Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Titan
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Remastered Giants Series, the Titans are the highest ranking in the Ordning of the true giants, however, they don't dwell on the world of Toril anymore. In this video, we discuss what they are, how big and impressive they are, what stats to use for them in your dungeons and dragons tabletop roleplaying games and where they are typically encountered, as well as the legacy they left behind, waiting to be discovered by adventurers.
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Timestamps and Spoilers Below:
0:19 Intro, Become a Member!
0:51 Titans > Storm Giants in the Ordening
1:32 Annam, Othea, and Ulutiu
3:38 Lanaxis' Betrayal
5:22 Sightings of Lanaxis, Hartkiller, and the Prophesy
6:23 Ecology of the Titans and Their Immense Strength
8:31 Use the Empyrean Stat-block in the Monster Manual
9:25 Warrior's Rest in Limbo
10:47 Arborea and Trophy Hunters
12:50 Families of Titans
13:59 Jotunalder
14:58 Stone Giant Philosophy and record keeping
15:38 The Power of Will in the outer planes
17:19 Ironfang Keep and other Ruins
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I really feel like it would be a great idea for a campaign to play a character or a small group of adventurers who have been prophesied to refound Ostoria, maybe have a Goliath, or a Firbolg in there, and just go all over the world collecting Giants in a large army to follow you and maybe travelling to Arborea or Warrior's Rest to get the blessing of the Titans. Thoughts?
Ecology of the Empyrean: ua-cam.com/video/AEcNvpX-Qvo/v-deo.html
Iron-Fang Keep: ua-cam.com/video/WhqmhUJ_fLI/v-deo.html
History of the Giants (Part 1 of the Remaking the Giants Series): ua-cam.com/video/Ff68sz65yTo/v-deo.html
Well done, thank you!
The way you describe that last paragraph about "just another of the many forgotten realms," is really good. Lovecraftian even. Never stop, Loremaster.
7:12 Hill Giants lift boulders. Storm Giants lift whales. Titans lift...whatever they want.
DUDE You never fucking fail. I wanted to add a Titan to my campaign, and I said "Yknow who'll have a lore video about this? AJ fucking Pickett."
I'll be a patron soon, I promise.
they're very overpowering...I only had one, briefly in my main campaign.
you have to use them sparingly, but dnd did use one in their early modules early on, for low level characters, where one was captured, tortured and bound. it was a small, weak one.
Hey Aj! Thanks for another spicy video. This time I'm actually off work and I'm actually able to, as you say, get comfy and grab a beverage.
Excellent :)
Inspiration
A boulder with an 11" diameter would weigh a lot more then 850lbs. If it was roughly spherical made of granite it would be around 60 metric ton
Granite weights ~150lbs percu ft.- and some math: 11' sphere is 5575cft*150#/cft=~418 tons aka.death by greasification/ splatterfied
Now I can't help but think there's some old Crone of a witch that lives in the extreme Far North living out of an old giant shoe
Lol the titans out mass the storm giants- "They lift" 🤣🤣😂😂
This channel is so good. The depth of research that goes into each lore video is just immense.
Thank you!
15:20. Who thought they would see the matrix in an AJ Pickett video?
Thank you Professor!
P.s. got my Vecna shirt. My party is concerned as to what I may be implying for the future :)
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"Because you never used them before Keanu Reeves."
I'm finding out I'm thinking too small as a Dm sending giants out to pillage. They seriously have things to do.
*Finishes watching entire Mighty Gluestick playlist* ... "I know D&D".
Once again, you’ve overlooked the mighty Dwarven Titan. Standing over 6 feet tall and weighing as much as a large man, they are the runts of Titan kind but were feared and worshipped by dwarves one the early days of Toril.
Also, Great Video AJ.
Not a Dog in my head I just see Gotrek from war hammer but two feet taller still god enhanced and just yeeting things over trees lols
AJ really explains the mindset of these beings so well. The alien thoughts, wants, needs, and motivations. Brilliant video!
This is what i needed this morning.
AJ I love your fantasy, RPG, and ecology videos I love every minute of it.
I am and always will be a big fan and supporter of Hill Giants, Ogres, Wereboars, and other such primitive and chubby and awesome races
I was just about to log off UA-cam and game until I get blackout drunk... you interrupted that. Not a complaint.
