@@doctorkeythir7159 Nah bro but most bandits don’t engage in dialogue with you. Giants aren’t bandits, they’re not usually out to rob and kill. That’s why I don’t get why they’re only represented as enemies to fight.
@@friendlyboomer1429 the games also have bandit NPCs you can interact in ways other than fighting. It is weird that there's nothing like that with giants.
Really wish the creature language skills would come back from daggerfall. I sm certain the giant mourning for his Mammoth would have some interesting dialogue to expand onto their lore
@@alaricpalaiologos665the old leveling system and attributes are WAY too complicated for people who are not deep into oblivion or morrowind but the others are good and we have mods for most of those in skyrim
Yesterday on a new character I was fighting the dragon at the Western Watchtower and it decided to aggro some passing giants. One of the giants died, the other assisted me in killing the dragon. I thought I'd have a fight on my hands, but instead he just stood there awestruck alongside the guards, watching me absorb the dragon's soul. I waited a while, he never attacked any of the guards or anything. Just a chill guy.
giants that are found wandering around are always friendly. They only attack you if you trespass on their camp, or if you attack them or their mammoths
There was a small one but not showed. It was when you get drunk with Sam but he's actually Sanguine daedric prince of debauchery. In the quest an npc in rorikstead said you sold his goat to a giant, when you go find the giant it has a name but unfortunately you can't talk with it and it still acts like a normal giant
It was a long time ago that I played it, but I believe in ESO there's a friendly giant you can talk to, who launches you from one land plateau to another.
@@gabrielw3570 it would’ve been so damn cool if the Civil War was a bigger deal. Imagine being able to recruit other factions for each side like how in Fallout New Vegas you can recruit the Brotherhood and a shit ton of other factions.
There's one giant in skyrim that is near a road that just walks around and doesn't attack anything or anyone. I figured he was put there as if he has some communication with humans. It doesn't make sense they are so humanoid they should speak at least one language at least or at least some giants. All of these races speak the same language which they shouldn't obviously, so it would make sense the giants do as well. Or at least learned one language from a province.
Once, i saw a dragon attacking a giant and i used dragonrend to bring it down. We both killed the dragon, and as i stood RIGHT beside the giant he just grunted and walked away. As if he said thank you😢 it was beautiful
My favourite thing about them, is that they’re the reason the Dwemer are called dwarves. Dwemer are elvish, meaning they’re taller than most humans, but they came into contact with the giants first, and to the giants, a very tall elf is still very small
And I heard it’s racist to call them dwarves. But for years when I was younger I always pictured the Dwemer to look kinda strange, not like elves, but some 3 foot tall humanoid. Even their stone beds and chairs seem small.
As the Dragonborn you also..... apparently....sell a goat to a giant implying your character speaks it adding to the intelligence of the giants with them able to do trade
Some villages offer up cows to giants as a peace offering I think? So you'll just see a giant walking down a road with a cow with the same painted marks on them
I really, REALLY wish there was a DLC (or a mod most likely) where you could overtime peacefully interact with a giant. Like it'd be really nice if you could literally lay down your weapons and just like offer something to the giant or try to make it clear you have non hostile intentions.
a couple of health potions, all the food I was carrying, and a few arrows. But, they went into better potions that I use, so it was a sacrifice I was willing to make.
Love the giants from skyrim. Wonder if there’s any mods that would allow for a charisma perk that allows you to engage in dialogue with the giants. that would be so cool
If you didn't know, there was meant to be a quest in the civil war to recruit the giant to whatever side you're on, wearing either Stormclock or Solitude Guard armour, I think we were robed of a great mission and story/lore development
@@james739123i think the issue was their size... Theres so many dungeons that have limited walking space that giants just cant fit through... I could picture another issue being their smash attack. If youre too close or friendly NPCs are too close, hes bashing you and whoevers nearby up to sovengard... Which would make everyone around turn against him
@@james739123 oh yeah no doubt. I feel like the easiest fix would've been to make it to where he can't enter any house, dungeon or city, they did it with certain followers in fallout when u got to certain areas. Idk maybe it wasnt in the budget or something but you think they could've added it in anniversary edition. But it also bets the question, wtf would he even sound like? That could throw his whole aesthetic off
I always remember this one giant who owned the land around his camp legally and there was a sign put up warning people that he earned the land or smth like that. Just the idea of him walking into town and sitting in a regular sized chair to do paperwork will never not be funny to me.
