Jaldis heard a call from his good friend Nosferatu and came to his world.
He saw what the Nameless One had done to Nosferatu's world and wished to
help his friend. Jaldis went to the great mountains of the world and began
to carve a race of giants from them. This race he named the Titans. Being
created from the mountains of the world gave the Titans remarkable size and
mass. Due to this great size and mass the Titans also were very strong and
resistant to all forms of heat and cold. Jaldis also gave to his race a long
memory like the mountains they were created from. Being so big had some
drawbacks though, they were very slow and a little clumsy both in thought
and deed. The Titans were created to be warriors from the start and few
Titans join other classes.
When Jaldis was completed he present his Titans to Nosferatu to aid in the
war against the shades. Nosferatu has very pleased with the Titans as he was
with the other new races. Together the dragons and the new races defeated
the Nameless One's army of shades and were successful in banishing the
Nameless from the lands. After the war the Titans retired to the mountains
and some helped build and lived in the city of Ontara. Jaldis cares deeply
for the Titans and watches over them, but has agreed to allow Athyra to care
for their young as she does all the young of the world.
The Titans have lived peacefully with all races of the world, but the
Nameless One would not allow this so he alter their eyesight and hearing
slightly and the now the Titans can no longer distinguish the sprites as a
race of intelligent beings. Anything less than 2 feet tall the Titans see as
insects and they even hear them as insects. This tends to drive them berserk
at the sight of the tiny sprites. So now the Titans and sprites tend to stay
out of each others way.
Widely regarded as the fiercest of all the warrior races, Ossaca's native
giants are feared and admired in equal measure. Standing twice as tall as an
average human, the titans are largely concentrated to their isolated town on
Ossaca's icy northern steppes, though more and more are venturing out.
The titans have a reputation for unintelligence, which is not entirely
deserved. Because of their size, some appear lumbering and clumsy. Their
child-like curiosity makes them seem slow, whilst their tactic in battle of
hitting first and thinking later is seen as a weakness by more noble
fighters. But titans have no need for nobility or diplomacy. They will win
by might or they will die trying.
For this reason, titans make good knights. They're the best of fighters,
though they lack the magic of mages, and their lack of subtlety makes them
unsuited to covert classes. Though the titans are naturally suspicious of
other races, their only true enemies are the nymphs. Whilst largely godless,
titans who join warrior clans look to Scynd.
