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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 5834338" data-attributes="member: 2209">In my Freeport Trilogy game I had a lot of recurring conflicts using the orcs in Freeport. The campaign was set in a sort of ancient meditteranean style homebrew with Freeport as a multicultural international hub of commerce with a mishmash of historical analogue countries and fantasy cities like Ptolus thrown in. There were multiple pantheons for different regions including historical and gaming ones interacting as well as worshipping non divine things like giants and dragons.Before the game went on hiatus as all the players were taken up by VtM20 fever I had an idea for tying the typical orcish identity to the multicultural historical and fantasy theme I was developing for the setting.Orcs have been brought in from all over to work as cheap labor in Freeport. One orc has become a vicious power in Freeport as a successful ruthless pirate. The party came into conflict with him and he keeps hiring more orcs to work with him or go hunt down the party.So I was thinking as a running theme the orcs would shout out war cries for their patron god One Eye.The first time it would be Grummsh, One Eye who sees all and fathered the orcish race from his spilled blood.But then the next orcish party would shout out war cries invoking One Eye the Allfather with his mighty spear Gunginnir and ask for berserker strength and hope for glorious death leading to Valhalla.Then the next time ones calling down curses from their patron Balor of the Evil Eye, opponent of the Tuatha de Danan.I've thought up a few more since then:One eye'd Polyphemus Man-Eater. Talos the violent storm god master of the gods of fury.Horus the war god whose eye was ripped out by Set.Harrimast, the eye-patched pirate god of Freeport.Vecna, whose eye is loose in the world.The Great Mother progenitor of the beholders.I had not included Tolkien stuff but Sauron fits both the orc and evil eye themes.Any other one-eyed gods or monsters from gaming or myth that you can think of?</blockquote>

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