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My second Runelords party has taken to letting the named stone giants live. The sorceress is a bit of a braggart, and when Barl Breakbones begged for his life, she actually let him have it and told him to go to Mokmurian and tell him to bring three of his mightiest champions to face the party in one to one combat. (Mokmurian, of course, will do no such thing.) Then they triggered the giants routing in Sandpoint by killing the requisite number of giants/bears and the dragon without confronting Teraktinus, so he also fled in the rout. Should I stick them in Jorgenfist somewhere? The dungeon is already hard as hell without extra class leveled giants in the mix.
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My second Runelords party has taken to letting the named stone giants live. The sorceress is a bit of a braggart, and when Barl Breakbones begged for his life, she actually let him have it and told him to go to Mokmurian and tell him to bring three of his mightiest champions to face the party in one to one combat. (Mokmurian, of course, will do no such thing.) Then they triggered the giants routing in Sandpoint by killing the requisite number of giants/bears and the dragon without confronting Teraktinus, so he also fled in the rout. Should I stick them in Jorgenfist somewhere? The dungeon is already hard as hell without extra class leveled giants in the mix.
If I were you, I would stick them in Jorgenfist somewhere, but take out other giants/critters to compensate. Your players probably expect to see them there.
My players were somewhat similar. I made it clear that Stone Giants are naturally Neutral alignment, so their aggressive behaviour was quite uncharacteristic. Over the course of the adventure some of the giants were redeemed, others not.
The PCs ended up seeing book for as 'rescuing the stone giant tribes from Mokmurian' rather than killing giants. The cleric (of Milani) established milani as a diety for them to worship, along with their other gods, as a show of gratitude for killing Mokmurian and freeing them from his oppression.
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I mean, yes, I have also made clear to them that this is uncharacteristic for stone giants, but the one I had stabilize to interrogate after the raid on Sandpoint was summarily coup de graced by the warpriest, so clearly it didn't take. :P Teraktinus got lucky that he wasn't directly confronted before the rout and Barl got lucky in that they didn't blow right through his morale threshold like they usually do and he got to beg for his life (and they were feeling like calling out his boss). I'll be lucky if they don't nuke Conna on sight.
In that case, placing Barl with Conna gives you a chance to have a scene where Barl and Conna encounter the party together; he says "That's them" to her, and she puts a restraining hand on his chest and says "Let me talk to them." Any others I'd have up in the camps surrounding Jorgenfist where the PCs can avoid them, should they choose to.