Editing Ourworld:Goliaths (section)

== How the Goliaths see the other races: ==

'''Ailokim:''' the Goliaths know little to nothing of the Ailokim, save a few stories learned through the dwarves and from the Keltoi Druids, and these stories, containing as they do tales of slavery of an entire race, and the slaughter of children for crimes not yet committed, appalls them more than they can express. 

'''Dwarves:''' The Goliaths are politely standoffish to the dwarves, assuming that if the “stunted folk of the mountains” wished closer relations, then they would come out of their caverns and say so. Since they have not the goliaths assume they wish to be left alone, and respect their wishes. The exception to this is the Dwarves of the lonely Mountain, who are united with the tribes around them in their ongoing struggles against abominations, and this shared foe has led to closer relations, extending to limited interaction and a certain amount of barter.

'''Keltoi:''' Few Goliaths  know anything accurate about the Keltoi. Due to their fact that the Keltoi have made little effort to visit the northern continent. The druids have some contact with them at the Moots, but that is almost the entire extent of their interaction. It should be noted that the councils of the wise have requested their brother druids to not advertise the existence of the goliaths to the Keltoi, for they are a peoples that prefer to live today as they did last yesterday, and one thing that is obvious about the “little folk not as small as the mountain folk” is that they are agents of change

'''Laideann:''' The Laideann are unknown to the goliaths

'''Lizardmen:''' The Goliaths have little contact with the Lizardmen, but what contact they have is surprisingly peaceful. This is in no small part due to the fact that the two cultures religions have much overlap, and due to the fact that all shamans must venture into the rain wilds in order to find the tree that will serve as their first totem pole. This necessity means that the council of the wise has gone to great lengths to develop peaceful relations with the lizard men, though the true state of afairs could be better described as "strained politenes"

'''Teleri:''' The Goliaths do not have much contact with the Sea Gypsies, not having any ports where they would come to trade. That being said, the Sea elves do land on the rough shores of he great plains to make repairs or re stock water casks. When this occurs local tribes will eagerly trade for teleri goods, prizing especially he jewelry that the Goliaths marvel at, for its delicacy almost as much as its beauty.

'''Northern City States''' these people are not known to the goliaths

'''Summer Islanders''' these people are not known to the goliaths

'''Umberkim'''  The mere mention of these pitiable folk will reduce a goliath to quiet tears, for the conception that any sentient , anywhere , could enslave an entire race, is so mind bendingly wrong that the goliaths experience it as personal shame

'''Aileen''' The Goliaths are the only peoples who know aught of the Aileen, and even then it is only respected Medicine Men and the Kakatanawa tribe who are in on the secret. The Goliaths feel similtainiously greatfull to, and protective of the Aileen, who they believe to be mesengers from the Great Spirit (despite the Aileens protestations that this is not so) who came to the people melenia ago to remind them not to fight amoungst themselves and to live in harmony with the land and each other.