Ten Thousand Year War

The giants created a powerful colossus construct called Vonindod to help them in the fight against the dragons, The battles acquired such an epic scope that they became the source of inspiration for many dwarven, elven, and even giant classical ballads.   One of the most renowned heroes of the war was the frost giant Hjurnur Wyrmrever, who killed many dragons single-handedly, though he could not match the Vonindod in terms of wyrms slain. He was credited during this time with killing an adult blue dragon with a single blow of his axe and for breaking the spine of a black dragon over his knees. He ultimately died fighting an ancient gold dragon general that had previously destroyed many a giant city, though some would say it was a king.   Despite the giants best efforts, the dragons ultimately drove them out of the southern portion of Jotunlond. The Vonindod was then deployed in the northern reaches of the kingdom to defend the cities therein.   After more than a thousand years of warfare, Jotunlond finally reached a truce with dragonkind. Accounts of the nature of the truce were conflicting because many races accounted the event differently. Historians among the smallfolk typically claimed that the dragons had abandoned the war for reasons of their own. According to dwarven historians, the dragons wanted to end the war with the giants because they were fighting in a violent civil war that led to the separation of the chromatic and metallic species.   According to giant traditions, Annam All-Father and Garyx settled the war by playing a game of wah-ree. The game ended in a stalemate. A result which allowed the dragons to keep the territories they had won in the war.   A third account stated that the war ended as a result of a curse that struck Tiamat after she slew an unknown giant deity. She was doomed to become a prisoner in her own realm.

After the end of the conflict, the giants dismantled the construct Vonindod, and its pieces were shared among the surviving giant cities.   By the time the war concluded, Jotunlond had been reduced to a shadow of its former self. The Kingdom of Anakadir survived and Kingdom of Gadolatzum was decimated.   Some sages believed that, if Tiamat were to be successfully summoned back to the Prime Material Plane, it would result in an end to the truce and the return of hostilities between the two races.