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, the dwarves writhed diminutively though dark caverns. 

A probable inspiration for doozers, though it would have been nice to give the doozers an old english myth name. Brownies, bogeys or duergh for example.

The dwarves were known to be artificers. Smiths and tinkerers. They made the magical tools of the gods. In game this would be an inclination to interact with gadgets and machinery: the one specific characteristic the creatures 3 ettin have.

Combined with the brown fur on the female ettins, the idea that doozers and ettins have merged in development seems a little more likely. I admit the train of thought is a little convoluted, and a drive to build by ettins would have been an interesting thing to implement, but there you have it!