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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5562298" data-attributes="member: 15538">Actually, RC has a more complex flavor than Coke or Pepsi, more similar to older Coke formulations. It's not as old, though, a little more medicinal... a sipper's cola. But moving right along...I'll share some ideas I had for orcs a while back. The original orc race was a primitive race similar to humans, but they were bred with demons by some ancient, evil, and eldritch god. In an early age, that force was defeated, and the orcs scattered. In a later age, a large number of orcs were gathered under the banner of a powerful spellcaster, who used magic to cross them with humans, ogres, minotaurs, and other beings to create a race less dependent on the eldritch powers, and more humanoid in their thinking. They were a powerful race, but after that force, too, was shattered, they spread all over the place and evolved to a more "normal" power level. Offshoots of older orc races still exist, deep in the mountains, high in the north, and hidden in the jungle, although the orc race is pretty well blended, and typically has a shot of the local human bloodlines, too. The concept is that they are the descendents of survivors, creatures with little more motivation than a good meal and the opportunity to mate. However, lurking in their DNA and their twisted souls is a dark, hungry pride that drives them to dominate others and to pervert and destroy rational things. While humans and others might regard them as brutish and possibly insane, they are reasonably cunning. Most the more nihilistic orcs got themselves extinct generations ago. The druidic faith is their solace, bending their hatred to a knee and allowing them to live in harmony with nature, just as the druidic faith suborns human ambition and artifice with a greater understanding of their place.</blockquote>

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