Cavern Troll

Insatiable scavengers, cavern trolls stalk the eternal gloom of the Darklands, consuming all in their path—even rocks and minerals. These rocky goliaths can tunnel through stone with their iron-sharp claws. Despite a debilitating vulnerability to sunlight that petrifies them on sustained contact, hungry cavern trolls are often drawn to the comparatively lush surface world. Even when petrified, the immobile trolls are often mistaken for boulders or other natural phenomenon, leaving them free to hunt once night falls again. As cavern trolls age, their flinty skin becomes studded with small crystals and stones of various composition. Paragons of their kind have toothy maws replete with large crystalline fangs.

Towering brutes with slavering jaws and razor-sharp claws, trolls are voracious predators. A connection to the land not only rebuilds their bodies but creates countless varieties of trolls, each a reflection of the terrain that they draw upon. Trolls who migrate into new areas slowly transform as each body part is regenerated, leading to aberrant growth as new flesh tangles with the old.