Trolls are exist in several varieties, as denoted below. However, most of they share a number of characteristics. All trolls are are physically imposing for their size. Trolls possess great vitality, and are very hard to kill. Some heal quickly, others slowly, but all can recover from wounds that would kill other humanoids.
Nearly all trolls have a mental acuity that are dwarfed by their physical ability, their intellect ranging from moronic to downright bestial. While all are capable of a bipedal stance, most are semi-upright at best.
Regardless of subspecies, troll morphology is highly mutable. Giant and midget trolls are fairly common, but even more common are distended physiques, with limbs disproportionate to eachother or to the troll's body, and an increased number of limbs, tails or heads. Multiheaded trolls are said to be more intelligent than the rest of their ilk, but also somewhat prone to indecision.
Of the trolls, only the lubbers can endure the sun's glare without fatal consequences, and they dislike it strongly. Bears are the natural enemies of all trolls, and honey is poisonous to trollkind.
Trolls eat all animal matter, some of them can subsist on vegetable and mycoid matter as well. Trolls defecate abundantly, with bovine nonchalance.
Their size ranges from young whelps of 4’ to old bulls - 12’ tall.
Skin ranging from pink through tan, bronze, ochre and brown to near-black.
The smallest of the trolls, the greatest of stature being about five feet tall, and most no more than four. They are the only trolls who can survive the glare of the sun.
The bøyg or is a trollish creature. Its distinguishing characteristic is its huge maw. A bøyg can gape as wide as a door. It is possesed of a cunning far greater than that of most other trolls. It will lie in ambush, often right inside or right outside doors.