny following among evil giants, and there is clearly some affinity between this dark power and the fringes of giant religion.

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[[caption-width-right:275:Annam, as depicted in the ''Spellfire'' card game (4e)]]

Ruk was one of the sons of Annam and Othea, and the progenitor of the hill giants. When Annam subdivided the kingdom of Ostoria into several regions, Ruk claimed the kingdom’s rolling hills. He was the first chief, the title of the rulers of hill giant tribes.

* TheChooserOfTheOne: Lanaxis chose Prince Kaedlaw Burdun of Hartsvale as the future king of the giants who would re-establish Ostoria, and was actually responsible for Kaedlaw's conception by arranging the kidnapping of his mother Brianna.

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* BladeOnAStick: Annam's favored weapon is occasionally said to be a spear, specifically either a shortspear or halfspear.

* BladeOnAStick: Hiatea's favored weapon is a spear, which becomes a flametongue weapon as she pleases.

* BladeOnAStick: Masud wielded a flaming spear that could shoot forth intense bursts of fire.

* MultipleHeadCase: Arno and Julian are a two-headed giant, a trait that they passed on to their descendants, the ettins. Both heads have their own mind and personality, with Arno, the left head, being ugly and [[HulkSpeak having poor grammar]], while Julian, the right head, was handsome and well-spoken.

* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: In order to impregnate Brianna, Arno and Julian wore a suit of magical armor that disguised them as a handsome human prince named Arlien, and used a vial of powder to make her fall in love with them.

Centuries later, Arno and Julian were tasked by Lanaxis to impregnate princess Brianna Burdun, the only child of King Camden of Hartsvale, believing she would then give birth to a future king of the giants who would lead the giants back to their former glory. Although reluctant to do so, since it would involve leaving the Twilight Vale and losing their immortality, Arno and Julien ultimately agreed to carry out their task. Wearing a suit of magical armor that disguised them as a handsome human prince named Arlien, and carrying a vial of powder that would make Brianna fall in love with them, Arno and Julian successfully managed to infiltrate Brianna's court and then drugged and raped her. However, they were discovered shortly thereafter, and Arno was killed by the firbolg Tavis Burdun, who shot him with a rune-arrow. Although Julian initially managed to avoid death by making the arrow meant for him explode before Tavis could fire it, he was later killed by Brianna herself, who was freed of the enchantment.