Editing Giant: The Perfidious (section)

== Theme and Mood ==
A Giants life is multifaceted: He has the potential to conquer or help, to subjugate or save. His is a position of power, a father to humanity and nature, and like a father he also possesses the capacity to be cruel and full of malice towards his child. Yet, though he is entitled to be honorific, to lose his Worthiness and be abandoned by what defines him and accept a life of mindless bloodshed is a lift of burden that may spiral him towards terrible greatness. It's a story of loneliness and comradery, faith and doubt, blood and sinew, life and death.

The theme of Giant: The Perfidious is ''Authority''. Obviously, Giants are big, yet are familiar enough to man to not immediately judge them as being destroyers. Because of their size, strength and connection to the Divine, however, it is easy for Giants to coerce man or nation into granting him sovereignty, even to be deified. It goes beyond that, even, because much like their Pantheistic cousins, the Gods, Giants can be granted credit and traited with aspects of nature, which bows to them as well. The earth quivers and gifts the Giant with statues of dirt and stone, presenting gold and precious metals for naught but a word from the behemoth. The Mood, however, is ''Isolation''. Even with power and money, a Giant is truly alone. No man can possibly understand him, and cold brutality can only darken his growing loneliness. A Giant can eschew control of man to control nature, but even with his silent, obedient groves, exotic personal zoos and lonesome castles, were he to meet with another Giant, it would be in the context of a king meeting another king. Only by bending knee to the Councils and giving up his authority to a higher power can he hope to alleviate his solitude, though then he as the beck and call of a group that may not have his best interests at heart. Power is at the crux of the Giants existence, and much like an young adult making his way, its discovery and how he chooses to wield it can spell fulfillment or doom him to misery. In the end it falls for naught, however, as a Giant hoping leave his mark will inevitably fade away into obscurity, a victim of the Doubt that will cement both him and his cousins as inevitable allegories and myth.