Orcish Ouroboros

‌The ouroboros is a very important concept within orcish culture with its origins found as far back as Giant’s End, though on the orc’s island home the ouroboros has a much more philosophical meaning then the Kazak’s more literal interpretation. The self-eating snake is a metaphor for how all Thragga culture is inevitably self-devouring in nature, how the greatest threat to all orcish culture is not any outside force but the orcs themselves, it also illustrates the curse of the scourge which dooms the Thragga as well as all other orcs to cannibalize in order to survive their dark twisted environment from which they are the harbinger.

What led to the self-eating snake to take on a more literal meaning amongst the Kazak was the traumatic event that was the War of Fierce Howls, in which they were forced to flee north from the ouroboros but in the end couldn’t escape it as the beginning of the Steppe Wars took place, in many ways the Kazak’s worship the ouroboros as a god of war and destruction that has forced itself upon the orcish race as its vile patron deity whether they approve of it or not. It has even taken on its own name in Kazak culture, the Grrca or Twisted One.