> Finally, had a few ideas for a scenario on the edges of
> Valinds Wastes. Do Snow Trolls worship Gorrakiki and have
> a close association with Insects as other Trolls do? If so,
> which Insects, or do they use other creatures or are the
> conditions to nasty to support them?
IM(entirely speculative)O the Snow Trolls are even more shamanistic than normal Uz. Since they are mostly loners, or at most small family groups, they would be unable to support any sort of real Deist shrines... So though you may find that a particular Uzhim has a special relationship with "the great mosquito", or another with "bluecrack iceberg" and such, they would tend to be utterly confused at the idea of group worship of some abstract "god - spirit" (like gorakiki). I just can't see their lifestyle supporting Deist worship. Even Kyger Litor worship is likely to be handled indirectly, by simply worshipping Mom.
My personal model for Ice Troll behavior is Polar Bears (big, furry, antisocial, arch-predators). Adults will really only ever interact to mate, and then the female raises her "cubs" alone. An Ice troll will worship whatever spirits and or creatures s/he has met that impress them (obviously, mom fits this bill ;-) but organized worship and "priests" and such is clean out.
I would posit that uzhim split the world of living (and spiritual) things into two basic categories, "food" and "threat". Food is anything that can be killed without signnificant risk of injury, and threat is everything else. Thus a snow troll will never mate with or worship something that they percieve to be signifigantly weaker than themselves, 'cause that's food -- however, they might attempt to avoid a threat by offering it worship (or sex, if it is an appropriatly gendered uzhim).
If you wish a Mega-powerfull Ice-Troll Shaman with thousands and thousands of swarming insect familiars, then I could easily see that. Or even a snow troll allied with some sort of huge furry beetle. But these will almost always be one-off arrangements between that troll and some local spirit(s), as opposed to actual "cults"
heh heh, I didn't really mean to write a book here... hopefully i'm not completely off the deep end with these theories.
danm
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