Sep 18, 2019 9:58 pm
The Obsidian Empire
Capital: Fortress Mountain
Current Territory
Current Population: 165,000
Predominant Race(s): Orc - two subraces: croppers (serf caste) and knights (warrior caste)
The Obsidian Empire
Government Type – This is largely unknown. It is speculated that the Overseer acts much like a Monarch, but the role of the Sun Sorcerers make an argument that the empire functions as a magocracy. The difference lies primarily in how much influence the Overseer has on the Sun Sorcerers and vice versa. On a local level, knights rule/protect villages of the worker caste orcs.
Capital City: Fortress Mountain – a stone fortress on a mountain at the end of the south eastern mountain chain, the fortress overlooks the jungle below that is the how to a boiling latticework of orcs
- Precious Stone
- Minerals
- Ore
Predominant Races: orcs (2 breeds: Knights and Croppers)
Orcs are rotten administrators. As such, they tended to rove in small tribes, reaving and cropping as they go. At some time, they settled into a loose organization, where a knight would provide defence to a village of croppers in exchange for food and other supplies.
Knights are larger orcs, with four arms, and a gently sloped brow. Faster, smarter, and stronger, they are in most ways superior to the smaller two-armed croppers. Not that a cropper is small, far from it. As big as a muscular human, they are intense labourers and are born to serve their larger cousins, in exchange for a guarantee to their freedoms.
While not xenophobic, they do not share power, and even a well armed foreign trader had best heed the primary orc rule, "You kill, you take." Ownership passes to the victor.
Nobody knows from where the Overseer arose. With his collection of Sun Sorcerers, he quickly organized the tribes into a loose state, expanding their overall territory with a series of magically backed attacks. The blend of arcane might and skills as reavers carved out a large portion of the hot jungle as for orcs, and orcs alone.
Building a stone fortress on the last mountain of a chain, Fortress Mountain, the Overseer and his cult of sorcerers rule the Obsidian Empire with none of the disdain for administration as orcs are known for. Instead, by forming a network of guilds, which is really the word orcs use for alliances, and espousing rituals of honour and vendetta, they have turned competing tribes into valued neighbours. Now, the patchwork quilt of quarrelsome tribes has been forged into a latticework of mutual defence pacts hellbent on vengeance.
With their mysterious sorcery and dedicated labour population, the orc nation stands to rise quickly in the Covenant. What stands in their way is their laziness and lack of focus. As such, only the Overseer and his sorcerous cabal keep the orcs united and outward looking. Should anything happen to the central leadership, the orc empire would likely devolve into just another jungle filled with heavily armed and volatile mercenaries.
With the Overseer, however, the orcs singular capacity to accept rule without overthinking any order coupled without a disdain for anything not of the orc, makes them a dangerous faction indeed.
Capital: Fortress Mountain
Current Territory
Current Population: 165,000
Predominant Race(s): Orc - two subraces: croppers (serf caste) and knights (warrior caste)
The Obsidian Empire
Government Type – This is largely unknown. It is speculated that the Overseer acts much like a Monarch, but the role of the Sun Sorcerers make an argument that the empire functions as a magocracy. The difference lies primarily in how much influence the Overseer has on the Sun Sorcerers and vice versa. On a local level, knights rule/protect villages of the worker caste orcs.
Capital City: Fortress Mountain – a stone fortress on a mountain at the end of the south eastern mountain chain, the fortress overlooks the jungle below that is the how to a boiling latticework of orcs
- Precious Stone
- Minerals
- Ore
Predominant Races: orcs (2 breeds: Knights and Croppers)
Orcs are rotten administrators. As such, they tended to rove in small tribes, reaving and cropping as they go. At some time, they settled into a loose organization, where a knight would provide defence to a village of croppers in exchange for food and other supplies.
Knights are larger orcs, with four arms, and a gently sloped brow. Faster, smarter, and stronger, they are in most ways superior to the smaller two-armed croppers. Not that a cropper is small, far from it. As big as a muscular human, they are intense labourers and are born to serve their larger cousins, in exchange for a guarantee to their freedoms.
While not xenophobic, they do not share power, and even a well armed foreign trader had best heed the primary orc rule, "You kill, you take." Ownership passes to the victor.
Nobody knows from where the Overseer arose. With his collection of Sun Sorcerers, he quickly organized the tribes into a loose state, expanding their overall territory with a series of magically backed attacks. The blend of arcane might and skills as reavers carved out a large portion of the hot jungle as for orcs, and orcs alone.
Building a stone fortress on the last mountain of a chain, Fortress Mountain, the Overseer and his cult of sorcerers rule the Obsidian Empire with none of the disdain for administration as orcs are known for. Instead, by forming a network of guilds, which is really the word orcs use for alliances, and espousing rituals of honour and vendetta, they have turned competing tribes into valued neighbours. Now, the patchwork quilt of quarrelsome tribes has been forged into a latticework of mutual defence pacts hellbent on vengeance.
With their mysterious sorcery and dedicated labour population, the orc nation stands to rise quickly in the Covenant. What stands in their way is their laziness and lack of focus. As such, only the Overseer and his sorcerous cabal keep the orcs united and outward looking. Should anything happen to the central leadership, the orc empire would likely devolve into just another jungle filled with heavily armed and volatile mercenaries.
With the Overseer, however, the orcs singular capacity to accept rule without overthinking any order coupled without a disdain for anything not of the orc, makes them a dangerous faction indeed.