Torrien

Origin of Orcs

Long ago, Orcs were created when someone angered the gods. Then those in power viewed Orcs as less than the "greater races" or as monsters. The Orcs were too few to resist and were enslaved by those "greater races."
They were mainly forced to build or carry things, and given small sad shacks on the fringes of their masters' land. They were warned not to create more monsters but having similar experiences and truama many if the enslaved Orcs fell in love and begat more orcs. Humanity was appalled even more when some of its own number took a liking to Orcs and Half-Orcs were created. Eventually, Orcs, their partners, and their spawn were either driven out by hateful men, beaten worse or escaped by darkness to find a new life. Orcs everywhere didn't know what to do or how to survive the unfair hand they were dealt.

Slaughter of the Slavemasters

Until they finally recieved hope. Rumors spread to all Orcs that they would soon be free. Kanga, an Orcish servant girl and daughter of an Orcish shipwright, was building a mighty ships so she could elope with her elven master, Prince Torrien.
The two had been together in secret for many years and had two small children. They managed to conceal their elvish half for a while but people in the Elvish Capital City were starting to notice the affair. One day, Kanga found her family slaughtered. The people hated her so much that they killed their own master and his heirs. Kanga avenged them. The streets were a bloodbath. Humans, elves, dwarves, all dead. Kanga had ripped them limb from limb, and when the other Orcs arrived they cried with her. But Kanga rallied and the Orcs looked to her as their Overlord (a Lord over all of their previous lords).

Kanga Claims A Country

Overlord Kanga captained the fleet across the Azure Sea in a fleet of Elven warships with her own ship at the helm. She needed to pass Keoland and the Anvil Isles to reach an uninhabited land she'd heard of to the east. Her tribe was worried about an incursion with the two races, but Overlord Kanga was clever. If they tied the bloody flesh and bones to the rigging of their ships and covered their face and hands in blood, surely they would look so intimidating that no vessel would dare attack them. Many were uneasy but Kanga was correct, Orcs were already feared by the others without reason, and now they felt justified in villifying Orcs. For that moment though, the Orc race was merely happy to have survived. They landed and Overlord Kanga claimed their new home. It was named Torrien after her fallen prince.

The Mission of the Orcs

That didn't last long. Their new home was a desert, it had some resources, but their old lands had more. Some Orcs wanted to return and slay the humans and take the land forcibly. Most Orcs recognized that they didn't want to opress others. Some were married to humans and had half-human children. Two factions were quickly forming even among the Orcs, with both looking to Overlord Kanga for counsel, but she ultimately disagreed with both.
The other races' assumptions would be correct if the Orcs slaughtered them, and asking for equality would never work while humans and Orcs were still different. So Overlord Kanga decided it would be every Orcs mission to spread their lineage across all of the realm, but never by force. From that point Orc culture was focused solely on bearing Orc descendants with an extra focus towards creating half-orcs. Eventually, Orcs and other races would be so intermingled that discrimination wouldn't be possible.
As a direct result of this mission, Orcs are typically:

• Focused on women as the leaders
• Very focused on motherhood, pregnancy, and birth
• Polygamists, with men working to support several wives or mothers
• Aromantic
• Encouraging of sex work, especially with tourists
• Extremely prejudiced against sexual assualt which violates a mother's body
• Worshippers of several fertility gods
• Willing to help each other during pregnancy, including taking over jobs and shifts
• Very willing to be surrogates, or to adopt in the rare case that they are infertile
• Very open about sex
• Don't have access to much birth control

Orcish Culture

Male Orcs are usually supporting several mothers who are bearing their children, both financially and by doing basic tasks. Most Orc women are pregnant constantly and are taking support and relaxing. Some have their own homes, while others stay with their upcoming child's father who tries to appease them and care for all their needs. Most of these relationships don't have a romantic aspect and are purely for procreation. However, nobody is forced to bear life or abstain from romance or monogomy - that would be a form of slavery.
Other men and women may practice sex work on the coastal towns. They are lauded as heroes of their race, who are bringing the mission to fruition.

Public Agenda

To become one whole, half race.

Create one whole, half race

Demonym

Orcish

Related Species

• Orc