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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8870356" data-attributes="member: 58172">The Giant Type is ... complex.The "True Giants" are simple enough: the famous D&D Giants, like Fire Giant and Frost Giant.But the Giant Type extends further to comprise Troll, Ogre, Oni, Ettin, Fomorian, etcetera. Certain D&D Humanoids explicitly relate to the Giant Type, including Goliath and Firbolg. I tend to view the Hag as relating to the Troll thus something like a Giant of the Feywild.This wider sense of a variegated giantkind reminds one of the Norse Jǫtnar traditions. Significantly, most Jǫtnar are normal humansize. Compare Loki and Skaði. Even so, some members of a same household can reach large and even vast sizes. One sibling might be humansize and an other the size of a mountain. It depends on which natural feature the nature being is. A mountain being can manifest in a form the size of a mountain.For D&D, the Giant Type might also include Species or individuals that are Medium Size. Hypothetically, the Goliath and Firbolg are Medium Humanoid Giants, while the Hag is a Medium Fey Giant.(Note, the Titan Subtype seems surprisingly unrelated to the Giant. DMG 11. A Titan is something like an Astral Construct, such as one that divinities create to serve as an agent of destruction, like Tarrasque, Kraken, Astral Dreadnaught, and others. Here the giantlike 5e Empyrean as a Titan Subtype is odd. Interestingly, the description of the Roc has it be formerly a Titan. The original Rocs escaped the control of its creator, thus now are simply a Monstrosity rather than with a Titan Subtype. The Titan subtype inherently relates to the Celestial Plane but involves some method of construction or monstrous engineering.)The Feywild Plane and the Shadowfell Plane are cosmological opposites, whence the Giant Type and the Undead Type seem relatedly opposites. Both can relate to an animistic worldview, whether wilderness nature being (Giant) or ancestral nature being (Undead). Both are a kind of manifestation of nature. In folkbelief the giants are often ghostly apparitions, emerging from mist and so on.In sum, and especially with the Jǫtnar in mind, the Giant Type is something like an Elemental that is native to the Material plane. When one thinks of an Elemental, consider an animate Earth Elemental. In the case of a Giant, it isnt earth generally, but a landscape, such as a mountain or certain notable rock formation. Giants are more like: a landscape feature (≈ earth), a waterbody, like waterfall, river or lake (≈ water), a windy seasonal weather pattern (≈ air), and the sun, a star, or a particular volcano (≈ fire). These features of the Material Plane are living nature beings.</blockquote>

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