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{{Creatures|image = [[File:Troll-Hilda1.jpg|300px]]|other = Troll Rock (in daylight)|body = Humanoid|height = Various|sentience = Sentient|sapience = Sapient|aggressive = Medium (varies a lot across different individuals)|habitat = Mountains|diet = Omnivorous|locomotion = Bipedal|status = Least Concern|universe = Hilda|creator = Luke Pearson|designer = Luke Pearson|actor = Altered mixed sounds of animals including elephant, horse, lion, walrus, bear, tiger, etc.|name = Troll}}'''Trolls''' are a mythological race of beings which have live in mountains surrounding the human city of Trolberg; inhabited within an enchanted valley for centuries, long before it was builded right between their territory and eventually a giant wall had been constructed by founders such as Edmund Ahlberg to prevent them from getting inside.
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{{Creatures|image = [[File:Troll-Hilda1.jpg|300px]]|other = Troll Rock (in daylight)|body = Humanoid|height = Various|sentience = Sentient|sapience = Sapient|aggressive = Medium (varies a lot across different individuals)|habitat = Mountains|diet = Omnivorous|locomotion = Bipedal|status = Least Concern|universe = Hilda|creator = Luke Pearson|designer = Luke Pearson|actor = Altered mixed sounds of animals including elephant, horse, lion, walrus, bear, tiger, etc.|name = Troll}}'''Trolls''' are a mythological race of beings who for centuries, have resided in an enchanted valley surrounded by mountains near the human city of Trolberg long before it was eventually built on their territory.
   
 
They spend the days inside caves and subterranean spaces in the mountain interiors, in order to avoid sunlight, which causes them to be turned into stone for the duration of the day, although they will return to life at night. Legend tells that all Trolls were created by the primordial Troll mother [[Amma]].
 
They spend the days inside caves and subterranean spaces in the mountain interiors, in order to avoid sunlight, which causes them to be turned into stone for the duration of the day, although they will return to life at night. Legend tells that all Trolls were created by the primordial Troll mother [[Amma]].
   
 
== Biology ==
 
== Biology ==
Trolls are rather superficially aggressive muscular humanoids with a long nose, white blank eyes that glow and short limbs. They also have four fingered hands plus an opposable thumb while most of them usually possess toeless feet. Each member of this species can stand up to about any height even more greater and larger than compared to one from another. Their diet is omnivorous, although they seem to favor meat. They're substantially stronger than humans; able to lift and throw around large boulders as if they were nothing.
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Trolls can stand at different heights while each have a generally stout and concretion appearance which is appropriate as they become solid stone in broad daylight. Their eyes glow blank white, and their skin comes in colors of either a dark or light greyish and brown pigment. They have diminutive limbs possessing four-fingered hands and toeless feet; a mouth filled with razor teeth, a long nose. Their diet is omnivorous, although they seem to favor meat. They're substantially stronger than humans; able to lift and throw around large boulders as if they were nothing.
   
 
Although Trolls exhibit parental care and can be fiercely protective of their young; it has been implied that they don't reproduce themselves in the traditional sense, but are spontaneously created from ordinary rocks, given life by the Troll mother Amma; and the newborn seek adult Trolls to take care of them by becoming parents. Like the rocks that generate them, they can be found in multiple sizes and shapes; including variations such as hair-covered and even two-headed individuals. They react with great fear in the presence of [[Rock-Chewing Slug (Hilda)|rock-eating slugs]]; suggesting that they might be preyed by them.
 
Although Trolls exhibit parental care and can be fiercely protective of their young; it has been implied that they don't reproduce themselves in the traditional sense, but are spontaneously created from ordinary rocks, given life by the Troll mother Amma; and the newborn seek adult Trolls to take care of them by becoming parents. Like the rocks that generate them, they can be found in multiple sizes and shapes; including variations such as hair-covered and even two-headed individuals. They react with great fear in the presence of [[Rock-Chewing Slug (Hilda)|rock-eating slugs]]; suggesting that they might be preyed by them.

