Trolls

Trolls were originally made by the The Aspect of Bliss  attempting to make the perfect soldier. (I'm under the impression that several of them were trying to play toy soldier with their creations.)


A Troll reproduces by eating its weight in meat, and then essentially vomiting a new troll. It then enters a hibernation period, after which it wakes up voraciously hungry and starts eating everything it can in an effort to eat its weight in meat and reproduce again.


However, due to the nature of its existence--it does not excrete waste--there is no energy exchange in its existence, and thus the goddess broke the rules I have against viruses.


Since she had already unleashed the things, I punished her and left the trolls be.


They are so genetically unstable that the efforts to reproduce are often met with failure, and it is not uncommon for a dead troll fetus to blight whole fields. The corpses can only be disposed of by burning. (The corpses scream when this happens. :D)


They are so genetically unstable that the efforts to reproduce have degraded the genetic make-up of the troll itself. The original stood ten feet tall and weight three tons, and it could kill and eat its own weight in minutes. The offspring it reproduced would be fully grown and fully ready to fight and eat and breed the same way.
These days, these trolls are as likely as not to fail, are eight-ish feet tall, and lumbering, stupid things.