While they brought down a barony, the effort broke the Suldk. While some are on the rise, building a Stronghold and founding a city, most live as bandits and nomads, eeking out subsistence living in the mountainous highlands around the Middle Sea; victims of their own greed and will to power.
At a Glance
Cultural Touchstones
Shephards, nomads, mountainmen, trappers, traders, bandits
Who is Strong?
A leader
What Does it Mean to be a Leader?
One who can control others
Common Characteristics
Descriptions
Scrappy
Convictions
By hook or by crook
Relationships
Does what they must
Preferred Loadout
The Suldk are split into three groups: the
True Suldks (referred to by everyone else as the Freslorf Clans), the
Bancsk, and the
Ogysok.
The
Ogysok have been pressganged by the
Rhone bandit
Sword Ernald and serve as his raiders. They've done well in that position and have adopted much of the
Rhone loadout. Most notable is that their traditional long coats have been converted into war banners as they have adopted the much warmer goat clocks. Guns are unknown among them.
The
Freslorf Clans are fractious, nomadic tribes. The living is sparse and wealth is based around sheep and goats. Where fighting happens, it is in raids for the purpose of stealing livestock or chasing interlopers away, with pitched battles being rare. As such, the True Suldk use light armor and non-/low-metal weapons (clubs, polearms, bows & armors) but that doesn't mean that they don't use heavily armor and larger weapons when they can get their hands on things.
They've shortened their cloaks, made them of buckskin, and reduced them to a single color with uncolored (off-white) needlework.
The
Bancsk, due to the position of a Stronghold and trading partners, are the only one of the Suldk orcs to keep the tradition of gunsmithing alive and thus the gun has become an important symbol of the Stronghold orcs. Currently, in terms of armor, they're split with a heathy naval tradition beginning to form, which prefers the lighter armor (similar to the
Pfaets) and the old guard preferring heavily armor.
The traditional orcish cloak for the Bancsk was made of buckskin but has been slowly transitioning to a hybrid of buckskin and more traditional, layered textiles. These textiles are usually dyed in more complicated patterns and pattern work along the seams of the cloaks are starting to be more common.
Other Things to Note
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