Slave Orcs

Culture

Shared customary codes and values

Slave orcs are all about loyalty to others of the same race. They know that they must stick together or risk losing all identity

Average technological level

Among the least competent with technology, being kept as slaves has not given them much experience with any exotic equipment

Common Dress code

Slave orcs wear whatever rags are given to them. They tend to dress lightly as it gets very hot in the mines.

Art & Architecture

Though no buildings of their own, orcs often secretly communicate through carvings in the mines

Coming of Age Rites

At the age of 8 orcs are stripped from their mothers and sent to the mines where they will have to work for the rest of their lives

Common Taboos

All betrayals among orcs is taken gravely serious and often ends with the death of the traitor in some sort of accident.

Historical figures

Ozgul Grimshank - Ozgul is revered by the slave orcs as the ideal person. His loyalty did not waiver despite temptation and if it wasn't for the betrayal of the humans the world would be a better place. Vilenok Gorshin - the de facto leader of the now former slave orcs. Vilenok negotiated freedom for the orcs after he managed to mine below the Twinbrook keep and rig it with explosives. The tribunal had little choice but to allow the orcs to go free

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

Slave orcs have a bright red skin on account of their high metabolism. These orcs are prided on their size and strength.

Gender Ideals

Both genders are forced to work equally hard in the human mines. The women are sometimes allowed to work as house servants for nobles.

Courtship Ideals

Long term relationships are difficult as orcs are reallocated by their masters as needed.

Major organizations

Will no formal organizations, the orcs follow Vilenok who promises them better lives heading north.