Trolls

Trolls

Habitat:
 * Trolls are most often found in cold, mountainous regions.

What it Eats and How: Distinguishing Features: Types of Movement: Physical Characteristics: Body Covering and Coloring: Sounds: Defends Itself: Historic or Cultural References:
 * Goats, oxen, cows, and other animals
 * Some are nice and others are evil
 * Described as chaotically evil
 * Hunch forward when they walk
 * Arms dangle
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Very agile
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Long hair - gray or greenish-black color
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Big Teeth
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tail
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9 feet tall
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">500 pounds
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Four fingers and toes on each limb
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rubbery skin
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Moss green, putrid gray, or mottled gray or green
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whining sound
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Speak Giant
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Regenerates body parts
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Recovers easily from wounds
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Remains temporarily incapacitated afters it’s is cut off, which later regenerates
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mostly found in the folklore world
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Inspired Poul Anderson’s <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">__Three Hearts and Three Lions__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Found in the game, Dungeons and Dragons

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 * Rocks, caves & isolated mountains.
 * They sometimes live together; normally as in father & daughter or mother & son.
 * They have a layer of moss on their skin; this grows not too long after they are born.
 * The moss on their skin makes them look green, blue or even purple.
 * Jungle trolls differ because they have fur growing on their body as opposed to moss & this makes them look purple or even sometimes gray.
 * They sound like Cuban’s or Jamaican’s when they speak.
 * “Mon” –(man) & “Yo” –(greeting) are some things they would say.
 * Some trolls speak langue’s but when they are isolated they may forget it.
 * They can regenerate its limbs if they are hurt, damaged or even cut off.
 * Enough physical harm or damage can hurt them but they are strong enough to endure physical pain.
 * Long ears, fierce fangs, & hair on top of their head.
 * Lanky, tall, muscular.
 * Two toes on each foot & two fingers and one thumb on a hand.
 * They stick in their tribes or groups and most of the time they will fight or dislike the other tribe or groups!
 * In Norse mythology, a troll is a generally negative synonym for jotunn. A giant creature with superhuman powers is a jotunn. Then later it went to Scandinavian Folklore, and they became separate thing. Scandinavian’s believed that lightning frightened away trolls.

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