[16] Orcenge

[Supremacy 3357]

Author/s: Lagomorphia

 

 

REGION 16: Orcenge

 

The orcs do not built to last the centuries. They know that they could be driven from their camps any day, and their wooden huts are designed to be both built, repaired and torn down as quickly as possible. Having structures future civilisations can uncover, caked in dust, doesn’t do them any good.

 

The orcs of ancient times were nomadic, and next to nothing remains save for a few carvings on cave walls. Only one artifact of the ancient orcs remains, a stone henge used as a meeting ground between ancient orcish clans.

Why the henge would be built there instead of anywhere else is unclear at first, but the significance becomes clear to the explorer. The place is a proving ground: nearby lies a deep cave, filled with traps and hostile spiders. At its deepest depth lies the cave of a great mother Scaddernak, far too big to ever leave the cave and tended to by her young. This creature must be ancient, thousands of years old. It isn’t clear if the orcs worshipped this scaddernak before the time of Krug, sought to prevent its escape or used the cave as a proving ground, a trial of strength and skill to descent into the cave and recover the creature’s eggs, then escape alive.