Trolls

Trolls

• Traits: Regenerative, slow, terrifying

• Cultural Values: Endurance, memory, ancestral rage

• Flesh remembers—trolls believe every wound is a story, every scar a lesson

• Regeneration is sacred: they do not heal instantly, but slowly, deliberately, preserving pain as wisdom

• Live in swamp temples, mire crypts, and bone-thick grottos—places where decay and memory intertwine

• Known for fleshkeeping (preserving ancestral bodies), wallbreaking (ritual demolition), and mirepriesthood (spiritual rage channeling)

• Speak in gravel-throated chants, often repeating phrases across generations

• Consider time a weapon—believe that patience and persistence will outlast all empires

• Often serve as ritual judges, grief anchors, and siege prophets

• Revere the Bogmother, a mythic figure who birthed trolls from rot and stone to punish the arrogant

• Though the gods are dead, trolls still worship a long-forgotten deity—a lingering echo of divine rage and memory

• Allied with orcs and goblins after centuries of war—now serve as anchors of memory and strength in shared strongholds

• Elven Slur: “Bogfiends”

• Self-Honorifics: Graveflesh, Stoneveins, Echoheirs