- Frailties: Oathbound Health: Because
of an ancient pact, all trolls must swear an oath of some sort, usually of fealty,
service, or protection. Trolls who violate their Oaths lose access to their
Birthrights and Immunity and fall into their Unseelie Legacies until they atone.
During this fall from grace, they cannot regain Willpower, lose all ties in
challenges related to regaining Mana, must bid an extra trait in order to use
Disciplines or spells, and, finally, gain an extra Weakness (see below).
- Immunity: In their true forms trolls heal more quickly than
other fae. As regards healing times, all Bashing or Lethal damage heals as if
it were one step less severe. Moreover, trolls spending Mana to heal themselves
do so at "vampire" rates: 2 Bashing or 1 Lethal per Mana trait.
- Bans: Trolls have no Bans beyond those imposed by their Oaths
or the penalties for violating them.
- Weakness: Cold Iron. In addition, trolls who have violated their
oaths and so fallen into their Unseelie Legacies suffer one level of Aggravated
damage for every two turns that they are exposed to sunlight, which turns them
into stone.
- Binding: There is no special Binding for a troll beyond finding
a way to make him break his Oaths.
- Regaining Mana: Oblation, Reverie, Mana Stealing.
- Preferred Disciplines: Fortitude, Potence, Protean OR Thaumaturgy (as Discipline: Lure of Flame [Stone Version]
or Thaumaturgical Countermagic).
- Origin: Few trolls remained on earth during the Separation of
Realms. Those who did were often unable to carry out their Oaths and either
Forgot themselves, were lost to the sun, or went semi-feral.
- Appearance: Trolls are blue-skinned humanoids with protruding
horns, oversized teeth, and bodies at least half-again normal human size. It
is not possible for a troll without the Seeming Background to be mistaken
for human, and they must pay double for the first level of it.
- Special: Oath of the Forsworn: Trolls joining the Faction (5M) of the Forsworn take this oath, with
which, in the presence of an Unseelie noble and one or more Forsworn trolls
(and at the cost of one permanent Willpower trait), they swear fealty to the
Unseelie court and erase most of the penalties of a former oathbreaking. Restored
are their Birthrights and Immunity and the ability both to use spells or Disciplines
and to regain Mana and Willpower as freely as before. They retain a Weakness
to sunlight, however -- and now at full strength (one Aggravated level of damage
per turn, rather than per two turns). -- The Forsworn gain one trait of Status in the Unseelie Court and one trait in Allies (other Forsworn), but gain
the negative Social trait Untrustworthy.
The Forsworn also learn the power of the Stone
Fist. The troll thrusts his hands into the sunlight, turning them
to blackened stone. He suffers one level of Aggravated damage, but while this
power is active all wound penalties count as one level less. The Stone Fist
grants two bonus traits in all Brawl attacks, and punches cause an additional
level of Lethal damage -- but the troll loses all ties in challenges involving
finer manual dexterity (anything that couldn't be done wearing a hockey glove).
This power lasts until the trolls hands are healed. (If the troll has suffered
more than one level of Aggravated damage, this level will, contrary to the usual
system, be the first to heal.) -- Forsworn trolls can expect the enmity of Seelie
trolls, and gain a mixed welcome from ogres, some of whom see the Forsworn as
"trying to take their jobs," but others welcome them "back" in the widespread Unseelie belief that trolls are a sort of ogre who "sold
out" to the Seelie Court in order to gain a way to endure the light of
the sun.