Khaa'khas

Death Giant

Khaa'khas is an ancient order of eldritch giants that have given themselves up to necromancy or the shadows. Those following the path of necromancy become death giants and those choosing the path of shadow become shadow giants or shades. During the long reign of Saer Erkjorg, the Khaa'khas served as both a general staff and made up part of a confederacy government.

Khaa'khas was established in the Lith-Crillion Era by a militant society of eldritch giants.

It all begin in 375 LC when sailing the icy waters of Nautrek, scouring the coasts and inland for relics left behind from the two great wars of the Dawn and God Eras. In the late hours one night, the bell sounded the collision alarm brining all scurrying to their stations. Topside, we all looked in awe as a massive ship slowly emerged from one of Nautrek's all too common fog banks. This ship was bigger than anything we had ever heard of, towering five masts over our own. We moved out of the path of the slow moving hulk and then watched for a rain of missiles from her decks. When this did not come, and her decks and portholes showed no sign of movement, we moved aside her for investigation. There was no way to get topside, so we used our mountain climbing gear and crimped our way to the top. The top deck, 400' above the ocean below at its lowest, was tossed with shattered rigging, birds nest, including what looked to be an abandoned roc's nest. The size of the deck was thirty times larger than our own. The lower decks turned out to be the living quarters of all manner of undead and other creatures of the shadows. The creatures were nothing like we see today, instead being monstrosities of the Elemental Chaos, once soldiers of some primordial that battled the angels and gods in the Dawn War.
 
After losing half of my boarding party, we retreated back to the galley burdened with ancient magic weapons and coffers of gems, platinum, silver, and a cluster of scrolls. The most important piece of the loot were the ancient scrolls with spells and teachings of necromancy and the mechanics of tapping into the energies of the Shadowfell.

 - Rarnskeggi, captain of the Svold Kilf, "Boarding the Halatrax"

These scrolls that Rarnskeggi and his crew plundered from the Halatrax came to be known as the Scrolls of Maen. They would lead to the development of the Maen Saetild school of necromancy and and give rise to a group of eldritch giants that took the study to its extreme, giving up part or all of themselves to become shades, shadow giants, or death giants.