Pam Carlson asks
>Question - are trollkin capable of reproducing at all? Do they even have
>sex? (True trollkin - not dark trolls with littermates.) I've always thought
>of trollkin as stunted trolls who never reach maturity - sexual or physical.
>
The sidebar "Trollkin Life Statistics" in Uz Lore (p17) syggests
otherwise "Since Trollkin are often pregnant but often deliver
stillbirths there is an abundance of wetnurses." and "They mature
sexually at about age 15, but have no troll rites mark the
passage...they already will have been a hard-working slave for many
years" and on p23 'Toll types examined' "Many trollkin are born dead or
die shortly afterwards (especially those born to trollkin)". This seems
to suggest a more significant sexually active trollkin population than
the 4% or so dark troll twins, although I should think there are
trollkin that never mature as well.
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