Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24319911-20150207184213/@comment-220.235.114.178-20160809101511

From all said I have an idea. That the Giants did come from Atmora with the Nords as there are supposed to be accounts of them interbreeding. But one would wonder how the Nords could convince or even manage to mate with such unruly creatures. So I think they were not always like this. That they met the Dwemer and the Dwemer being the bastards they are changed them much like they did the Snow Elves into the Falmer. Now as for what reason I am unsure. I have two theories, one being that they wanted to dumb the species down so that they could use them as slaves for their immense strength and they became so unintelligent they could no longer be managed. Or they did it because they saw them as a potential enemy being allied with the Nords and "dumb them down" so that the two could no longer cooperate with one another and could no longer threaten their underground empire. Now as to how they did this they could have introduced Troll into their genetic makeup and the effect also made them more compatible to mate with the local Trolls. This could explain why the giants in the Dawn Guard DLC look so much like them.