Trowls

Long ago, the dragons sent by the Eshu scrawled Runes, the ancient and complex markings in which lies the secrets of creation, into the stone of the mountains where they laired. The magic of the Rune symbols transformed the rock and gave it flesh, blood and bone. The Trowls, over thousands of years, awoke from their inanimate slumber to carve vast kingdoms in beds of granite and slate.

Appearance

Trowls seem so old and rigid, they look carved from solid rock. In stature they are huge. Long braided hair falls from their stony faces and horns sprout from their temples. Their hands possess only four fingers. Their large mouths sport large teeth that can portrude in an underbite.

Their eyes can be the color of coal, or as bright as diamonds. Their bodies are covered in ancient runes, carefully and painfully chiseled into their tough skin at “birth,” (see below).

Personality

The Trowls are slow to act, and slow to anger, but when their ire is raised, they become truly horrifying. When enraged, a Trowl becomes little more than an angry juggernaut bent on destroying enemies. When they are calm, Trowls carry centuries of knowledge, even if they have a hard time recalling it or getting it into words.

Habitat

Trowls live in the mountains, hills and caves, where they can most easily find the precious stone they craft from. For the promotion of their race, they cannot leave the rock for long. They prefer, quiet, dark places of surety and security. They look unfavorably on things built of unsound materials.

Society

Trowls start life off as pure rock. When a new member of the clan is desired or needed, an existing Trowl will work at a single piece of stone for days, months, or years, until they are satisfied or until need declares the task finished. After a new Trowl clan member has been sculpted, the elders place the animating runes on the Trowl and it becomes flesh and blood inside, with organs and all. Trowl skin is actually a soft, claylike substance which simply hardens over time to become stone-like. So in this way, new Trowls are created, not birthed.

The highest tiers of Trowl society are the “Stone Princes.” The more immaculately carved a Trowl is, the higher level in society he/she will occupy. Since the arrival of humans, many Trowls have looked to them for inspiration and many Stone Princes resemble ancient kings or heroes.

Adventures

Trowls will often leave the clan in search of inspiration for a new creation, more exotic tools with which to work the stone, in search of a lost or stolen item of value, or in search of a new material to craft from.

Trowls are commonly found in Halvmir, Cadwal, Bosemya, and Te'Nebra.

Max Caps

• Muscle 12
• Endurance 12
• Agility 8
• Cunning 8