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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Fitz" data-source="post: 618738" data-attributes="member: 3949">aaaahhh yes, Trolls it is, yes.. let me tell you the abridged origin of Trolls in Ptalmanar, or at least one version of the story as it's told by a Particular bard from the city of Belzig....In the time before the Age of Bellinger, maybe even before the sundering of the Earth Being and the creation of the Sibling Gods (now deceased), when only the oldest of races yet walked the world, there was one race more fair to the eye, more quick witted and more skilled of hand than any other. THese were knowns as the Trollia. In their own language Trollia meant blessed, for so they were. The Maker of all things had gifted them above the Giants and even the firstborn  (who would eventually become the elves, and humans). He had given them clear sure voices to sing songs, he had given them keen senses to know the world and he had given them the intellect to think great thougts. But in those days The Maker of all things did frequently move amongst his peoples as an avatar of light, and when he came, he came most often to the giants, and he would listen to their tales and praise them for their toils, far more so than the Trollia. The TYrollia saw this and wondered each to another, "Why does the Maker of all things treat us and they so? Are we not fair to look upon, are our voices not pleasign to the ear? Does not our works of art and labor surpass all but the Maker of all things itself? Why then does he prefer them to us?" Perceiving this lack of humility the Unmaker, brother and opposite of The Maker of all things did come to the Trollia in the guise of one of their own, and this he did ask, "If the Maker of all things prefers the dotard Giants and their clumsy works of stone, then let them have his attention, we can delve into magics they cannot fathom and we will be enough in ourselves that we do no longer need the Maker of all things to approve of us. Let us show him that we are his greatest creation and in so doing surpass what even thinks we are capable of." So noneyed was the voice of the Unmaker in this form, so much did its words echo in the souls of the Trollia that they agreed, and he showed them the magics he spoke of, he introduced them  to the taint of chaos, the power of the irrational and they despairerd and were lost in pain, anger, and confusion. Thus those that were not consumed body and soul became theTrolls, powerful creatuires of chaos, in lifelong agony and bordering on insanity, but possessed of powerful bodies and devious cunning, delighting in the torture and destruction of the rest of the Maker's peoples, and  a lesson in humility for us all.This is a single story of one possible origin for Trolls. In any event, Chaos Trolls in the Twin Crowns setting are quite different from Trolls in most settings. They are not stupid, but they are physically powerful, in fact many can advance as Priests of the Unmaker, and it is rumored that the females are so different from the males that they appear as if an entirely different race, and are far more deadly....</blockquote>

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