Trolls are very different creatures on Thorn's Mystara.

True Trolls were said to be fey, either cursed by the Immortals or perhaps experimented on by the Egg of Coot. As beautiful as common modern trolls are ugly, their appetite -- while just as ravenous -- was *ahem* not for food. :oops:

The Queen of the Twilight Empire used True Troll females as spies, and the males as shock troops during the First Afridhi War. Some time during or shortly after the Great Rain of Fire, one of the last True Trolls staged a coup, usurping the Twilight throne and relocating the capital to the wilds of Grodheim, where she bent the Brunian fey to her will, and then annexed the giant fiefdoms to the north.

Somewhere along the line, the male half of the line began degenerating, and is thought to be the source for all remaining common trolls inhabiting Brun. Some speculate that the Lesser Rain of Fire was the cause for the degeneration, but some legends tell that the process began well before the disaster that formed the Broken Lands.

Nice Rob!

Creative as always! :)

About True Trolls, Dave Arneson's references to True Trolls seem to come from Chainmail where Trolls were later renamed Ogres, while True Trolls were the regenerating kind from Paul Anderson's novels. Since these Trolls later became the default trolls of D&D, I figured we could keep the True Troll label, but reverse it making True Trolls more similar to Trolls of Norse legends. I could see these being more common in the Blackmoor era.

I added the Legacy Troll which appears in the Savage Coast MCA.

-Havard