A question about trollocs.

[Dagon Thyne]

Could there be intelligent trollocs?

 

The trollocs we have seen are little more than animals, living off of instinct and only caring about eating, unless driven by fear to follow a more powerful creature.

 

However, we also know that human intelligence is dorment within their genetic code. Fades, which are throwbacks to the human ancestors of trollocs are just as intelligent as any human.

 

Could it be possible that a trolloc could be born with a full human mind?

[Barid Bel Medar]

No, not without outside intervention. Those "Trollocs" that possess greater mental capacity are Myrddraal , which are, as you say, the more human throwback of the Trolloc.

 

However, there are varying degrees of intelligence and bravery of Trollocs, they are not all one mind. For instance, Wolf-head Trollocs have been seen to posess greater mental ability, even the rare few that can speak the human tongue.

 

But yeah, no trolloc will be born with the mind comparable to a human. The closest real analogy would be humans - monkeys. You get some smart monkey bastards, but you'll not get one that has the full capacity of a human mind.

[Andrew the Asha'Man]

my opinion is tha that trollocs is made from the dark one and they are made for once purpose. To fight and not think for themselves

[Hagazussa]

No you can not have a smart trolloc, but some of them are a little less dumb, we have one in the first book who talk and show some reason, that was a pretty smart one, but none of them have human level intelligence, they are made to be cannon fodder foot soldiers and little else.

[Andrew the Asha'Man]

They are like the Grunts of Halo

[thisguy]

Hey, there was that one guy in the beginning of the first book who was smart enough to hang around and wait to see if Rand or Tam would come back. ;)

[Andrew the Asha'Man]

One of the few or only that show their own intellegence

[rand4747]

He would probably be considered a very intelligent trolloc, but could be beaten by almost any human in sheer intelligence, But for his reasoning he is probably better than quite a few :P

[Kamin_Majere]

narg smart... narg wait when narg thought best

 

narg do quantum physics and string theory calculations when narg get free time from killing and eating... narg very smart

 

to bad stupid dragon reborn boy kill narg or narg would fix world for trolloc kind

[YourNewDragonAndGod]

narg smart... narg wait when narg thought best

 

narg do quantum physics and string theory calculations when narg get free time from killing and eating... narg very smart

 

to bad stupid dragon reborn boy kill narg or narg would fix world for trolloc kind

Haha. Genius.

[Dagon Thyne]

my opinion is tha that trollocs is made from the dark one and they are made for once purpose. To fight and not think for themselves

 

But they are not made from the darkone. They and fades are one of the few shadowspawn that have no direct connection to the DO. They were created using the One power, not the True Power/.

[XoMeltdownoX]

my opinion is tha that trollocs is made from the dark one and they are made for once purpose. To fight and not think for themselves

 

But they are not made from the darkone. They and fades are one of the few shadowspawn that have no direct connection to the DO. They were created using the One power, not the True Power/.

Wrong about the TP not being used to create Trollocs

RJ:

The gholam—singular and plural are the same—were created, not bred. Supposedly their creation involved making them so that they would be obedient to the Chosen, whoever they might be at any given time. This was an attempt at copying something that had turned up in Myrddraal, which seem incapable of disobeying one of the Chosen, possibly because of the use of the True Power in creation of the Trollocs, the parent stock of the Myrddraal. Even Aginor, who created the Trollocs, and thus indirectly the Myrddraal, was uncertain about the actual cause. (Becoming one of the Forsaken involves receiving a mark from the Dark One in return for your oaths; this mark is invisible and cannot be sensed by another human being, even another of the Forsaken, but it can be by certain non-human creatures, including Myrddraal and Draghkar among others. This may play a part in the Myrddraal's obedience but doesn't explain it completely.) This element in gholam has some flaws, however, as we have seen in a small measure. In any case, if I were you, I wouldn't try giving orders to a gholam unless I were one of the Forsaken.

[Orderofolde]

Could there be intelligent trollocs?

 

The trollocs we have seen are little more than animals, living off of instinct and only caring about eating, unless driven by fear to follow a more powerful creature.

 

However, we also know that human intelligence is dorment within their genetic code. Fades, which are throwbacks to the human ancestors of trollocs are just as intelligent as any human.

 

Could it be possible that a trolloc could be born with a full human mind?

It has already been shown that the Wolf-like Trollocs are unusually smart. Some can even talk in common like Narg. Remember, Narg Smart!