<p>A lost race of hi-tech horned giants who live in a lush, perfumed garden at earth's core or deep caves in the crust. The garden is inaccessible to all. Their culture interacts with a deceptive, wise snake-people race who live exclusively near the garden who speaks a different, hissing language. They believe above the crust exists a sea/firmament. The only surviving speakers are hologram VIs guides who answer simple questions in natural language using their database, and most act as receptionists or tour guides. Most surviving writings are signs, bardic songs and poetry, magical runic inscriptions, and words written on scroll-like robes. They do not have judicial, bureaucratic, medical records. Everything they need springs from the earth. Money trees, soda pools, etc. <br></p>
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<p>They measure time by pendulum swings (chronos) and by events (kairos). Generally, dates and hours are unimportant to the ancient, undying giants. Their sense of time is more relational and event-driven, saying "before the last storm," "during X's rule," or "in the times of X" <br></p>
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<h2>language></h2>
<p>The main giantic language encountered in Blessfrey is early Semitic. Its cultural neighbors speak the hissing serpent language and the sing-song syllabic fairy language. The written version of early Semitic Giantic only marks consonants and is usually written into stone. <br><p>
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<h2>concepts </h2>
<h3>misc nouns</h3>
<ul>
    <li>lie, deceive, distort - (verb) literally "to split your tongue" </li>
    <li>life - marked by a cycle of death and renewal, brought by storms </li>
    <li>hello - "peace"; immediately recognizable to modern Arabic and Hebrew speakers, version of Salam/Shalom/Š-L-M </li>
    <li>storm - literally "water control;" a dualistic concept that usually refers to the daily morning mist that rises from below and sustains fertility, harvest, and life. In the religious use of the word, it is a concept of cyclical overpowering rain that falls from above and wipes out then renews all life for a new era </li>
    <li>before the storm - giants do not remember what came before the last storm. The serpents and gods are immortal and occasionally share secrets from before the storm. Sometimes used in exaggeration to mean a really long time ago. </li>
    <li>moon - literally "water-jewel;" known only through legend; the pale jewel at the bottom of the mythical vast waters </li>
    <li>swings - chronos time is counted by pendulum swings </li>
    <li>eras - kairos time is marked by signs, linked to augury and geomancy </li>
    <li>mist - lifts from the ground, supports lush, seasonless vegetation year-round; only exists within the interior </li>
    <li>pool - pockets of still water within the crust </li>
    <li>Kairos - fullness of time </li>
    <li>chronos - height of time, considered a dimension in itself </li>
    <li>sword </li>
    <li>armor </li>
    <li>river </li>
    <li>garden </li>
    <li>hymn </li>
    <li>river split - place where water feature splits into two or more </li>
    <li>river mouth </li>
    <li>providence - everything you need, the earth provides </li>
    <li>pocket - refers to either caverns in the crust or small dimensions </li>
    <li>orb </li>
    <li>destruction - to cease to exist. when speaking of giants, there is an expectation of renewal </li>
    <li>renewal - to live again. Though giants lose their memories and identity, the immortal species can always know who is who. Sometimes they try to talk to the god Balder like he is Baal, etc. </li>
    <li>god-killing - act of killing a god, unthinkable </li>
    <li>Place where god died - location where earth god was killed </li>
    <li>ghost - the giants linger between cycles </li>
    <li>butler, manservant </li>
    <li>Sun - a gentle star-god within the center of the earth. --Half his face is masked--. Provides a mild climate yearround. As the earth rotates around it--, night falls upon the masked side--. Word follows the B-L pattern like Baal, Ball </li>
    <li>Earth - the mundane world </li>
    <li>Heaven - the outside world </li>
    <li>dust, essence, elementary particles - dust is understood to come from creatures. Very dusty people are said to be loosely formed </li>
    <li>tree- provider of all things </li>
    <li>bdellium-common somewhere </li>
