Hope

Hope is the half orc rouge of the party, Hope claims to be the son of the orc king however Hope is completely unaware of other orcs and their history. The world of Hourus is ancient and lived in so much so that history is regularly forgotten and fades into myth and legend. Roughly 300 years before Hopes time and the events of "The Dragons Eye" Orcs were just as common to see as humans or elves. Orcs at this time however were a scourge, a menace, the stuff of nightmares. Not a single one of the kingdoms nor their best scholars knew where exactly Orcs came from other than the fact that one day they werent there and the next they were. Within a few years what was known as "The Green Tide" began during this time hundreds of thousand Orcs attacked every Kingdom without remorse. Not a single kingdom could push back the Orc tide: not the humans, elves, dwarves, dragonborns. No one could stop what was seen at the time as the end of the world. All the Kingdoms at the time could do was slow down the Orcs but never stop them. A team of what was left of the worlds best were assembled to find a way to stop the Green Tide. Not much remains known about this team except that a mysterious young mage lead the team to the answers they were looking for. The young mage figured out that the Orcs weren't a threat in small numbers the issue was however that the Orcs had been allowed to populate so much that a "King Orc" for lack of a better term had been born. This King Orc had the physical prowess and the intelligence to lead the Orcs on their rampage. The young mage correctly surmised that if the King Orc was killed the rest of the Orcs would start to loose cohesion. The young mage knew even if they killed the King Orc the Green Tide would remain however it would be left dealing with a power vacuum thus stunted and giving the surviving kingdoms the chance to mobilize whats left of their troops into an Orc extermination force. With this information in hand the mage secretly conspired with several kings and queens to convince them of his genocidal plan behind the back of his party members. Eventually the emergency party would kill the King Orc. Its not known who survived or died in the battle with the King Orc however that may not even matter for it is said that after the battle the Mage turned against his allies people he had traveled with for a year and murdered them because he knew they would oppose his plan of racial lobotomy. As soon as the Mage finished his work he contacted the Kings and Queens of the realm and they proceeded with the Orc Extermination Plan. The Kingdoms proceeded to carefully wipe out nearly the entire Orc population it is estimated that only 500 orcs survived the extermination and that was by design. The mage knew something the Kings and Queens didnt and was very deliberate not to completely erase every Orc. The Orcs that remained were spread throughout the land and every time the Orc population neared 2,000 or there was rumors of a particularly special Orc a special Inquisition team was dispatched to stamp the problem out. All that remains of the Orcs now are basically retarded and mentally inept individuals lying in their own shit. Hope will learn all of this the hard way, eventually Hope will meet his father however his father will be a fat out of shape decrepit old man who speaks in broken English and could care less about his son for all he wants is his ale. Hope can try and resurrect his race and will have several opportunities to do so or he can simply do nothing. If Hope does choose to resurrect his race the Inquisition will hunt him down until the end of time.