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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greppa of Tartwater" data-source="post: 663144" data-attributes="member: 10191">Reply to incognito's question* Slips into character *I was a slave amongst the orcs and while I bear no love for them as a whole. I understand how their lifestyle and environment force them to be. They hunt and take what they need and that generally involves the death (or general discomfort) of those they take from.  The orcs who live in Theralis are loyal to Theralis and they are not thought traitors because they are orcs. If I did not have my experiences with the Buhnaken or did and they did not turn out the way they did. I would be rabidly anti-orc. Trust me. If I had taken that mindset, I would have resolved to have seen the valley's surrounding the city continuously decorated with the heads of freshly slain orcs. I'm not at that point.They are thinking beings who've chosen war with us and we are not going to let them march in and destroy what our ancestors have built.  The orcs do not respect diplomacy. Strength and death are their currency and to not realize that is tantamount to taunting an armor cat with a grape for a weapon. Theralis must show strength to demonstrate our strength, the orc tribe attacking us must lose...we must kill them. We are not like they. When they leave, we let them. Savagery would importune us to hunt them to the ground...and admittedly given the results of the last battle, it takes Theralse morals (found at Seasong's website) to not give in to rage and sorrow and give up what separates us, and allows us to be civilized. The orc tribes who attack us may be bloodthirsty barbarians clad the stinking hides of their food, but we are of Theralis and we are better than that.</blockquote>

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