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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8756787" data-attributes="member: 82524">Orcs were among the original inhabitants of the world, survivors of a cataclysm that had built themselves back up into the largest civilization in the world. They were advanced, but kept the other surviving people's locked into a caste system that kept them from real power.Then the gods of the demihumans dumps the hordes of folks they saved from a dying world in the neighboring continent along with a bunch of dragons meant to protect them, not knowing there were already people in this world.The dragons went walkabout real quick once they realized that their charges were a strait away from a land of swole magic scientists and decided (with the push from a bad guy god) to go to war with the orcs. The orcs managed to defend themselves, so the dragons built a superweapon to make themselves what modern D&D dragons are: immortal superbeasts of elemental power.Around this time, the demihumans realized what was happening and called the dragons out. So EVERYONE got the mobile oppression palace treatment. For defying them, the orcs got their civilization ERASED; no building or book left, the orcs exiled from anything resembling a town on pain of dragon.Naturally, the orcs were a big factor in the resistance that overthrew the dragons centuries later, but then the hailene people decided they were going to step in where the dragons failed as 'shepherds of demihumanity'. Order 1: the extinction of the orc.More than one group of orcs turned to a nature goddess for strength, resulting in the minotaurs and lycanthropes, which have become peoples of their own. Most were slain by hailene raids.Today, orcs are all but legend and myth. People romanticize and talk about the Orci Empire like people do Rome. Orcs exist in small pockets culturally terrified of interacting with 'civilization' due to the constant murder, and they are largely survived by their descendants: the minotaur, the lycanthropes, and the human/orc/ogre/goblin folk, the hobs.What happened to them has become a teachable moment that quells a lot of the hostile bias against different species... because people don't want to be 'like the hailene' -- proving they've really learned nothing.</blockquote>

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