Fomorian Troll

The Fomorians Though the ishvara known as the Fomorian Dream is long dead, slain by the Unconquered Sun in prehistory, his philoso- phy lives on in those Fair Folk who have taken up his name and cause. The Fomorians believe the house of the Primordials needs to be burned down and its inhabitants put to the sword, and they aim to do so from within. This is hardly an unusual sentiment among the Fair Folk, particularly among survivors of the Balorian Crusade, but the Fomorians take the philosophy of the Church of Balor (of which many are members) one step further. Not content with the destruction of the Primordials and their works, they seek a return to the absolute purity of the Wyld, and thus the elimination of all sentience. Only when there are no self-aware patterns within the great chaos of the Wyld will the Fomorians be satisfied that the universe is as it should be, cleansed of all memory of the hated Primordials and their works. Many raksha understandably take issue with the Fomorian philosophy, and so the average Fomorian is well-versed not only in the ways of destruction within the shaped world, but also in the arts of shaping battle. Shaped Fomorians rarely assume the beautiful forms generally associated with the Fair Folk, instead choosing to craft themselves into living nightmares: moss- skinned, prognathous trolls; ogres with flesh-tearing fangs and great curving horns; stone-armored gargoyles with vast dark wings; pale, elongated terrors with poison-dripping nails; living shadows which race upon the north wind and freeze blood with a touch; and other monstrous forms with which to tear asunder the shaped world.