Mammoths and Giants. : The Elder Scrolls Series Discussion

» Tue May 08, 2012 3:13 am

How much lore is there on mammoths and frost giants. where do thy come from? What has been their relationship with the people of skyrim.

» Tue May 08, 2012 1:05 am

How much lore is there on mammoths and frost giants. where do thy come from? What has been their relationship with the people of skyrim.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Giant or http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Frost_Giant?

» Tue May 08, 2012 12:40 am

As far as giants are concerned: They were all once the wandering Ehlnofey who became giants who either stayed as giants or became man. So giants are the ancestors of man.

» Tue May 08, 2012 3:34 am

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/fight-six-911th-cow has the best description:

the Giants came from Old Atmora, up there across the Northern Ice back in the gone-to-twilight-now age of myth... and settled here in the Skyrim, and all along the mountain ranges of our coasts. (Yes, they are our true ancestors-- do not believe your aunt from the university-- and, yes, we were once as big as them-- as tall as THIS-- but that is another story)... [text lost]... and after [the Great Calamity] happened [the clan-things (peoples? tribes? Text seems to indicate mankind as a whole, though that is debateable)]... we were of a kind disrupted... and we Nords fell into fighting and drove our Giant-kin up unto the mountaintops [and we were a wicked-folk for many years]... [until all] things had changed forever. Once the Moot resumed [(unspecified) years later] things got back to a new semblance of normalcy and borders were redrawn and agreed with in beer-talk, and raidings of the merethlands took everyone's mind off old feuds, and pretty soon (well, not pretty soon but whatever) the Giants began to come down from the mountains again. And they were a bit different than we Nords remembered, or perhaps we had forgotten much, but they would not speak to us anymore-- they would only smile in their lazy way, stomp over, and take our stuff.

There is also http://www.imperial-library.info/content/ode-tundrastriders, which describes their daily life.

» Mon May 07, 2012 11:16 pm

I want a giant friend..

Then we could kill Dragons together, and go to Valhalla together, and get blackout drunk together, and wake up in Nibelung which is just Talos' basemant and that's where all the Dwemer went.

» Tue May 08, 2012 4:13 am

I had a feeling atmora was involved. What about mammoths.i feel like they were just thrown in there.not complaining.i love big furry elephants.but I would think mammoths would b talked about more as far as animals go. Or some city would have its own mammoth crest.whatever it's nbd. Idc.but what lore is there?

» Mon May 07, 2012 6:27 pm

They're essentially the cattle for the giants. They even can milk them, and turn that milk into cheese. It's quite good and nutricious, if you look pass the idea of a giant milking a mammoth. It's even good for your heart!

» Mon May 07, 2012 9:53 pm

Didn't Daggerfall also have giants? Wasn't there even a skill for "giant language"? And why do they have pointy ears? On the other side, everybody except humans has pointy ears. Even trolls.

» Mon May 07, 2012 7:51 pm

And why do they have pointy ears?

Artifacts of the Ehlnofeyic form.

On the other side, everybody except humans has pointy ears. Even trolls.

Man's oddly-shaped ears permit him to hear the beat of the doom drum without experiencing the aural suffering inflicted on all other races.

» Mon May 07, 2012 7:10 pm

Giants were big men from Atmora that Ysgramor bought along, from my interpretation. Don't know why they declined to a tribal (at best) level of culture and intelligence.