Manual Giganticum - A DayLITE: Fantasy Companion

From the Hills and Dales

Giants I have always been fascinated with, especially since I found this book at our local library that was all about them. I forget the title and author, but I remember that on the cover was a wild giant's face with hair and beard made of branches spanning out across the cover. Inside it talked about different kinds of giants in the world, gem and stone magic, as well as a huge slew of other things. I was probably about twelve at the time, and just starting to get into TTRPGs.

Fast-forward to when I started to actually create content, and Ryan Langr let me jump on board his Atlantis project, where I got to see some concepts for giants in-lore, and then expand in a book called Saga of the Giants. Trench, forge, and star giants were the three I introduced, and since then, I have just been bit by the giant bug. Giants in other media have always seemed either to just be tall people, or huge dumb monsters, so I wanted to change that and build our DayLITE giants to be different and unique.

From developing the overarching mythology of God-King Gogmagog, creating the heartrunes, to working with Axel to bring to life the concepts and art for the giants, this has been another super fun project to bring to all of you who are here to support the growth of DayLITE!

Children of Gog Magog

Giants were born from the thoughts of Gog Magog, the god-king of all giants. Gog Magog is a triple-god: representing hunger, war, and gruesome death. Because of this, he had many enemies amongst the divinities of the cosmos, and because of his rampant warmongering and gluttony, the gods banded together to kill Gog Magog, ensuring that he would not cause further strife. They split his body into six parts - his head, arms, legs, blood, teeth, and heart - and cast them out into the corners of the universe. Over time, these grew into the six giant clans, who now populate the worlds of the Ether. These six clans are the vulcan, thunder, tidal, steppe, basalt, and glacial giants - all greatly powerful in chthonic and gnostic magicks, and incredibly distrustful of holy folk of any deity. Their true power comes from within them, as all giants hold a fragment of Gog Magog’s name, which, if ever brought together, could cause the lost god-king of the giants to return to life.

Six New Giants!

Explore the all-new giants of the DayLITE Fantasy Universe from the shattered body of the God-King Gog Magog: vulcan, thunder, glacier, steppe, tidal, and basalt! Detailing their physical descriptions, magicks, lairs, and heart-runes that the giants stem from, this book is chock-full of new info! With writing by Cameron Day and art from Axel and Fwishbone, Manual Giganticum will bring new excitement to foot!