In topic: "Share your worldbuilding headcanons for trolls/Alternia!"

Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, 7:21 AM2 days ago

Ooh, I was thinking about this recently!! I love building off of the idea that some highblood/lowblood pairs become moirails to get sent off to the same ship - I can't help but wonder, would a highblood set up their lowblood friends with someone they trust, like an arranged marriage? To make sure they're safe? I can imagine a plotline where highblood thinks theyre doing lowblood a favor, but lowblood thinks it's demeaning.

As for cities, we know Drones exist and that these societies are super highly regulated around laws of blood castes. I think a concept could be secret communities in rural areas that exist solely to escape 24/7 watch rather than join the resistance. But then what? Are all trolls under an automatic digital registry system when they're hatched? If that's the case, I'd imagine that the jades would work pretty hand in hand with whoever is helping run these systems, whether it's goldbloods or indigos, both maybe.

I can't remember if I imagined this somewhere, but aren't their names decided by like the first sound their lusus makes? The Jades are in charge of taking care of grubs, but how would that first sound be documented? Is there some poor fool out there named Xdfghk, or raawrr? That would he a fun OC idea, someone who picked their name because the original name was stupid. Trolls don't have ID cards, i think they're all on a technology and scanning system, like how the UK and AU are coming up with a digital twin system as a way to verify identification, or how Youtube is now going to use AI to identify age.

Oops, this was a lot. I have a lot on my mind about this. Probably even more. Is there an alternian sign language or are Deaf trolls just killed for being as "weak" despite being completely able bodied except their hearing? Imagine a Deaf troll with like, a bat lusus.

Big horns HAVE to cause some kind of body impairment if they're big eniugh. Do most clothes of Bronze bloods zip up (or velcro, like dolls) because it cant fit over their heads? Or do they have really big neck holes to slide on the other way like pants? Would that apply to most trolls with some kind of a point on their horns? Bronze bloods also probably have really strong necks, or really bad backs. Same with the purple bloods that have huge horns. Does Marvus have to tilt his head to one side a lot? I've thought about Rust bloods, too, with their horns curling in. Would they grow to a damaging point? Imagine there was one sign with a history of horns curling into their skull, or over their ears, and the system stating that grub and all grubs of that sign should be exterminated. Man, I love world building.

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