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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8111014" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>I looked at Orcs as hunters and developed it to become a ‘Blood Cult’. These Orcs dont have gods and dont actually ‘worship’ anything, instead Orc beleif is that they consume both the flesh and life-power of their prey whether they be animals, monsters or humanoids. The practice then is to catch hunt prey and drink/cover themselves with the blood in order to absorb the Life-Power of the Beast. Orc Shaman mix various ingredients with Blood and share the brew with the clan to cause various magical effects.</p><p></p><p>I also had another set of Orc matriarchs who worshipped the Mother Goddess and beleived that she had two children. Her daughter was born naturally and stayed with her mother but Her son ripped his way out of the Mothers stomach and tried to attack his sister but was driven out to become a mad raider. </p><p></p><p>Orc society is thus divided on gender lines, females live in settled and relatively peaceful villages. Males whelps are however driven out at around 8 yrs old where they go off and form all-male mobs who survive by raiding or as mercenaries hired by Evil Wizards <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />_</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 8111014, member: 1125"] I looked at Orcs as hunters and developed it to become a ‘Blood Cult’. These Orcs dont have gods and dont actually ‘worship’ anything, instead Orc beleif is that they consume both the flesh and life-power of their prey whether they be animals, monsters or humanoids. The practice then is to catch hunt prey and drink/cover themselves with the blood in order to absorb the Life-Power of the Beast. Orc Shaman mix various ingredients with Blood and share the brew with the clan to cause various magical effects. I also had another set of Orc matriarchs who worshipped the Mother Goddess and beleived that she had two children. Her daughter was born naturally and stayed with her mother but Her son ripped his way out of the Mothers stomach and tried to attack his sister but was driven out to become a mad raider. Orc society is thus divided on gender lines, females live in settled and relatively peaceful villages. Males whelps are however driven out at around 8 yrs old where they go off and form all-male mobs who survive by raiding or as mercenaries hired by Evil Wizards :)_ [/QUOTE]
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