Name: David Norson Codename: The Troll Homeland: Oregon, USA
Height: 6 Foot even
Weight: 280lbs
Body build: Athletic, very lean muscular
Facial features: Long dark brown hair, luminescent green eyes. Normally wears a cloth wrap over most of head in deference to certain morlok clan traditions.
Powers: unusually potent healing factor linked to an extremely high metabolism, low level superstrength (roughly as strong as five men, in a rage roughly as strong as twenty), very fast reaction speed, and a passive anti-psionic shield.

History (what's gone on thus far): Dave had spent years studying a number of disparate martial arts. He used his affiliation with the X-men to gain short apprenticeships in training with Iron Fist, Daredevil, and a few others, learning how super heroes work their powers into their fighting style. From these sources Dave had pulled forth a new style, one designed for mutants and their many adaptations. It is the Path of Life. A style meant to be adapted to one's needs and one's powers. A style for mutants.

Dave did something unexpected then. He offered his technique not just to the X-men but to anyone else that came to him. He felt that it was a style all mutants should learn, that it was an art not meant to be hidden or held in Ivory towers.

Dave, already unreliable and partially mad from his powers, became estranged to the X-men and went to join the morlok underground communes. He still had loyalty to his former class mates and friends but he was not able to live in their world anymore. He was no longer Dave "The Troll" Norson. Now he was simply Troll.

Among the Morlok communities have spread small, self sufficient and self contained dojos to the Path of life. Some take in any morlok willing to learn how to become one with their powers. Some screen stringently and carefully along moral, ethical, and dogmatic guidelines. Some are merely fronts for mutant gangs. All of these are acceptable to Troll. The form will adapt and change to its surroundings, to build and evolve as it is needed.

Troll's wanderlust, once an ongoing urge, has become a survival necessity. While he has never been directly linked with any crimes beyond petty theft, several governments, including the US consider him a security threat for the proliferation of his fighting style to anyone who is willing to learn. Despite this openness, when he has a chance to teach he his art as well as the ethics of being a living weapon as mutants are, with many points of philosophy directly formed from what he had been taught in the Xavier school. In the morlok world Troll has become part folk hero, part trancendant. To speak badly of him among the outcast mutant clans is a good way to get into a fight quickly.

Troll still maintains a loyalty to the Xavier dream, even though he considers himself unable to participate in it as a true X-man. If he is a guest in a dojo he will not turn away an X-man and tries to encourage harmony between mutants and humans in his training even as he trains mutants to embrace their differences with the rest of humanity.

Recently Troll has heard rumors that his younger brother, who he had left along with the rest of his family decades ago, has become entangled in a mutant terrorist organization. Troll has returned to the great morlok holds of New York to try and find his long lost brother and hopefully turn him to something more constructive... or kill him.

A note or two on the Path of Life: The style, originaly designed by Dave for his own purposes focused on strikes that could make best use of his strength. However, he has work the style so that it could be adopted by others and made to focus more on grappling, blocking, dodging, locks, or anything else as powers and personal preferences dictated. The most important part of the style is to make a mutant's power just as much a bodily weapon as a fist or knee and work in tandem with the rest of the body. Further, the style encourages quick improvisation with weapons and hindrances including suddenly loosing one's powers (which Dave had personally experienced)

Dave had adopted, early on in teaching his technique, that outfits worn during training and use of the path of life would cover arms, hands, and face as well as possible. This was in deference to morlok clans that felt Dave's human-normal features made the freakish morloks uneasy. It has spread almost universally with the Path of Life style.

Skills of note: Foraging in urban environments, high level espionage training, and previously mentioned intense martial arts training.

With his training under the last Iron Fist and Daredevil Dave has a few minor abilities

Sense the weak point: Given time to still himself and sense out the current situation Dave can feel for a point on an object, a field of force, or otherwise damage resistant object and strike it with far more force than even his low-level super strength would allow.

Ki transference: In a calm setting Troll can tap a little of his own lifeforce to give to another. This effect is not immediate or obvious but it would allow for an injury that might take a week to heal to take a day.

The mountain does not fall: A very difficult to pull off technique and one that leaves Troll's reserves depleted, he can focus much of his lifeforce just enough to withstand a singular attack. It leaves him starving and his strength diminished.




But in another world...

He is David Norson, the Heretic, the Pagan, the Betrayer. He was a hospitlar of the Xavier order. But in a fit of errantry he went to join his brethren of the wood and hidden places, the Morlocks, and spent his years among them, learning their ways and helping them as they could in a world that hated and feared them. He has returned to the lands where witchbreed are treated more evenly... and brings word of a quest: to save the world, to unite man and mutae once and for all. To find new life for the Saint Xavier and have him come forth to a world that needs him, in its darkest of hours.

He knows he is hated by those that see him as an enemy and hated worse by those that think he has abandoned his code. But he has found purpose and righteousness in his path, and woe to those that would stand in his way.