Zong

Author: olalanteli

ZONG IS THE SON of Vaneekara the Hurler and came to the surface world with his mother. When trolls first came to the surface, life was easy. Food abounded everywhere, and trolls only had to reach out their hands to grasp it. Soon things worsened. When Ernalda and her children fell asleep, vegetable food became scarce. The few remaining animals learned caution and cunningly hid or fled from hungry trolls. It is at this moment that Zong became important. He taught trolls to properly seek prey and also taught magical songs by which the dead prey’s soul could be sent back to its mother, from where it could be reborn again. In this way, the total number of prey creatures was not diminished by hunting. Trolls believe in a cold and gray afterlife, inhabited by gloomy shadows and mindless insects. Worshipers of Zong believe that, after death, their souls will be fed by those creatures for which they properly performed the Peaceful Cut. Like all trolls, their corpses are eaten after death. Zong’s runes are Death and Harmony. He teaches how to kill better to preserve life.