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This article is about the unit in the PC game. For the unit in the handheld video game, see Frost Giant (Age of Empires: Mythologies). |
| โ | Myth unit. A giant that can freeze other units with its breath. Good against human soldiers. | โ |
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The Frost Giant is a myth unit available to the Norse if Skadi is worshiped at the Heroic Age, or Hel is worshiped in the Mythic Age.
Special abilities[]
Frigid Breath (Charged): Freezes an enemy (most human units, myth units, and ships) in place within a range of 4 for 20 seconds. Frozen units are immune to myth unit special attacks, but are helpless to attacks by enemy units. Recharge time: 15 seconds.- Nature's Eyes (Passive, requires Eyes in the Forest): Animals and natural objects within the unit's Line of Sight reveal their surroundings (30-tile radius) for 6 seconds. (since Retold)
Further statistics[]
God bonuses[]
- Loki: May randomly spawn near units as they deal damage since the Heroic Age.
Myth technologies[]
Specific[]
- Rime (Skadi): Upgrades Frost Giants to Frost Giants of Thrym, granting +33% hit points, +20% damage, and -25% ability recharge time.
General[]
- Eyes in the Forest (Loki): Animals and natural objects within its Line of Sight reveal a radius of 30 around them for 6 seconds. (since Retold)
- Freyr's Gift (Freyr): +10% hit points. (since Retold)
- Rigsthula (Heimdall): -16.67% training time. (since Retold)
- Thurisaz Rune (Bragi): +10% movement speed and +0.5 hit points per second regeneration.
- Granite Blood (Hel): +40% hit points.
- Rampage (Hel): -95% training time.
Age bonuses[]
- Mythic Age: +20% hit points, +20% damage.
- Wonder Age: +100% hit points, +100% damage, +20% movement speed.
Relics[]
- Jade Hare: +5% movement speed.
- Nine-Tailed Fox Charm: +0.5 hit points per second regeneration.
- Pandora's Box: -15% favor cost.
- Pelt of Argus: +6 Line of Sight.
- Scales of a Catoblepas: -15% pierce vulnerability.
- Tail of Cerberus: -25% ability recharge time.
- Scales of Echidna: -15% cost except favor.
Tactics[]
Frost Giants boast a fair amount of hit points and attack, making them useful against human units. While a bit slow, they do a nice amount of crush damage and can do a good job against buildings or siege weapons. Their special attack is what makes them valuable additions to an army, as they use their breath to freeze units in place, leaving them completely helpless to attack. It is best to micromanage Frost Giants to make them target the strongest units in an enemy army, especially slow but strong myth units like the Oni, Hundun, and Rock Giant. This will leave those units vulnerable to attack and will let them fall quickly, since the Frost Giants' Frigid Breath will not give the targeted unit extra armor, unlike the Frost god power. This attack will not work on heroes, who will slay Frost Giants with ease.
In Tale of the Dragon, the Qilin, being immune to many powers, is also immune to this attack, yet it can still be slain easily with the Frost Giants' regular attacks.
Changelog[]
Age of Mythology[]
- Frost Giants deal 18 hack / 12 crush damage, cost 25 favor, and take 5 population slots.
- Frost Giants have a damage multiplier of 3ร vs. myth units.
The Titans[]
Retold[]
- Frost Giants deal 36 hack / 24 crush damage with a Rate of Fire of 2 (18 and 12 damage per second respectively) and take 4 population slots.
- Frost Giants have a completely new voicepack, now including spoken voicelines and no longer sharing grunt and death sounds with the Colossus.
- Frost Giants gain +20% hit points and damage in the Mythic Age. They further gain +100% hit points, +100% damage, and +20% speed in the Wonder Age.
Immortal Pillars[]
- With update 18.33318, Frost Giants deal โ36 hack / 30 crush damage.
In-game dialogue[]
Before Retold, the Frost Giant used to make edited "wind howl" samples.
- Select 1 Jรก (yow) - Yes
- Select 2 Hver er รพar? (kwer-air-thar) - Who is there?
- Select 3 Tilbรบinn! (til-pwin) - Ready!
