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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khorod" data-source="post: 2095013" data-attributes="member: 1636">Thanks for the Pillar summary, Rystil.Oh, and I finally read the Dogmas post.  Good stuff.  That clarifies it immensely.Over the centuries, the Orcs traditions in Eyros have been distinctly watered down, and rebuilt to suite the sensibilities of all the races.  While Orc dominance maintains Orc values as important, many cultural traditions have been lost.  The ancient shamanic traditions of the Orc people have largely been lost.Some of this, most notably the Blood-Oath Magic, survives today in the Society of the Iron Arm, an association of Orc and Half-Orc metal-workers.  The Iron Arm idolizes the primal Orc lifestyle, but are simultaneously amongst the most educated of common Orcish folk.  While they are present in Mhur, they don't share the values of that city.  Most members of the Society are scattered individuals across the countryside.Blood-Oath Magic involves personal blood sacrifice as a trade to the spirits that help in battle or for more general survival of self and tribe.  In the Iron Arm, it manifests in the creation of some exceptional weapons and armor.  This equipment is never made by commission, but always for a specific purpose of the smith or his brothers in the society.  It is made in an all night ritual involving rhythmic drums and the spilling of the veings into the liquid metal.The Blood-Smiths would have everyone believe that this ritual allows them to make anything in a single night, but it is actually just the opening day's activity of normal item crafting.  On the last day is a more meditative night ritual, in which more blood is painted on the equipment in swirling patterns of war.Somehow, as part of this ritual the equipment is tainted ever so slightly with red.  Something about this coloration, or maybe something less definable, unnerves those who face against such weapons and armor in battle.</blockquote>

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