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<blockquote data-quote="MechaTarrasque" data-source="post: 8209829" data-attributes="member: 6801226">My premise is that a long time ago, the early gods rose up against a bunch of god monsters and imprisoned them (except for a big shark swimming in the 9 Hells and a big lizard wandering the Abyss).&nbsp; Orcs were created to guard the sleeping god monsters.&nbsp; Orcs (correctly although PC's don't know that) believe that they have to sacrifice humanoids to the god monsters to keep them asleep.&nbsp; They think that sacrificing &quot;weak&quot; humanoids (non-orcs that don't impress them) will weaken the god monsters so they won't be as much of a problem if they do awaken (this is not true but the gods with the most say over orcs figure it doesn't hurt them to think that).&nbsp; Non-orcs that impress the other orcs become &quot;honorary orcs&quot; and get the greatest honor of all, to be the parent of a half orc.&nbsp; It is a high honor for an orc to mate with a valiant (but ugly) &quot;honorary orc&quot; and there is a fair amount of competition for the honor when it comes up.Obviously this is a tough way to live, so the main gods who appeal to them are Gruumish (LN with evil tendencies) god of &quot;toughness&quot; and &quot;machismo&quot; and Bane (LN with evil tendencies) god of &quot;discipline&quot; (&quot;harsh&quot; is implied but clerics of Bane have some leeway).&nbsp; Any god not seen as too &quot;soft&quot; is likely to have some orc clerics in any sizable orc community, but political power will usually be concentrated behind Gruumish or Bane.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MechaTarrasque, post: 8209829, member: 6801226"] My premise is that a long time ago, the early gods rose up against a bunch of god monsters and imprisoned them (except for a big shark swimming in the 9 Hells and a big lizard wandering the Abyss). Orcs were created to guard the sleeping god monsters. Orcs (correctly although PC's don't know that) believe that they have to sacrifice humanoids to the god monsters to keep them asleep. They think that sacrificing "weak" humanoids (non-orcs that don't impress them) will weaken the god monsters so they won't be as much of a problem if they do awaken (this is not true but the gods with the most say over orcs figure it doesn't hurt them to think that). Non-orcs that impress the other orcs become "honorary orcs" and get the greatest honor of all, to be the parent of a half orc. It is a high honor for an orc to mate with a valiant (but ugly) "honorary orc" and there is a fair amount of competition for the honor when it comes up. Obviously this is a tough way to live, so the main gods who appeal to them are Gruumish (LN with evil tendencies) god of "toughness" and "machismo" and Bane (LN with evil tendencies) god of "discipline" ("harsh" is implied but clerics of Bane have some leeway). Any god not seen as too "soft" is likely to have some orc clerics in any sizable orc community, but political power will usually be concentrated behind Gruumish or Bane. [/QUOTE]

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