@@reykskjar4052 I don't remember exactly but I think somewhere in Windhelm providence on a road. I remember there being a destroyed merchant wagon nearby it.
Fun fact: The small horns on the giants' foreheads can be applied to the main character during customization, but only if the player picks a male Orc. The horns appear as the second- or third-last eyebrow choice.
They only attack you if you get too close, they even warn you off, they just want to protect their mammoths. If you just stay out their way they ignore you.
According to a book, *Giants: A Discourse*, Nords and Giants seem to share ancestry all the way back to the Atmorans. Quote from the book: "But nonetheless, we are connected to these giants, for we both share a common ancestor. The Atmorans were huge and smart. Nords descended from these ancient folk became the small (relatively speaking), intelligent people that we are today. Giants, on the other hand, became the huge, stupid creatures that we watch from a distance. Once we honored our cousins with offerings of cows, but this practice has fallen out of favor. Perhaps that is to the detriment of Nord villages everywhere. Today, most Nords refuse to acknowledge the obvious connection between us and the giants. We treat the giants as a nuisance, steal their grazing lands, and even hunt their mammoths for sport. This will be our undoing. To disrespect the giants is to disrespect ourselves. If we can't learn to live with our huge cousins, I fear that conflict could become all-out war. And that would be a shame."
This makes sense when you consider giants only really appear in Skyrim, have nord-like faces, and clearly are smarter than the typical beast like a troll or probably a goblin. Making cheese requires a good level of intelligence. I don't know if this book is confirmable or not, but it would certainly explain a bit. Since we have almost nothing on Atmora, and a lot of what's known of it is pieced together from deduction and reasoning, supplementing scraps of recorded information, it's just impossible to be sure if giants are actually some sort of sub-race or just big people the nords don't get along with.
@@UnswimmingFishYT they could've been a population that migrated long before(or after?) the 500. If before, they mightve adapted and evolved into giants, if after, it's implied that atmorans got even bigger as atmora got colder so fleeing atmorans would be giant. Some good theories that I've heard are that they were mutated by the dwemer just like the farmer, or were cursed by hermaeus mora as there's a story where he tried to give ysgramor elf ears(just like the giants have).
@@cnut7383 I suspect there's almost definitely some sort of magic behind why they're so different from Nords, but I've never put much work into figuring out possible explanations. Giants are just not fleshed out enough to really be interesting so far, and they're pretty much just the tall mammoth herders that you avoid so they don't get protective.
@@cnut7383 The explanation that makes most sense to me is that giants actually descended from the Ehlnofey along with men and elves. That would be totally compatible with what we know of interracial breeding in TES, since Lyris is part giant in ESO. Why they're so huge is very unclear, but they look in most ways very Nordic, aside from pointed ears. My best guess is that during the separation of Old Ehlnofey (pre-elves) and Wandering Ehlnofey (pre-men,) the giants were actually some of the same group that became Nords, but they split from them, breeding with what became Aldmer later on, and then adapted to Skyrim. We know elves tend to adapt very strongly to their environment, so if this happened with a man hybrid race in the same kind of climate as ancient Falmer, it could be that they just adapted differently due to their changes in genetics, resulting in what we have now.
I still like how you can find friendly ones walking the road sometimes and if you get close they just stop and look at you. Also would kinda be fun to play as one.
I've always loved the Giants in game. I find them so interesting and I wish they would receive a bit more... something, I guess. Just feels like there's so much more to be fleshed out below the surface for this unique race of people with their unique customs and physiology.
It's unfortunate that there's not more info yeah but there is still so much to extrapolate from. Such as their possible common ancestry with nords and the reason for their primitivism. We can read into things and hope it gets confirmed or hinted at in later games or material
I literally took a stroll with a giant last night after checking out his mammoth. He didn't seem to care and I was basically an arm length away from him 😅
you can find a giant in the rift mourning the death of one of his mammoths, he doesn't attack you if you approach him, just stands there in quiet mourning. kinda sad and heart warming at the same time.
