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<blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 8835363" data-attributes="member: 6563">Well, in the FR (like in GH), orcs worship Grummsh and his pantheon. Part of the creation myths of that religion is that the gods of the other races (humans, elves, dwarves, halflings) took all the good lands for their own races and left little to nothing for the orcs to inhabit. Whether that's objectively true or a mythologized version of the orcish cultural memory of being displaced by the other races not matters little. Part of the text you quoted alludes to the dwarves of the area having been previously expansionist and nigh-genocidal and that probably just feeds more and more into the orcish myth of displacement.Between that belief, Grummsh being a harsh and xenophobic, martial deity, and the orcs typically inhabiting land that isn't very hospitable, turning towards raiding is likely rather natural. It's even likely that the orcs that inhabit the former dwarven strongholds are less likely to turn to raiding than their badlands brethren and possible that there might be more peacible (if somewhat xenophobic) and open to trade.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Azzy, post: 8835363, member: 6563"] Well, in the FR (like in GH), orcs worship Grummsh and his pantheon. Part of the creation myths of that religion is that the gods of the other races (humans, elves, dwarves, halflings) took all the good lands for their own races and left little to nothing for the orcs to inhabit. Whether that's objectively true or a mythologized version of the orcish cultural memory of being displaced by the other races not matters little. Part of the text you quoted alludes to the dwarves of the area having been previously expansionist and nigh-genocidal and that probably just feeds more and more into the orcish myth of displacement. Between that belief, Grummsh being a harsh and xenophobic, martial deity, and the orcs typically inhabiting land that isn't very hospitable, turning towards raiding is likely rather natural. It's even likely that the orcs that inhabit the former dwarven strongholds are less likely to turn to raiding than their badlands brethren and possible that there might be more peacible (if somewhat xenophobic) and open to trade. [/QUOTE]

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