The Shiverpeaks · Shiverpeak Mountains
The giant-kings turn on one another
With no enemies left to conquer and the gods’ threat looming, the jotun giant-kings turn on each other in a lust for power, igniting a civil war that pits brother against brother and all but wipes out their line.
The giant-kings ruled the Shiverpeaks in full at the height of the jotun’s reign, but with no more enemies left to conquer they turned on one another, hungry for power and glory. Convinced they were the superior race, the jotun became obsessed with the purity of their blood and the count of heroes and giant-kings in each lineage, using blood as a reason to seize land and wipe out "lesser" tribes — until family waged war on family and brother on brother.
Through this long history of infighting, civil war, and slaughter, the jotun lost everything that had made them great. Their sages were killed, their lore-keepers and mystics wiped out before they could pass on the tradition of jotun magic, and the giant-king line was almost completely destroyed. The jotun lost their command of magic, their knowledge of the stars, and even their own language — leaving only carved runes and abandoned citadels behind. Elder Thruln, the last of the true giant-kings, would tell of "the savagery, greed, and vanity that ended our glorious rule."