Class: Psychic

Two Stories About GiantsThe White City, that famed metropolis, has for its creation myth a story of ten giants and a human child, who built and administered the polis in its first days. In this story the invincible giants made a choice amongst themselves: to be subservient to the will of the child who would become Emperor. The intended moral instruction of this decision is debated. Their monstrous remains are said to be built into the curtain wall of the palace, that they might defend the empire even after their deaths. The Rantines of the north tell a different story. They speak of the Ten Heroes, the bloody-handed ones, the original sires of their race, who taught them blood-drinking, chemistry, dancing, and future sight. The Ten Heroes came down from the boiling jungles and found the Rantines living like mud eels in the flooded meadows and swamps that form its border. The Heroes showed them how to build fortifications, how to drain land and sink foundations, and instructed them to…