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<blockquote data-quote="AmerginLiath" data-source="post: 8019151" data-attributes="member: 777"><p>I don’t think that Fury, War, and Destruction need be necessarily viewed as wholly negativistic. “Fury” can be presented as full emotional expression, not just rage. War and Destruction can be interpreted in terms of Creative Destruction, the constant tearing down and rebuilding/redefining of things. Rather than alignment or any sort of primitivism, consider orc identity (and their animosity with the elves) in the context of one of their prime defining traits: even moreso than humans, orcs have short lifespans and need to make their mark on the world NOW. an elf will slowly work on something over a century where other races won’t notice any change, while three or four generations of orcs will have torn down and built up things to try and leave some mark in that time. They don’t have time for social niceties or zoning ordinances — even compared to humans (who races like elves consider unruly children at best), who have at least that extra forty years to refine their individual legacies.</p><p></p><p>So the conflict of Gruumsh and Corellon is redefined even while keeping many of the same traits. Larethian doesn’t need to worry about deciding yet who he/she is or take the time to alter the natural world – he/she and their followers will basically be here for ever and can just prune and dilettante. But Gruumsh knows that his orcs are dying like mayflies with only a day to leave a mark; a mark that the likes of elves and dwarves won’t allow because it looks like vandalism or pillaging from their perspective of time. Humans come far closer to comprehending — hence why they’re the race that has relations (and relations) with the orcs — but even they live just long enough to maintain history in a different way, to be in not the same rush to leave a mark. The orc is a tragedy, whose “evil” (to refer to alignment descriptions, not morality per se) is a necessary self-centeredness, and whose one-eyed god is as much a symbol of the singular focus that their particular lifespan (long enough to leave a mark, but short enough that they need to do so now) leaves them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AmerginLiath, post: 8019151, member: 777"] I don’t think that Fury, War, and Destruction need be necessarily viewed as wholly negativistic. “Fury” can be presented as full emotional expression, not just rage. War and Destruction can be interpreted in terms of Creative Destruction, the constant tearing down and rebuilding/redefining of things. Rather than alignment or any sort of primitivism, consider orc identity (and their animosity with the elves) in the context of one of their prime defining traits: even moreso than humans, orcs have short lifespans and need to make their mark on the world NOW. an elf will slowly work on something over a century where other races won’t notice any change, while three or four generations of orcs will have torn down and built up things to try and leave some mark in that time. They don’t have time for social niceties or zoning ordinances — even compared to humans (who races like elves consider unruly children at best), who have at least that extra forty years to refine their individual legacies. So the conflict of Gruumsh and Corellon is redefined even while keeping many of the same traits. Larethian doesn’t need to worry about deciding yet who he/she is or take the time to alter the natural world – he/she and their followers will basically be here for ever and can just prune and dilettante. But Gruumsh knows that his orcs are dying like mayflies with only a day to leave a mark; a mark that the likes of elves and dwarves won’t allow because it looks like vandalism or pillaging from their perspective of time. Humans come far closer to comprehending — hence why they’re the race that has relations (and relations) with the orcs — but even they live just long enough to maintain history in a different way, to be in not the same rush to leave a mark. The orc is a tragedy, whose “evil” (to refer to alignment descriptions, not morality per se) is a necessary self-centeredness, and whose one-eyed god is as much a symbol of the singular focus that their particular lifespan (long enough to leave a mark, but short enough that they need to do so now) leaves them. [/QUOTE]
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