cool ideas !
-The points of the trip is the heritage and they have to go now because the heritage are living things. (Dire animals)
- The trolls are very rare in the region but very dangerous ( the mountain trolls have a very basic language not very intelligent ). The trolls gonna be the encounters or the fight of the game.
- The legend tale of a gnome sorcerer who protect the (Dire animals heritage) but the characters cannot be sure of that so they decide to make the trip heaven if the cold was coming
- The Barbarians are separate in 4 principals tribes. All of then are under the control of evil shaman
- The place who are the animals is a mythic secret place. The road is a ancient road to a ancient lordship abandoned by they lords 300 years ago because of the trolls
- Nobody in the party have great skills in knowledge , legend or story or any kind most of all are great fighter and rogue
- The gnome are real and with is magic he really protect and educating mystic animals for a secret entity (close to the character )
TY guys for the time and sorry for my bad english not my first language
steph