Once the destruction was over and the dust settled, so to speak, the races crawled out and stood looking at what was left. Their numbers were much decreased and their technology and glorious cities lay in ruin. The Orcs who had survived, who were once beneath everyone else because they couldn't adapt to technology as well, nor cast magic, stood and began leading the races. They could survive and thrive on very little and in that first year things went well. However they realized that their command would be easier if the other races were more compliant. They started enslaving the lesser races for labor soon after that. Elves, dwarves, and even humans were bound and chained, forced to work both stone and wood for the orcs. The orcs had the numbers at this time and took precautions to ensure there would be no uprisings.
The Art of Control
The elves were the hardest, their magic making them formidable enemies and because of the nature of magic, it was relatively easy for them to cast. They had but to ask the elements for assistance and it would happen. The orcs came up with a solution, horrible but effective. The elves they captured would have their tongues removed so that they could not speak. In the year of SF 232 the Damphere Plant was found and soon after that they perfected the art of Elven Silencing
The Dwarves were another hard race to control, having a fighting spirit and tough exterior. The orcs did find their weakness however. Their families. The orcs took the smaller dwarven children and placed them in pits, keeping them half starved and on the brink of death so to keep the dwarves compliant.
The humans were probably the easiest race to enslave, as they weren't strong, or magical, or even resilient. They just chained them and beat them and that seemed to work really well. This was when the races sought to flee, and together the dwarves, elves, and humans fled, sailing to the far east and south, following the guidance of the Goddess Syll. They had stolen five ships and packed aboard, leaving the rest of the slaves behind with tears in their eyes.
Years go By
As the years went by, the orcs devised better ways of holding their prisoners. The elves no longer had their tongues cut out (too many died from the initial procedure) so that in the coming decades they would subtly damage their vocal chords instead. The dwarves eventually broke, having their families tortured over the years did something to them that made them actually want to help. Ironically it was the humans that kept fighting against their captors, and the orcs could just find no good way to break them.
Slavery Today
Today, the orcs have a firm structure in place for their slaves, keeping them in giant slave towers ruled by the warlords. The various island lands trade slave stock for food and iron, while others trade slaves for work or even gold. Commerce has boiled down to breeding slaves, and breeders can get very powerful doing this.
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