{"id":10971,"date":"2023-04-30T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=10971"},"modified":"2023-04-30T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T21:34:32","slug":"bal-who-crushes-mountains-between-his-mighty-thews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2023\/bal-who-crushes-mountains-between-his-mighty-thews","title":{"rendered":"Bal, who Crushes Mountains Between his Mighty Thews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Giants are the first beings made by the Great Names to tend the garden of the Earthen Firmament so that the Great Names could sleep. Each was given a destiny by the Great Name that made them, ostensibly to keep the world forever the way it was. But they also instructed them to \u201ccorrect\u201d the work of other Giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bal\u2019s task is to crush the mountains of the world to rubble. Here, he\u2019s having a great time doing what he was told to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Wheee!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bal is a supporting character in the Twine game I\u2019m working on right now, about to be available in draft form to the xenophiliacs<\/a>, who are also discussing it on the Discord! Join us in the conversation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Do the Fifth Worlders think of us, the humans of a past age, as giants \u2014 massive in power but brutish of mind?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Giants are the first beings made by the Great Names to tend the garden of the Earthen Firmament so that the Great Names could sleep. Each was given a destiny by the Great Name that made them, ostensibly to keep the world forever the way it was. But they also instructed them to \u201ccorrect\u201d … Continue reading “Bal, who Crushes Mountains Between his Mighty Thews”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":10973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-10971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-set-of-all-sets-that-do-not-include-themselves","tag-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10975,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions\/10975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}