Giants and Allagans

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Now, that means that the gigantism shown by Acheron was probably part of his modifications. After all, the stairs in the Labyrinth of Ancients are for "normal" people. Surely Acheron wasn't the only monstrously modified man they left on auto-pilot in their fall. By the time the wandering races appeared in the by-then empty Eorzea, there could have been a few of them wandering around... Twelve of them, maybe. I bet the sight of THAT would have inspired some stories. Giant heroes that helped get the realm in order before disappearing... and over time, legends of heroes become legends of gods.

I like to think that the Allag became so advanced and/or enlightened that they ascended to a higher plane of existence. Correct me if I'm wrong but Dalamund was of Allagan technology and, using the summoned power of the Twelve, the scions tried to trap Bahamut in a second Dalamund during the opening cinematic. This also explains the sudden disappearance of the Allag.

But is that in line with Square Enix's inspiration of Ancient Greece? Twelve "Olympic" figures who seal primordial forces away to rule in their stead? And after the Titans were sealed away, the Olympians took hecatonchiers as slaves. Perhaps the Gigants weren't descendend from the Allag but from those that served them. Perhaps the Allag created them to be a slave race using early methods of the same modifications Acheron underwent, and they've been using the same slave traditions to separate Gigas/Giant/Hecatonchier ever since. The Gigas claim to be descendant of the Allag, but, if this nonsense I'm rambling is true, who's going to call them out on that bluff? I don't see any Allag around to challenge the claim.

If it was possible to alter Archeon in such a way, could they not have created the Gigas of their own race? Perhaps they were prisoners and better served them laboring rather than rotting in a cell. The Gigas could also be their failed attempts at creating champions of Archeon's proportion or even deformed, mentally and physically, by their own power/technology, failing to ascend and instead descending.