Premie or womb lining factors assume, though, that the birth process creates or alters the soul, somehow -- since trollkin have crappy little souls compared to a proper troll soul. <Shrug> No profit going down *that* debate path.
> My question is with how Naxili Garang caused multiple births of trollkin
> rather than single births.
Mine would actually be how Gbaji mucked up the trollish womb -- previous
to his nasty Korasting HQ, did all troll births automatically find the
good sites? Or did ripping Korasting from crotch to chin lower the womb's
ability to raise a trollkin?
If it was Gbaji that goofed things up, then I'd guess that Garang wasn't able to *stop* the process, but was able to ensure that if an egg takes to a bad part of the lining, additional eggs will be released to emplant on the womb lining.
A more mythic explanation might be that the potential troll's spirit, before conception, has a HQ of its own. Those spirits that manage to get through the horrors that Gbaji introduced to the troll pre-life cycle become uzko; those that are less lucky are trollkin of varying types. The most successful spirits manage to tap into the pre-Lesser Darkness HQ and become Uzuz. If you don't want to have to deal with the problem, you undertake the HQ that Cragspider learned from Karrg, and your Kid manages to somehow avoid Gbaji and takes the Great Troll HQ path.
>ice trolls
Has GS officially declared that the Uzhim do, in fact, have trollkin?
Since they broke away from the Uzko a while back, it's not inconceivable
they really are free of the curse, like the Muri. Or that, having broken
away in the Greater Darkness, they escaped most of its effects. Just
curious -- all the stuff in print still has it up in the air, AFAIK.
>Nysalor apologists
Hang 'em high!
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