Mercenary Giant

"The Giants that make their living from war tend to be brighter than others."

—Common saying^[1a]

Warhammer Giants Art — A lumbering Mercenary Giant seeks his next meal.

A Mercenary Giant, also known as a Dogs of War Giant, is a Giant who has been paid to join an army as a mercenary, oftentimes to prevent them from rampaging across the countryside or devouring the locals' livestock.^[1a]

Many Mercenary Giants are first recruited when they wander into civilised lands from the mountains they normally inhabit. It is, after all, better to have a useful soldier than to have a 30-foot-tall menace wandering around the countryside eating shepherds and being a nuisance. Not all Giants are evil creatures, and some of them still possess the peaceable natures of their Sky-titan forebears. They are just very thick, and often very hungry, two things which, when put together in the body of a Giant, do not make for the maintenance of peace.^[1a]

There are instances of Human towns or cities adopting Giants as defenders or mascots, and the travelling menageries that wander the Empire will also sometimes have a Giant among their exhibitions.^[1a]

The Giants that make their living from war tend to be brighter than others, and will have scraps of equipment from all over the Known World. Mercenary Giants are often paid in animals, for what use does such a monstrous brute have for gold?^[1a]

The most exotic of these mercenaries are the Giants of Albion, the boggy isle which boasts the world's largest population of Giants, who can sometimes be found in the armies of the Old World.^[1a]

Notable Mercenary Giants[]

Burplap^[1b]

Giants of Albion - A mercenary band from Albion composed of two Mercenary Giants, Bologs and Cachtorr, and a "druid" of Albion called Hengus.^[1a]