Subject: Re: Litle troll text
From: McDuff (mcduff@iname.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 1999 - 22:51:03 EEST
>>Ok this is little text it's not grammar checked > >It is now :)) It's a lot easier for me to grammar check stuff than you >guys, so I thought I'd do it and save Jormap the hassle. > > >TROLLS > >Appearance: > >Trolls are large hairy humanoid type beasts. They have very long arms which >they can use as forelegs when they need to run fast. Trolls are usually >very big and muscular, and covered in short, coarse hair. Females' hair is >light-brown, and the males' hair is slightly darker. A Troll's face is >basically human, but it seems much uglier and brutal, with sharp teeth, a >big flat nose and small eyes. The females are much more muscular than the >males, and they also have more hair on their bodies. A Troll's natural life >span is very long, with females living the longest. It is not unheard of to >troll live as 300 years old, but many die in violent and bloody combat long >before this. > > >History: > >Very litle is know about trolls history, mainly because they don't know the >art of writing, so all that is known about Troll history is heard from the >mouth of clan shamans. They preach that when the "flying room" crashed >somewhere in the North there were some Trolls aboard. But these trolls had >thick white hair and most of them stayed in the vast northern snowfields. >Some of these early trolls started to move south to the slightly warmer >mountains, nobody knows why. The main population of trolls settled down all >over the Mountains of Malediction, but trolls have been seen as far south as >Meral. > >Trolls history is filled with bloody clan wars. The biggest war, which is >said to have killed over 5000 trolls, happened 400 years ago. This war was >between the clan Draktai and the clan Verdiknah. It happened at the >Mountains of Malediction and destroyed both clans completely. These clan >wars are as much a part of Troll life as eating, and as long as there are >Trolls in the world then there will be bloody battles. > >Philosophies: > >Troll gods are very brutal and most of them require blood to be satisfied, >according to the preachings of the Troll shamans. There are always as many >gods as clans, every clan having its own god. Nowadays there are three large >Troll clans in the world. The biggest, Bruknahk which has over 500 trolls >and 7 tribes in it, worships Brah-taar, trollish god of war. The second >biggest clan is Rekdiktaah which has about 300 trolls in it, and they >worship Graah the god of death. Third clan is karaak, with 200 trolls to >their name. They worship Barak the god of night. > >All Trolls are very fanatic worshippers; they do whatever their god tells >them to do. Because the shaman is the "Voice of the god" he holds much >power and influence within the clan. Shaman is the only position which males >can hold in a Troll society. Evey 50 years the old shaman chooses an >apprentice and teaches him for ten full years. After that the old shaman is >sacrificed to his god. This ritual is set out so that the members of his own >tribe eat the old shaman. Each god is very bloodthirsty and requires >vicious battles and bloodshed, so when the shaman commands it, the troll >hunters to go down from mountains and hunt for members of other races. > >Society: > >Troll society is matriarchal, because the females are much stonger than >males. The only high position which males can hold is shaman of his clan, >they cannot be war leaders or chieftains. Trolls live in tribes, high up in >the mountains. They sleep in caves, but at nights the Troll females leave >to get food for her children; the males only get the children's leftovers. >Usually many tribes which worship the same god live near each other and form >a clan. Clans have their leader which is selected in a ritual bloodbath >every ten years. Three female Trolls from each tribe can participate in this >bloodbath and the new leader is the last Troll left standing. > >Leader and shaman decide all clan related questions together. Leader >commands the armies of the clan in wartimes, which is often. > > >Quick role-playing tips: > >Trolls should be played as very aggressive and bloodthirsty race. They don't >take insults from anyone. If someone insults their god they attack >immediately. Trolls don't have any kind of morals, which some so called >"good" races may have, so it's very hard to say beforehand what a Troll will >do next. You should play trolls as a very brutal, powerful and bad-tempered >creature. > >
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