Bajlauken
The Spawning Pool is a stinking charnel bog full of slime-encrusted, brackish muckwater. The stones protruding jaggedly from the filth glow black, and bubbles swell and burst releasing colorful explosions of raw, wild magic. The area is never fully empty, and always present are at least a few chanting orc shamans and screaming or sobbing captives ready to be sacrificed.
Purpose / Function
The Spawning Pool is used to create Orcs. While some are born a more natural way, the majority are born from the blood of sacrifices slain atop the membranous scum of the pool.
Alterations
Shrines of Makub have been haphazardly erected at seemingly random intervals surrounding the muck. Additionally, an island made from pylons of piled skulls has been established in the center of the mire, where the Gru'Bajlauken live.
Defenses
Present at the pool are always at least two but sometimes as many as a dozen Orc clans trading sacrifices for recruits. If these brutes have any rules at all, it's that violence is strictly prohibited at the pool. Should the pool be threatened, every Orc Clan in the Badlands would rush to its defense.
History
Very soon after the Ruinous Years, the first Orcs began to die off. The unstable wild magic that had warped them from Hobgoblin stock had many unhealthy side effects and extinction seemed eminent. The remainders of the race dug a huge fighting pit and chose to die fighting, slaying and eating and degrading each other in an orgy of violence and horror for weeks on end. The whole of the Orc race butchered itself to avoid dying of runaway tumors and bone melting degeneration. Their blood and rent flesh and offal filled the fighting pit. The last few Orcs simply drowned in the remains.
It was less than a week before the modern Orcs crawled from the ooze. They were born knowing the nature of the pool, and the Gru'Bajlauken were formed almost immediately from the new females.
Alternative Names
The Spawning Pool
Type
Shrine
Parent Location
Owning Organization
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