Giants

The Giants were creatures about fifteen times the height of a man who held up the ceiling of a huge tunnel, the living warren of Burn's realm.^[1]

In Memories of Ice

One of the giants pulled Quick Ben down through the earth into the cavern just as the mage was about to face the severe displeasure of the Crippled God. Quick called the apparition Servant, child of Burn. Its flesh was of dark clay peppered with rough diamonds which glittered as the giant moved. Its eyes were made of diamond and the flattened head was misshapen. Its vaguely human-like shape almost reached the ceiling of the domed cavern and its hands disappeared into the murky, red-stained roof seeming to hold or be fused to two of the vast arcs of dull white that were spaced at regular intervals in the ceiling. Other, similar giants, were visible to either side of Servant. The giant spoke with a childlike voice. Due to the Crippled God's poisoning of Burn's flesh, the giant was dying. Its clay flesh was melting. Servant told Quick Ben that not much time was left, only about tens of years, before it would be too late (and Burn would die) and pleaded for the mage to help them. The last Quick Ben saw of the giant, almost all of its diamond armour had melted away. It told the mage it was dying, and as it began to sag cracks appeared in the ceiling above it.^[1]

After the mage helped disrupt the Crippled God's plans at the Siege of Coral, he returned with the former Pannion Seer who used his Omtose Phellack magic to slow the infection and harden the flesh of Burn's servants.^[2]

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