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<blockquote data-quote="delphonso" data-source="post: 8033006" data-attributes="member: 6892015"><p>Spit-balling some ideas here...</p><p></p><p>Origins:</p><p>Orcs have been around from a time before any other sentient race. Their own history lost, even to the gods, some suggest they killed their creator in a time before time, other suggest orcs were a mistake that the gods refuse to admit, and others still say the first orc spawned when a rock refused to roll downhill. </p><p></p><p>Current state:</p><p>Orcs are incredibly hearty and have strong natural instincts in all measures. Orcs learned that warfare was the way to survive after being pushed back by human, elven, and dwarven empires in years past. The purpose of war lost on them as it is on most people. Warbands of Orcs form as a survival mechanism, each accurately sizing up eachother by strength, a natural hierarchy forms in their wandering mobs. When enough Orcs gather, their perception joins into a gestalt "war sense" telling them where a fight is happening nearby, so they might join to prosper as the victors. Countless battles have been thrown into chaos as an unaligned orcish warband rolled into the front lines taking on soldiers from two opposing armies. Great tacticians have been foiled by the chaos and greater still have counted on it. Needless to say, empires no longer dispute over orcish lands.</p><p></p><p>The wandering mobs give the homelands some level of protection in the form of that diversion. The orcish mountain tops are places of peaceful pleasures contrasted with tough environments only the orcs and their goats can survive or traverse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delphonso, post: 8033006, member: 6892015"] Spit-balling some ideas here... Origins: Orcs have been around from a time before any other sentient race. Their own history lost, even to the gods, some suggest they killed their creator in a time before time, other suggest orcs were a mistake that the gods refuse to admit, and others still say the first orc spawned when a rock refused to roll downhill. Current state: Orcs are incredibly hearty and have strong natural instincts in all measures. Orcs learned that warfare was the way to survive after being pushed back by human, elven, and dwarven empires in years past. The purpose of war lost on them as it is on most people. Warbands of Orcs form as a survival mechanism, each accurately sizing up eachother by strength, a natural hierarchy forms in their wandering mobs. When enough Orcs gather, their perception joins into a gestalt "war sense" telling them where a fight is happening nearby, so they might join to prosper as the victors. Countless battles have been thrown into chaos as an unaligned orcish warband rolled into the front lines taking on soldiers from two opposing armies. Great tacticians have been foiled by the chaos and greater still have counted on it. Needless to say, empires no longer dispute over orcish lands. The wandering mobs give the homelands some level of protection in the form of that diversion. The orcish mountain tops are places of peaceful pleasures contrasted with tough environments only the orcs and their goats can survive or traverse. [/QUOTE]
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