Troll (LOTM: Sword of Kings)



"Love, hate, pleasure, pain, life, death. Everything is here! The true nature of Man. The true nature of Evil."

- Ara about the Trolls

Trolls are a highly populous, predatory race from the nightmare world of the Qliphoth, created to be personal servants of Ara Astaroth's Sin Section of  Qliphoth Tree in Leohart's Cult in LOTM: Sword of Kings.

Appearance
Trolls are hairy, apelike humanoids with black fur and faces that comprise elements of pigs and rodents. Their eyes are wide and bulging and their snouts thick and fleshy with several protrusions somewhat similar to feelers or sensors. Despite their animalistic appearances, Trolls have a degree of intelligence, as shown by their ability and propensity to use man-made weapons.

Profile
Like many inhabitants of the Qliphoth, the trolls are born from the darkest thoughts of beings' collective subconscious and thus are as beastly as the thoughts they were spawned from. The trolls have little ability to make weapons, and often steal them from humans.

They are also cannibalistic, usually eating their injured. Trolls also eat humans and livestock, usually during raids. They seem to breed by impregnating human women that they drag to their lair, the women later dying when the litter of infant trolls claw their way out of the womb and eat the host parent's flesh. Despite Ara made them for the purpose for inflicting pain to humans, it's unknown if trolls rape human women for pure pleasure, represeting lust sin or just for  impregnating  the host to help reproduce their race in name of Ara and Leohart the Prince of Hell.

They do appear to have some sort of system of leadership, if only a bare one, as the strongest and burliest troll in Qliphoth steps forward, to the exclusion of the others when they fail. That said, trolls are cowardly and don't show much in terms of battle skills, fleeing as Katarina Couteau cuts them down in droves.