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Made to serve as a labor force for the primordials, earth giants were created early in the Dawn Era by Hettar. In the Creation War (1486 DE - 8777 DE), they held the rear areas of primordial domains and were often the cause of a lot mischief, drunken debauchery, and mayhem. As the war progressed, they began to see more action at the front. When the war ended, they like the other giants were left behind. Those on Bal-Kriav that once served as war leaders or posed a particular threat to the designs of the Covenant were sent off to prison continents like Denerra.

In 6700 DE, civil unrest inside the primordial bastion of Etteir led to the escape of nearly a thousand earth giants. Guided by Geb, they fled into the subterranean passages beneath the city. Legend has it that he showed them the way to safety, taking up the rear guard where he entombed hundreds in the rock, and petrified dozens of others with twin pick-axes forged from the blood of the first medusa. Aboard strange craft, they followed one of Geb's newly made Earth Seams, ending up thousands of miles east in Faeglor. Feeling the ancient power of Izen'nâth, the birthplace of Geb, they established a home.

In the Demon Spawn War (8972 GE - 9493 GE), earth giants defended Izen'nâth against the demon invasion of Zuggtmoy. Those captured by this demon lord ended up suffering mutation from long exposure to deep rocks. The survivors became known as the Fomorian.

In the Lith-Crillion Era, more earth giants fled the unrest of Etteir. They crossed three seas aboard Grimsuvelth Trawlers, settling in the coastal hills of Gorahrigir. They splintered along tribal allegiances, making little advances in civilization until the rise of the Zeymah'kein Empire (600 HE - 1600 HE).