Half Annis/Half-Troll

[Meadyaon]

What would a offspring of a troll and an Annis be like in appearance and abilities? If you describe what it would like could you please be detailed. I know I could just apply the half troll template from the 3rd Fiend Folio but I want something original. I got the idea after read the description of the Wretch which I happen to like. Yes I said it I like the Wretch from Bastards and Bloodlines.

 

[the Jester]

Hmmm, someone around here has an awesome "extended family tree" for hags... [MENTION=2072]Aeolius[/MENTION] maybe?

I want to say that annis + troll = green hag, but I think I'm making that up.

 

[Empirate]

Unapproachable East has Hagspawn, children of hags and humanoids. You could apply the Half-Troll template and take a Hag Bloodline for good measure. Should make for a unique enough racial chassis.

 

[Meadyaon]

Hmmm, someone around here has an awesome "extended family tree" for hags... @Aeolius maybe?

I want to say that annis + troll = green hag, but I think I'm making that up.

I like your last comment.

 

[Aeolius]

There have been newer hag ecologies, but I tend to refer back to "Ecology of the Greenhag", by Nigel Findley in Dragon #125.

The article details the greenhag as the daughter of a night hag and human or elf, while the annis is the daughter of a greenhag and ogre or hill giant. Though the annis is somewhat of a mule, her offspring are always blue-skinned female members of the father's race.

If you use the article in question, the offspring would be a blue-skinned female troll. You might even use the hag bloodline in UA for good measure. If the campaign warrants a higher level, I'd second what others have mentioned and write up the offspring as a half-troll annis.

 

[Meadyaon]

I was hoping to make its own race like the Wretch.

 

[kitcik]

Wouldn't it be a Trannie?

 

[Aeolius]

I was hoping to make its own race like the Wretch.

I did that with the storm hags. As the annis does not beget a new hag, and the urge for hags to produce new hags is strong, the annis found the means through apparent suicide. For example, when an annis is approached by a will o'wisp, the annis drains the death emanations of the wisp, instead of the wisp feeding upon hers. She finds herself transformed into an aerial being with powers of electricity - a stormfire hag.

As for more mundane hags, I have been known to add a few:

Of course in my own games, I have half-hags, hagtouched, hag-blooded, hag-cast, and the like as well as lesser coveys known as clutches and epic coveys known as covyns.

 

[Meadyaon]

I have an ice hag a desert hag, and a sea hag I been working on. The desert hag has the ability assume a form made out of sand. The sea hag has skin just like a shark and can breath water. The ice hag has cold based powers and is immune to cold.

Here is character that I could say as being born from a hag.

He looks like an extraordinarily tall decrepit frightening looking human male that stands nine feet tall. A pair of black ratty, tattered feathery wings flare from his back. The wings crest three feet higher then his head and have a wingspan of twenty-seven feet. Running throughout his sagging yellow-green skin that appears withered are veins that pulse the color of blood. The skin has numerous bony protrusions. He has a wild mane of coarse jet-black hair. His gaunt face is hideously ugly. The large bulging eyes are blood-black in color. Three rows of jagged iron-like teeth that are yellow in color line his misshapen mouth. Growing from the lower jaws are a pair of large, pointed tusks. His arms and legs are long and thin, giving them an almost spider like appearance. The hands are unusually large and gnarled. Each finger and thumb ends in a sharp iron-like claw.

 

[Aeolius]

To be fair, if you want a more original annis why not go back to the source? Black Annis

Imagine a blue-skinned troll girl, sequestered in a remote cave by the tribal shaman, a witch of great renown. It was foretold in dreams and omens that the child would one day lead her tribe in a mighty battle. For this she was protected.

Yet the girl harbored a terrible secret. WIth each wound, she regenerated. With each healing, the skin grew back in patches both leathery and black.

When the child reached breeding age, she found that with each passing monthly cycle came terrible fever. When each fever broke, she emerged less like her father and more like her birth mother, a woman she had never known.

Grown to womanhood twice as fast as her peers, Black Agnes was the keeper of secrets. For the span of three years, she protected the ways of her mentor, the witch Bogwort. The troll shaman had died from the venom of two-headed swamp snake, yet Agnes had preserved her body, drying the skin and stuffing the corpse with tinder and roots.

For three years, she had assumed the guise of Bogwort, always speaking from the shadows of her cave when others approached. For three years she had trained with others of her kind, the Hagborn. Now the time had come.

Upon the morrow, Black Agnes would lead the trollfolk into a mighty battle against the goblin-kind. It was a battle they were certain to lose, for Agnes had prepared the goblins for the trolls' arrival.

Black Agnes slept soundly, within the darkness of her cave, and smiled.