Originally Posted by
pendell
While it would delight me if it would, I doubt diplomacy will work here. That sexist society she's from provides two powerful aggravating factors:
1) Success ensures a better standing not just for her but for all other women of her tribe. This is her first, best chance to get sole credit for something going right.
2) Failure means she'll be scapegoated by the tribal elders. They'll be looking for someone to blame for the failure, and as a successful woman -- already a target in the eyes of the men running things -- they will leap at the chance to save the reputation of the males by loading her with all the blame for the failure. Remember the USS Chesapeake -- somehow a third lieutenant got cashiered for the lost battle, not the dead captain or the surviving higher-ranking officer.
They'll also use her "failure" as an excuse to say "women can't be fighters" and set back the entire gender as well.
That's the way the world works. People with political clout use it to vacuum up all the credit for themselves and load the blame onto other people, especially those who are already unpopular. If you're a minority, the only real way out of this is to just be so much better than everyone else that they grudgingly accept you as a peer -- which they will until you make one final mistake. Then they will hastily restore the narrative on your corpse, fanning a trivial error into blame not only for you but for everyone else like you.
I think the giantess is smart enough to know this. Which means she cannot return to her tribe unless in total victory.
At this point I don't think even the world ending would change her mind. Assuming they could convince her they weren't simply lying for tactical advantage in the first place -- no mean feat -- then she's still fighting for a place in the afterlife and the world to come. The certainty of afterlife and a place in it may be a better "bet" in her eyes than the potential destruction of everything, gods included, at the hands of the Snarl.
Respectfully,
Brian P.