Stone Giants

A number of covenant stones were created, which bonded the Stone Giants in a number of ways to the Carkade:

• Covenant of Confinement - limitations placed on where the Stone Giants may dwell and roam
• Covenant of Bondage - specifies the labour tribute requirement of the Stone Giants to the rightful possessor of the covenant
• Covenant of Surety - specifies number of Stone Giants to be given up each year to the rightful possessor of the covenant
• Covenant of Hexspeak - compels the Stone Giant polemancers to wield the sacred speaking stones of war
• Covenant of Impressment - compels the Stone Giants to make war on behalf of the rightful possessor of the covenant
• Covenant of remembrance - compels the Stone Giants to recall their debts each time

The possession of all compels the Stone Giants to recognise the possessor as their one and true ruler - the possessor does not need to be a “rightful possessor”

A rightful possessor are the Carkade and Aves Reva’s true witnesses

There are persistent images of enslaved Stone Giants endlessly turning over the reading stones containing high level spells as part of the ritual that created the Nightmare Children.