Trolls

Trolls fill many niches in Darisia. In general, these large creatures are to be feared. There are two main races of trolls in Darisia and they are incredibly different. Even so, they do have a few features in common.

The incredible constitution of a troll allows it an ability that is frightening to those who do not understand it: regeneration. Like a lizard that loses a tail or a person recovering from a wound, trolls can heal even the most egregious of wounds. What sets them apart is the ability to do so quickly, sometimes even within minutes. This obviously magical ability is not well understood and its origin is an equal mystery.

The two races are so different that further general discussion is impossible. One must turn to a separate discussion for each.

Races

Wood Trolls:

The more numerous of the two races, wood trolls are also the more fearsome. Their society is simple and often savage. Having only moderate intelligence, wood trolls are often labelled as beasts, though much of this is because their primitive society has little understanding of injury or death.

The regeneration powers of wood trolls are immense, allowing them to regrow a lost limb, even a head, within ten minutes. Nearly invincible to all harm, these trolls have only one crime among their kind, the eating of troll-flesh. Wood trolls are all warriors, with the females generally being slightly larger. The only thing which prevents these long-lived creatures from experiencing a population boom and quickly over-taking all other species is their incredibly voracious appetites. wood trolls eat so much that only small groups of them are able to survive on the fruit of their hunting and gathering.

Wood trolls are gangly of limb and very tall, usually over seven feet in height. Their skin is usually mottled several colors of green and they blend in with foliage well. Their poor hearing is their only true physical deficit, and often prevents them from moving quietly to sneak up on prey.

Rock Trolls:

These enormous beings are even more rare than their woodland brethern. Found only in the Troll Mount in northern Darisia, rock trolls are physically huge standing over ten feet in height and being of large girth.

The enormous bodies of rock trolls are coupled with a thoughful mind. Though their life span is unknown, it is supposed to be long, and these trolls share many of the thoughful qualities of the elf, though without that species reluctance to try new things, perhaps because of their greater ability to recover from injury. Rock trolls do not regenerate as fast as their woodland brethern, and their ability to recover from loss of limb is unknown.

Rock trolls sometimes seem like an embodiment of the very rocks they resemble. Usually slow moving, they regard the Wyrld about them as transitory and keep mostly to themselves. As a general rule they are philosophers and artists, though when angered their entire society can change itself into a war machine, or so say stories from the Years of Terror, when the unified clans of the rock trolls crushed many of the goblin armies and drove them back underground.

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