It would’ve been cool to find hidden “cities” full of giants. Say where you could find different people from different races chilling there to help translate for quests
Just like we had a quest with a friendly hagraven (and a separate quest where you marry one), it would've been really cool to have had a quest where you help a giant and try to decipher what he is saying to aid him in his journey
Nothing like the feeling of plunging my hand into the mammoth cheese sac, scooping all of it out and stuffing it into my pockets while a giant charges me at full speed
I recently found this out while playing but if you go real close to a giant than they will kill you but if you just stand still if they come near you they will not become angry or attack
Honestly, kinda love how in Elden Ring you get background lore and cultures of civilisations. I would love the giants to have had way more depth in Skyrim and just interacting with them
I fought alongside a giant once when a dragon was attacking the vicinity. The giant unfortunately died in the battle. But I still greatly appreciated his help for helping with the dragon.
@@aggrocanthosaurus9368 fr can do quests and shit for them and when you do enough kinda like horses you can buy mammoths w saddles and ride them and use the balistas on the saddles
I like that you can be exploring and find a group of friendly giants with their mammoths, if you get too close to the mammoth they'll attack you though
Huh. I knew some giants could talk but I never even thought about how giants make all their own weapons and clothes themselves. They're like little farmers, huh? Fingers crossed to see a female giant in elder scrolls 6? Never seen an adolescent one either
Hopefully this lack of interaction and lore/plausibly solvable mysteries in the next elder scrolls along with many more situations that are in a similar predicament as the relationship between our scary giant friends here
I always knew they were smart I mean they basically farm mammoths and warn you that they will mess your day up if you get too close. There was even a farmer that would bring cows to the giants as a peace offering
I wish there was more stuff surrounding giants in skyrim like helping someone who can speak giant into gaining the giants respect making learning lore a bit fun as well.
@@AriseTarnished I don't know of any other race outside nords having a close enough relationship with giants to produce half-breeds so I'd expect them to be Nordic Half-Giants
the giants and mammoths of the whiterun plains have always been my favorite unique thing about skyrim. They are so chill and have some really cool designs like the carved tusks
I've always loved the Skyrim giants, I like how they aren't aggressive and warn you to go away before attacking. And how they don't chase you for too long. I just find them too small. They should at least be as tall as the mammoths
I like to imagine that a lone giant warns you from a distance, not to defend territory or personal space, but because they are self conscious about stepping on smaller beings.
Just found a cool giant camp called Talking stone camp, just east of sleeping tree camp. There’s a boulder there covered in giants hammers (you can’t pick them up) that implies they use this place for peace talks
They also give bandits an express ticket on their giant space program and occasionally the Dragonborn. I got launched over high hrothgar once by a giant. Went from the giant cap near white run, over the mountain and landed in riften hold on brynoffs stand in the markets.
I remember antagonizing a giant then running up a foggy mountain, then turning around and seeing him run full speed towards me out of the fog. It was terrifying.
Early game Im always like “wow they are just vibing… live and let live.” Then I get into the late game and get a new weapon I wanna try out and my attitude changes quickly. Power corrupts and a sufficient deterrence is is necessity. 😂
I always remember that somewhere in the hot springs is a friendly giant. One playthrough I come around a corner and bam! giant staring directly at me. One brown pants moment later I realize that hes not attacking me. I take a moment to have an up-close look at him then carry on my way
I once encountered a giant walking with a cow, he didn't mind me getting close too. Most Giants are neutral until you get close to their territory, but the guy just looked at me and went his own way with the cow.
i always showed respect to the giants, they are more than beasts like you said, so when there is bandits or any other npc messing with them i take them out then run before the giants sends me on a trip to space, i walk with them when they allow it and leave them be when they raise there club, and when i get a quest to kill one i reload the last save because i cant do it. same thing with parthanax(spelled wrong in know) they are not evil but territorial
The giants are the first race in all of Tamriel to have a space program🚀
I really appreciated this
Stupid Imperials with their dumb Battlespire, all they needed was a good yeet to get to space
That cracked me up can't even count the times I've been launched not paying attention at low levels
Actually there was an actual space program in the lore, during the Reman era.
Your ass to Mars.
I wish there were more interactions with them. Like they are literally a people but the game treats them the same as bandits sometimes.
bandits are also people??????
@@doctorkeythir7159 Nah bro but most bandits don’t engage in dialogue with you. Giants aren’t bandits, they’re not usually out to rob and kill. That’s why I don’t get why they’re only represented as enemies to fight.
