Promethean Giants

The Promethean Giants are ancient creatures of the Dreaming.

Overview

These huge, rare entities found in the Deep Dreaming possibly predate Arcadia. In the oldest legends of the birth of that realm, the Promethean Giants (whole some believe to be the Tuatha de Danaan) are already there, watching sadly from the shadows. They speak only the oldest form of Arcadian argot, peppered with numerous words that not even the most ancient changelings alive can remember. They do not appear to be the product of Faerie Glamour, and may, in fact, not be the product of any human Dreaming.

The Giants take the form of huge humanoids composed of some pliable, almost rubbery, golden substance. Judging from textual evidence (few changelings ever see one Giant in their lives, although there are legends that describe lonely gatherings of dozens of Giants), each is over a hundred feet tall, and a few have reportedly extended at least six times that height. Their bodies are continually in minor flux, which gives them their characteristic "liquid" or "soft" appearance.

Each Promethean Giant that has been reported since the birth of Arcadia has been a paramount master of at least one realm of faerie magic, with specific and idiosyncratic affiliations within that realm. These affinities affect the Giant's personal form, with each giant possessing a strange hybrid corona of animal, vegetable, or mineral limbs that constantly move in tidal currents across its huge golden body like solid clouds or rootless islands. No account of Giant breeding should be taken as authoritative, nor, (despite accounts of the submergence of the Atlantican Empire) is it known whether the Promethean can die.

The Giants use their old magic to serve their own unfathomable agendas (cryptically referred to as "the Sad Conversation"). They have both destroyed and created entire changeling realms over the vastness of time.

  • NB: Placement in the Dreams and Nightmares book may lead one to think these Giants are the same as the Ocean Giants. The book is ambiguous on this point, which is part of what the book strives to be.

References

  1. CTD. Dreams and Nightmares, p. 87.
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