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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1845548" data-attributes="member: 1210">Galadorian orcs.Galador is the dominant deity in my campaign, he's the god of the sun, the law, and the light.  He's LG- and more strongly L than G usually.Anyhow, in 2e, orcs were LE and there were some orcs on a continent called Valonia that really wanted to be accepted as a civilized, 'demi-human' instead of 'humanoid' race by a group of nearby human nations that formed a powerful economic alliance.  One of the things the orcs did to try to wiggle in to the alliance was to start taking on the worship of Galador.  One of the cool unique spells Galadorian specialty priests had in 2e was distill sunlight, which let them make sunlight into a sort of flammible, volatile super holy water.  The Galadorian orcs took this to the next level and figured out how to turn distilled sunlight into a powder- called sunpowder- which proved to be even more volatile, and in fact extremely explosive.  Being orcs, they put it to use in warfare, creating my campaign world's only cannons and guns.  And to this day, they have kept the secret to themselves. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>