Orcs

Orcs

"It loomed over me, a great beastly figure caked in the blood of my fellow townsfolk. It roared something in common, but I couldn't make out what, likely because of the leg it was chewing on. All I could tell was that it was laughing, and loving every moment of slaughtering my home town." - Kaltenze Human Peasant

During the age of the old world, when the prime gods and nine archia gathered to build the world, gods of Chaos were closely monitored by the gods of law and neutrality. Myksis, Goddess of Destruction and Entropy, was prohibited by her fellow gods from influencing the world in any way. To avenge this wrongdoing, her three sons Gruumsh, Gorlak and Garekk sought to destroy the mortal realm to please their mother. And so, to the material plane the three twins brought Orcs, a tide of vicious and destructive brutes that seek nothing more than to destroy and dominate.

Orcs are great humanoids, standing taller than humans with a broad, muscular build. They yield a signature green skin tone, with large tusks jutting from their underbite. Orcs are a violent and brutish kind that revels on the battlefield. Driven by a primal urge to destroy, orc warbands are fierce and deadly, housing great warriors that readily level and raise towns and cities. Orc society is fiercely matriarchal, with most of the greatest Orc Warbands being governed by fierce women. It is believed that orcs have this deep desire to please the female sex from their god's close relationship with their mother. A male orc chieftan is not unheard of, especially as the number of female orcs is much smaller than that of males, however general inclination of Orcish society is to be subserviant to women. Male and female orcs are hard to differentiate, as both share brutish features. Due to the smaller population of female orcs, orcs are born into litters (or "rabbles" as they are refered to) of anywhere between 3 and 15 orcs.