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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6828875" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Hmm. This could be an interesting culture for giants. Maybe it ties in with that ordning thing.Edit: okay, I have decided to officially adopt NotActuallyTim's suggestion. My official verdict is: not only do giants fight to the death against anyone except a giant of equal or higher ordning, but it's actually built into their value system that the best death is to show no fear or dread, rather to "crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women." Even good-aligned giants have this mentality, it's just that the good-aligned ones are inclined to be kind to weaker creatures instead of cruel.Just for fun, instead of making this tied to their religion, I'll make my giants atheists and nihilists. They don't do this because they think it will get them into Valhalla, they do it because they believe that, when the universe itself is doomed to entropic heat death, the duration of your life matters infinitely less than the quality of your living. Giants do not mourn the dead, they only spurn cowardice.[1]Therefore, the only possible successfully-nonviolent PC approach to the Fire Giants will involve supplication instead of a show of force.[1] I think I'll even give their language special tenses to talk about those who are dead or unborn, or in other words, those whose existence does not span the present. To a giant, there is no distinction between the two. In fact they can use the exact same tense for those who are spatially-absent as well. And all giants except hill giants are trained in mathematics.</blockquote>

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