Giants appear in myths all over the world, and in D&D each kind lives somewhere different: hill giants in the lowlands, frost giants in the frozen north, storm giants beneath the sea. This giant name generator names all six D&D kinds of giant, each with names that sound like their home.
Giants in British and Irish legend
Britain and Ireland are full of places giants are said to have made or left behind.
- The Giant's Causeway in County Antrim was said to have been built by the Irish giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) to reach his Scottish rival Benandonner.
- Gogmagog was a giant of the legendary British history, and figures of Gog and Magog have stood in London's Guildhall for centuries.
- The Cerne Abbas Giant, a chalk figure on a Dorset hillside, is probably over a thousand years old, according to recent soil tests.
- In Norse myth the giants, the jötnar, were there before the gods, and the world was made from the body of the first of them.
D&D giants
D&D has six main kinds of giant, ranked in an order called the ordning, with storm giants at the top and hill giants at the bottom.
- Hill giants are greedy and simple.
- Stone giants are quiet carvers who live in caves.
- Frost giants are raiders from the frozen north.
- Fire giants are smiths and soldiers who live in volcanoes.
- Cloud giants live in castles in the sky.
- Storm giants are wise and solitary, living under the sea or on mountaintops.
Choose a kind and each one gets names in its own sound, with a home or a title. For smaller brutes, try the Ogre and Troll name generators.
For more beasts of legend, see all the mythical creature name generators.