The Frost-Mantle Clan

The Frost-Mantle Clan is a deeply traditionalist and isolationist faction of frost giants who inhabit the harshest reaches of the Frozen Wastes of Kael. They are staunch defenders of ancient giant customs and hold themselves apart from the warmongering of their fire giant cousins.

The Guardians of the Ice

The Frost-Mantle giants consider themselves the true inheritors of the giantfolk legacy, the uncorrupted "First-Born." They believe their sacred duty is not conquest, but guardianship. They see themselves as the wardens of the frozen north, keeping ancient, slumbering evils encased in the ice and preserving the pristine, brutal purity of the tundra.

Culture and Tradition

Their culture is built on survival, stoicism, and a deep reverence for the natural order. They are master hunters, tracking massive ice-wyrms and mammoths across the glaciers. Their armor is crafted from the chitin and bone of these beasts, and their weapons are hewn from True-Ice, a magical substance that never melts and inflicts freezing wounds.

Conflict with the Cinder-Skulls

The Frost-Mantle Clan views the Cinder-Skulls' expansionist ambitions with disdain and alarm. They see Jarl Throm-Ka's alliance with a dragon—a historical enemy of giantkind—as the ultimate betrayal of their heritage. Tensions between the two factions are escalating, threatening to plunge the Giantfolk Territories into a devastating civil war.