Again, giants in that world, I say, are lovingly akin to Nordic gods of this Earth. Great video AJ, such delicious mind candy.
I used Titans (now "Empyreans") not so rarely in my campaigns, I'm a 2nd Ed dinosaur. The guide has shown that they were all unique and the stats were a template. Also, each one had a rather unique godlike power relative to that particular Titan. I kept in mind that they are Demigods of the Giants (not directly addressed in AD&D but more implied as a demigod race of giants). I had them all primarily reside on Olympus (or whatever it is called now) but they dwelled in all the non-Lawful non-Evil planes as their other outer-planar realms. When the descended to the Prime Material plane, it was usually out of boredom but ultimately super-important on the Prime Material plane and that Titan's current mood. I kept in mind the specific godlike power that is unique to each Titan. They are perfect pseudo-god antagonists or even patrons/matrons of quests. If you play Ultima, having a Titan form of Lord Brittish would have been a good one. My last Titan was Thanatos, he had power over life and death and his favorite curse was immortality. He could cancel any attempt to raise the dead if he can see you, anyone he slays cannot be raised from the dead, and he can call anyone from their final resting place into the plane he is in with a new body. If you attack him, you must save vs. death or die and that he can opt to not do at any moment. With a wave of his hand, anything undead that he sees turns to dust (corporeal) or nothing (non-corporeal). The God of Death's clergy (in a secret pact with a powerful lich the clergy is also an enemy to) recruited the heroes to confront Thanatos. The mission had more twists than old attic-stored Christmas lights.
Yeah, in my view you are playing titans exactly as they were intended to be played.
@@AJPickett Thanx, bro. That's high praise coming from you. And yes, I did steal Thanatos's name off of a god of death in a mythology never referenced in AD&D (at least not at the time). Well, I think the mythology might have been used but not their god of death.
Imagine a Titan artificer get that turret that artificer usually built for that one class and mount that on their arm or back you got shoulder-mounted or wrist mounted Cannon
So Anams last son will herald his return, does that mean either the Ettin god or Lanaxas will have to muster some way to restore Ostoria and allow the return of Anam?
Annam's last legitimate son was Hartkiller, he was rejected by the other True Giants because he was a runt by their standards, standing a mere 12 feet tall. He did have a half giant, half human son called Brun (who, in my games, is the ancestor of the Goliath race on Toril). Hartkiller died at the end of the War of the Hart in a battle that last 100 days against a mighty storm giant.
@@AJPickett so a goliath will rebuild ostraria
Regarding diet, goat is very lean. I've butchered dozens of them. All told 4 to 6 lbs fat per goat is about your harvest. Better to use lard, titans could raise pigs like we raise rats or mice. And since we raise alligator for meat, I imagine titans might raise dragons for me at if they could get away with it. Interesting backdrop for a campaign, pc's quested to free dragons from a titan meat farm. Thank you AJ! I've learned in this life that one doesn't get there unless they go there.thanks for going there with us, sir!
A lot of dragons eat Wyverns, so the nutritional value of Wyvern meat is bound to be extremely high.
How does that Titan origin mesh with the Dragon Magazine article that talks about the Titans being beloved by the gods until they tried to create their own races and fought a war with the gods causing most to be scattered and some to be imprisoned in Carceri including Chronos who's trapped in an illusion spell in which he's successfully killing all of the gods and once he kills the last illusory god he'll realize it's all an illusion, break free and then probably start killing the gods for real.
Again, no conflict with the stats block, it's just a matter of a confusing cross over between the title, "Titan".
So you're suggesting the children of Lanaxas and the race that waged war against the gods could or should be thought of as two distinct races of giant humanoid that share a tital and an occasional home on Arborea?
@@ricardopenamcknight6407 I checked the article in question, and it has no bearing on Forgotten Realms lore. The general consensus for FR canon is best described below:
-Descriptions of races, deities, weapons, cultures, etc. that appear in generic D&D publications that don't specifically mention the Realms (or call themselves out as applying to all members of a race/religion across all worlds) are not canon for the Realms. They can help inform the reader, players, or DMs, but the setting isn't bound by them.
This was discussed in-depth by the sages of Candlekeep Forums, and I think they should apply to this video also.
So yeah, different races, same name.
Wow, I love this series just as much as any monster ecology videos. There is so much inspiration and lore for new campaign settings. I can’t wait to add this lore to my own world.