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Troll
Troll-Hilda1
Naming
Others Troll Rock (in daylight)
Morphology
Body type Humanoid
Average height Various
Intelligence
Sentience Sentient
Sapience Sapient
Aggressivity Medium (varies a lot across different individuals)
Ecology
Habitat Mountains
Diet Omnivorous
Locomotion Bipedal
Status Least Concern
Behind the Scenes
Universe Hilda
Created by Luke Pearson
Designed by Luke Pearson
Performed by Altered mixed sounds of animals including elephant, horse, lion, walrus, bear, tiger, etc.

Trolls are a mythological race of beings who for centuries, have resided in an enchanted valley surrounded by mountains near the human city of Trolberg long before it was eventually built on their territory.

They spend the days inside caves and subterranean spaces in the mountain interiors, in order to avoid sunlight, which causes them to be turned into stone for the duration of the day, although they will return to life at night. Legend tells that all Trolls were created by the primordial Troll mother Amma.

Biology

Trolls can stand at different heights while each have a generally stout and concretion appearance which is appropriate as they become solid stone in broad daylight. Their eyes glow blank white, and their skin comes in colors of either a dark or light greyish and brown pigment. They have diminutive limbs possessing four-fingered hands and toeless feet; a mouth filled with razor teeth, a long nose. Their diet is omnivorous, although they seem to favor meat. They're substantially stronger than humans; able to lift and throw around large boulders as if they were nothing.

Although Trolls exhibit parental care and can be fiercely protective of their young; it has been implied that they don't reproduce themselves in the traditional sense, but are spontaneously created from ordinary rocks, given life by the Troll mother Amma; and the newborn seek adult Trolls to take care of them by becoming parents. Like the rocks that generate them, they can be found in multiple sizes and shapes; including variations such as hair-covered and even two-headed individuals. They react with great fear in the presence of rock-eating slugs; suggesting that they might be preyed by them.

When sufficiently close to their creator, Amma, Trolls have demonstrated the ability to periodically bloom, which causes them to sprout vegetation all over their bodies.

Culture and society

Trolls are sapient creatures, although their language isn't comprehensible to humans, who perceive it as a series of animalistic roars. Their society is loosely organized at best, and they tend to live in anarchy, although there have been historical individuals who attempted to unite their race under a single leadership, such as the dreaded Mountain King.

Most people in Trolberg regard Trolls with fear, and consider them a threat and bother to humanity; which resulted in the construction of a wall encircling the city, to prevent Trolls from venturing into it at night. These fears are not without justification, as many Trolls can be brutish and hostile towards even their own race; although some have also exhibited kindness, and even protectiveness towards others; as exemplified with the Troll that showed gratitude to Hilda by giving back her sketchbook after she helped him; and the one that gave food and shelter to Hilda, Johanna and Twig as they were lost in the mountain interior, and helped protect them against a particularly dangerous Troll who was pursuing them.

At least some Trolls have been observed to perform magic rituals, which may include the rare creation of changelings: human children who are "swapped" with Troll children, resulting in that the Troll child turns human, and the human child becomes a Troll, this spell can only seemingly be broken if both children are to be reunited with their real parents. Most Trolls also compulsively hoard items, the nature of which varies according to the individual, ranging from precious metals to domestic utensils or bones.

The Trolberg Safety Patrol often deals with Trolls by "belling": a method which consists of locating Trolls that have been turned into stone by day and placing a small bell on their nose, the sound of which will alert nearby people of the Troll's presence when it becomes active again. Since most Trolls have short limbs and long noses, they're generally unable to remove the bell on their own, and will require assistance. Additionally, it appears that the sound of bells displeases them and makes them agitated. Curiously, the Trolls themselves seem to employ a similar method to deal with their prisoners, by placing them in a cell with multiple bells hanging on the entrance, which prevents them from escaping without drawing attention.

Appearances

  • Hildafolk (2010)
  • Hilda and the Bird Parade (2012)
  • Hilda and the Stone Forest (2016)
  • Hilda and the Mountain King (2019)

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