Giants

The giants are a race of gigantic humanoids. They are the dominant race in the realm of Weisnart. The variations are strikingly diverse, with little to no homogenization in either culture or appearance.

## Variations

**Nephilim**

The Nephilim are more like incredibly tall humans than actual giants. The nephilim are the oldest race of giant, predating the Jotunn by five thousand years. They are the predecessors of the asbones and higante variations. The nephilim have no biological talent to either physical might or magic, and thus are balanced. The nephilim can have various hair colors, red, brown, chestnut, blond, black, auburn, blue, green and more.

Jotunn are normally around thirty feet tall. The smallest known ones being twenty four and the largest being fifty five.

**Jotunn**

The Jotunn (also known as Frost Giants) are the most ruthless and battle-ready of the giants. With a warrior culture they thrive in the Frozen Wastes and raid what they will, warring against the other variations as well as among themselves. They are large, with blue skin, ice among their body, reddish eyes, long protruding fangs and decorated with body piercings made of bone. The Jotunn are known as "The Devourers" and are a creation of Banquolf (some say directly others say indirectly).

The Jotunn can reach about 5 stories high, some so enormous they reach 50 stories high.

**Utgardian**

Utgardians are "lesser jotunn", they're jotunns without the height that makes a giant a giant, or the bloodlust, it's like these giants are giants at all. Utgardians are considered the kindest of all the giants, and without a doubt are the smartest. They surpass even the elves and mankind when it comes to magical mastery and prowess. They were the first of all the dominant races made by the gods to move from realm to realm, and create powerful magical artifacts which in turn could create legends.

The utgardians nowadays are rare, hunted nearly to extinction by their brutish cousins, the Jotunn. All utgardians no longer reside anywhere in Weisnart, and are located safely in the paradise fields of Milruar. Utgardians are about as tall as human beings. What differs them from human beings however is the fact that utgardians all have either red or green hair, either blue or green eyes, all have pale skin and are vulnerable to sunburn and of course, are magically inclined.

**Higante**

The Higante variations of giants are the most simplistic. Higante are in a way just enormous humans. With the weakest sense of smell and sight but possessing terrifying magical abilties. The Higante are magically inclined and have a passion for the culinary arts. The Higante have the hair colors white, silver, black, blond and red, and all have some varying degree of olive skin and strong cheek bones (as well as other facial features like sharp noses and strong jaws).

The average height of the Higante are around forty feet tall, and can weigh over a hundred tons.

**Ashbone**

In the backwater planets, ridden with disease and strife lie the Ashbones, named so for its populace being so malnourished that it's become the natural design of the species. Ashbones are absurdly thin, skeletal. They have calloused skin, long fingers, sharp nails, cannibalistic and live in constant anarchy. It is said that ashbone tribes don't fall and get absorbed into a more powerful tribe, but instead both tribes unite due to suffering, if it finally comes to their minds however.

Mostly illiterate, they are incredibly weak to magic but possess an incredible physical resistance despite their frame. All ashbones are bald, and all are normally around fifteen to twenty feet tall.

## Crossbreeding

The giants don't often crossbreed due to their heavily differing sizes. But if such does happen, there are no hybrids. All giants follow an "override" rule when interbreeding with other variations of giant. The "superior" gene overriding that of the "lesser" gene. This rule has become a large contributor to the racism all across Weisnart.

The rule is: **Jotunn>Higante>Utgardian>Nephilim**

Ashbones can't crossbreed with other variations, and only among themselves.

The Jotunn's genes override all else's, the strength of such genes to overpower others might be the result of being built for war.