User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-76.184.77.13-20130920174101/@comment-108.206.233.106-20130930172131

about the giants, first of all, you're conflating sentient and sapient, and the giants are, as far as i can tell, both. sentience implies that they have thoughts and act upon those thoughts, sapience implies that they have very human like thoughts, actions, and emotions.