User blog comment:Brutal Templar/The Giants of Lordran could possibly be very close kin of the Giants of Dark Souls 2./@comment-16047389-20140404143842/@comment-16047389-20140408140522

My point is, there's enough difference between Drangleic Giants and Lordran Giants to see that they are two different species of Giants. Even assuming it has been thousands of years and that they've just evolved or something, it would still mean that these Giants are not the ones we met in Lordran.