: And let us never forget that there are regions to the
: South and East that we never see, and potentially even
: lands across the oceans with wholely different races,
: not to mention the far world that Fetch are drawn
: from.
The Fetch are aliens, from a different planet (world). Not sure if that's what you meant or not.
: What got me started thinking about this? The classic
: four/five elements and their relations to the known
: and unknown Myth world. Consider: Trow clearly
: represent 'earth' (Though it could be argued, because
: the Forest Giant's claim to worship the earth in their
: TFL caption and their claim that Trow 'poisoned the
: soul of iron (By perverting it into steel with
: *fire*?) that the Trow is fire and the FG is earth)
The Trow were created from stone and clay by Nyx, so I would agree that they would represent earth. As for how they poisoned the soul of iron, they used iron weapons to kill the Oghres. "But we had a powerful ally... and once iron had tasted blood... it became insatiable." (From "Tales From Myth The Fallen Lords").
: Whew, to be brief, does anyone else think the Forest
: Giants could be just as old and powerful as the Trow,
: but less interested in the keeping of records, or the
: development of complex societies? Is the origin of the
: Bre Unor and Fir Bolg races in ancient combat tests of
: the Forest Giant?
I dunno, I somehow think the Giants are one of the younger races. Humans and the other younger races have been around for at least 22 centuries, so the Giants could have had plenty of emnity with the Trow during that time.
: If only we knew *when* the Trow 'poisoned the soul of
: iron' (Could this even be a metaphor for the Trow
: race's development of a complex, city building
: society?) we could reasonably assume the age of the
: Forest Giant...
Thirty years before Connacht arrived, the Trow-Oghre war began. So that's about 10 centuries ago.