- Task 1 รg vil (yer vil) - I will (I want to)
- Task 2 Satt (saht) - Right (literally "truly")
- Task 3 Samรพykkt (samm-thickt) - Agreed
Mythology[]
| โ | Scientific name -- Gigans hrimthurs Size -- 15' tall Diet -- frozen water (or more on wedding feasts. See below.) The hrimthursar, also called frost or rime giants, were among the first of the giants created when the world began. Along with the brutish bergrisar, or mountain giants, the frost giants were ancient beings, representing elements of the untamed wild. They lived in the realm of Jotunheim, one of the Nine Worlds of Norse mythology, and their leader was the jotun Thrym ('uproar'). He was an archenemy of Thor, and once stole his hammer, Mjollnir, demanding Freyja for a wife in exchange for its return. As the tale goes, Thor dressed up as Freyja and went to retrieve his hammer. During the feast, the giants were amazed that 'Freyja' ate an ox, several salmon, and drank large tankards of mead. Loki made the excuse that 'Freyja' had not eaten in days because she was so excited to be married. When Thrym peeped under the bridal veil and saw Thor's beard, Thor threw off his disguise. "Thor's heart laughed within him when he saw his hammer. First he struck down Thrym, the king of the jotuns, and then he slew all of his kin. He also killed Thrym's poor sister who had begged for a bridal gift. Instead of shillings she received blows and instead of rings, a hammer hit. And thus Odin's son retrieved his hammer." -- Thrym's Lay from the Poetic Edda |
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| โ | Scientific name -- Atlas rimethurse Size -- 15' tall Diet -- frozen water (or more on wedding feasts. See below.) The thurses, also called frost or rime giants, were among the first of the giants created when the world began. As opposed to the brutish Jotun, or mountain giants, the frost giants were ancient beings, symbolizing the time before the gods existed. They lived in the realm of Jotunheim, one of the Nine Worlds of Norse mythology, along with Muspellheim and Midgard. Jotunheim was the land of giants, and their leader was the frost giant jarl, Thrym ("uproar"). He was an archenemy of Thor, and once stole his hammer, Mjolnir, and also demanded Freyja for a wife. As the tale goes, Thor dressed up as Freyja and went to retrieve his hammer. During the feast, the giants were amazed that "Freyja" ate an ox, several salmon, and large tankards of mead. Loki made the excuse that "Freyja" had not eaten in days because she was so excited to be married to the king of the giants. When Thrym peeped under "Freyja's" veil and saw Thor's beard, Thor threw off his disguise. "Thor's heart laughed within him when he saw his hammer. First he struck down Thrym, the King of the Thurse, and then he slew all the giant's kin. He also killed the giant's poor sister who had begged for a bridal gift. Instead of shillings she received blows and instead of rings, a hammer hit. And thus Odin's son retrieved his hammer." -- Thrym's Lay from the Poetic Edda |
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Trivia[]
- Originally, the Frost Giant looked more like an icy golem than a light blue humanoid. It was also a support unit that lacked a main attack, relying solely on its special attack.
- Like Mountain Giants, Frost Giants are available from two different minor gods in successive ages (Skadi in the Heroic Age, Hel in the Mythic Age). However, Skadi isn't available to Loki and Freyr, and Hel is only available to Loki and Freyr.
- Since both gods provide different upgrades, it is also technically impossible to fully upgrade them. Rime is by far superior, but Granite Blood also affects the other three giants, and Hel (in combination with Loki's bonuses) can train them nearly instantly and in greater numbers. Freyr's bonuses allow all of the Norse giants, including the Frost Giant, to have even more hit points as well.
Gallery[]
Views of the Frost Giant in Retold
Views of the Frost Giant of Thrym in Retold
Frost Giant in-game
Frost Giant of Thrym using its ice breath
Player 3 Frost Giant
Frost Giants attacking a frozen Rhinoceros
Pre-release Frost Giant
Frost Giant of Thrym attacking a frozen target
A depiction believed to be of a jotunn, possibly Hyrrokkin, from the Hunnestad Monument, 10th-century
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