Frost Giants

The frost giants of terragard are a reclusive and violent people. They live their entire lives in their ice caverns and keeps on the peaks of the winterspine mountains. They have several ice keeps spanning the tips of the northern range of the Winterspine Mountains, the Largest of which is Hjalun, a castle formed of solid ice.

Structure
The hierarchy within giant culture is largely the same from race to race, there are always several tribes of frost giants, each led by a Jarl. This is the case with Frost giants as well. There are 3 major types of tribes within frost giant culture, each with different cultures and dispositions toward each other.

The Utgard Frost Giants are the most volatile and powerful giants, who live in huge keeps and castles cut from raw ice. They practice magic through tribe shamans, and have the strongest link with the element of frost and ice, allowing them to enhance their weapons and armor using magic, making them formidable even by giant's standards, and they demonstrate this regularly by marching to war against the fire giants and other giant tribes that they perceive to be threatening their lands.

The Iotun giants are more traditional, living in wooden and metal constructed halls, these are more like giant vikings than magical beings or barbaric nomads. They keep to themselves but possess some minor skill in magic, and are just as well-equipped as the Utgard giants but keep a more level head. These giants tend to be more religious than the other tribes, believing in serving a higher power, often a demon or dragon if they ever encounter one.

The Thomut giants are wanderers and barbaric, living in icy caves and caverns. These are the most likely culprits to be seen by humans, as their hunts sometimes take them further from frost giant territory than any other tribe. They are scavengers, using clubs and possessing no significant metalworking skills or access to more than simple weaponry. Some say the Thomut are exiles from the other tribes, but it seems their strength is lessened as they are frequently seen overestimating their strength and failing. This frustrates them greatly, and thus they tend to act in anger and irrationally, giving them the appearance of barbarians.

Politics
Frost giants, like most giants, are hostile to just about everything, but especially the fire giants. They frequently clash in tunnels in the earth when one party ventures too far into the territory of the other. They are always prodding at their opponents defenses, looking for weaknesses, with the ultimate goal of wiping the other out completely. Neither side has really gained any significant advantage over the other it seems, though both sides numbers have thinned over the centuries of their hidden war.