Thanks AJ!
Imagine babysitting a 6 foot tall 300 lb Titanic 8 month old! Looney toons level shenanigans are certain to ensue.
That can make the ground shake and unleash a shocking grasp... fun times
The crying would litterally drive you insane.
So titans reproduce like mortals and at a pretty fast pace for immortals, so at one point they could just outnumber all other outer planar beings. Or am I misunderstanding things? I think I’m bad at grasping infinity.
I said nothing about the pace of their population growth, and they can die by violence, on a number of outer planes that are notoriously full of peril, the pace of reproduction for immortal beings is typically very slow, also, considering their children are raised over 50 years, it would be centuries between the births of siblings.
Cool vid bro
Great video AJ,i've been looking forward to this one and really enjoyed it. Happy New Year Kiwi!
Ulutiu (if I spelled that right) might be related in some way to the Ulutiun who are the Inuit/Siberian/Aleut folk who live on the glacier. Any thoughts AJ?
Yep, correct, that is where they take their name from, his was their god.
I loved this presentation. Fantastic choice on imagery. Pininerest is really our friends these days.
Love the vid. Keep them coming!
Great stuff AJ, i picked up a copy of Giantcraft of my very own to help in this learning process.
What would you say is a book that details most of the known prehistory?
The Grand History of the Realms
Thank you sir!
All the latest vids are good editing good narrating and good length .one of my favorite youtube channels.hours and hours of best dnd info on youtube
You know it's odd that I watch the Giant videos there's no such thing as iron Giants their mechanical or something like that
Funny you should say that... you will understand when you see the next video I release.
Is there going to be a full video on Ysgard?
sure.
@@AJPickett many blessings upon you and your kin
Thank you as always!
Two things:
1. I had no idea that titans were in the 5e Monster Manual under 'Empyrean', until just now. Totally missed that, somehow. I may have to revise the homebrew 5e conversion of Zadara from Planescape that I made a few weeks back (or maybe not... I was fairly proud of my work on that one and, looking at the 5e version, I like mine better lol).
2. I'm sort of surprised that AJ didn't mention Zadara on this video.
This made me think of 2 things, the first was I just recently rediscovered the Giants book from the 70's, I'm sure you know the one I mean & I'm finishing the series by Ed McDonald called the Raven's Mark that you would probably love. Its about these powerful people called the Nameless who fight against evil beings called the Deep Kings. In the beginning, you learn that last time Crowfoot, one of the Nameless, used a weapon that created a no man's land called the Misery. Lots of dark magic & bizarre effects in the Misery. In the last book they need the heart of a sort of titan, a world snake frozen in some crazy lake.
Just found your channel thanks to a students suggestion. Liked and subbed. Excellently done!
Thanks Mr Pickett
Since Lanaxis was both an Empyrean Titan and a member of the Titan race of giants I wonder if he was shorter than his average descendant since Empyreans are shorter than Annams Titans on average
Sounds logical... Does logic fit the Gods MO? Not really. But you make a good case.
Happy new year! Here's to another great one with you and the channel.
7:29 aww Asterix and the 12 tasks.🤓 You have good taste in movies.👍
In Greek mythology, the Titans were just as much the same kinds of entities as the gods, just different by generation.
Which, I'm actually not sure whether is more or less interesting than the D&D version.
I normally use D&D titans as a given god's avatar.
Funny thing is White Wolf/ World of Darkness d10 game system: Mage the Awakening
Has the best magic system for creating planets and solar systems.
Well done AJ!
Loved this one, the giants are really interesting. You should do a video on the lord of blades from eberron, he’s really cool but in 5e it doesn’t seem like they really go into his lore that much
Jorphdan over at Forgotten Realms Explained (check the links to other channels on my Channels tab) is doing lots of Eberron videos lately, he would probably be more than happy to do a video on the Lord of Blades.
AJ Pickett thanks I’ll definitely check him out
Weren't some titans exiled to the lower planes? (Maybe Gehenna or Carceri?) It's been a while since I read planescape books so I may be remembering this wrong.
So are Ettins true Giants, Giant-kin or mage-bred creatures?
They're technically true giants, but it's suspected that they were the result of someone else getting together with Othea in secret, so they should be giant-kin, but the all-father was still with her, and gave it the lowest ranking among the full giants for its size.
