^ pretty much, it's random I've bumped into both frost and normal troll's at low Lv's, but I like to wander off and explore. If you stay down on the lower plains you most likely will not see a troll but if you wander off up into the high ground(not just the highest) your chances of seeing a troll are greater.From my experience.

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Troll
thats what a regular troll looks like


whatever is up with your game that troll looks great

I did not say a low level troll was a wimp.

Happened to me a few times in a vanilla game, I crossed the bridge in Riverwood then went up the hill towards Whiterun & there he was, I usually get wolves there.

I ran, I'm not ashamed.

If trolls could win awards for beauty, that one would. The textures...so beautiful...
Anyways, I've never seen a troll there, only wolves. Probably just bad luck.

Really? I have yet to see a troll that looks like that and I'm on console. I have only seen the normal frost and greenish troll's.

This^ and the frost troll is all I've seen. The one in your pic. looks bigger and scarier, troll's aren't on a Lv. system are they? As in, the one in your pic. is a Lv.20 troll while the normal lokking troll is a Lv.5 or something?

At low levels, a wolf always spawned at that location. I've never had it not spawn in the dozen or so characters I've started. I'd have to call it aglitch.

WHOA wtf. I've never in all my hundreds of hours of play encountered a troll that handsome. Is he like some kind of unique spawn or something?


EDIT: Found this http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Udefrykte_%28Skyrim%29

I've done the assassins guild 3 times now and never even pick up on that!!! Holy crap 534+ hours in and still seeing new things!!!

I remember doing it at least once, but I must've overlooked it and wrote it off as a normal troll. Looks like maybe OP encountered a troll with that skin due to a cache error? I've noticed a few odd things happening now that I have 4 or 5 characters on one console..it's like certain things bleed into other files.

This is true, I was very low level on my first character and taking a "shortcut" from Riverwood to Whiterun and ran into a Frost Troll up in the snowy hills. Happened more than once. I just ran away. The trolls in Skyrim are not very fast compared to their Oblivion counterparts . I've never had any trouble evading them.

Agreed, I never had a dragon attack within a walled city untill I made my 3'rd character, and now it happens every 3-4 times I visit a city weather or not I fast travel or walk.

Edit: not that I mind though! I like running the risk of bumpen into something that will destroy me while I explore, it adds realism, I can go for a hike in the woods and bump into a black bear or see a cow moose with her calf in real life and thats what makes my in-game hikes and real life hikes one in the same.( aside from the dragons,wizards,bandits etc....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a08eTlzZoZM


That's definitely him! He must have slipped out of the matrix, I presume.

REally bad luck, the best way to avoid a troll is to stay near low ground, don't go high into the mountains, but sometimes you run into something like a bear that can still kill you easily

your silver sword suggests you are a liar about encountering it at level 1.

Your game must be really confused if it decided to start you off near a silver sword and a unique troll from a certain quest.

And you decided to fight it instead of running away, why? There is usually a troll on the road to Ivarstead, even at level one. On my Wood Elf, I just hit him with Command Animals and moved on. On my Nord, I just run around him.