Finished listening to retelling of Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman, voiced by the author. The main hero of most of those stories is Loki. Usually, he does something stupid, because he’s drunk and thinks that would be funny, then spends the second half fixing his errors.
Interesting that Gaiman voices the idea that Aesir and Vanir were gods of two tribes. The tribe of Aesir conquered the farmer-Vanir worshippers, and incorporated them in their pantheon as hostage gods. Same idea was voiced by Robert Howard, author of Conan the Barbarian, back in 1930.
There’s also no real distinction between gods and giants. Gods can turn into animals. So can giants. Gods can mary female giants, and giants in true Greek fashion can steal godesses. Moreover, some if not all of the gods were born from giants, and as with Tyr even visit their parents sometimes.
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> There’s also no real distinction between giants and gods.
so they are just two different builds: barbarian and politician