The 9th Age: Fantasy Battles - Giants

The cover of T9A:FB Giants

**The 9th Age: Fantasy Battles - Giants** (commonly refereed to as **T9A:FB Giants** or the **Giants Supplement**) is a book produced by The 9th Age Project that is used as source material for this wiki. It is a supplementary book that makes Giants available to all faction of The 9th Age.

The first and so far only version of the book was released on the 2nd of April 2020. It is available for download HERE. The release came imminently after an April's Fools prank in which the giant entries were added to each of the slim armybooks separately.

The book contains a collection of sources, with no clear main narrator.

## Sources within the book

The T9A:FB Giants contains the following sources, in the order they appear in the book.

###### Rociver, What I Did on My Time Running Off (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p2*)

The source is an extract from what is called the largest book ever recorded (10 feet tall). In it, Rociver described how he left home on a boat and made friends with humans.

###### Torsten Schwerner, final words (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p3*)

Inquisitor Torsten Schwerner describes how he infiltrated a cabal of cultists in the merchant district. At a large gathering he learned that they had a Cultist Giant.

###### Tobias Corcilius, Tales from the North Shore (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p4*)

Corcilius, Mayor of Allingen, describes how he and his men were attacked by Dread Elven ships. From one of them disembarked a Dreaded Giant. They took a load of captives before vanishing into the night.

###### Consul Aulus Camelius Furrius, notes (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p5*)

The note, found among scraps of paper in a rat’s nest below Avras, presumed to be a remnant of the ancient city, is written in a strange Avrasi dialect. It describes and encounter the author had with a Giant Dwarf in the tunnels.

###### Report from Field Marshall Jannik Tausch (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p6*)

The report, addressed to Emperor Matthias, describes the use of Imperial Giants in the military. The giants are fairly easily trained to e soldiers, but also have a tendency to pick up on fervent worship of Sunna.

###### Letter by Saleel al-Toure (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p7*)

As Emir to a sultan of Amharaq, al-Toure writes about his stay on The Rock. The Arandai outpost was guarded by a Highborn Giant.

###### The Ballad of Sir Prodigious (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p8*)

The traditional folk-tale is about Sir Prodigious, a Feudal Giant who became much loved in the town of Mournstead.

###### Message discovered in a bottle on the coast of Taphria, 899 A.S. (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p9*)

The message describes an attack on Fort Leipholz. It came under siege from the Saurian Ancients, but it held fast, much thanks to a Volley Gun. Until the Saurian Giants appeared. One carrying a Salamander, the other chanting madly. The fort was overrun.

###### Song of E Balag (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p10*)

The song, translated by Marius Oppert, describes a venture the young Prince Rilitar through a Baleig forest. One by one his companions were picked off until he was all alone. He barely made it out, hunted by a Sylvan Giant bearing a great bow.

###### Journal of Master Engineer Ghisdruk Cragspin (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p12*)

Cragspin describes how the hold Nevaz Derom comes under assault from the Vermin Swarm and a Verminous Giant. The giant was goaded to the front gate, where it let out a foul gas when fired upon with the guns of the hold. The gas killed most of the defence.

###### Text found scrawled into a coffin lid in the tomb of Ohdite Emir Sesupti by an expedition in 837 A.S. (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p13*)

The author of the text became trapped in the coffin when trying to loot the treasure of the tombs of the Ohdite Empire. The Ancient Giant guardians of the tomb awoke and slew the intruders.

###### André Pierlot, Tales from Villach: Stories of a Court Scribe (*T9A:FB Giants, v2020, p14*)

The court listens to a man claiming a Corpse Giant rose from the ground during a funeral service in the town of Mournstead. The young duke residing over the court was about to dismiss the case as nonsense when the Paladin Dagaric spoke up. He claimed to be on a mission of The Lady to track down a necromancer in the area, known for using the spirits of giants. The paladin demanded help from the duke and was granted a company of knights in a quest that became to save the soul of “Sir Prodigious".