Orc

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"The farmer's wife screamed as I impaled her." Galarak's lips curling into a devious smile baring rigid tusk-like fangs still frothed over with stout. "My god..." the bard started, "Whatever did the farmer do?" "I locked eyes with him for a long moment, I saw fear - then nothing. Quiet resignation." The table was silent. Galarak lowered his mug. "At least the farmer's wife enjoyed it." The bard nearly choked. -Galarak, Fist of the Empire's Snake Legion The birthplace of the Orc is largely unknown, for they share enough traits with humanity to be considered human, yet enough with beasts to be considered an animal.

Whatever became of them in long years after the fall of their god, not much is known - for they didn't reappear in history until the time of the Aeytheri Empire as brigands and raiders on Empire tradeways. The ones who had been captured were found to be ideal workers - tireless and strong, their enormous muscles capable of hauling more than a warhorse. During the rebellion of God-King Firion, the Orcs and humans allied together against their oppressors, and thus the vengeance of the Orc was known. Most would return to the Shadowfell to rejoin their ancestral tribes, while others would forge a place for themselves within the new Empire, free of chains but burdened by blood. Orcs in the Heartlands were often considered brutes, unfit for the rigid feudal structures found within - and while many would prove that true, many others integrated firmly into Heartland culture, much to the dismay of civilized nobility. This would not last, however, for when the flood came that marked the end of Trajan's Empire in the Third Era, old

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