Half-giant

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Half-giants are a mythological creature, born to a giant and a human, or some other creature. They feature primarily in fantasy role-playing games, where they often are a playable race (for example, as in the Dark Sun setting for Dungeons & Dragons and in the MMORPG Horizons: Empire of Istaria), and in literature such as the Harry Potter books. Examples in the Harry Potter series include Rubeus Hagrid and Olympe Maxime, human-giant hybrids. The White Witch Jadis, in The Chronicles of Narnia, is half-giant and half-djinn.

In actual legends^[who?], half giants and part giants are rarely the extremely large people portrayed in rpgs, often they are of normal size and either have abnormal or supernatural abilities, or are unusually strong and hearty. Beowulf, for example is often considered^[who?] to have the blood of giants in his legend and he is mentioned as having the strength of ten^{[original research?]}.