New Version of Trolls

1. New Version of Trolls

   #1

   I was sitting next to my television when it hit me like a train going at top speed. If possible, what would trolls be like intelligent and just as graceful as elves? Now, of course I doubted few people had ever gave a serious look of trolls so I will. Now the troll I was thinking of was like this:
   
   These trolls are elusive, dangerous, cunning, and also gracefully ugly. They are just as large as trolls, some 9 feet, and black as night, but are thin and light as a rail due to hollow bones. They have long white hair that looks to have diamonds in it. They are usually thought to be elves who had traveled up into the moutians and had sickly mated with trolls. They are a race of their own, very intelligent enough to build great cities.
   
   Just a little draft of them.

2. New Version of Trolls

   #2

   I assume that this new breed of trolls would do away with the more gross of the customs of their troll fathers,such as the eating of live victims?I can imagine that they would devote their artistic gifts to hewing out graceful dwellings in the sides of the mountains.And their great buildings would be vast subterranian structures that have skillful wall carvings and gracefully vaulted roofs.Their skill would be great with stone since that is what most of their enviroment is made up of.
   
   What kind of political structure do they have?A highly centralized regime overseen by the dilligent officials of a troll emperor?Or is it a collection of tribes that owe their allegaince to a High King who is the chief of the ruling tribe? You have a promising idea here,Sent.I take it that these are the guys that the Wood Elves fight?

3. New Version of Trolls

   #3

   Now wait a second.
   
   What we're talking here is an offshoot race, not a replacement race, as per other New Looks. Replacements replace the original version.
   This is an offshoot, that is, it is a breed of the original version.
   Thus, I perhaps wouldn't term it a New Look myself, but I'm just splitting hairs.
   
   Let's go over some things.
   
   First of all, I don't think that hollow bones are a very good idea. They would snap the moment the troll thing (what do we call it?) stood up. A single blow from a wooden club would be a deadly wound to these. They would probably have a tough time staying up in strong winds.
   
   The diamond hair thing is odd but interesting. I'm not sure I really understand it- do you mean that their hair sparkles and shines, or that it looks like there are actual crystals in it?
   
   So anyway, right now all we have is an appearance. Let's roll with it.

4. New Version of Trolls

   #4

   Since they live in the caverns they are adapted to finding diamonds and putting actual crystals in the hair is common, a very fashionable thing.
   
   I don't even have a name for them, yet.
   
   No, they are not the trolls from which the wood elves fight. The Abasilians fight the typical troll.
   
   They are a very peaceful people, who do not go into war and would do anything not to fight. They would rather surrender then fight actually, cowards all of them if you would like to call them. Their bones are hollow for they still inherit strength from their trollic relations, though very little, mostly of a average human adult.

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