for inabind
Oct. 3rd, 2019 10:58 pmOrcs -
Average Height: 12-15 feet tall.
Average Lifespan: 20-25 years.
Notable Features: Average intelligence for a monster. Large, intimidating features. Fairly long lifespan.
Notes: In summer, they hunt and fish. In winter, they hibernate. In spring, they breed. Their breeding season brings about the most issues, as Orc children are never female. As such, they need to find other mates. Ogres, trolls, goblins, and other monsters make willing brides, but often they encroach on the territory of other races.
Like this season. Dark elves aren't usual prey for orcs - too strong, too long-lived, and not to their tastes - but they've been driven from human lands repeatedly in the past decades, until their camps, caves, and simple villages began to brush up against the borders of dark elf territory. So it was only natural that they'd encroach.
Of course, as soon as the dark elves got wind of this, they sent out a scouting party. But there had been an ambush - orc raiders, with large broadswords, cobbled together from bits of stolen metal - and the group had been split apart.
The orcs were definitely on the move, at least. Now it was just a matter of finding her way out of orc infested forests.
Average Height: 12-15 feet tall.
Average Lifespan: 20-25 years.
Notable Features: Average intelligence for a monster. Large, intimidating features. Fairly long lifespan.
Notes: In summer, they hunt and fish. In winter, they hibernate. In spring, they breed. Their breeding season brings about the most issues, as Orc children are never female. As such, they need to find other mates. Ogres, trolls, goblins, and other monsters make willing brides, but often they encroach on the territory of other races.
Like this season. Dark elves aren't usual prey for orcs - too strong, too long-lived, and not to their tastes - but they've been driven from human lands repeatedly in the past decades, until their camps, caves, and simple villages began to brush up against the borders of dark elf territory. So it was only natural that they'd encroach.
Of course, as soon as the dark elves got wind of this, they sent out a scouting party. But there had been an ambush - orc raiders, with large broadswords, cobbled together from bits of stolen metal - and the group had been split apart.
The orcs were definitely on the move, at least. Now it was just a matter of finding her way out of orc infested forests.