Mountain troll

Mountain troll Level 17 Family Troll family creatures Body Type Biped Classification(s) Living Area(s) Found Hidden Vale Shores of Lough Ne'Halin Troll Lair BCS Yes HP 200 Speed

Attack Attributes Physical Attacks Flail 190 - 224 AS Special Offensive Abilities Attack strength boost 34

Defense Attributes Armor Brigandine Armor ASG 12 Defensive Strength (DS) Melee 73 Ranged Bolt 90 Unarmed Defense Factor UDF 113 Target Defense (TD) Bard Base 58 Cleric Base 66 Empath Base Paladin Base Ranger Base 36 Sorcerer Base Wizard Base Minor Elemental 58 Major Elemental 58 Minor Spiritual 66 Major Spiritual Minor Mental Defensive Spells Spirit Warding II (107)

Other Unique Abilities Health regeneration

Treasure Attributes Coins Yes Gems Yes Magic Items Yes Boxes Yes Skin troll toe Other None

Huge and dangerous, the mountain troll towers above even a tall giantman.  Grey skin so thick that it serves quite well as armor covers most of the troll, with tufts of thick hair sprouting here and there like weeds between cracked stones.  A hideous grin splits its face displaying fangs crusted with dried blood and less guessable matter.  No light of intellect glows in its narrow piggish eyes.  The lust for slaughter and thirst for blood are what drive this hulkish beast's existence.

Hunting strategies

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Other information

Mountain trolls like many other members of the troll family creatures are able to regenerate missing or injured body parts and lost health.

A mountain troll's flesh wounds regenerate some.
A mountain troll's back begins to regenerate.

Mountain trolls gain an attack strength boost of +34 (not coincidentally twice their base level).

A mountain troll snarls menacingly as he advances!

A mountain troll swings a flail at you!
  AS: +224 vs DS: +312 with AvD: +44 + d100 roll: +21 = -23
   A clean miss.

Behind the Scenes

The mountain troll presence in Noralgar Forest, which is related to Castle Anwyn and the Vvrael quest, might be based on their Rolemaster bestiary description. In this I.C.E. Age context there was a "Great Corruption" and a "Black Deceiver" who had hidden a gemstone deep in his vaults, where Terate had the first Stone of Virtue in a chest under Castle Anwyn. The Black Deceiver had a false prophet who told the mountain trolls they would be redeemed by "seeking out the highest mountain peak in the world", where there would be this "large gemstone" which if crushed would make the trolls forgiven. In the Vvrael quest context this would correspond to Mount Aenatumgana, the Eye of the Drake (dragonsbreath sapphire), and the weeping Lorminstra at the door of the Drake's Shrine saying "I forgive you, my child..." Trolls more generally come from Scandinavian folklore, such as with changeling myths which are analogous to the fey, and Noralgar might be a pseudo-anagram of Ragnorak fitting the quest's apocalypse subtexts.

References

• Mountain troll on Play.net bestiary

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