Originally posted by CrazyMom:

Love the game, solo player, spending lots LOTS of time exploring the map of my spawn (big) island. Found at least 5 different Black Forests with trolls in each of them, levelled up workbench(es) to L3, got my finewood bow by sneaking in to demolish pine trees and rolling birch tree trunks.
I read about the troll armor hide. Can you kill them before Elkthyr, or does that trigger main Black Forrest raiding events that normally come later?
Even have a boar pen but can not kill them.
Also, the weather seems to change for the worst slowly but steadily, am on day 162.

no need to worry - the bosses will trigger events
so you can beat up trolls as long as you want without triggering other events