@foreverlurk said in Go-to sizey daydream?:
@maladaptivetiny said in Go-to sizey daydream?:
I imagined that as the skies turned dark the giants awoke, sort of like in the tales and childrens books I had read of forest trolls my (then) whole life.
I love Scandinavian folk tales with their big and tiny creatures.
Perhaps this is because I fixate on this particular dynamic, but I find a lot of myths and theism’s has tons of reputable giants or colossuses. I think it is fascinating that humans, no matter where, have long attributed certain phenomenon to be the work of giants, or that certain gods are giant, etc.
In Norse mythology or at least what little I know of our Swedish folklore is that giants had an important part in shaping or destroying land, there is one in particular (Jätten Vist) that chucked an island (Visingsö) into our second largest lake and other giants carried most large boulders into forests. Trolls and giants are also from my perspective used interchangeably a lot here, but this could very much be a thing that is sourced to famous artists who painted trolls a lot. But maybe giants are extra prevalent in Norse mythology 