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The Kerekk of [[Grannoch]] is a church in decline. Once powerful with the prayers of the giant kind, it is shrinking as the chaotic nature of the giants and their [[slow]] slide into savagery take their attention away from their goddess. Though there is no current hierarchy for all of the giant [[races]], this was not always so. In each race of giants, there are shamans of Grannoch called the Son and Daughter of the element that race attunes with (Son of Earth, Daughter of Fire, etc.). This is carried down from the beginnings of the kerekk when there was [[the Four]]. The Four were the first clergy of Grannoch; each a powerful shaman of one of the four elements and called the Son or Daughter of that element. They were elected every fourth year during the season of Flower Blooms (spring) at a gathering in what is now Corax Lake. The Four traveled the continents to each community teaching the tribe's shaman, renewing the faith, and sharing the sacred texts that existed to bring Grannoch into every giant home. They traveled together and presented the worship of Grannoch as a totality of the Four with none surpassing the other. | |||
Over time, the nature of chaos came to the forefront of the giants. Grannoch embraced a lawful view of the world; yet, her people could not resist the opportunity to wage war against each other. The Four continued to spread the word until a day that is called Four's End. On this day, sometime in the second age of the world, the Four came to a forested giant village preparing for war against an outpost of humans who had been mining the giant's land. The leader of the humans was a half-giant named Vassi the Bear. He held a strong grudge against the giants for their slights against him when he tried to join their community. When Vassi heard that the Four were at the giant village, he sent his best assassins to slaughter them in their [[sleep]]. Three of the Four were killed that night; one escaped with the help of the local shaman. The giants went to war with rage in their hearts for the [[death]] of their clergy, and the remaining of the Four, [[Levka]] Son of Air, made his way back to his temple alone. That marked the end of the Four for there was no gathering the next year due to a tribal dispute over the forest west of Corax Lake'nor the year after or after. However, the naming practice carries on. | Over time, the nature of chaos came to the forefront of the giants. Grannoch embraced a lawful view of the world; yet, her people could not resist the opportunity to wage war against each other. The Four continued to spread the word until a day that is called Four's End. On this day, sometime in the second age of the world, the Four came to a forested giant village preparing for war against an outpost of humans who had been mining the giant's land. The leader of the humans was a half-giant named Vassi the Bear. He held a strong grudge against the giants for their slights against him when he tried to join their community. When Vassi heard that the Four were at the giant village, he sent his best assassins to slaughter them in their [[sleep]]. Three of the Four were killed that night; one escaped with the help of the local shaman. The giants went to war with rage in their hearts for the [[death]] of their clergy, and the remaining of the Four, [[Levka]] Son of Air, made his way back to his temple alone. That marked the end of the Four for there was no gathering the next year due to a tribal dispute over the forest west of Corax Lake'nor the year after or after. However, the naming practice carries on. | ||