@@friendlyboomer1429 the games also have bandit NPCs you can interact in ways other than fighting. It is weird that there's nothing like that with giants.
@@friendlyboomer1429 It's Orcs in Arena all over again and I hate it
They do that with a lot of groups. Falmer, Reachmen, Super Mutants in Fallout…
You tellin me that we're 37 Skyrim releases in and I still can't speak to a giant?
No Giantish, Mysticism, or Hand-to-Hand skills? smh
Theres probably a mod for that
Really wish the creature language skills would come back from daggerfall. I sm certain the giant mourning for his Mammoth would have some interesting dialogue to expand onto their lore
@@Jamseth_Ingramious I want my spears, custom spell creation, attributes, old leveling system, levitation, quest journal and throwing knives back
@@alaricpalaiologos665the old leveling system and attributes are WAY too complicated for people who are not deep into oblivion or morrowind but the others are good and we have mods for most of those in skyrim
Yesterday on a new character I was fighting the dragon at the Western Watchtower and it decided to aggro some passing giants. One of the giants died, the other assisted me in killing the dragon. I thought I'd have a fight on my hands, but instead he just stood there awestruck alongside the guards, watching me absorb the dragon's soul. I waited a while, he never attacked any of the guards or anything. Just a chill guy.
Thats interesting, maybe that one wasn't hostile because you didn't attack him
"shit what am i gonna say to his wife without the dragon as proof..."
@@draggydaduckywhat about the skeleton?
giants that are found wandering around are always friendly. They only attack you if you trespass on their camp, or if you attack them or their mammoths
Thats Eddy. Hes a sweetheart
I respect them. They're quite kind, to help me fighting a dragon.
Damn cannot count how many times they saved my a.. during a dragon fight
I saw them battle dragons in the air.
Now this is a bug, but I like to Imagine that Giant just jumped on Dragon's back and started beating him.
@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944😂
@@danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 I agree. Even bears do the same thing lol
One of them started beating the crap out of a dragon only to go towards me and attack, i got sent to space and did a braindead bash and slash combo
Wish there were more quests involving Giants and not simply killing them.
That's actually a great idea for modders.
Bethesda cut giant recruitment into civil war faction.
No idea why, maybe they afraid 500mb ram of ps3 can't handle it.
There was a small one but not showed. It was when you get drunk with Sam but he's actually Sanguine daedric prince of debauchery. In the quest an npc in rorikstead said you sold his goat to a giant, when you go find the giant it has a name but unfortunately you can't talk with it and it still acts like a normal giant
@@michelferreira333
I suspect quite a few modders are way ahead of you already.
It was a long time ago that I played it, but I believe in ESO there's a friendly giant you can talk to, who launches you from one land plateau to another.
I like to imagine that someone has befriended some Giants to not only be protectors of a town but also armored them to be a towering Juggernaut
They should make a giant chief
The closest to what I know about that is the Dwemer used to trade with the Giants
I had a similar idea. Imagine if in the final civil war battle, the Stormcloaks recruited giants?
@@gabrielw3570 it would’ve been so damn cool if the Civil War was a bigger deal. Imagine being able to recruit other factions for each side like how in Fallout New Vegas you can recruit the Brotherhood and a shit ton of other factions.
There's one giant in skyrim that is near a road that just walks around and doesn't attack anything or anyone. I figured he was put there as if he has some communication with humans. It doesn't make sense they are so humanoid they should speak at least one language at least or at least some giants. All of these races speak the same language which they shouldn't obviously, so it would make sense the giants do as well. Or at least learned one language from a province.
Once, i saw a dragon attacking a giant and i used dragonrend to bring it down. We both killed the dragon, and as i stood RIGHT beside the giant he just grunted and walked away. As if he said thank you😢 it was beautiful
Same happened near Rorikstead
Mutual respect was made that day.
Then you sneak shot s dragon bone arrow through the back of his head .?
@@Misfits71 cringe + L + slave to the blades + no tinvaak with paarthurnax
Forgot to mention that the Mammoths grow such a bond with the Giants, that if you kill a Giant near a Mammoth, any Mammoth begins to attack you.
And that is how this one fills his Grand Soul Gems.
