Were doozers and ettins merged?
A strange question, it would seem on first glance. The ettins in creatures 3 certainly never taught words to others. Yet exploring the names and possible mythic origins, things might start to make a little sense. The name "ettin" is the old english word for giant. Modern fantasy has assosiated the word with two headed monsters or giants, but originally it meant just a common giant. The word itself comes from the norse word Jotun. In myth, specifically norse myth which inspired creatures, the giants were builders of immense speed. In the creatures 2 lore, the ettins have build at least the desert temples, and likely the stonework all over albia. Now I must admit this was only a recent realisation for me. I had believed Jotnar to be an unused concept in creatures lore, and filled it in my stories with a homebrew creature species. Famously, there is a sort of counterpart to the giants of myth. Opposite to the immense giants that strode in the sunlight of the various realms, th...
