This article is from the public number: Game Research Agency (ID: yysaag) , author: carrrp, from FIG title: Oriental IC

Speaking of trolls before (troll) In the minds of players of different games, different images may emerge. But if these two words are mentioned recently, everyone may automatically play the following positive energy speech in their brains:

“If we encounter any difficulties, don’t be afraid. Face it with a smile. The best way to eliminate fear is to face it. Perseverance is the victory! Come on! Ollie gives-!” < br>

The Source of All Evil

There are many explanations for the meaning of the last “Oli to”, but in the final analysis, this is a battle roar. If you hear someone around you, it often means to work hard and finish.

In fact, the middle-aged uncle’s passionate speech has been popular on the Internet for some time. There are now more online evidences about the source of this stalk. To this day, the uncle’s impeccable face art, grass-grabbing moves, and the extremely magical “Orly” at the end of the sentence have attracted countless netizens.

The sand sculpture is the first productive force. Netizens are powerful and unable to like it, and endless spoofing videos have filled the Internet with joy and joy. Under the B station ghost animal label, the most viewed contributions in the past 30 days are being occupied by the uncle alone.

The uncle also looks like a character in DotA—the troll warlord—being called by the netizens “giant dip sauce”. Like every spoofed All-Star, in these haunting videos, someone put a handful of Mosescan-style hair on Uncle P, stuffed his fangs, and asked him to raise two axes, with a sentence “Tass Ding Gou’s roar.

The big nose, small eyes, and pointed ears and long faces are probably the most familiar troll images.

The optional hero in DotA-Troll Warlord

Troll Warlord in DOTA2

As we all know, DotA was originally a custom map of Warcraft 3, and the hero models such as Troll Warlord are from Warcraft.

Trolls in the Warcraft series are tall and thin, with long limbs, pointed ears and fangs, muscular, fierce and fierce fighting, and are one of the oldest races in Azeroth. Trolls believe in the animal-like Loa deity, and cannibalism and voodoo are popular in culture. They are clever, cunning, agile, and fierce, and are the most terrible enemies and opponents. (So almost every World of Warcraft expansion will be played once)

The most famous troll in World of Warcraft: Former Tribal Chief Warkin

To sum up, we are more influenced by the culture of Warcraft and Blizzard regarding the image recognition of the giant troll dipping sauce.

Maybe you do n’t care about this, is n’t it just the trolls? These thin men with killer haircuts, fangs, and throwing weapons are used in many games. The devil is like this.

But in the light of the evidence, I need to point out to you that the troll image designed by Blizzard is actually very different from the traditional troll image. If you see such trolls in many games, they are likely to be directly or indirectly affected by Blizzard.

Trolls in the World of Warcraft (Jungle Troll, Forest Troll, Frost Troll)

Their appearance is also derived from a single huge ugliness, moving closer to the human form, and even no different from others. The IQ has also increased. In some legends, the trolls will even change the human form to cheat humans, of course. At the end of these stories, the trolls are always killed by the more intelligent protagonists.

The behavior patterns of the trolls have also changed from staying away from humans and guarding treasures. They have become more closely related to human activities. They will attack humans, abduct humans, and even occupy roads and collect tolls from humans. (The Three Billy Goats Gruff) in Norwegian fairy tale “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” tells how the three goats successfully used the troll’s greed and successfully passed it. The story of the guarded bridge.

《Three Goats》

Trolls keep the bridge. After this image appeared, it was widely spread through nursery rhymes and became one of the most classic troll images.

Folk folk scholars believe that bridges and other places near the waters often cause the disappearance and death of children, so people use terror images such as trolls to keep the bridge to warn and intimidate children and keep them away from danger. Strange stories like water ghosts and water monkeys.

The image of Takahashi Troll not only appears in literary stories, but also widely exists in Western-style fantasy games. In “Divine Realm: Original Sin 2”, the two bridge-trolling trolls near Driftwood Town signaled that many players were very impressed. (Because I did n’t want to pay tolls at first sight I was struck and killed by a second) , one was friendly and honest, the toll was only a few dollars, and the other was fierce and brutal. Not only did I have to charge a few thousand tolls, but also encouraged me to kill the other Troll.

Gossip here. Attentive classmates may have discovered. Of the various troll images I have listed, Only Blizzard’s trolls are agile. The other trolls are slow and clunky. Power monster.

Of course, agile trolls are not exclusive to Blizzard. Trolls in games such as “Invincible Heroes” and “The Elder Scrolls” give people a sense of agility more than a sense of power. What about this kind of transformation?

The left is troll in Heroes of the Invincible 4; the right is troll in The Elder Scrolls 5

First of all, this agile “humanoid troll” is also ancient, and it also appears in Scandinavian legends. The image is similar to a humanoid-sized mountain ghost, but there is no “stupid person”. The image of “troll” has spread far and wide.

Of course all this is only temporary, because at the end of the 12th century, the ogre (orge) appeared for the first time In the French Knight’s novel “The Legend of Percival and the Holy Grail” (Perceval ou le Conte du Graal) . The ogre is 3 meters tall, powerful and simple-minded, and often attacks and hunts domestic animals and humans.

It completely inherited and carried forward the negative image of “Stupid Big Troll”, and gradually replaced it, so after the nesting dove occupied, the story of the big troll began to decrease, and the image also turned towards the cave savage Direction, and the stories of the little trolls have naturally increased, and the image of the trolls has become more diverse.

Ogre in World of Warcraft

Of course, when talking about trolls in the game, or Western fantasy creatures, you have to mention “Dungeon and Dragon” (hereinafter referred to as DND) < / span>. Trolls, as classic fantasy monsters, already existed in the original version of DND. They belong to the chaotic evil camp and often appear as the subordinates of other powerful creatures.

The most important point is that, for the first time in the game, due to the influence of the Hugo Award-winning novel Three Hearts and Three Lions, DND added trolls with extremely strong regenerative capabilities, but was afraid of fire and strong acid. This setting has a profound impact on the troll settings in future games. A large number of games have added high resilience but weak acid to the trolls. (Poison) The characteristics of weak fire, the aforementioned Warcraft, and the trolls in the divine realm have more or less reflected this setting.

On the left is the image of the troll in the initial version of DND, and on the right is a partial description of the troll in the monster illustrated book

Let’s look back at Blizzard. Now you know how treacherous trolls in Warcraft are. Of course, this is also related to the original design purpose of Blizzard. The designers refer to the ancient civilization of Central and South America.