Never noticed that! So cool!
@@AQuietVoice2022 right it's weird that giants only have greater souls while mammoths are grand
I mean Giants are quite intelligent they did create the elder scrolls space program
Uncivilized brutes? A person playing this game for the first time can immediately tell they aren’t a violent threat until you come near them.
Well aside from the ones who occasionally show up at one of the houses you can build
@@WanderingSlack3r even they are friendly. but you have to kill them because they just won't leave
@@theonlineanimal6009My random strolling giants are friendly, but the ones who show up at my house are immediately hostile.
I always leave them alone, unless there's a bounty on one of them. But even then it's never personal, just business.
@theonlineanimal6009 a giant tried killing my cow when HE was tresspassing.
My favourite thing about them, is that they’re the reason the Dwemer are called dwarves. Dwemer are elvish, meaning they’re taller than most humans, but they came into contact with the giants first, and to the giants, a very tall elf is still very small
That is awesome!
Bethesda lore goes so deep at times lmao
And I heard it’s racist to call them dwarves. But for years when I was younger I always pictured the Dwemer to look kinda strange, not like elves, but some 3 foot tall humanoid. Even their stone beds and chairs seem small.
But there are dwemer (or maybe it's only one?) in Morrowind and they are short
@@illumililium there are ghosts of them and they're fairly tall.
Makes sense, in the drinking quest with Sam you sell a goat to a giant for septims so they obviously have a concept trade
As the Dragonborn you also..... apparently....sell a goat to a giant implying your character speaks it adding to the intelligence of the giants with them able to do trade
Maybe not speak but trading is a simple thing to grasp
Some villages offer up cows to giants as a peace offering I think? So you'll just see a giant walking down a road with a cow with the same painted marks on them
Whenever i come to the mourning giant in the swamp, i leave a few flowers in their mammoth as a sighn of respect and sympathy
I like how there’s just a random one in Blackreach, also that other one just walking his cow. 😂
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I really, REALLY wish there was a DLC (or a mod most likely) where you could overtime peacefully interact with a giant. Like it'd be really nice if you could literally lay down your weapons and just like offer something to the giant or try to make it clear you have non hostile intentions.
Maybe donate a cow like the farmers do
I really gotta pay more attention to these things.
I feel bad now... all those toes, stolen, at what cost
a couple of health potions, all the food I was carrying, and a few arrows. But, they went into better potions that I use, so it was a sacrifice I was willing to make.
You mean you didn't notice the literal encampments and domesticated mammoths?
The giants know well I vist them and their mammoths often with soul gems.
They are the leaders of the Skyrim Aeronautics and Space Association.
Love the giants from skyrim. Wonder if there’s any mods that would allow for a charisma perk that allows you to engage in dialogue with the giants. that would be so cool
If you didn't know, there was meant to be a quest in the civil war to recruit the giant to whatever side you're on, wearing either Stormclock or Solitude Guard armour, I think we were robed of a great mission and story/lore development
Honestly imagine a giant companion. 😅 That would've been so cool.
@@james739123i think the issue was their size... Theres so many dungeons that have limited walking space that giants just cant fit through... I could picture another issue being their smash attack. If youre too close or friendly NPCs are too close, hes bashing you and whoevers nearby up to sovengard... Which would make everyone around turn against him
@@simplekid4328 maybe , but it would still be cool as hell to have something like this in game, you've got to admit that.
@@james739123 oh yeah no doubt. I feel like the easiest fix would've been to make it to where he can't enter any house, dungeon or city, they did it with certain followers in fallout when u got to certain areas. Idk maybe it wasnt in the budget or something but you think they could've added it in anniversary edition. But it also bets the question, wtf would he even sound like? That could throw his whole aesthetic off
I always remember this one giant who owned the land around his camp legally and there was a sign put up warning people that he earned the land or smth like that. Just the idea of him walking into town and sitting in a regular sized chair to do paperwork will never not be funny to me.
Could I get a location for that? I'm going back to skyrim.
@@reykskjar4052 I don't remember exactly but I think somewhere in Windhelm providence on a road. I remember there being a destroyed merchant wagon nearby it.
@@melovespoon cool thx
@@melovespoon that sounds like the tower for refugees, from the red year…
@@zer0sucksatguitar311 Nope, it's Steamcrag Camp. You're thinking of Refugees' Rest, which is filled with wild animals.
