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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 3330734" data-attributes="member: 35678">My giant entry is taking too long to do (There's a lot of in-campaign history behind it) so here's the Ogre one for now....When the Giants (whose true name, in their (the Giant's) tongue is Fomorian) invaded Amneron (my worlds rough equivalent of Europe) they were repelled by humans and (eventually, once the humans sent out many scouts into the far territories) their elven allies. Dwarves were deep under the earth and at this point were not a prominant race above ground. The Fomorians had no desire to wage a large-scale campaign at this point - they simply wanted room enough to settle. So, the northern raiding party, which was ruled by the Prince of the Fomorians, sent out scouts who found the Orcs.Orcs are Tolkienesque in my campaign. They were created by a god in forgotten times of evil, hatred and darkness, and the orcs were spiteful, decrepted (sp?) beings. The Prince traded many of his peoples daughters in return for help from the orcs, who were warmongers of the vilest sort. They had never heard of the elves before, living farther to the north, but swiftly set off war-parties to investigate the elven region of Angfalas further to the south, and east.While the rest of the details are unimportant here, the orc and giant blood mixed from this trade off, and a new race which was bestial and warmongering like the orcs, but tall and very formidable in combat like Fomors was born. These monsters were called Ogres.Many of these children were born, and this new races numbers swelled greatly, and the majority of ogres would live alongside orcs. This was, however, about 20,000 years ago However, in the past thousand or so years, the ogre population has greatly decresed, so much so that it's blood in thinning with further interbreeding with orcs. This new development is giving rise to another new race, nick-named "Orc-ogres", or "Orogs" by men, and who are smaller than ogres, but larger than orcs. [note: they are medium with Powerful Build, and only the name is really similar to this race from FR et al]."True" ogres still exist, but they are less and less frequent, with this new race of Orogs on the rise. However, orcs still outnumber both, so it's hardly like either are dominating, and the Fomors have been in decline for millenia (sp?).And yeah, those are Ogres in my games, and what I've done to "spice em up".cheers,--N</blockquote>

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