Ink and watercolour sketch of a huge stony troll wading through a misty swamp, another resting by a collapsed bridge over a dry riverbed, with stilt huts in the distance.

Faction

The Trolls of Primeweald

Hard-boned folk of the forest and swamps who see a long time: uniquely civil among Meliora's trolls, and helpful to those who help them.

  • Dark Times

Description

The trolls of the Primeweald call themselves hard-bone folk, and they see a long time: one remembered his river drying up and tearing down bridges long before Umbra came. Nowhere else in Meliora, Aurelius observed, are trolls so civil, though he admitted he might simply never have stopped to chat with trolls elsewhere, assuming hostility like everyone else. They are plain-spoken, address the stranger as a mayfly, and repay kindness in kind.

Historical context

Elsewhere trolls had a harsher reputation; some even fell upon the stranger together with the phantoms in the ruins of Shrike's Lookout. In the Dark Times, though, the Primeweald trolls aided the stranger: one, freed from burning ivy, lifted a fallen trunk from the path, and another carried the stranger across his fouled swamp on his back. Not all escaped the gloom, and a giant troll who now stank of it hounded the stranger along the rails towards Twilight Peak.

"I'll remember you when dark comes." — a troll of the swamp