Fun fact: The small horns on the giants' foreheads can be applied to the main character during customization, but only if the player picks a male Orc. The horns appear as the second- or third-last eyebrow choice.
They only attack you if you get too close, they even warn you off, they just want to protect their mammoths. If you just stay out their way they ignore you.
some of them will let you get extremely close, I stood right next to one, right underneath its hand, and it didn't attack me
According to a book, *Giants: A Discourse*, Nords and Giants seem to share ancestry all the way back to the Atmorans. Quote from the book:
"But nonetheless, we are connected to these giants, for we both share a common ancestor. The Atmorans were huge and smart. Nords descended from these ancient folk became the small (relatively speaking), intelligent people that we are today. Giants, on the other hand, became the huge, stupid creatures that we watch from a distance. Once we honored our cousins with offerings of cows, but this practice has fallen out of favor. Perhaps that is to the detriment of Nord villages everywhere.
Today, most Nords refuse to acknowledge the obvious connection between us and the giants. We treat the giants as a nuisance, steal their grazing lands, and even hunt their mammoths for sport. This will be our undoing. To disrespect the giants is to disrespect ourselves. If we can't learn to live with our huge cousins, I fear that conflict could become all-out war. And that would be a shame."
This makes sense when you consider giants only really appear in Skyrim, have nord-like faces, and clearly are smarter than the typical beast like a troll or probably a goblin. Making cheese requires a good level of intelligence. I don't know if this book is confirmable or not, but it would certainly explain a bit. Since we have almost nothing on Atmora, and a lot of what's known of it is pieced together from deduction and reasoning, supplementing scraps of recorded information, it's just impossible to be sure if giants are actually some sort of sub-race or just big people the nords don't get along with.
@@UnswimmingFishYT they could've been a population that migrated long before(or after?) the 500. If before, they mightve adapted and evolved into giants, if after, it's implied that atmorans got even bigger as atmora got colder so fleeing atmorans would be giant. Some good theories that I've heard are that they were mutated by the dwemer just like the farmer, or were cursed by hermaeus mora as there's a story where he tried to give ysgramor elf ears(just like the giants have).
@@cnut7383 I suspect there's almost definitely some sort of magic behind why they're so different from Nords, but I've never put much work into figuring out possible explanations. Giants are just not fleshed out enough to really be interesting so far, and they're pretty much just the tall mammoth herders that you avoid so they don't get protective.
@@UnswimmingFishYT there's still enough info to go wild on speculations
@@cnut7383 The explanation that makes most sense to me is that giants actually descended from the Ehlnofey along with men and elves. That would be totally compatible with what we know of interracial breeding in TES, since Lyris is part giant in ESO. Why they're so huge is very unclear, but they look in most ways very Nordic, aside from pointed ears.
My best guess is that during the separation of Old Ehlnofey (pre-elves) and Wandering Ehlnofey (pre-men,) the giants were actually some of the same group that became Nords, but they split from them, breeding with what became Aldmer later on, and then adapted to Skyrim. We know elves tend to adapt very strongly to their environment, so if this happened with a man hybrid race in the same kind of climate as ancient Falmer, it could be that they just adapted differently due to their changes in genetics, resulting in what we have now.
Wish they had a quest or something that let you side/be peaceful with them. Imagine a giant tribe with loads of Mammoth's.
Giants were always something I found fascinating about Skyrim.
My first encounter with a giant saw me running in like, 'Leeroyyyyy Jenkins!!!" And immediately flying out like, "Team Rocket! Blasting off again!"
I wish there was a mod that allows you to befriend them, like how you become Blood Kin with the Orcs. Giants are cool.😁
Who needs giants when you have reiklings 😂
There's a mod called Friendly Giants on the nexus
It’s always funny luring a giant to a bandit camp and watching the giant slaughter everyone
Always loved their interactions with Mammoths. My favorite folk of Skyrim, probably due to my passion for the Paleolithic
I still like how you can find friendly ones walking the road sometimes and if you get close they just stop and look at you. Also would kinda be fun to play as one.
Hopefully there can be a quest or two involving intelligent giants in TES VI
I've always loved the Giants in game. I find them so interesting and I wish they would receive a bit more... something, I guess. Just feels like there's so much more to be fleshed out below the surface for this unique race of people with their unique customs and physiology.
