Small Errors, Or Titanic Lies?: On The Hidden Giant History Of Oud Vhar (Extract)

While modern knowledge tells us that ruinic effects on armor are cosmetic at most, there is reason to believe that earlier craftsmen truly believed that they could use runes to physically enhance certain pieces. An extract from Cooley's laughable investigation into alleged Giant civilizations on the land that would become Oud Vhar "Small Errors, Or Titanic Lies?" gives us some insight into this way of thinking.

''...further, to think that they were a disorganised or uncivlised race is an error. Take the fragments that I uncovered on my latest archaeological survey, for example. The pieces (which I have theoretically reconstructed as best as possible, based on the fragments) suggest not only skilled craftsmanship, but organisation of the Giantfolk into a number of geographical factions, with their own sigils and other symbolic methods of representing themselves. I have listed several of these reconstructed armor sets below.''

''Forest-Farer Armor (likely origin Austeron, possibly Selrune): Crafted from enormous sections of bark from the Ironbark Pine, large flat leaves and thick-woven tree roots. The rune that has been preserved on the fragment potentially translates to "shift silently amongst the trees" according to my colleague REDACTED''

''Shoreside Armor (likely Nikkemi or from the Austeronian shore): Thick mat of woven kelp, pauldrons made from the shells of giant tortoises. Rune, per REDACTED likely means "He walks with the whale"''

''Carapace Armor (Medratheer): Appears to be made from the hard exoskeletons of the megafauna still found in the Medrathi deserts. Rune translates to "She travels the dunes as the sandspider"''

''Moonlight Armor: (Edarah) Appears to be crafted entirely from the silk of the Edaran Midnight Worm, it is almost reflective. The Rune allegedly translates to "He turns his ear from the mind-speakers"''

Cooley's fantastical text documents several more of these "magical" giant artefacts, however the above both reaches the limit of the maximum allowable Coolean "research" that can now appear in print, and certainly makes the point this chapter seeks to address.