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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Festy_Dog" data-source="post: 1710804" data-attributes="member: 2561">[ooc: It'll take some effort to get rid of us, Guilt Puppy, we're a stubborn bunch. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ]After a short while Nurthk decides to take a turn and tell a part of his story."Bear with me, I don't know if you'll find this interesting but I feel I'd better keep the momentum up," Nurthk starts."I'm the eldest son of a politically arranged marriage. Just so happened the orc tribes and what some would consider slightly less civilised humans who lived in our mountainous home region felt the need for a formal alliance. Partly because of the harsh environment, but mostly because of giants who would prey upon them both. I'm one of five children, one older sister, one younger sister and two younger brothers. The orcs whose blood I carry had to learn to be more homogeneous than those you'll find outside of the mountains, they were forced to over time you see as the predators found it easier when we weren't united. Relations with the humans had been tense, they made an entrance well after my people had established themselves in the mountains, and were intent on carving themselves a niche seeing that another species managed to make the place hospitable. Even though the two encroached upon each other's territory, neither were crazy about the idea of losing valuable lives by fighting over resources, and so any fighting that broke out was on the scale of a heated skirmish at worst. Things were normally settled with duels and even then rarely to the death. A few generations of degrees of cooperation and the orcs and humans were comfortable with each others' presence, though the inborn division between man and greenskin kept each side to themselves. My grandparents though tried to change that by arranging the marriage of my father and mother. It helped a fair bit in regards to forging a more formal pact between the two, and my siblings and I were seen as the culmination of the best qualities of the two species. In fact, life was pretty good while I was growing up. Things change though and now you find me on the road. Stories for other times."Nurthk takes another swig and sits back.</blockquote>

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