Giants

The giants are the oldest mortal race on Aiaos, with the possible exception of the Dragons; it depends on whether the giants are accepted as the descendants of the Titans, or as mere successors. The Giants certainly consider themselves the direct heirs of the first race, in power, right and in custody of the skyborne empire of Titanis. As befits the heirs of the Titans, they rigidly maintain the old, Titanic social order, the Orden.
Alas, they were never entrusted with the deep mysteries of Titanic science, and over time the sky cities have degraded. The empire of Titanis is now a scattering of orphaned mansions, and the gradual failure of their lifting chambers has led to an increased numbers of giants on the surfaces, pushing smaller races out of the growing expanses of the Giantlands, on the eastern coast of Moraea and in the northern Auroran Wastes. In the north, it was the fall of the greatest of the cities of Titanis, Titania, which has, over the last century, forced the Orcs and Giant-Kin out of the high mountains.
While some suspect that the giants now seek to conquer the surface, they are relatively few in number, and those still aloft, who might rain destruction on the lesser races, feel little kinship with those who have lost their own airborne palaces. In general, as every giant considers themselves the equal of heaven, they lack cohesion or fellow feeling. They may be the only race more arrogant than the dragonborn. When they do organise, however - usually under the leadership of warleaders from Titania or Eurosia - their unified raiding parties are the stuff of nightmares. Few of the smaller races truly comprehend their size, or the sheer force that they represent, even when encountering them face-to-face, and deep down find it hard to picture them as any larger than the meaner giant-kin.
The remaining skyborne giants dwell only in individual mansions, the last of the cities long since crashed or broken up. Their lives are dominated by increasingly desperate measures to maintain their homes, including raiding aarakocra sky ships for their cell plates.
Despite this decline, the giants still see themselves as the new Titans, and they will not stoop to worship any but the Old Gods. They consider the Young Gods to be upstarts, younger than their progenitors and entirely beneath them. They have their own, specific names for the Old Gods, each of which is associated with one of the great divisions of Giantkind, the Ordai. Some speculate that these 'aspects' are nothing more than Young Gods themselves, but the giants will hear none of this, and certainly would not stoop to petition them as such. Since the Old Gods have long since retreated to the Void, the higher Ordai have no clerics, and instead receive spiritual counsel from their rune priests, whose powers are drawn from the ancient syllables of the Titanic language and its associated runes.

• The Orden

Giants and identity

Perhaps because of their size, giants tie their identity very strongly to their physicality. Gender is largely biologically determined, but includes a marked number of intersex individuals. Their secondary sexual characteristics are typically pronounced, with those tending towards a more androgynous appearance likely to identify as intersex. As in all things, giant sexual appetites are great and unbounded, and recognise few bounds of propriety (although many of courtesy.)
Precise gender roles vary between the Ordai and to a considerable degree by class. The upper-echelons of post-Titanic society are far more conventional than the lower orders. In broad terms, male giants take aggressive, outward facing roles, while female engage in either internal or covert activities. Intersex giants are societally aligned with diplomacy and trade.