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[Hanako Ikezawa]

I'm just imagining the Broodmother breastfeeding the baby Darkspawn as if they are on a conveyor belt. Each gets like 5 seconds, then gets passed for the next one's turn.

[AresKeith]

Yeah...you can make experiment in the barn...while collecting cow milk...the barn with singing and music produce more than the barn with no singing

 

*sigh* Not enough facepalms

 

Anyways, I think Bioware can handle Giants well

[Divine Justinia V]

So hopefully we all can agree now that Qunari are not technically giants and were always meant to have horns. Wonderful

[EmissaryofLies]

I'm just imagining the Broodmother breastfeeding the baby Darkspawn as if they are on a conveyor belt. Each gets like 5 seconds, then gets passed for the next one's turn.

Why would you imagine that? Why?

[AresKeith]

There's no we here...i still make my stand, Qunari are giants and they supposed to maintain DA:O integrity

 

Then you're taking a small comment in DA:O too literally

[Divine Justinia V]

There's no we here...i still make my stand, Qunari are giants and they supposed to maintain DA:O integrity

 

You know, I'm just going to do myself a favor and assume that you cannot understand the simplicity of "they were always meant to be there and that is why Ogres have horns" because shutting my laptop off and walking over to my wall, followed by me smashing my face against it would be more productive than continuing in this little debacle.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Why would you imagine that? Why?

I never said I wanted to imagine it.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I bet when the Dwarves first met humans, they called them giants. 

[Saints]

Cared enough to reply.

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

Then you're taking a small comment in DA:O too literally

I can think of at least two times they were called that. Also, I don't think anyone's answered my question of why having horns means they aren't giants.

[AresKeith]

I can think of at least two times they were called that. Also, I don't think anyone's answered my question of why having horns means they aren't giants.

 

Why would horns mean they are giants?

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

Why would horns mean they are giants?

It doesn't. The fact that they're taller than everyone else (I think that's still true in DA2) does.

[AresKeith]

It doesn't. The fact that they're taller than everyone else (I think that's still true in DA2) does.

 

But it doesn't make them THE Giants though

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

But it doesn't make them THE Giants though

No, but considering they are giants, and have been referred to as such, they're more likely to be so than not in the absence of other evidence. And getting back to the post this thread responds to, it's not like I would find it surprising if the Qunari (or especially a group of Vashoth, who don't have access to the Qunari's apparently very well built and tended farms) had a habit of eating bears.

[Lurklen]

*attempts to wrench thread back onto topic*

 

Since we've heard that we're getting trolls this time around, I wonder if these are the same thing or if there are trolls AND giants? In Witch Hunt, trolls are included with fairies in a book of mythical creatures. So I guess either trolls were cryptids that have now been proven to exist, or something about the veil tears has created them.

 

(And this being the case, do fairies actually exist as well? Should we be on the lookout for leprechauns and yetis?)

 In the tabletop game by green Ronin in one of the adventure's there are these fairy like creatures called fire sprites which are actually pretty cool. They have this really neat reproduction cycle based around this special moss and one of their number turning into a giant snake thing that excretes the moss which feeds the colony, they also have the ability to project images and ideas into your mind through a kind of whale song, it's super weird but very cool and I think fits into Dragon age lore pretty well. One thing I'd like to point out is the level of scholarship in the DA setting is still pretty medieval so there could be lots of strange beasts on the fringes of civilization that are not widely known about or documented. That said if giants/trolls are a fairly common occurrence it does seem odd that this is the first we're hearing about them.

 

 To speak to Qistina's point, if giants are common creatures it does seem strange that anyone would look a Qunari and call them a giant so in that way I suppose that having there now be giants does make the Qunari less giant. As for the horns thing, it never bothered me but I get being annoyed by the change, even if they were always intended to have them(which makes ogres make a lot more sense) that's not how they were always presented. There were legions of fans annoyed by the horns when DA 2 came out but people got used to it. Though now I have to wonder why if there are a few other species of human like creatures why are there not more varieties of Darkspawn. Shouldn't the Darkspawn have encountered Ghasts and Giants and trolls and used them to make more Darkspawn or at the very least there should be blighted versions of these creatures. 

[Thresh the Qunari]

Qunari are giants. if  your a realy small person

[Mirrman70]

no one answered my question... where are the giants the only creature I saw that could be one is I am fairly sure a troll, which have been mentioned already.

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

no one answered my question... where are the giants the only creature I saw that could be one is I am fairly sure a troll, which have been mentioned already.

The post mentions that you might see giants hunting a bear.

[SerCambria358]

You do that...what i even care?

You've taken the place for most ignorant and stubborn person on the BSN

[CybAnt1]

The post mentions that you might see giants hunting a bear.

 

Of course, the (troll?) thing in the video did NOT pick up a bear and eat it (or even chase one with a hungry look).

 

Although that could have looked cool! 

[Riverdaleswhiteflash]

Of course, the (troll?) thing in the video did NOT pick up a bear and eat it (or even chase one with a hungry look).

 

Although that could have looked cool! 

I can't decide what would be cooler: that, or a group of qunari assembled around a campfire with a bear spitted on it. (I hope we don't have to choose.)

[wcholcombe]

Who says the giants are common creatures?  They may be rare like wyverns or dragons, or they might even be more rare.  We haven't really explored much of thedas so it wouldn't really matter if we hadn't seen them.  They may be in the Wilds, they may be in other parts, but I would venture they aren't common.

 

Anyone who thought Sten was a giant needs to get out more.

 

Not getting into the horn debate with Q again.

[Heimdall]

Who says the giants are common creatures? They may be rare like wyverns or dragons, or they might even be more rare. We haven't really explored much of thedas so it wouldn't really matter if we hadn't seen them. They may be in the Wilds, they may be in other parts, but I would venture they aren't common.

Anyone who thought Sten was a giant needs to get out more.

Not getting into the horn debate with Q again.

The term giant has been used to describe the Qunari in game though. Personally I'm convinced that this whole discussion is happening because Cameron Lee wrote giant where he meant to say troll, but time will tell.

[wcholcombe]

The term giant has been used to describe the Qunari in game though. Personally I'm convinced that this whole discussion is happening because Cameron Lee wrote giant where he meant to say troll, but time will tell.

True and that is entirely possible, however referring to the Qunari as giants doesn't make them Giants.  A physical descriptive term doesn't equate to a species term.  I have referred to some short friends of mine as dwarfs, but that didn't mean they had beards, swilled ale, lived underground, and loved bearded women.

 

You may be right about the incorrect word usage, but the calling Qunari giants doesn't mean real Giants don't exist.

 

Plus as I said they may be extremely rare/uncommon which would mean most wouldn't know they exist anyway.

[Mirrman70]

so where is the evidence of these giants again?