Editing Alia:Peoples (section)

===Giants of Estvald===

The western mountains are ruled over by the Giants.  A country they
call Estvald was seized control from the Dwarves nearly 500
years ago.  It is filled with great mountain cities.  It is actually
an eastern extension of a larger giantish kingdom to the west where
the Cloud Giants rule from their floating palaces.

The giants of Estvald rule over, the lesser giantish races of trolls,
ettins, and ogres, and who are served by towns of orcs, half orcs, and
humans.  Estvald is run as a loose alliance of city-states, each city
of giants being claimed by Hill, Stone, Frost, and Fire Giants, ruling
a section of Estvald.

The Hill Giants, control the easternmost mountains along the coast.
The coastal villages of Prolia pays tribute to the Hill Giants, who
live in ten tribes numbering about 30 giants each.

The Frost Giants, of the northern reaches live in and around the
fortress of Zara'dun.  They number 60 and are led by a ruthless 8th
level Blackguard Jarl, called Frondik.  They command a tribe of 100
Ogres led by an Ogre Mage and supported by several dozen winter
wolves.  The bugbears, hobgoblins and goblins of the northern forests
pay tribute to the frost giants.

The Fire Giants of the southern reaches, occupy a newly built
volcano-side stronghold above the ruined dwarven city of Stron'dul.
They number 45 and are joined by a tribe of 30 Trolls and a tribe of
20 Ettins, and command a pack of 30 Hell Hounds.  They are led by a
6th level Cleric of Wikri (Fire).  The rock gnomes pay tribute to the
Fire Giants.

The Stone Giants, live in the inland reaches of Estvald, in the great
fallen Dwarven city, of Quar'firk.  The stone giants number around
200, and rule over no one but themselves.  Thier elder leader is a
10th level Sorcerer. 

All the mountain regions ruled by the giants are inhabited by several
wandering tribes of Ogres, Trolls and Ettins.  These tribes do not
rule, but wander the mountains making their lives by hunting, and by
taking tribute from the weaker humanoid races that inhabit the region.

Orcs, Half Orcs, and Humans are plentiful in the giantish lands,
living in several scattered towns in the valleys of the mountain
kingdom.  They harvest timber, farm the land, and operate the mines.
There is no racial hierarchy among the humanoids.  Each such operation
is run by a humanoids put into power by the ruling giant class.

Dwarves and other outsiders are unwelcome in giantish lands, although
the occasional gnome may be found within the mountain kingdom.
Humans of the giantish kingdom are fully integrated into giantish
culture and have little in common and no sympathy for the human
empires of the east.

The common languages spoken in the mountain kingdom are giantish and
orcish.