>> From: "Andrew Solovay"
>>
>> Current informed speculation is that to trolls, Chaos is *an*
enemy, but not
>> *the* enemy. That is (and I'm subject to correction here), to a
troll, *the*
>> enemy is the Sun/Death. Chaos, like Storm (and any number of other
things),
>> is an unpleasant, dangerous aspect of Hurtplace that you can
nevertheless
>> work with if you have to. As you note, Uz are okay with the mildly
chaotic
>> Cave Trolls.
>
>Maybe chaos creatures are afraid of trolls. I've never heard
>of any chaos invasion among trolls (in history, mind you).
>I tend to think that chaos is mostly a human problem.
From the cult of Kyger Litor writeup in the lore library:
"Islands of life clung precariously to their questionable existence through the War Against Chaos, and were often led by Trolls and their gods. Of those gods Kyger Litor was the most popular."
I find it hard to believe that humans would write such nice things about troll if there wasn't some truth to it. As for trolls fighting chaos during history -
"At the end of the Dawn Ages the trolls were the first to quit the Second Council which was performing a massive ritual to try to create a god. The trolls all claimed this was too close to chaos."
So trolls would hapily co-operate with elves and dwarves in the Second Council, but left because it's activities were "too close to chaos".
The trolls then went on to fight against Gbaji, who wounded Korasting and is responsible for the Curse of Kin.Now if I were a troll, I'd find that kind of hard to forget.
The subsequent wars between the elder races in the second age are also at least partialy a result of the Chaos Wars and the struggle against Gbaji, so although they are more recent and therefore fresher in everyone's minds, the very fact they happened was triggered by the Chaos Wars.
Simon Hibbs
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