Borolin is the name of an Irish nature-spirit, combining aspects of both animal and vegetable, sometimes represented as a green lion made of leaves. The Borolin ID was created initially by whitehound, q.v., as an alternative to the whitehound ID itself, because the ffn server had thrown some sort of wobbly and the whitehound ID wasn't coming up properly.

The Borolin ID is now being used to float stories produced collaboratively by whitehound and by Dyce, q.v. - rather than break ffn rules by running the same story twice, under each of our separate IDs.