Blood And Sand

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Blood and Sand

As written by the Goblin Scribe, Dakr’Ugluk

 

Introduction

The War Nation has a bold and bloody history encompassing three continents of histroy. The stories of the War Nation until now have been told orally and shared by our Elders during times of war, or when wisdom is needed. I have been appointed as re-teller of our lost stories and feats from the time of The First War to the Siege of Kingston, all of our stories will be gloriously told in this tome for future generation of Orcs to read and learn.

 

OOC Initiative:

I’ve been an Orc for over two years and have experienced every major event in our history as well as heard all of our stories that we have made over this time. I’m going to retell them here in a very organized manner by single posts, so I’d ask that we keep posting on this thread to a minimum. I appreciate criticism and possibly submitting your own story to me over a PM.

 

This will be a thread where I will tell many stories and write lore in my free time. I am on no time schedule and will do this and update it as I want and have time to do so. If you’d like me to tell a specific story about a time during Aegis, Asulon, or Anthos, go ahead and ask me and I’ll give you a unique perspective from my characters or another fictional character’s point of view.

 

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Blood and Sand I: The First War, Krug’s Wrath

 

Hundreds, maybe thousands of years before the Warlord Tythus’Rax formed the War Nation of Krugmar, a great city sprawled across the western plains beside the Cloud Temple. This city was known as the City of Oren. Ruling over the city was the first King of Oren, Horen I. Horen was one of the four brothers that was cursed by Iblees. Horen was cursed with mortality, and his time was coming. His brother Krug and his children, turned green and savage by their curse roamed the small desert north east of the city, slaughtering and torturing all non-Orcs, which is what they took to calling themselves. Horen believed that his brother was the reason he was cursed, it was he who saw through Iblees’s disguise and attacked him, which lead to the great battle between his brothers and the Daemon. If Krug had left Iblees to himself, then Horen would be immortal like his brothers, and know he dares to attack his children so close to his own mighty walls. The walls of Oren were the largest ever built, as tall as mountains. In the center of his city were two great towers, the Towers of Aengul and Daemon which were beacons of the strength of his city.

 

 

Horen was fed up with his barbaric brother and raised an army of nearly ten thousand knights and foot soldiers to meet Krug’s orcish horde on the field. However, what Horen did not know was that after all these years Krug had begun to harness the powers of the spirits from a mysterious plane of existence known as the Spirit Realm, which appeared sometime after Iblees’s defeat. Krug and his army had learned these strange magics, which they called Shamanism. When Horen’s army, lead by Knight Commander Edmund Perea, came out to face Krug they were awe struck and shocked as lightning and fire rained down upon them, turning them into piles of ash inside their own armor. When Perea and some 50 other men rode back into the City of Oren, they claimed that a great sandstorm of fire and death was coming for the city and that they should abandon it to Krug’s savages. However, Horen would not hear it. He had become more sickly and desperate by the day. He walked out to face his children, his people and told them that they must flee north to the small mountain village of Al’Khazar. With this Horen dressed in his finest purple and black robes, a dragon sewn on the front of his robes. He wore a great golden crown and mounted his finest white stallion, riding off to face Krug for the first time since the bestowing of their curses. Horen rode into the sandstorm, which was already beginning to engulf the city. Horen was never seen again by any of his kin. It is said that Horen’s body was carried back to the City of Oren by Krug himself so that he could show his corpse that his mighty walls were gone, and only his two towers remained. It was then that he buried Horen somewhere on the site of Aengul and Daemon. His body and crown were never recovered.

 

Word of Krug’s mystical powers spread quickly through Ancient Aegis and many children of all races went out on pilgrimage to the towers to see the destruction for themselves. It is said that it was one of the few times that Urguan and Malin ever left their own dwellings. From this point on, the Orcs were feared and their shamanistic powers respected throughout the land.

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Blood and Sand II: The Three

It is said that Krug had hundreds of cubs, each one claiming to have some sort of power that their father possessed. However, only three sons truly were as strong as Krug and lived up to his legacy. These three were the first born between Krug and his favorite mate, Ghralka. Their names were Gorkil, Rax and Lur. Each of them possessed strange powers and prowesses that no other Orc had, except their father.

 

It is said that when Lur was a cub, a group of rogue Orcs and Elves attempted to kill him as a way to get back at Krug for something he had done. It is said that strange wolves came from seemingly nowhere and began to slaughter the group of attackers, these wolves would go on to protect Lur until he was full grown, growing stronger and bigger than normal wolves and dubbed ‘Lur Wolves.’

 

 

Rax was unusually strong, his power as a cub matched that of many grown Orcs. Tales are told of when Rax would enter tournaments and defeat elders at the age of only 7 Cycles. This was unprecedented. Some stories even say that Rax would klomp with Krug himself just to test his own strength. It is not known who was victorious but Krug did not show his face for some time afterward.

 

 

 

 

Gorkil was an Orc of great wisdom and shamanistic power. The spirits swelled inside of Gorkil, giving him great shamanistic powers, similar to his father. Gorkil was said to have walked in the Spirit Realm frequently and it is said that his spirit is one of the strongest of all of them.

 

 

Each brother had many hundreds of cubs, females flocked to them for a chance to mate. Their children would spread out over the ancient ancestral lands of Krugmar, eventually forming small tribes and later clans. The descendants of these brothers each possessed the powers of their ancestors.

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Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.