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Orcs have always been known for being brutes, savage and sanguinary foes.
Some have tried to understand them, to justify their ways by claiming that their size and the flood of hormones in their bodies make their frontal lobe less developed.
That this explains why they make such perfect infantry.
That war is all they can do.
But that's a very shortsighted way of seeing them. Every race has its own nature, its own way of surviving. After all, if your greatest strength is brute force-wouldn't you use it?
It takes something more to create an intelligent being. I don't consider orcs animals, but I do believe they stand closer to them than to us. Some even question if they have a soul. They clearly have spirituality-but then again, even birds and tigers seem to have some bond with the Creator.
Are they capable of good? Or are their "good" acts nothing more than instinct-an evolutionary need to keep peace among themselves long enough to ensure new spawns?
Then there are those who sink deeper, the ones who've lost even the crude laws of their kind. The outcasts. The lawless.
Their own kin fear them, yet never dare to fight them. Instead, they send them away-anywhere else.
Those are the ones I fear.
People say, "Beware of the orcs! They are coming!"
But not all come for blood. Some just want to talk, to share, to be understood-however clumsy their ways.
It's the others-the ones who kill for a whim, for pleasure-those are the ones that truly terrify me
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-Guilliad, Cave on a mountain, 608 A5F (after 5th fracture).
-Found among the belongings of a presumed explorer. The body was later recovered near the river below.