ORCISH XIONISM: THE ORIGINS OF DARK SHAMANISM

[Panashea 2644]

TO UNDO THE BINDS OF THOSE WHO GAVE US STRENGTH

 

OR'TA DOM, THE FIRST DARK SHAMAN

 

Control over the Spirits has escaped the orcish people since their inception.As fonts of fate and power, their greed bled into the will of dark shamans.As a result of their retribution, the few orcs spurned by the spirits have twisted the way the orcish people practice their faith.

Or’ta, first of the dark shamans, birthed the first path toward subjugating the orcish pantheon. Spirits could be made weak through the stealing of their TRUE NAMES. This art allowed the simple orc to wield bolts of lightning and easily defeat his enemies till he was bested by a Rax in single combat.

 

How had one who had surmounted the spirits lost to another orc? Shouldn’t the power of the spirits trump all?

Power within the spiritual sense is more fickle than the tapestries of fate and blood.Yes, Or’Ta possessed the might of the spirits, but there were an equal number of spirits fighting against his strength. In challenging the supremacy of the spirits, he invoked countless scores of spiritual enemies.  For all the spirits of control,chaos, and wrath Or’Ta had invoked, an infinite number of spirits sought to meet him. A single orc could not surmount the infinity of the spirits, and was best by mortal flesh. 

When dark shamans proliferated the realm, they irrevocably shaped the way the spirits treated the orcish people. Orgon subverted their strength once they saw it fit to cast the orcs away. It destroyed Vailor and cost the orcish people centuries of progress. Even now, these remnants linger and the further actions of the dark shamans relegated stagnated the spiritual practices of the orcish people. 

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THE HATE THAT GROWS

KULGAROK THE TRUTHSEEKER, REX-SLAYER and SPIRIT CONQUERER

 

That hate of the spirits still lingers. There are many spirits which would do harm. As many as those that would do good. Spirits of jealousy,murder, and hate. It is necessary to expel these from the mind’s of orcish people. The Ruka expunge these spirits through the divine works of architecture and blacksmithing. The Ilzhonal expunge these spirits from the mind through rituals of the stars.  

 

Orcish Xionism is not a blind hatred or mad revolt against the spiritual, but a means of defense. It is a means of casting out those that wish to harm the hearts of the orcish people. As beings of worship, it serves those who wish to remove them from the facets of their life by invoking reverse-rituals, or effigies then destroyed by their hate-filled creators.

 

As a Xionist, the orcish path involves subjugating and undoing the corruption of the spirits. Through speech, though twisted rituals to undo their power, or by destroying monuments and trinkets of significant value. This has birthed magics and perversions of the spiritual arts, and will continue to do so as long as the spirits sink their talons within the mortal realm. 

Edited September 2, 2021 by Panashea

[IsaaKc 1225]

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as you can see, camposting doesn't discriminate.

 

[The King Of The Moon 5119]

The scorned soul of Matorak, The Toad, last of the Uluamirzgai, smiles at the thought of his life spent attempting to liberate his people from the shackles of the Spirits... Whilst burning in the High Hells.

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You are a treasure, Divine.

 

[Omen Prince 387]

When he had witnessed those Orcs of Ur-Aegisia - once Aegis, now Xion - turn their back upon Krugmar to find power in the shadow of the Betrayer, he did not know them as kin. But when he fell into the same shadow, he thought, "Perhaps they were the stronger."

When he had long since stepped out of that shadow as they had, he saw that they never needed that Fallen One to justify their barbarism. But when he looked upon the monstrous thing he became, and felt the same innate hunger and bloodlust as they, he thought, "Perhaps they were the wiser."

 

But as he pays mind to their Spirit-eating and Spirit-enslaving, and watches them turn against those idols who proclaim themselves the essence of the earth, he looks to that old book he brought to the people before the Dark Shaman came in number among the Orcs, and he thinks, "Perhaps we are inevitable."
 

 

Edited September 2, 2021 by Formenost

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