The relationship between the Orcish race and that of the Humans has been dismal at best. I find this strange, because it seems that all the other races hold at least some form of civility in their dealings, but the same can not be said for the orcs and humans. I have set out on a journey to figure out what has caused this rift and, hopefully, find some way to nullify it.
The first side I shall look at is that of the Humans. Now, aside from a few slight skirmishes that the humans had with the Orcs when they first arrived in the land of Aegis, their have been no major conflicts between the two races. So, obviously, the problem must be deeper than that.
In order to solve this mystery, I observed an Orc raid on a Human town. There was the expected loss of life, looting of homes, raping of churches, burning of women, but what I noticed was that, after the orcs had left, none of the children had been harmed. And, to top it off, the only people who had been killed were those adults who had bourn offspring.
This event made my curious, so I began researching into this phenomenon and found that nearly 95% of the general population is orphaned. That means that of the 4,976 humans in the world of Asulon, nearly 4,727 of them have lost their parents, most of them to Orc brutality. The affects of this can be seen in the many orphans running around Asulon.
I found these numbers to be appalling. I now had an answer to my riddle...or did I? This explained the human animosity towards the Orc race, but not that of the Orcs themselves.
In order to continue my research, I traveled to a small Orcish city, which shall remain nameless, and observed the human retribution, which I found to be truly heinous indeed. As would be expected, the humans charged in and quickly subdued the unwary. Then, they would line them up in the center of the city where the Humans would take a baby from it’s mother, dangle it in the air by its foot, then release their grip, sending the baby plummeting to the ground where it would land on its head. Then, they would leave it where it lay and move to the next child.
After the humans left, the mothers would go to their children to check for injury. Seeing only superficial wounds, the mothers would bandage up their children and go on with their lives. Unfortunately, it was the damage that was unseen which is partly to cause for this violent cycle to continue. Of course, no infant can come out of a fall like that without even slight neurological damage and, as is quite obvious with the Orcish race, the affects are usually much worse.
What most humans count off as the stupidity of Orcs is, in fact, a form of mental retardation cause by severe trauma to the head as a child. This mental handicap causes slurred speech, a more primitive outlook on life, and, most harmful of all, a tendency towards physical violence, which in turn leads to raiding the villages of the humans that raid their villages and hurt their children.
As you can no doubt see, this vicious circle of violence and revenge must be stopped. Too many children have been forced to grow up without parents. Too many Orcs have to face a life without the possibility of higher learning. I say no more. From now on, we should all stand up and take the high road. In your moment of grieving, just remember this one thing and this one thing only. Stroke the beard. Everything will be fine.