The Shiverpeaks · Shiverpeak Mountains
The norn turn to the Spirits of the Wild
Where the jotun had no one to save them, the norn turned to the Spirits of the Wild to redeem their strength and self-respect — the moment that split the fate of the two giant races.
When magic was stripped from the giants, the two great giant races took very different paths. The jotun "had no one and nothing to pull them from the quicksand," sliding into savagery. The norn, by contrast, turned to the Spirits of the Wild — the animal spirit guides they revere rather than worship — to redeem their strength and self-respect.
The Spirits first revealed themselves to the norn at a secluded place that came to be known as the Sanctum of the Wild, a magically potent temple that would serve as a site of pilgrimage for centuries. Through the Spirits the norn stabilized their culture and recovered much of their dignity, heroism, and power. Thrulnn the Lost, the last jotun storyteller, looks on the norn’s recovery with envy: the Spirits returned to the norn what he wishes the jotun had become.