Characters


The Trull
Tied to the land or sea and intimately linked to humankind, the Trull are the faeries of norse myth. In the Under of Gothland the Trull see themselves as belonging to four different breeds, each with traits and a history of their own. Three stem from the same dark-elf ancestry, but the fourth, the Merfolk, belong to an ancient race of beings predating humankind and meybe even creation itself.

Di sma undar jårdi (The small ones under the earth)
This mischievous and magically inclined race of earth-faeries is the dominant breed of the Under. In the old days they often stole human children to supplement their thinning bloodlines. Now their territorial race grows weaker with each generation that cling to their Oath of Silence.
Meskalina | Lode | Moatmeat | Drul | Brodke, Small One Chieftan

Nissen
The Nissen are a benevolent gnome-like sub-breed of Small Ones who, in the old days, defended human families and their livestock from harm. As punishment for their close association with the hated humans, the Nissin families are now slaves to the Small Ones and seen as inferior to them in every way.
Jorme

Bysen
The undead Bysen are shadowy figures crying in fear and hate in the midwinter night. In the old days they haunted and hurt humans, feeding on their fear of the unknown. In the isolation of The Under they turn their hatred on other Trull or even themselves, seeking pain and fear as means of escape from their eternal suffering.
Greyhowl Dampsigh | Tanglebones, Bysing Executioner in Chief

Merfolk
Of the proud and noble Merfolk only a handful remain in the decaying coral palaces of The Under. Once these alien beings were the sworn enemies of mankind, seducing them and dragging them to watery graves but in the modern world they have become increasingly distant, choosing to live out their days in a compicated game of courtly intrigue.
Shoalskerrie, the Merfolk Ambassador

Other
There are more Trull-breeds, changelings, familiars and wizards in The Under than can easily be classified. Some have crossed over from other worlds, others have changed into new shapes and some are older than any division of Trull-breeds.
Bedrock | Hugin, the Raven of Thought | Vedla, the Witch