Giants of Martapa

Although I've never really touched on giants in my novels, in the mountains and empty plains live a people so large they would make my Akicitia look kitten sized.  Rarely do these "giants" show themselves to travelers or to civilization and for the most party civilization stays away from where "giants" live.

There are many different "types" of giants, depending on where they live, but the most common are mountain and plains giants.  Mountain giants live in big caves in the highest parts of the mountains.  They live off mountain goats, large birds and other large mountain animals.  They typically enslave skiegs to do the work of making their clothes, cooking, and gathering food.  They live in groups of five to ten (any more then that and they begin to argue to the point of killing each other).  The typical mountain giant clan is run by a male and his mate (though she has little status without him).  Mountain Giants live forty to fifty years and have four to six young in their life time.

Plains giants roam in bands of up to twenty, carry all their gear with them, hunt the large game animals of the area and sometimes keep lesser beings as their slaves.  They are usually dressed in leathers and like to carry shiny objects they find (or take) as badges or decorations.  The strongest rules (whether female or male) only as long as they are stronger then everyone else.

Giants stand around ten feet tall.  The mountain ones are usually pale in complexion, the plains ones dark.  Mountain giants have white hair, plains have brown.  All males sport beards after they become adults and decorate them with small prizes and shiny baubles.  Weapons are usually clubs, though sometimes they can find human polearms that work just as well.  They carry some wealth, usually from humans or other mortals who get in their way, but do not use it to trade.