Troll#
One troll is a rumor. A tribe is weather.
Trolls are tall desert people who go where their tribe goes. They're strong, quick and hard to hurt, but charisma 8 means they rarely talk anyone into anything.
How they live#
A troll’s family is their tribe, and the tribe moves together. Trolls carry their mother’s name as a middle name, which is the one way a commoner gets away with three names.
- Temper
- Violent when pushed. In hard times they turn on whoever is nearest, kin included.
- Leaving
- When a city turns bad they leave as warbands behind whoever is strongest.
- Money
- Spend whatever they have.
- Crowds
- Like some room around them.
- Tongue
- Trollish, spoken from birth and known perfectly, besides common.
- Children
- Only with other trolls.
What others say#
Trolls don't make friends. They take you into the tribe or they don't, and there's no third thing.
They're family to each other and furniture to everyone else.
Where they live#
How trolls feel about settling in each of Sedia’s provinces. Each links to the province’s page, and Home Province covers what it takes to become a citizen of one.
- Will live in
- CreciaNew SaellemEstharTharsis
Body and blood#
- Era
- The under-races (About 1,000 BB)
- Lifespan
- Comes of age at 30 and can live to 220
- Height
- 5 to 8 feet
- Weight
- 280 to 420 pounds
- Genders
- Female (6 in 10) and male (4 in 10)
- Favored stats
- Strength and luck (the game's race menu lists these; they don't change your scores)
Playing a troll#
Any race can take any class. These are the ones trolls start closest to, with the race’s starting score in each of the class’s two stats.
Plainsman
Strength 11 and dexterity 12 are a plainsman's two stats.
Elementalist
Strength and intelligence both start at 11.
Mageling
Intelligence 11 leads, and a troll caster is the last thing a raider expects.
Taken in
A troll tribe passing through Narsis decides one of the party is family, which comes with a mother’s name, a hundred cousins and every one of the tribe’s feuds.
Names#
Long, open vowels on soft m, b and n. A troll name rolls out slowly and never stops short. Mbaru Tooma Saltwell, Lumoru Kaba Dunewalker, Zumaya Bomene Stardrum.
