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Background

Skull Splinter Uzko (Dark Troll)

Note that the majority of female Uzko would not venture into the Surface World as they are simply too valuable to be allowed to run this risk. So femal Uzko PCs should have an explantion for this.

Choose from the following abilities, or invent your own:

• Bite and brawl
• Mace & Shield combat
• Eat Anything
• Endure Cold
• Know Ancestry
• Large
• Stealth
• Resist Poison
• Strong
• Uz Myths
• Local geography
• Uz Customs
• Obey Females / Command Males

Personality

• Hungry
• Brutal
• Authoritative

Relationships

• Love Mother
• Love Family
• Devoted to Clan

Weaknesses

• Dislike Light
• Poor Eyesight
• Tied to Home

etc

Skull Splinter Uzdo (Great Troll)

All are male.

Choose from the following abilities, or invent your own:

• Bite and smash
• Maul combat
• Eat Anything
• Endure Cold
• Large
• Stealth
• Resist Poison
• Strong
• Tough
• Uz Myths
• Local geography
• Uz Customs
• Obey Females
• Terrifying

Personality

• Hungry
• Brutal

Relationships

• Love Mother
• Love Family
• Devoted to Clan

Weaknesses

• Stoopid
• Dislike Light
• Poor Eyesight

Skull Splinter Enlo (Trollkin)

Choose from the following, or invent your own:

• Sling Combat
• Eat Anything
• Endure Cold
• Small
• Stealth
• Nimble
• Resist Poison
• Sniff out Food
• Survivor
• Uz Myths
• Local Geography
• Uz Customs
• Obey

Personality

• Hungry
• Fearful

Relationships

• Love Mother
• Devoted to Clan

Weaknesses

• Weak-willed
• Dislike Light

Occupation

Warrior

• Acute Darksense
• Mace & Shield Combat
• Maul Combat
• Sling Combat
• Command Enlo
• Uz Tactics
• Stealth
• Recognise Foe
• Run on Broken Ground
• Obey Orders
• Brave (p)
• Loyal (p)
• To Wargang (r)
• To Wargang Leader (r)

Typical Magic: Boztakang, Karrg, Vaneekara, Zorak Zoran

Magic

Options for PCs which ar not detailed here, but which could be discussed, include:

• Ancestor worship
• Local landscape cults etc.
• Zugorteg of the Dark Earths
• Basko the Black Sun
• Bat-Winged Quatanara of the Blue Moon Plateau
• Himile, God of Cold
• Arkat Kortagi - sorcery school

Kyger Litor

Kyger Litor is the Mother of the Men of Darkness, the Uz. All uz are her descendants, and she forms the centre of worship in all normal uz lands.

Boztakang - Chaosfighter (Spirit Practice)

Boztakang is the slayer of Chaos, who protects the Uz against this hated foe. As an infant, he plugged the first leak through which the evilstagnation of chaos slithered into the universe. He later killed many chaos monsters, and ripped secret methods to kill chaos out of Arrquong, a chaos god he erased from creation. Uz who often fight chaos worship him, and all warriors hold special rituals in his name before fighting broo, gorp or similar horrors.

Karrg - The Master of Weapons

Karrg is Kyger Litor's Good Son, the shield between Kyger Litor and the hostile world beyond the home. He fought the Fiery Death when Wonderhome was invaded, defended the the uz during the flight to Komor, and protected them on the surface against their many enemies.

While there are other war gods of the darkness, he is trusted the most by his mother and sister and is preeminent in most lands. Normally subservient to his mother and sister, as war leader they defer to him on the field of battle.

Chaktochak the Black Marshal

- warlord subcult -

Gerak Kag

- anti-Pavis spirit subcult -

Bekasi the Caller

- trollball subcult -

Eraktog Mace-and-Mace

- mace combat warior subcult -

Vaneekara - The Hurler

Vaneekara was the most adventurous of Kyger Litor's children, and in Wonderhome took part in ancient feuds with uz foes. She threw boulders and smashed the Castle of Fragile Foodstuffs the Mostali had built, to amuse herself. She once hurled High King Elf across the cosmos when he tried to wrestle her.

When Yelm invaded Wonderhome, she tried to hurl him back out but was defeated, and only Xiola Umbar saved her. She was a valiant warrior in the Darkness, and once threw an entire chaos army out of an uz land. She is the patron of slingers, and in some clans is seen as the patron of female warriors.

Argan Argar - The God of Surface Darkness

Argan Argar is the son of Night, the first Darkness God born in Komor. In the Darkness Age, he defeated and enslaved Lodril and forced that god to build the great Palace of Black Glass on the Shadow Plateau. From here, Argan Argar founded a great uz empire that included many nonuz.

Later, at the Dawn, he appointed his son Ezkankekko as his Regent on the Surface. When Chaos slithered forth in the Darkness, Argan Argar aided any that called upon him irrespective of old hatreds. Of the uz gods, he is the friendliest to non-uz and it is his cult that conducts trade and diplomacy between trolls and humans.

NB. The following is for the default subcult of Ezkankekko.

• Bargain
• Spear & Shield Combat
• Command Enlo
• Gauge Value
• Identify Goods by Taste
• Know [foreign] Customs
• Know [foreign] Geography
• Mint Bolg
• Mythology of Argan Argar
• Operate in Daylight
• Speak [another language]
• Open-minded (p)
• Outgoing (p)
• to other Merchants etc (r)

Affinities (max 02 of these 03 to start, & choose 03 feats to start for each):

• Exchange with Others (Command Messenger Spirit, Convince Buyer, Convince Seller, Interpret Other's meaning, Safeguard Item)
• Son of Night (Affix Darkness, Create Shadow, Enchant Lead, Sense Lead, Walk Unseen in Shadows)
• Ruler of Komor (Befriend Non-Uz, Blow Away Wind, Hide Item within Earth, Suppress Fire, Withstand Daylight)