Hooded Trolog (Greater Trolog, Monster Trolog)

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[Deklitch Hardin]

Overview
The Hooded Trolog, also known as the Greater Trolog and Monster Trolog (1), as well as the Thróg'ythréf (lit. animal, poison) to the  Artyrhón (Blessed Sea Elves) is a fearsome and deadly reptilian creature that is exclusively found around the perpetually active maelstrom located in the waters of Eight Winds Bay on the western coast of Northern Sarvonia, just north of the Prominent Mountains. This aquatic poisonous carnivore is a danger to the inhabitants of Eight Winds Bay, whether Blue Druid, animal, Blessed Sea Elves or visitor who decides to try their luck on the waters of the bay for work or leisure activities.

Appearance
Averaging ten peds in length from its snout to the end of its hammer tail, the Hooded Trolog is a fearsome sight to behold. This dangerous predator of Eight Winds Bay is covered in scales that are yellow and blue in colour. In stark contrast to the scales, the narrow, slit-like eyes of the Hooded Trolog are a piercing red in colour. This monstrous creature gets its name from the scales that protrude out over these eyes. According to Steverin the Blue, a Blue Druid who studied these creatures extensively, these scale protrusions make the Hooded Trolog appear to be wearing a hood.

The Greater Trolog have a mouth of jagged sharpened snow white teeth that are used to cut through flesh or bone with ease, as a result, fully grown Greater Trolog more often than not have these teeth stained with the blood of their vicitms. On both the left and right hand sides of their mouth, this reptilian creature possesses a sac. These sacs contain a deadly poison which the Greater Trolog can shoot out to a distance of up to two peds in front of it.

The Monster Trolog have four legs, with each one ending in a four toed webbed foot. Each of those toes end in a claw. These webbed appendages assist them in their movement through the water. From skeletons of dead Hooded Trolog studied by Steverin the Blue, the front legs of these creatures reach approximately two fores while the back legs reaching a little under one fore in length. Their elongated bodies cut through the water of Eight Winds Bay in much the same way that scythes cut through bredden grain.

The tail of these reptilian creatures end in a hammer shape. This is another weapon in their hunt for food, or when fighting breaks out between Hooded Trolog. A jagged series of spines down the back of these creatures help to protect the Greater Trolog in fights against their fellow Monster Trolog.

Special Abilities
Using its powerful tail and webbed feet, the Greater Hooded Trolog swims skilfully and rapidly through the currents of Eight Winds Bay. Blessed Sea Elf and Blue Druid alike have observed these creatures swim against the currents of the bay, even when other animals and ships are unable to escape the pull of the tides.

Poison sacs to the left and right ends of the mouth of this creature spit out a corrosive and paralytic poison that is deadly to almost any animal, elf or druid unfortunate enough to be struck by the poison. This poison can be spit out to a distance of up to two peds directly in front of the creature. An anti-venom has been created by the Blue Druids of Eight Winds Bay to counteract this venom. The Blue Druids make this anti-venom freely available to their fellow residents of, and visitors to, the bay. The venom is so powerful that unless the anti-venom is applied within minutes of the victim being poisoned, the victim will die a painful, but fortunately relatively quick, death.

The reason why it is fortunate that the death suffered by the poison of the Greater Hooded Trolog is quick is because the victim ‘convulses and thrashes about in uncontrollable movements and in what appears to be great pain. The skin of the patient is both clammy and hot to the touch. This is undoubtedly a result of the poison working on the victim’s body and innards.’ This detail was part of the notes of Steverin the Blue, a blue druid, when he studied the effects of the poison on a former druidic assistant. This assistant was purposefully poisoned by a Hooded Trolog in order to further Strenlin's understanding of these deadly creatures.

There are two creatures that are immune to both the paralytic and corrosive effects of this poison. Those animals are the hypalynx and the trolog and like the Hooded Trolog, both of these are native to the Eight Winds Bay area.

Territory
The Hooded Trolog is only found in the waters of Eight Winds Bay, and unlike most of the other animals of the area, they seem to be found mainly around the perpetually active maelstrom known to the Blessed Sea Elves as "Tuu'marásh" (Lit. "Water Turn"). This atypical behaviour of these creatures, when compared to other creatures of Eight Winds Bay, led to speculation by Steverin the Blue that the Hooded Trolog are drawn to the maelstrom for some reason, probably to do with magic.

Habitat/Behavior
The Hooded Trolog is a loner by nature and only willingly come together to mate. Outside of their mating time, Hooded Trolog fight if two or more of their number tries to patrol the same part of the perpetually active maelestrom at the one time. Battles betweem Monster Trolog are bloody and noisy affairs, with teeth, poison, feet, spines and tails being used to their full extent in the fight to the death. It is these fights amongst their own kind that have a large part to play in the population control of these creatures.

