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- I had it that orcs carried a fetish that could extend their physical range, but I'm not sure how that would apply if it's only a temporal range.All of this was just my brainstorming, so it's all open to discussion. Quote:
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07-15-2020, 08:46 AM | #33 | ||
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Yeah, it should be a big deal. I was just wondering how to reconcile that with the long timeframe. I was originally considering 3000 years ago for the Ancients myself, but then stumbled across that 7000 year figure. And relics from the war makes a lot of sense- it was probably their weapons or pieces of armour that their shamans bound their spirits to before their sacrifice.
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07-15-2020, 11:12 AM | #34 |
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Yup. Young goblins are generally picked on by the larger males, and sometimes used for games of Orcball... as the ball. The older ones usually survive by joining the <Hephaestus> related orders. Rumours that some join specific Darkness cults, and become assassins is an object lesson on why you shouldn't drink dwarven ale on an empty stomach.
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07-15-2020, 11:49 AM | #35 | |
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The Lori-lori are tribes of humanic barbarians that perennially raid and antagonise the orclands. They wear striking bird head-shaped masks mimicking the local parrots, kingfishers and raptors, worship an avian god of the underworld, and inhabit the wooded hill regions that border the orcs' wetlands. ---- Question 19 [BIO]- Queens... 19a: How long is a queen usually productive? 19b: Do queens' tenures only end with death, or do they retire or get deposed? 19c: What happens to a queen after her tenure? 19d: Do the queens have any role in governing the village or are they figureheads? Question 20 [BIO]- ... and Sires 20a: How long is a sire's term? 20b: How many sires serve a queen at one time? 20c: What does a sire do after his term finishes? 20d: Do sires have other duties while in service to the queen?
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07-17-2020, 12:05 PM | #36 | |
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Question 21 [SET] - Prestigious Queens What makes some queens more prestigious than others? Who's the most prestigious queen around? |
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07-19-2020, 10:45 AM | #37 | |
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Path of Coin Shamanism There are many different strains of shamanism, but the tradition that the orcs follow is, naturally, the practice they inherited from the warders, along with a few other aspects of their religion. In the Path of Coin, a shaman's, or shamanic practitioner's, interaction with the spirits is mediated by the goddess of trade, commerce, bargaining and contracts, Kishkech. In this, bargains made with spirits are accompanied with a payment of spirit coin (cf hell money). Breaking Relics A spirit's relic appears to it as a shining beacon in the astral realm, while its wards appear as specks of light visible over great distances. This allows the spirit to give aid to its charges and to find its way back to its hearth shrine. If the relic is destroyed, the beacon is immediately snuffed out and the warder's connection to its charges starts to fade. Eventually, the spirit may lose its way and become lost in the astral realm. Creating Relics An original relic must, expectedly, be of a form, substance and significance that pleases the spirit. For a recently deceased, this would usually be some personal item that they valued. In the binding ritual, the terms of the "contract" are set out and the spirit agrees to them, with terms such as who the spirit will serve and under what conditions. If the spirit is unwilling to be bound, it might be convinced with larger and larger payments of spirit coin. In the case of the warders, they had already agreed in principle about the conditions before the Battle of Mount Ze'hurim, so only a single nominal spirit coin was required for each. For refurbishing and replacing relics, the relic must be of a similar form, substance and significance to the original, for the spirit to be convinced that the new relic is worthwhile inhabiting. Any shortcomings are again made up over time with larger and larger payments of spirit coin, until eventually, with the passage of time and passing on to further replacement relics, the amount of spirit coin required for the next transferral becomes too expensive for the shaman to afford, in which case the spirit circle attached to the relic dissolves and the spirit wanders the astral realm unbound. ---- Question 22 [SET]- Spirit Coin What is spirit coin? Where does it come from? How can shamans obtain it? Question 23 [SET]- Kishkech What do we know of the goddess of trade, Kishkech? Is she responsible for any other domains? Does she have a dedicated orcish church and priesthood?
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07-19-2020, 11:03 AM | #38 |
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Does that mean that a sire's term is typically one year, as there's the annual hunting competition for selecting the sires?
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07-19-2020, 05:26 PM | #39 |
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Yeah, I think the way I intended it is contradictory with the annual competition. Basically, I tried to write "breed once and die" (I may not have been clear), which won't work, unless we retcon to multiple winners.
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07-20-2020, 10:44 AM | #40 |
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Let's say that they serve for one year, then we get this question to consider:
Question 24 [BIO] What causes the sires to have such a short life expectancy? Exhaustion, violence, execution, suicide, or something else? And how then do some manage to survive?
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