On 31/08/2012, at 7:56 PM, Andrew Larsen wrote:
> Perhaps the connection with Disorder is part of what distinguishes non-Elder Giants from Elder Giants. The process of maturation for Giants may involve learning to shed their Disorderly ways and then to embrace Stasis (after all, the Elder Giants mostly seem to sit and do little beyond contemplate). Gonn Orta may be in the transitional stage; he's lost his connection to Disorder and slowly developing a connection to Stasis but has not yet achieved whatever enlightenment is necessary to become an Elder Giant.
The Elder giants are a completely different (and much bigger) species to normal giants, is my understanding. Giants do not grow into becoming Elder giants, just as humans do not grow into giants. Normal giants range from about 4m to 15m, 15m is very old and large for a normal giant. But a baby Elder Giant in the cradle is already 10m tall, and a mature Elder Giant such as Gonn Orta is 150m tall. Elder giants and normal giants may have some connection - Gonn Orta does seem to surround himself with friendly normal giants, and seems to regard them with some sense of kinship. On the other hand, Gonn Orta is known to have a similar special sense of regard for Jolanti (at least, he became involved in a war on their behalf), and we know Jolanti have nothing in common with giants apart from sometimes being of the same size. Cheers David > > Andrew E. Larsen > On Aug 30, 2012, at 12:25 PM, David Cake wrote: >
>>>> Personally, I find it hard to imagine anything LESS disorderly (or defiant of nature, for that matter) than sitting down immobile for centuries, and becoming part of the geography. >>> >>> The ability of getting up again, changing that nice stable range of mountain into an enormous, probably ravenous and destructive entity makes up for that, doesn't it?
>>>> Though constructing elaborate clockworks that perfectly demonstrate the predictable and orderly nature of the world is also a very very not-Disorderly activity, and the Elder Giants apparently to that too. >>> >>> I don't think that all the gifts on the cradles are giant-made. Especially that clockwork toy looks like something made in Greatway. Other gifts may be handed down since the Golden Age when other neighbors from Genert's Garden produced such wonders.
>>> (While I do propose some shape-changing ability of the giants, I don't think that they are able to change into someone small enough to produce delicate mechanical toys. That would be against their defining trait - giant.)
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