RE: one day a Troll saved me

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:11:41 -0400


I like that taboo.

Mind you, all this is making me have to go and look up Trolls now. :)

I understand they have both Animist and Theist elements mixed or some such.

Well, I certainly have enough to work with. And either female or male seems to have very interesting possibilites in this case.

On 22 Oct 2004 at 1:51, Andrew Solovay wrote:

> Most errands outside the troll lair--hunting and raiding and war and
> trading--are carried out by male trolls. Outside under the sky is a
> dangerous place, and males are more expendable than females.
>
> So the odds are, your character was found by a male. But it's always
> possible that it's a female on some errand. A shaman, for example, might
> find herself going on trips to appease this or that spirit (or hunt for
> new ones). And a shaman is going to have all kinds of bizarre taboos and
> compulsions--like, oh, I dunno, "free what is chained and chain what is
> free".

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