Gigantes- Greek RaceRace"Earth-Born Ones"

Birth from Blood

The Gigantes were born from Gaia when the blood of the castrated Uranus fell upon the earth, the same cosmic violence that produced the Erinyes and the Meliae. They emerged as warriors in gleaming armor, enormous in stature, their human torsos ending in serpentine legs that coiled beneath them.

The War against Olympus

Gaia incited the Gigantes to war against the Olympians, enraged by Zeus's imprisonment of her Titan children in Tartarus. The giants stacked mountains to build a ramp toward Olympus and hurled boulders and burning oaks at the sky. But a prophecy declared that no god alone could kill a giant — a mortal must deliver each fatal blow. Zeus had fathered Heracles for precisely this purpose. When Gaia sought to shield her children with a herb of invulnerability, Zeus darkened the sun and moon so she could not find it, and Athena guided Heracles to harvest the plant first.

The Killing Blows

Athena buried Enceladus beneath the whole island of Sicily; his struggles cause its earthquakes, and his fiery breath its volcanic eruptions. Poseidon broke off a piece of Cos and hurled it upon Polybotes, creating the islet of Nisyros. Alcyoneus, the eldest giant, was immortal so long as he fought on his native soil — Heracles dragged him beyond its borders and killed him. Porphyrion rushed at Hera; Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt, and Heracles drove in the killing arrow. Athena flayed Pallas and wore his skin as her own armor. Wherever a god struck down an opponent, Heracles followed with the arrow that finished the kill.