And in AJ's last video on giants he stated "ettin in the giant language literally means runt"
They are True Giants, (which means my previous Ettin ecology video is wrong, so, lucky I am updating it soon)
Thank you all for the responses I know the lore continues to expand and I didn't know if I had them confused with something else.
BABY TITANS!
Thanks
FYI an 11 foot boulder would weigh much much much more than 850 pounds. I would say an 850 pound boulder is probably around 5 foot boulder.
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I really feel like it would be a great idea for a campaign to play a character or a small group of adventurers who have been prophesied to ******* Ostoria, maybe have a *******, or a ******* in there, and just go all over the world collecting ****** in a large **** to ****** you and maybe travelling to Arborea or Warrior's Rest to get the ******* of the ******. Thoughts?
So there are 3 giant demigods left? (Aside from the exiled Empyrians)
Dunmore
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?
Sorry if i missed it!
Arno and Julian are the two heads of the Ettin progenitor, so he and Lanaxis are the last true giant sons of Annam and Othea, Dunmore is the progenitor of the Voadkyn (forest giants) who are, it turned out, giant kin, not true giants, so Dunmore was not Annam's son.
A titanic video
Thank you fellow sage. :)
Thank you.
I'm sorry. I'm looking for one of your videos on a plant...
I watched it and cant seem to find it or what the thing is called..
It's a plant that makes plant creatures.
The Lurfen ua-cam.com/video/lt_0GfoO5zc/v-deo.html
@@AJPickett your a saint
OK, so I don't do this, but I'm doing it, I'm interested on your take/ a video about the calamity dragons from 4e, I don't remember there being much, but I love the idea behind them and am reaching out to show them some love. (There is even an updated list of them for 5e on the DM's guild.)
I really like the videos anyway and don't mind if you don't do anything on them, just thought I'd try.
Adding them to my To-Do list. :)
The prophecy can be more powerful than the Gods. How. Not that I doubt it; it's that I want to control it
Because the DM made the prophecy.
A Goliath sits in a sweat lodge, searching for guidance. As the heat rises and the sweat rolls off like tiny waterfalls. He slips into a fevered dream. Where his met by 2 Titans. Asking him to play a game with them. As they have a bet between the two. The bet is to go and seek out the fabled kingdom of Osteria. We titans can't interfere with this. The most help we can offer is the reseeding of the ice sheets to help your travels. But your travels must start off this mountain and in the low lands. For even the lesser beings can offer help.
If you find this kingdom. It's yours. As a prize for playing this game. If you give up or perish, the game is over and you get nothing.
Do we have a accord, Master Goliath??
*Goliath pushes his glasses up on his nose* "Actually, it's pronounced Ostoria" *he stands and draws a massive greatsword, muscles rippling in the waves of heat* "And it WILL be MINE!"
@@AJPickett and this is were the campaign begins. Have fun this it.
I've never heard of the wood giants before, I'm having a hard time finding more information about them. Anyone have any leads?
Check the AD&D Monster Manual II. They just haven't been updated since them.
@@Samuel_Morchin (MMII '83) giants include fomorian, firbolg, verbeeg(human behemoth), no wood giant. I also wood like more citation.
I feel like going to watch a Attack on Titans
Keep up the good work 😁
There are so many books out there about this, I just want to find one to follow. Where can u start?
The D&D rules are available for free from the Wizards of the Coast web site. Was that what you meant?
There's an awesome 3rd Edition Book called Slayer's Guide to Titans by Mongoose Publishing. It's pretty cheap too
Now with both this and the empyreans video i can get to ironing out afew things as i world build. 🛠⚙🧱🔩🗜🌍 The radiant dragons video is something i'm looking forwards too - Also Mrrhexx is doing an intresting series on elven high magic. 🧝♂️✨🧝♀️ Although you're probably already watching it. I've got videos on two channels to catch up with now - besides poping on the occasional Mrrhexx vid & don't even get me started on world avils stuff... 📚⚖😰 D&D content is starting to become like one of those liberaries you get with a mansion - that are so vast, you know that you'll never finish reading it... XD Well besides the idea of a devil mannaging to conscript a bunch of titans into fighting as their personal regiment in the blood war completely against their own free will and volition, with their only negative catch being that they have to avoid the personal grasping crush attempts by their own politle little big "mountain cracker" soldiers. As the elioquently curse them out as the realitively evil flying thorny over grown fairy they appear to be. 😈🧚📑 Besides that, i feel abit(alot) snobbish about sindarin when i look at quenya. And besides that too. I have this burning question in my mind - about D.N.A. planar lore - since nymphs are spawned by natural beauty & the clock work nirvana of mechanus is "naturally beautifull" would there then thus be vast prisons of natively chaotic nymphs locked up for all the lawfull reasons? Cos if there were, you could subvert the damsel in distress trope, with the - "wemen are the chaotic appocalypse." theme, that alot of peps alude too. I'm asking for the D&D planar wheel?
