![]() ![]() They hate sunlight, which kills them by turning them into inanimate stone, so they subsist only at night. Journal entry According to legend, trolls are creatures born of earth and their body is made of rock. Battlefield troll near the south of Roche's camp.As of the Enhanced Edition, this troll may also be encountered on Iorveth's path. Another troll appears near the camp followers' encampment, if Geralt chooses Roche's path, in Chapter II, but that one is hostile. You can meet two other trolls in Chapter II, the Troll of Vergen and his wife. One troll appears in the downloadable quest Troll Trouble. In The Witcher 2, four trolls appears in Chapter I and II. Well, a new one ain't come yetl so we's got peace for a while." And since trolls was mighty hungry a'er winter. Luckily, when 'e was leaving last year, 'e used the Troll Bridge. And 'e didn't bloody care that winter was harsh and harvest poor, 'is 'qu-otoa' had to be met, and if someone asked why should we pay so much, 'e started babbling about dutifactual service, obligations, royal prerogativations, and other such bullcrap. One used to come 'ere and fleece us for everything we had: poll tax, chimney tax, plow tax, tail tax, and gods know what else. And ya can make a deal with a troll,bargain a'out payment, since trolls speaks Common and ya can understand 'em, unlike, say, yer royal tax collector. Prob'ly botch the construction in the end too! I knows their kind! Yeah, trolls now wants a toll for crossing the bridge, and if someone don't pay, they break 'is leg, sometimes both legs, but that's still a sight cheaper and safer than going through the Old Clearing and the Frog Mire. The ones in the mountains beyond the village built a bridge in five days – how many carpenters could do that?! Truth be told, they'd gripe until they got an advance payment, and then be off to get wasted, the bloody drunks. Trolls is also hard working, more so than most humans. But a troll sure is smarter than Dreslav the shepherd boy – ya know, the one that was kicked in the 'ead by a horse when he was still a kid, and now he's all weak minded, always talking to 'imself and 'is pigs. Not really smart like our innkeeper, for he's a worldly man who learned at the temple school and can count w'out using fingers, and even goes to fairs at the town. Yeah, they ain't pretty, but cooper Sulibor's wife ain't either, and nobody's hired a witcher to get her, right? "When ya think about it fer a while, 'tis easy to see trolls is not really monsters. These trolls still attack travelers and harass local hamlets, becoming a real terror for the area and a legitimate source of witcher work. Some specimens, especially of the wilder mountain subspecies,ĭon't see a real difference between a human and a cow. Attacks on humans still happen occasionally, particularly in early spring when hungry trolls begin to run out of winter stores. That does not mean, however, that these creatures are completely harmless or subsist on veggies. These more intelligent specimens make deals with surrounding villages, usually building and maintaining local bridges, and even protecting the peasants from predators or bandits. Trolls even understand the concept of exchanging goods and services. They evenīegan using primitive clothing, though in their case these are usually scrounged together from fragments of rags, old bags, and various junk worn as ornaments. Incidents in which trolls attack villages and hamlets are now rare, for they have largely abandoned their man-eating habits and usually limit themselves to stealing cattle and livestock from time to time. That is because over years of coexistence with more intelligent races they have at least partly adjusted their customs, and now should properly be considered an intelligent, though primitive, race. Presently, it is unreasonable to still classify trolls as monsters. If the traveler has nothing to offer, he has to find another route, though if times are lean, he might end up as a hungry troll's main course. They usually demand provisions, livestock, or horses. Trolls make their dwellings near bridges, whether built by themselves or by other races, and live off collecting tolls from travelers. The structures they build astonishingly resilient, though maybe not the most aesthetically pleasing. Surprisingly for such large and seemingly clumsy creatures, they are quite skilled at carpentry and stonemasonry. Trolls are huge and strong, but not particularly sharp.
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