1. The age before the Giant Killer

1. The age before the Giant Killer The giants in the original Grimm Fairy Tales #65 enter through the history of Myst. The story looks back to a time when their power seemed beyond challenge, before the arrival of the man remembered as Jack the Giant Killer. That gives them a different place from a creature that appears only to attack the travelers in front of it. Their presence belongs to an earlier age of the realm. Jack's reputation depends on the scale of what they represented and on the fact that someone was able to bring that age to an end. The familiar name makes it easy to assume you know where the moral lines will fall. Giants threaten people, a smaller man defeats them, and his victory becomes the reassuring part of the story. Zenescope makes Jack's path more troubling. His power is tied to a bargain with darkness, and the giant killer's later loyalties matter as much as the enemies he can destroy. That changes what their defeat means. A powerful threat can be overcome by somebody whose success leaves other people with a new danger. The ability to kill giants doesn't settle whether the person using it will protect anyone once the giants are gone. The giants establish the size of Jack's accomplishment, but also the reason to be wary of him. Whatever someone capable of that victory decides to serve next is going to matter to the rest of Myst.