Giantkin

Legends say that giants were the gods’ first attempts to create what would become humankind. Others say that the giants are humans who tried to ascend to godhood, making bargains with fiends and imbuing themselves with essences of the elemental spirits. Today, giants live far away from other civilizations, as they have been hunted down for centuries and driven away.

Lowborn
Ogres, cyclopes, and hill giants are the lowest of the giants. The lowborn group together, cast out from highborn society and forced to fight and forage to survive. They tend to be ruled by cyclopes, and some hill giant warriors are known to ritualistically tear out an eye in order to imitate their rulers. Wealthier hill giants create exotic eyepatches to wear over one of their eyes. Ogres rely entirely on numbers and brute force to overwhelm their foe. Sometimes lowborn tribes are taken over by trolls or oni, creatures so detestable that the highborn banished them from the caste system, and transform lowborn communities into terrifying armies of evil.

Highborn
Although there are no different races of highborn giants, humanoid races still divide them into types: cloud, fire, frost, stone, and storm. These are different cultures of giants and although they have adopted different magics, codes of ethics, law, and fighting styles, they are all highborn. Hill giants were highborn as well, but they were stripped of their nobility and exiled by the Council of Seven Scepters.