# Jolly Blue Giant **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [September 22, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112 "2019-09-22T23:00:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sirrian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/sirrian/32/35758_2.png) [@Sirrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sirrian)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/1 "2019-09-22T23:00:36Z")
Originally published at: [https://gemsofwar.com/jolly-blue-giant/](https://gemsofwar.com/jolly-blue-giant/) **New Ultra-Rare Troop: Fomorian** ![Fomorian](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/5/f/5fb48562e158df2246db60710ef2a16333b249fa.jpeg) The Fomorian will be available this week for 300 Glory in the shop as well as in Event Chests, and will appear in Glory, Gem, and Guild chests in 3-4 weeks’ time. ---
**Author:** ![Zeddicus2017](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/zeddicus2017/32/44872_2.png) [@Zeddicus2017](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zeddicus2017)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/2 "2019-09-22T23:02:13Z")
Love those Giants. ---
**Author:** ![Clark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/clark/32/29631_2.png) [@Clark](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/3 "2019-09-22T23:09:13Z")
am I the only one node seeing the pictures loading? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/a/9/a99105f592fd65824f225c07e0ce607112da3f2a.png) ---
**Author:** ![Demonitus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/demonitus/32/7655_2.png) [@Demonitus](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Demonitus)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/4 "2019-09-22T23:10:34Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/e/7/e71e6562b67cf361bbc9c77527d547329c7f8e62.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![BelethS](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/beleths/32/53407_2.png) [@BelethS](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/BelethS)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 9:20am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/5 "2019-09-23T09:20:33Z")
Erm…wtf is that THING supposed to be? The result of Hyndla Frostcrown having a ons with High King Irongut?🤦🤦🤦🤦 ---
**Author:** ![Koromac](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/koromac/32/59857_2.png) [@Koromac](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Koromac)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/6 "2019-09-23T09:32:31Z")
Who knows. It looks bad. Not impressed with the art on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Micio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/micio/32/50997_2.png) [@Micio](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Micio)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/7 "2019-09-23T09:39:17Z")
A giant taken from D&D, art could have been better but overall is right: The godless **Fomorians** are the "most hideous and wicked of all giantkind. They are hideously deformed and misshapen, but the random positioning of their sense organs gives them keen perception. Fomorians have no loyalty beyond those they fear and seek the enslavement of all creatures, particularly other fey. ---
**Author:** ![Amadan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amadan/32/7653_2.png) [@Amadan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Amadan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/8 "2019-09-23T12:09:44Z")
Fomorians are **way** older than D&D. They’re hostile monsters from old-school Irish mythology. ---
**Author:** ![Micio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/micio/32/50997_2.png) [@Micio](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Micio)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/9 "2019-09-23T12:50:44Z")
Like everything in the fantasy world then that’s taken (a bit) from ancient myths. That fomorian tho is taken a LOT from D&D and not so much from the irish mythology that actually dont even give a real description of them. D&D fomorian: ![Fomorian-5e](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/a/f/af0e6e882bcb38c7fa22ef3f66721cacb75f0dfc.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![awryan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/awryan/32/74650_2.png) [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/10 "2019-09-23T15:00:46Z")
The face you make when the “artist” shades you grey and labels you a giant. ![the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-by-mahata231-d57d6lc-quasimodo-41225852-900-443](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/e/3/e322cc51b9962be5f1b53b8ee6a152076bec4fe6.jpeg) (🍀 Mythology) ---
**Author:** ![Sobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Sobi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sobi)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/11 "2019-09-23T16:14:49Z")
Kind of surprised I haven’t seen it brought up, but since we now seem to be getting ultra-rares instead of epics each week, the glory cost of arcane traitstones has effectively doubled, since you only get 1 per purchase instead of 2. If I could understand them thinking the exchange rate was a little too good, this would still seem a bit too far in the other direction…Unless there’s a new source of glory they had to compensate for that I’m unaware of? ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/12 "2019-09-23T16:28:07Z")
I barely PVP (with all the other modes to do?), spend all the glory I possibly can without feeling like a moron, and the amount I have continues to rise. Six digits. Not to say that I am unconcerned about this - I went on a bit of a rant when they upped the cost of the Rare bundles earlier this year… until I did the math based on the _rest_ of the contents of said bundles. The prices seem to be okay. Also: we’re not really just getting Ultras. If we ignore every single event troop (which are all Epics and largely worthless, and Bounties’ are all Rare and worthless), counting backwards from this week we haaave… Ultra Ultra Epic Epic Epic+Legendary Epic Ultra Epic ---
**Author:** ![Sobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Sobi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sobi)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/13 "2019-09-23T16:53:24Z")
I was more concerned with the traitstones than the troops, but I’d forgotten about Scarabi. If there are still going to be epics that’s not as bad. Out of curiosity, how is it you’re earning so many thousands of glory per week? ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/14 "2019-09-23T16:59:51Z")
(Getting somewhat offtopic but…) The majority of it has to be tributes, I assume. Delves and delve events also get a decent amount, since a lvl8-10 chest can field 200-300 glory sometimes (highest I’ve gotten have been almost 500). Generally speaking, though, there’s too many sources for me to accurately count all of it. ---
**Author:** ![BelethS](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/beleths/32/53407_2.png) [@BelethS](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/BelethS)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/jolly-blue-giant/58112/15 "2019-09-23T17:02:08Z")
It actually does… ![250px-The_Fomorians%2C_Duncan_1912](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/d/f/df7cc9f77eed03292c0af6bb0dd34dd5b50f4e6b.jpeg)