Is there going to be a full video on Zuggtmoy, the Lady of Rot?
Already is
You rolled low on your search check Luuk :)
@@AJPickett lol
Not gonna lie, it always feels so disappointing that Giants are so small.
I wouldn't look at a 10ft tall creature and say "wow what a giant!" So I make Giants actually giant. A Hill Giant starts at 15ft and a Storm Giant caps at 75ft. So I assume a Titans would be 100+ft
as you wish.
How tall are you? I look at NBA players like they are giants.
I do like taller. When dealing with epic adventures and monsters, I also agree that 10 foot is just really not big enough for someone to scream “Giant!” as boulders come raining in.
@@dogle9258 I'm about 6" and when I hear "Giant" I think Jack and the Beanstalk or The Hobbit. Not Super Mutants from fallout
If you think of someone with human proportions sure, but 10 feet tall and thick like an ogre with a club, would be too much for any human fighter to take on. They'd just swat right through their defenses with an unavoidable blow from a safe distance.
@@baldbull6808 from a mechanical standpoint yes their sizes make sense but from a fantasy standpoint I wouldn't look we a tall guy and say "oh he's a giant and this Goliath isn't"
Half Titan half Dwarf.
And his name is... *JOHN CENA*
@@AJPickett Lol, yeah let's give him invisibility too.
While not a Half Titan I made a Half Dwarf (the father being my previous dwarf Wizard mad mage pc) Half Hecatoncheire. A Half Titan would make an excellent Pc or npc Rune Magic Caster showing the other caster how giants cast. Effectively and who knew a Wizard hammer could be so useful.
Imagine the guy who would father the hill giants. Would have the be the biggest loser of giant kind.
If Annam really loved Othea, he would have been happy for her.
Annam disowned one of his sons for being a two headed runt, the word Ettin means runt in the giant language.
And if Othea really loved Annam she never would have been adulterous
I kept expecting the Attack on Titan theme song to start playing
Cheese?
I LOVE CHEESE!
I may be drunk.
Alcohol does make cheese even tastier 😉
@@KS-PNW Indeed
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ok so the titans from D&D are the same as the greek myth. Their is a cronus and he gave birth to zeus and the gods ? So the gods are giant-kin ??? Lenaxis is the father of the titans. Then wth are the gods ??? Also is an empyean, just the titans that live in arborea ? and why does nobody have a video on it. Is the myth of the nephilim just the greek gods.
There are 3 " titans" in dnd the empyrean is close enough but they aren't always annams kids for an example any god can father and empyrean but they are so similar to titans the stats work super well. Annams titans are different in a weird roundabout way as the empyreans aren't "giants" the titans are. And then there are elder titans which are possibly the most powerful race in dnd with a minimum cr of 30 and yes Cronus is one of these
@@maxwellmerkel2537 thanks didnt know that.
Chronus is the mightiest of Titans, he us said to be trapped in endless illusion by Kortlomak, god if Kobolds, where he wages false war against all gods. Once he kills them all he is bound to realize he's been deceived
Imagine. Just imagine the amount of poop a titan baby produce. They need a whole valley to dump the gigantic baby diapers.
You know, when I was a baby, there were no disposable nappies, just cloth, that got washed and re-used... be kind to the planet folks, disposables are really quite bad.
@@AJPickett Disposable diapers have been avaible in the western world since 1958. I believe it is likely they predate you
@@maclennanld there were none here, or my parents simply saved money and I think it was more common in New Zealand for people to use washable nappies.
@@AJPickett fair, avaliable yes but cuturally accepted and affordable can be a very different story
@@AJPickett Me & my wife use washable cloth diapers for our baby. Much cheaper too. Live in the Western US.