Storm giants are a mysterious race of giants that once resided in the Storm Peaks ofNorthrend. They were in charge of the crystalline golems that collect crystals from the Crystalsong Forest.LoM 97 They can now be seen roaming the Howling Fjord in WotLK.
They are impressive, more than 30 feet tall and powerfully built. Storm giants are capable of summoning small storms. Myths say the titans created them. When the titans disappeared, the storm giants remained and claimed Ulduar. They developed crystalline golems to aid them in their research and to defend them. Over time the giants dwindled in number and grew ever more reclusive. They usually kept to themselves, hidden in their caves and tunnels below the surface, and avoided visitors. Soon only a handful remained. The giants are a dying race desperately trying to avoid their fate. They seemed to think another race would vanquish them some day, and so they hid in the Storm Peaks and Ulduar rather than girding for battle. They are too frightened to battle the Scourge, though apparently they hate it.LoM 109-110 They have since moved into the Howling Fjord.
They have been decimated by the Lich King, and the Scourge now use the corpses of storm giants to create mindless flesh giants, or stitched together aberrations likeThrym.
I also really admire the look of the Storm Giants that thump around Howling Fjord. I think playing a thirty foot tall character would certainly have limitations, there are plenty of people who complain at the moment because they can’t get their tauren or draenei through certain doorways whilst mounted, but it’s not so much about the size as the concept, the proportional size of the body, the look and feel, such that if it was reduced down to the size of a large PC, it would still illicit that ineffable wonder about it.
