Orcs

Orcs are one of the races in Aaon, yet differ greatly from all the races due to their tragic history and brutal present. The common Orc is rather strong in body and have a violent tendency, however they don't live as long as the other races; reaching old age by 50 (if they survive that long). One of the distinguishing features of the Orc is their tusks that they have great pride in. The male tusks are generally thicker than the female. The majority of Orcs live in groups calls tribes and are a very splintered group. Tribes are usually led by a Warchief and is the strongest or smartest Orc in the tribe. Yet, it is not a solid position as the Warcheif can be challenged and killed by another Orc. When this is done the old Warchief's body is eaten by the new Warchief, the old Warchief's male children are killed and the females are either taken by the new Warchief or cast out of the tribe as an exile.

History
Orcs are one of the new races created by ADarkus to fuel his armies. Captured Valar at the beginning of the Celestial War were tortured, malformed and corrupted by dark magic to create the Orc, the simplest creature of ADarkus' experiments. Loosing all knowledge of who they once were, the Orcs multiplied at a rapid rate and grew to become strong, brutal and warlike. After the defeat of ADarkus, they splintered off into separate tribes and scattered into the world of Aaon. During this point of time, Orcs established their own warlike culture and they began to raid villages and towns as well as other tribes to survive. If all the tribes banded together, it would become a terrible threat to any civilisation the Orcs went to war with, luckily, these occurrences are rare with the largest union of tribes (four tribes in total) leaving to the Frozen North to discover Landing.

Present
At the present, Orcs as a people are extremely warlike and tribal. They will raid towns, villages and anything they feel like they can get away with.

Rituals
Orcs are highly superstitious and the majority follow one Demon Lord or another and thus performing different rituals dependant on the tribe. Yet all Orc tribes share the same two rituals, rituals that made them slaves to ADarkus to a people of their own. The first ritual, the Blood Ritual is one that occurs when Orcish children become adults. It is a two step ritual; the first is for the orc to let a portion of their blood onto the ground, then another Orc will tattoo the tribe's mark into the flesh of the new adult. If the Orc cannot go through with the ritual, it will be immediately killed as it is seen as too cowardly to be an Orc.

The second ritual is one that is used if an Orc betrays it's tribe or if the Warchief decides to exile an individual. The Teeth Ceremony is a punishment given to an Orc and is done in a number of excruciatingly painful steps. Firstly the tribe tattoo is burned off the Orc by an open flame, the second step is that the tusks of the Orc are either broken off or torn out and the final step is that the Orc is thrown outside of the encampment of the Tribe and exiled.