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Creatures of Ithia Expanded: The Granite Troll.

An Advanced Creature Profile by Vincent Groth.     

The Granite Troll stands twenty feet tall. Granite trolls are formed from large boulders of granite, can’t reproduce, and can’t function outside of the Horde. The largest of the Trolls the Granite troll’s massive bulk is forced to slouch over and walk aided by its arms like a gorilla. Sheets of granite cover the top of its head and back. Their flesh is as hard as rubber. 

Granite Troll blood petrifies into granite often forming spikes on deeper wounds. Highly durable with stoney skin and rubbery muscle. Granite Trolls are often requiring siege weapons to consistently harm. 

The Granite Troll is the elite guard of the Ogres serving as their enforcers and muscle. Granite Trolls generally are too lumbering to be effective in open fields but are highly adept at breaking through stationary defenses. 

Granite Trolls are too durable to worry about deep penetrating wounds often and often wounds aren’t deep enough to cause clotting issues. The Granite Troll is slow, lumbering, and needs stable ground finding it easy to sink into softer terrain of sand, swamps, and snow. They are vulnerable to some magics. 

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