Diet
The principal part of the diet for the Hooded Trolog is the pinnip. Other sea creatures in the Eight Wind Bay area incluidng fish and crustaceans have also been known to be eaten by these creatures. When ships experience trouble in the bay and capsize, forcing their crews to abandon ship, the Greater Trolog are often in attendance, eating the survivors of the disaster.

Mating
The female Greater Hooded Trolog lays eggs in shallow waters in the rocky shoals

Myth/Lore/Origin
Steverin the Blue believes that the Hooded Trolog was formed as a mutated version of the trolog. His notes record that the skeletal structures of the two creatures are remarkably similar. His research has uncovered a story about Gouran that supports this belief, a story written soon after the Year of Darkness

Researchers
Steverin the Blue is a Blue Druid who has studied this creature extensively and is the premier expert on the Hooded Trolog. Believed to originally have been an Erpheronian, Steverin the Blue loved the sea from an early age and in time made his way onto the sea and headed north and west on a variety of boats until he reached the waters of Eight Winds Bay. He proved to have aptitude as a Blue Druid and, after passing their initiation rituals, took up residence in the druidic settlement of Tyrling in Eight Winds Bay. He researched the animals and plants around Eight Winds Bay, most notably the trolog and Hooded Trolog, and used a variety of research methods. These have included a variety of hands on experiments such as exposing his assistants to the poison of the Monster Trolog and recording the results, which he notes are 'fascinating'. One most note that Steverin the Blue has been forced to go further afield for assistants and apprentices and pages of the Compendium are warned not to take him up on his offer of assisting him in his research, as the research is likely to be bad for their health and continued life.

Usages
The poison used by the Greater Trolog when hunting or when fighting breaks out amongst their own kind is used by the Blue Druids and Blessed Sea Elves in creating anti-venoms for use to counteract the poison of these creatures. From time to time, fishers from the Blessed Sea Elves attempt to cook and eat the flesh of the Greater Trolog, which must be prepared correctly or else the meal is likely to poison the consumers of the meal. This Compendiumist notes he has eaten

Footnotes
(1) Trolog is the name that has been given to this aquatic monster in both the singular and plural.

[Deklitch Hardin]

I'm still working on this ... I didn't want to run the risk of losing the computer and thus this work in the event that our house is flooded. Of course, if that happens, a lot of Brisbane would have to be flooded as I live on a hill.

In any case ... I liked this name ... I wonder however, whether the Trolog is too close to Mullog. That came to me a few days ago.

I'm having the Blue Druids being the ones to mainly deal with this creature, rather than the Blessed Sea Elves. I didn't think an styrash name was needed for it as a result. Would it be better to have a styrash name for it as well?

I've already got an idea for the 'Lesser Hooded Trolog' ... which I'm planning on making into a land based reptile, found also exclusively in this area, and raised by the Blessed Sea Elves in Silvern and Adlin as the reptilian equivalent of 'lap dogs'. Unlike the Greater Hooded Trolog, the Lesser Hooded Trolog will be a friendly little critterr which makes a noise that goes Trolog ... like the Greater Hooded Trolog, they'll have sacs to either side of their mouth that emits some kind of gas (or powder or liquid) that makes people happy (in a good way).

The Lesser Hooded Trolog is mostly in my mind at the moment ... but I wanted to put it down here.

I'd like to keep these creatures exclusively around Eight Winds Bay, with my idea being that they are all drawn towards the whirlpool ... due to the magicalness of it all.

Anyway, the entry is still being worked on, just posting it so I don't lose it if we should lose power/lose furniture/computers etc

[Deklitch Hardin]

I just realised something else ...

I came up with the name 'Greater Hooded Rogan' for my NaNoWriMo Novel last year as a creature that attacked a rescue boat that was rescuing one of the heroes after she fell through the sky into the ocean. The creature ate one of the two nameless rowers/weapons officers as part of the rescue team, and it shot its poison at the other one, killing him as well. Is that another thing that means I should be changing the name of this creature?

... the reasons I thought of previously were in my previous post in this thread.

Oh, there was some other creature somewhere in Santharia ... a large creature and one of them was shrunk to a smaller size by a Brownie. I was wondering about going the other way with these ... the smaller creature first ... then one gets caught in magic of a Blue Druid/Eckra the Cruel/Someone else ... or maybe somehow they could be tied in with the gods of the Blessed Sea Elves.

