Giants are a diverse race of strong and savage humanoids that distances itself from humanity. Giants are part of a large family of the greater giant species;; all known known for great strength and size. Giants can all be fearsome adversaries in combat and are often driven to war by human beast tamers. See Giant (class) for information on the specific giant class used by the ordinary giant.
Appearance[]
All giants are immensely large beings and muscled beings. Whilst humanoid, they also bear monstrous features such as claws, fangs and/or unnatural skintones such as blue or green. They are incredibly strong and hardy, but most are fairly slow compared to humans.
Culture[]
Giants are fairly primitive compared to humans and other demihumans, none of them use advanced weaponry and instead rely on their bare hands or primitive clubs. Despite this, many types of Giants are capable of using advanced magic. They commonly wear animal furs.
There are half human half giants like Castor and Porkus, suggesting they can breed with humans.
Giant types[]
- Giant (class) - The standard giant.
- Fire Giant - Chaotic giants with the power of fire.
- Ice Giant - Neutral Giants that control ice.
- Titan - Lawful giants. with wind spells.
- Cyclops - Ancient one eyed giants that have mastered elemental magic.
- Troll - Incredibly durable green skinned giants that are vulnerable only to fire.
- Spriggan - Inhumanly strong cyclopes found mainly in the Palace of the Dead.
- Hell Gigantes - Demonic Giants found in the continent of Ovis.
Notes[]
- Giants resemble the stereotypical fantasy ogre more than the actual Ogres do.
- Members of the Giant family appear in every game, but Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber, though the standard giant is an unused class within the game.
- The Giant's unit category is inconsistently depicted over the series.
- In Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen and the PSP version of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, giants count as beasts.
- In the original Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Giants and Golems count the same as shown by cyclops being empowered by Warlocks and the wordrock.
- In Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis, Giants are in the Demihuman category.