Since the last round ("group name") went pretty well, I thought I'd share my latest quandry, too.
 
Back in 2E, there was a book called "Viking Handbook" (or some such).  Pretty cool sourcebook, actually.  In that book, there is a new race called Trollborn.  The Trollborn are, basically, half-trolls.  But not standard D&D trolls.  Viking trolls are a smart and magical and shit like that.  Anyway, I pondered these Viking trolls a long while and decided I liked the idea.
 
I tweaked mine a bit, making them refugees from the plane of Shadow, having fled enslavement by the Illithid (that may change, as it hasn't been revealed yet -- maybe gith).  Anyway, they still have a tie to Shadow (thus, why I was pretty excited by "Tome of Magic" -- I'd been using psionics as a stand-in) and draw upon it for mystic abilities.
 
Anyway, I've been calling the race "trolls" for years, but still including the standard trolls, too.  The idea is that the local humans dubbed them trolls, while true trolls tend to roam a bit further south.  Anyway, I'm looking for a better (real) name for the race.  I've been rolling around variations on "darkin", "dirkin", "dyrken", etc.  I just really don't want the name to sound like "dark kin", though.  So, through some words at me.  Let's see what sticks.

Why not bastardize some Elvish and go with something like Torco-Dur, Durtorc, or Torcu?

Trollkin, Trowkin, Trokin, Troken, Droken, Droakin...

sceadu = shade or shadow

Sceadufiend?

Well, Vörð náfjarðar means "night-roaming hag" but it might be close enough for your needs.

Quote from: tleilaxusceadu = shade or shadow
 
Sceadufiend?

NOT bad guys.  They're a PC race.

Quote from: SobekNOT bad guys.  They're a PC race.

well sorry then! come up with your own damn name!

Well,  I keep seeing lots of scandenavian references to "trowe" and the "orkney trow"

So why not use some variation on that, thus explaining it as a  local dialect thing that outsiders took for being "troll".  :cool:

Quote from: tleilaxuwell sorry then! come up with your own damn name!

I just saw a trend in the names, so I was clarifying.

If the Norse imagery isn't required, you could call them the Daityas. Interesting bit of Hindu mythology there. Roughly equivalent to the Titans.

Quote from: Sojourner JudasIf the Norse imagery isn't required, you could call them the Daityas. Interesting bit of Hindu mythology there. Roughly equivalent to the Titans.

Hmm... I may mix up the spelling there, but the word is nice.  Detjas would be a Nordification of it.
 
Wait.  That name looks familiar.

Why not keep the 'fiend name above..after all even if they are a pc race, or possible good guys doesn't mean they don't have a dark name from when they were feared creatures, as opposed to your neighbor...of course you could go with svartfolk,or svartrou

How about Dorcha?

Texans ?

Greennecks from the Outer Beyond?