User blog comment:Brutal Templar/The Giants of Lordran could possibly be very close kin of the Giants of Dark Souls 2./@comment-5179958-20140416061137

good thought, in the years that pasted DS1 they could have suffered heavy losses and been set back to more primal age. With their greatest leaders killed by the chosen undead in DS, the rest could have been in civil wars to see who would become the new leader, resulting in the race getting nearly wipe out, which could have allowed Vendrick to come in and steal whatever he stole. You notice that the only real giant that uses a complex or forged weapon is the Lord Giant,but even he only uses it with the most basic attack patterns.