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== Orcs == Orcs are the fastest breeding and shortest lived race in the city. Their status is questionably the lowest in the city, economically, socially and legally. Originally they came to the city as war captives taken in the [[Foundation Wars]]. Fifty years later during the [[War For Flowers]] the city was desperate enough to offer then freedom if they enlisted, which 90% of the adult males and 70% of the adult females did. An attempt by the [[Elves]] to renege on that deal after the [[Battle at the Ican]] was betrayed by person or persons unknown. A full scale civil war in the city was only averted by [[human]] refusing battle and allowing the orcs to take vital positions. Orcs are held to be stupid, brutish and uncultured. What they actually are however is intuitive, impatient and direct. Orcs get things done quick, if not necessarily as well as a elf, dwarf or even human could do it. Their ability to "hunch their way through" with knowledge they need not ever recall consciously makes them ideal scouts, talented field officers and useful spirit-magicians. Explaining what they're doing or did and why except in the most general terms is sometimes hard. They have to sort of scour their own subconscious and the effort tends to affect their language skills, especially for foreign languages. This is the source of the stereotypical "Grok hit right spot where not wobble." speech patterns known as 'Orcat' come from. They do however take on 'Orcat' speech patterns for ironic or insulting purposes when speaking to non-orcs. The best way to get respect from orcs is to recognise you are being insulted and how much and make clear you understand it. How big an issue you make of it is up to you. Orc families consist of a dominant male, several of his wives, his brothers and mature sons or nephews each of which has at most one wife, and the children. Dominance is a combination of social and economic status, fighting prowess and success in competitive poetry improvisation (Thruk-ga). When the dominant male is challenged the family splits with most of the males staying with the winner. Some (generally lower status males) will leave with the loser to form another family. Females exercise considerable control over finances, child-raising and other issues. Males who attempt to usurp that control can be ousted and sometimes even killed.
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