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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inchoroi" data-source="post: 7268886" data-attributes="member: 6752135">I have an area of the setting I'm using that I've built up a bunch of orc tribes with their own cultures and grievances; it's been centuries since the orcs have united under a single leader, the last time being a moment when the orc horde almost conquered an entire province, only to be pushed back on the brink of victory by the last stand of a hill dwarf city. The orc tribes have never been the same since. The orcs keep goblinoid slaves (except for hobgoblins) and use them in a similar fashion to cattle; a chieftain's "herd" denotes their power and standing in the tribe, while a group of three orc sisters act as the spiritual guides for the tribes, interpreting the stars and whichever god the tribe worships (there are multiple orc gods, which I've stolen from several settings). More than one tribal war has been started over which orc god should be worshiped. Orcs also track their power by the number of human slaves they have; in the setting, humans are the "common denominator", able to breed with the majority of the intelligent races successfully, producing sterile but hardy half-breeds. The hobgoblins, on the other hand, have tightly packed citadels in the mountains further west, where they continually struggle against one another for supremacy, and occasionally lend themselves out as mercenaries for those that don't care where their warriors come from....my setting is a little dark, isn't it?</blockquote>

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