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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brazeku" data-source="post: 3947658" data-attributes="member: 48916">A long while ago, our play group came up with a variety of troll who practiced a particular type of cannibalism which centered around capturing the powerful warriors of other tribes, and basically eating pieces of them (especially the ears, considered a 'power point') to gather their strength before battle.  Comrades would ritually perform the same mutilation/consumption on one another with a special sharpened stone edge. *note: a peculiarity of these trolls is that a regenerated body part would regrow with increasingly dark pigmentation - trolls who had been in combat very often were referred to as 'black-ears'.  The trolls also looked cosmetically different - they were brown to sandy colored and had basically no nose.Obviously, any captured warriors would be kept alive to have their essence continually harvested, perhaps to be ransomed back later or married into the clan.  Trolls who everyone wanted to stay dead would be devoured completely during a great feast/execution.  This was considered an honorable death, as the slain troll's life would continue to exert its strength in the community.In their own legends, their regenerating aspect was tied into their status as the children of a particular nature goddess (represented as a lontar palm), who was continually giving birth to all manner of creatures.  The trolls were the goddess's first born and sworn protectors.  The trolls themselves lived on the savannah, wore white robes, and carried woven reed shields.  They generally chose not to adorn themselves with metal jewelry or body paint because they felt that interrupted their contact with their goddess - only plant matter, clay dabbed on the face, and undyed cloth were ritually permitted.  To this end, their most sacred weapons were staves made of palm wood.  The prominent troll settlements clustered around these trees.Based on their religion, their spontaneous casters used a type of figure magic, each figure representing a different force of nature.  There were four types of figure, and four substances, and the power of any given figurine was derived by the combination thereof:-Palm Reed (air)-Bone (fire)-Clay (earth)-Papyrus (water)and-Ibis (life)-Man (well, troll) (heart)-Scarab (death)-Ox (wealth)Depending on how you crossed them and what level of spell slot you expended, you would get a different effect when the figure was broken.</blockquote>

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