Threk

Threk is one of the Giant Automaths, the lowest in The Ordning, representing Hill Giants. Like the other Giant Automaths, Threk was responsible for descending from the Towering Fortress and Awakening the Giants on The Cradle on the First Day.   According to legend, Threk was treated as a baby brother by the other Giant Automaths on the First Day. He was endlessly fascinated by the flora and fauna of the cradle, and constantly wandered away from the others after some creature or other, intent on playing with or devouring it. It is even said that Threk plucked a great bird from the sky, pulled its wings off, and consumed it while his brothers and sisters looked on in disappointment.   Though his role seems mostly that of a nuisance, Threk played two pivotal roles that day: first, his blow struck a mighty gong that resulted in the final Awakening of the Giants on Yorth. Then, emboldened by the deep tolling note, Threk tore off through the brush, and invigorated by the events that had just happened, crushed to death the first two Awakened he stumbled across, who happened to be Dwarves. This event was the first of many clashes between Dwarf and Giant kind on Yorth, and seeded a long-seething animosity between them.   While the other Giants don't necessarily worship Threk, they do see him as a lesson in what can happen when you apply only your might, leaving your wit behind you. The Hill Giants of Ordland, however, love Threk, and in their primitive worship, see him as their hero to be emulated. In artwork, Threk is depicted as a hulking, muscular, nearly nude Hill Giant with sandstone skin and unkempt locks like tar, usually holding a stout tree as a club in one hand, and half of the corpse of a Dwarf in the other, blood dripping from his jaws to his swollen belly.   Devout followers of Threk practice the domains of Life and War.