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>ages past, humans with their insatiable greed, and orcs with their lust for dominance, looked to each other. Each saw in the other, not brethren, but something useful.
>an empire formed, sating the worst of each race's desires, looting and conquering and tithing and enslaving.
>legend says the empire grew decadent and lazy, allowing subdued nations to rise up and smash it.
>the empire's doom did come from within, but not from the failed leadership of purebred human and orcish nobles
>most citizens had been half-orcs for generations.
>a half-orc inherits both a human's greed and an orc's wrath, but feels neither as strongly as his forebears.
>Did the half-orc armies simply lose the stomach for repressing foreign people? Did they resent the human and orcish nobility for having so little control over their base impulses?
In the aftermath of the empire's collapse, half-orcs received leniency for either refusing to stop the rebellions, or even siding with them. Half-orcs are now one of the most common races in the setting, and even get a wary respect for being tainted with the destructive urges of TWO evil races, yet still being productive members of society. Meanwhile, both humans and orcs are rare races generally reserved for NPCs.
Stupid idea?
>an empire formed, sating the worst of each race's desires, looting and conquering and tithing and enslaving.
>legend says the empire grew decadent and lazy, allowing subdued nations to rise up and smash it.
>the empire's doom did come from within, but not from the failed leadership of purebred human and orcish nobles
>most citizens had been half-orcs for generations.
>a half-orc inherits both a human's greed and an orc's wrath, but feels neither as strongly as his forebears.
>Did the half-orc armies simply lose the stomach for repressing foreign people? Did they resent the human and orcish nobility for having so little control over their base impulses?
In the aftermath of the empire's collapse, half-orcs received leniency for either refusing to stop the rebellions, or even siding with them. Half-orcs are now one of the most common races in the setting, and even get a wary respect for being tainted with the destructive urges of TWO evil races, yet still being productive members of society. Meanwhile, both humans and orcs are rare races generally reserved for NPCs.
Stupid idea?