    <li>onyx-common somewhere </li>
    <li>light - life </li>
    <li>dark - death </li>
    <li>serpent amulet of light - during periods of extended darkness due to the death of the sun, serpents wear an  </li>

</ul>
<h3>animal</h3>
<ul>
    <li>animal -  </li>
    <li>bat -  </li>
    <li>bear -  </li>
    <li>cat - literally "snake-killer" </li>
    <li>dimetrodon -  </li>
    <li>dog, outsider - proto-root of canine, Canaan, Kenite </li>
    <li>fish -  </li>
    <li>lion -  </li>
    <li>snake - sacred animal </li>
    <li>spider -  </li>
    <li>styracosaurus -  </li>
    <li>swiftlet -  </li>
</ul>
<h3>color</h3>
<ul>
    <li>white- - giants can see into the ultraviolet range. Both white- and white+ look white to <a href="/species/human">humans</a> but giants see them as different hues. </li>
    <li>white+ - looks the same as white- to humans but differently hued to giants </li>
</ul>
<h3>figures/species</h3>
<ul>
    <li>earth-god - (god) he has several names, literally "dead god," "shifting god," "earth god," "renewal god," and "storm-bringer;" he is an underdog god who gained or stole respect over all others to become the ruler of the entire earth; he controls the storm; he has been dead for a long time </li>
    <li>divine hero - (god) </li>
    <li>universal goddess - (god) </li>
    <li>high-god - (god) he has several names, literally "vast waters god," "deep god," "destroyer god," "storm-rider;" the god beyond the vast waters; he will launch the final storm, best the earth-god in battle, and destroy the earth </li>
    <li>serpent-king - (god) </li>
    <li>serpents - (species) literally "two-tongues;" charismatic but deceptive immortal serpent-people who live in the opulent city in the hollow earth that surrounds the central garden </li>
    <li>spider goddess - </li>
</ul>
<h3>jobs (RPG classes)</h3>
People are born job-less but arguably with a propensity towards a particular job. They can train towards mastery of a job, but giant jobs are so complex and slow to learn that it is exceptionally rare to have more than one or to change jobs. They usually deviate dramatically from their parents, learning through apprenticeships and self-learning. It's more likely for a giant to travel to a foreign land in pursuit of a trade than it is for a giant to study his father's trade under his father. <br>
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<ul>
    <li>he holds the flow of rivers - conceptually, everything that moves, progresses, or changes is considered to be flowing. The world itself is a bubble adrift in vast waters. Those with the job have the  </li>
    <li> - looks the same as white- to humans but differently hued to giants </li>
</ul>
<h3>locations</h3>
<ul>
    <li>central garden - the interior of the hollow earth; houses the lost garden, the serpent city, and  </li>
    <li>crust - </li>
    <li>firmament, sea, vast waters - the outer watery shell of the world; giants only know shallow and gentle mists and brooks, but the world is a bubble in a vast outer world of water </li>
    <li>hall of monuments - </li>
    <li>interior - </li>
    <li>serpent city - </li>
</ul>
<h3>minerals/rocks</h3>
<ul>
    <li>asbestos - fibrous mineral, spun into yarn and woven into cloth. Blessfrey's giants are usually referring to chrysotile (white asbestos), but they sometimes trade for other types (brown, blue, etc) with distant giantic cultures </li>
    <li>gold - common mineral, appreciated for its lustrous beauty and ability to be extruded into yarns </li>  
    <li>crystal -  </li>
    <li>gemstone -  </li>
    <li>lava -  </li>
    <li>pebble - large </li>
    <li>rock, boulder - large </li>
    <li>stalactite -  </li>
    <li>stalagmite -  </li>
    <li>stone, building material - large </li>
</ul>
<h3>verbs</h3>
<ul>
    <li>flow, change, move</li> - </li>
    <li>lie, deceive, distort - literally "to split your tongue" </li>
    <li>lie, protect, cover - maybe translated into English as "to tell a white lie" </li>
</ul>
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<p>foreign, unencountered concepts: <br>
<ul>
    <li>birthdays - the exact date is not tracked or celebrated, though the event may be used as a reference </li>
    <li>recreational sex </li>
    <li>work - laboring, mining, etc, is not needed for their survival, since everything they need can be extracted with little effort. Some do so as part of exploring. </li>
</ul></p>