It's unfortunate that there's not more info yeah but there is still so much to extrapolate from. Such as their possible common ancestry with nords and the reason for their primitivism. We can read into things and hope it gets confirmed or hinted at in later games or material
Giants are also the executives of the Skyrim Space Program!
They're capable of human speech and trading too, remember when you sell that guy's goat to a giant in the sanguine quest
I once saw a dragon flying by with a giant standing on its back... That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen.
I literally took a stroll with a giant last night after checking out his mammoth. He didn't seem to care and I was basically an arm length away from him 😅
you can find a giant in the rift mourning the death of one of his mammoths, he doesn't attack you if you approach him, just stands there in quiet mourning. kinda sad and heart warming at the same time.
It would’ve been cool to find hidden “cities” full of giants. Say where you could find different people from different races chilling there to help translate for quests
The amount of very small details Bethesda put in Skyrim is amazing
IFFFFF we ever get elder scrolls 6, i wanna see giants riding mammoths
Walks out Windstad manor. Gets yeeted by giant before you can react. So uncivilised 😂
Iv'e NEVER killed a giant, If they don't attack me, I don't attack them.
Just like we had a quest with a friendly hagraven (and a separate quest where you marry one), it would've been really cool to have had a quest where you help a giant and try to decipher what he is saying to aid him in his journey
Of course this pops up as I'm on a giant slaying campaign
Nothing like the feeling of plunging my hand into the mammoth cheese sac, scooping all of it out and stuffing it into my pockets while a giant charges me at full speed
Giants invented macaroni
I love Giants, they provide a VERY RELIABLE Airline service.
I recently found this out while playing but if you go real close to a giant than they will kill you but if you just stand still if they come near you they will not become angry or attack
Honestly, kinda love how in Elden Ring you get background lore and cultures of civilisations. I would love the giants to have had way more depth in Skyrim and just interacting with them
I wish the player could launch enemies in the air like giants do.
I fought alongside a giant once when a dragon was attacking the vicinity. The giant unfortunately died in the battle. But I still greatly appreciated his help for helping with the dragon.
I wished there was a way to befriend them or at least have one giant follower.
Would 100% make sense for the dragonborn to have the talent to learn their language too
Would be awesome especially if they had their own unique equipment, like a ballista sized crossbow for dragon hunting
@@aggrocanthosaurus9368 fr can do quests and shit for them and when you do enough kinda like horses you can buy mammoths w saddles and ride them and use the balistas on the saddles
I always leave them alone, they just be chillin
if you fight any enemies together they won't ever go hostile if you hang around after so you can just chill with them for as long as you like
I like that you can be exploring and find a group of friendly giants with their mammoths, if you get too close to the mammoth they'll attack you though
Now I feel bad for killing them for grand soul gems
Giants = Greater
Mammoths = Grand
The two types of giant groups
1. You're not allowed in my camp/home.
2. You're cool, walk with us!
Huh. I knew some giants could talk but I never even thought about how giants make all their own weapons and clothes themselves. They're like little farmers, huh?
Fingers crossed to see a female giant in elder scrolls 6?
Never seen an adolescent one either
Little*
Honestly I think be cool if we had a game where you play as a giant we can explore so much cool Concepts and ideas with that
Lul imagine they made it so that the speech skills actually make you able to understand certain languages like dragon tongue and giant language ect
Hopefully this lack of interaction and lore/plausibly solvable mysteries in the next elder scrolls along with many more situations that are in a similar predicament as the relationship between our scary giant friends here
I always knew they were smart I mean they basically farm mammoths and warn you that they will mess your day up if you get too close. There was even a farmer that would bring cows to the giants as a peace offering
If im not wrong, the farmer got killed anyway 😂
I wish there was more stuff surrounding giants in skyrim like helping someone who can speak giant into gaining the giants respect making learning lore a bit fun as well.
I wish giants were a playable race in the games, though I understand why they're not.
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Half-gians could be an option
@@Yumao420 And since nords are related to giants, maybe there could be a nordic giant?