Dek

[Artimidor Federkiel]

Ok, a few comments:

- With the question "Is the Trolog too close to Mullog?" - Do you mean the name? That should definitely not be a problem, Trolog is fine. Oh, and if the creature you use in your NaNoWriMo story is a "Greater Hooded Rogan" isn't really bothersome, as long as it doesn't bother you - at least you created these beasts

- As far as names are concerned you might still have potential for optimizing, I'd say. Especially when you read through the text and come across "Greater Hooded Trolog" several time. I see you're planning a "Lesser Hooded Trolog" as well, though the length of the name still sounds avoidable. For example you could go just with "Trolog" for the small version or "Hooded Trolog" for the larger one (or, say, "Great Trolog", "Monster Trolog" as secondary names). The "Greater" and "Lesser" don't really sound necessary in the regular reference and people tend to use the easiest names when talking, like "Dek" for "Deklitch", and even less likely is "Down Under Living Deklitch".

- Diet: So this reptile only likes the heads... Hmmm... I wonder how it can developed a taste for elf, human, dwarf and orc, as I'm sure these guys wouldn't like to be eaten, so they are rarely around to get eaten I assume. Unless, say, orcs see killing such a creature as a proving ground to be accepted as a true warrior or so. I wonder as well why they only "eat" heads. Maybe they don't like humans, orcs etc. after all, but seem to be convinced that without a head such a creature is quite harmless and can be quickly eliminated Also: A poison attack to the head is very effective, so getting rid of the problem by goind for the head is easier then.

Anyway, good to see that the Eight Winds Bay entry comes with a specific monster as well, always good to have one around

[Deklitch Hardin]

Thanks Arti ... I'll change to Hooded Trolog and Trolog ... and the diet thing was just me being silly

[Seeker]

Dek

I am intrigued  but I have a few questions so I can wrap my mind around this creature:

1) appearance-  Should we be thinking long alligator,  scaly 4-legged eel,  thick snake with legs?  All we have so far in the description is 4 peds, venomous teeth, scales and legs.  This one will be difficult to paint without more to go off of.

2) How many are out there?  I am assuming just a few or else they would kill everything in site. 

3) Perhaps they are rumoured to come from within the whirlpool, just an idea I had as I was reading.

4) Do fisherman catch them? Are they yummy to eat?   

[Valan Nonesuch]

Is the name in any way influenced by the term "troglodyte" ?

[Deklitch Hardin]

Is the name in any way influenced by the term "troglodyte" ?

No

To be honest, I was thinking more 'trollop' when I came up with this creature in my head.

And see, I can be succinct ... sometimes

Dek

[Deklitch Hardin]

Dek

I am intrigued  but I have a few questions so I can wrap my mind around this creature:

1) appearance-  Should we be thinking long alligator,  scaly 4-legged eel,  thick snake with legs?  All we have so far in the description is 4 peds, venomous teeth, scales and legs.  This one will be difficult to paint without more to go off of.

I was mainly thinking alligator ... I'm aware that there's another creature ... something that you painted that was similar to that ... so that might change.

2) How many are out there?  I am assuming just a few or else they would kill everything in site. 

Not many ... they are their main control mechanism ... part of what I was thinking was that sometimes the adult ones eat the eggs ...

3) Perhaps they are rumoured to come from within the whirlpool, just an idea I had as I was reading.

That was part of my intention with these ones.

4) Do fisherman catch them? Are they yummy to eat?   

Hmmm ... you know, I never really thought about that in some ways I was thinking that part of their death involved the poison spoiling the meat that's left behind ... but not sure how practical something like that would be.

Thanks for your interest in this, Seeker.

Dek

[Seeker]

I was mainly thinking alligator ... I'm aware that there's another creature ... something that you painted that was similar to that ... so that might change.

Yep that was the Kaimun. 

We have many many animals that are simply replicas of real life animals or dinosaurs.  I personally would like to see some more unique creatures, even if it is just something small that changes them slightly into something new.  Throw on an extra pair of legs or give it a fancy fish tail or rows of small horns on its back or unique coloring.  Otherwise this will be simply a large alligator with a strange name. That is just my opinion that you may feel free to ignore.

[Azhira Styralias]

Could this beast possibly be related to a tsor-shotak lizard? Maybe a water version of it. Both creatures live in general proximity to each other, both are large and have poison type bites.

[Deklitch Hardin]

good idea, Azhira, but no. The poison doesn't come from the bite of the Monster Trolog, it comes from the poison sacs which is spit out through the mouth.

Dek

[seth ghibta]

It's possible that could be an adaptation to hunting in the water? I dunno, not an expert on either creature. though if you're short on references you could always say it's thought by some scholars that it's a distant relative?
Also if you're looking for ways to make it more unique and less standard gator/crocodile shaped, I'd suggest looking up some prehistoric crocodilians. there were some weird ones back around the time of the dinosaurs.
In any case, this is looking great Dek, I'll try and give it a uri when I've time.

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