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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 AS
Military pick	190 AS
Special Offensive Abilities
Attack strength boost (howl)	+10
Attack strength boost (snarl)	2x level

Defense Attributes
Armor
?	ASG various
Defensive Strength (DS)
Melee	73 - 175
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 have two attack strength boosters preceded by either a howl (+10 AS) and/or a snarl (2x level AS). The snarl messaging does not always result in an AS increase. It is possible for both these AS boosts to stack.

A mountain troll snarls menacingly as he advances!

A mountain troll throws his head back and howls!
A mountain troll swings a flail at you!
  AS: +234 vs DS: +334 with AvD: +44 + d100 roll: +49 = -7

Mountain trolls spawn in different equipment configurations.

Military pick, augmented breastplate, visored helm. (Hidden Vale)
Flail, brigandine armor, leather helm. (Hidden Vale)
Flail, brigandine armor (Shores of Lough Ne'Halin)

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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 {{Creature attack attributes2 <!-- ALL WEAPONS, SPELLS AND COMBAT MANEUVERS WILL LINK AUTOMATICALLY.  -->
 | PA1 = Flail<!-- Physical attacks insert up to PA10 and corresponding value/range up to PAJ -->
-| PAA = 190 - 224
+| PAA = 190
-| PA2 =
+| PA3 = Military pick
-| PAB =
+| PAC = 190
-| PA3 =
-| PAC =
 | BT1 = <!-- Bolt spells insert up to BT10 and corresponding value/range up to BTJ -->
 | BTA =
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 | MN1 = <!-- Combat Maneuvers insert up to MN10 -->
 | MN2 =
-| AB1 = [[Attack strength]] boost<!-- Special abilities insert up to AB10, include creature maneuvers here, manually link if appropriate -->
+| AB1 = [[Attack strength]] boost (howl) <!-- Special abilities insert up to AB10, include creature maneuvers here, manually link if appropriate -->
+| ABA = +10
-| ABA = 34<!-- Special abilities right column, use respective corresponding right column as needed for misc info -->
+| AB2 = [[Attack strength]] boost (snarl)
+| ABB = 2x level<!-- Special abilities right column, use respective corresponding right column as needed for misc info -->
 }}
 {{Creature defense attributes2 <!-- Replace ? with value or range, but do not include when the creature is under the effects of disabling statuses (stun/knockdown/interference/curse/etc.) -->
-| asg = 12<!-- Insert asg # and template will automatically convert to include type of armor -->
+| asg = various<!-- Insert asg # and template will automatically convert to include type of armor -->
 | IMM1 = <!-- add IMM2 (up to 15) for additional immunities -->
-| Melee = 73
+| Melee = 73 - 175
 | Ranged =
 | Bolt = 90
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 }}
 {{Creature end}}
+__NOTOC__
 <pre{{log2|margin-right=26em}}>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.</pre>
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 A mountain troll's back begins to regenerate.</pre>
-Mountain trolls gain an attack strength boost of +34 (not coincidentally twice their base level).
+Mountain trolls have two [[attack strength]] boosters preceded by either a howl (+10 AS) and/or a snarl (2x level AS). The snarl messaging does not always result in an AS increase. It is possible for both these AS boosts to stack.
 <pre{{log2|margin-right=26em}}>A mountain troll snarls menacingly as he advances!
+A mountain troll throws his head back and howls!
 A mountain troll swings a flail at you!
-  AS: +224 vs DS: +312 with AvD: +44 + d100 roll: +21 = -23
+  AS: +234 vs DS: +334 with AvD: +44 + d100 roll: +49 = -7</pre>
-   A clean miss.</pre>
+Mountain trolls spawn in different equipment configurations.
+*Military pick, augmented breastplate, visored helm. ([[Hidden Vale]])
+*Flail, brigandine armor, leather helm. ([[Hidden Vale]])
+*Flail, brigandine armor ([[Shores of Lough Ne'Halin]])
 ==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 [[ICE age|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 "[[seeker|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.