@@AriseTarnished I don't know of any other race outside nords having a close enough relationship with giants to produce half-breeds so I'd expect them to be Nordic Half-Giants
@@Yumao420 I'd imagine a Nordic Half Giant to just look like a nord at 125% of in-game height
the giants and mammoths of the whiterun plains have always been my favorite unique thing about skyrim. They are so chill and have some really cool designs like the carved tusks
Isn’t there that one Giant in the game who just becomes sad and depressed when his Mammoth dies?
@BACKACKACK Omg that’s so sad just reading this made my eyes water
The enclave will destroy the brotherhood traitors@@CaesarOfTheRomanEmpire
@@Gaizaz Not pointing fingers but some faction was destroyed and the other is still running
The Enclave will rise again! Maxson will face the wall, submit or perish, degenerate!@@CaesarOfTheRomanEmpire
I've always loved the Skyrim giants, I like how they aren't aggressive and warn you to go away before attacking. And how they don't chase you for too long.
I just find them too small. They should at least be as tall as the mammoths
Mammoth cheese is worth the risk of getting launched into space .
"Many would assume giants are mere beasts"
WHO TF THINKS THAT?
Exactly!
Many...
The giants are just chill. I've rarely ever intentionally bothered or attacked them.
I like to imagine that a lone giant warns you from a distance, not to defend territory or personal space, but because they are self conscious about stepping on smaller beings.
Just found a cool giant camp called Talking stone camp, just east of sleeping tree camp. There’s a boulder there covered in giants hammers (you can’t pick them up) that implies they use this place for peace talks
They just be oversized cavemen
Cool, I still need their toes to level my alchemy.
Where are the female Giants?
They should exist it's implied that maybe they live in the mountains while the men herd in the Plains for food and resources
This game just keeps on giving
They also give bandits an express ticket on their giant space program and occasionally the Dragonborn. I got launched over high hrothgar once by a giant. Went from the giant cap near white run, over the mountain and landed in riften hold on brynoffs stand in the markets.
I remember antagonizing a giant then running up a foggy mountain, then turning around and seeing him run full speed towards me out of the fog. It was terrifying.
I have a giant in my garden, he spawned there and never left, I give him space and he gives me space, such peaceful creatures
yea make sure not to purchase and animals lol. The giants spawn to kill all your stock
There’s one or 2 giants that just walk around the northern parts and they’re chill af
Early game Im always like “wow they are just vibing… live and let live.”
Then I get into the late game and get a new weapon I wanna try out and my attitude changes quickly. Power corrupts and a sufficient deterrence is is necessity. 😂
I always remember that somewhere in the hot springs is a friendly giant.
One playthrough I come around a corner and bam! giant staring directly at me. One brown pants moment later I realize that hes not attacking me. I take a moment to have an up-close look at him then carry on my way
This got me thinking about that one random giant in Blackreach again...
they are a humble people. i want to speak with them. they have aided me, i wish to aid them !
I remember, leaving Dawnstar one day, taking the secret, dark brotherhood, exit and I looked off into the field, and I saw a giant killing a dragon.
*cast comprehend languages* Hey. You like Mammoths, huh?
Giant: 😯
What about my personal space when he turns up at Lakeview manor for my cow
One just walked up to my house once and I tried to talk to him
I once encountered a giant walking with a cow, he didn't mind me getting close too. Most Giants are neutral until you get close to their territory, but the guy just looked at me and went his own way with the cow.
See I got thinking that myself through my 10000000 play throughs this just solidified my thoughts on giant society
i always showed respect to the giants, they are more than beasts like you said, so when there is bandits or any other npc messing with them i take them out then run before the giants sends me on a trip to space, i walk with them when they allow it and leave them be when they raise there club, and when i get a quest to kill one i reload the last save because i cant do it. same thing with parthanax(spelled wrong in know) they are not evil but territorial
This discourages me from killing them anymore 😂
On my trip to morthal, I saw the painted cow being chased by two frostbite spider and an angry Giant.
The use to yeet them all over the place 😂
Me: This guy is doin a very good Fudgemuppet-like short.
Fudgemuppet: G-DAY MATE!!!
They might be peaceful but I need their toes so we fighting
Bro that burial ground is the place you can get the giant weapon for your follower! I can’t ever forget that rock
“Rather peaceful when granted personal space and more intelligent than they are given credit for” Literally me
We need more giant interaction in elderscrolls 6