Midnight RPG - Chapter 37.834
Setting
While in Firsthold, just outside of town.
Conversation
Kyuad and Durgaz talk about the civilizing of the orcs and of writing systems.
Kyuad
Kyuad approaches Durgaz and says, "So, of this new clan. Does it have a name? Have you thought yet about how they will work with resistance fighters who are trained to see all orcs as enemies?"
Kyuad clearly expects that Durgaz has an answer for these questions, but continues, "The natural tendancies of orcs leans toward violence, does it not? Even violence against fellow orc, I've noticed. It would be best for them and for our success in the future if they learned who their friends are, and how to be friends to others. At least allies."
Pulling some loose notes out from the center of his Lorebook, Kyuad adds, "I would also like to continue our work on this writing system. I assume you intend for your army to be the first educated in its use?"
Durgaz
"They will work together because I am not offering them a choice. We do not have enough soldiers to afford them the luxury of squabbling over old hatreds. I am not telling these orcs to consider these elves and men friends, because we are not bringing them together as friends. We are bringing them together as two groups of warriors who share a common foe, and we are telling them to stand and fight together because the alternative is defeat and death. If anyone among them cannot accept that necessity, I will dispense with him by whatever means prove necessary."
"It is my hope that these orcs can be shown who their true enemy is. Most who serve in the Shadow's legions do it not out of any particular care for his goals, but because it is the only existence they know. We are brought from the warrens into the South, armed, and pointed at whatever our commanders wish to be destroyed; elves, men, it does not matter. It is not the reason that matters. It is the killing. It is the opportunity to spill blood, to crack bone underfoot, to hear the dying wails of our foes. If they could do so without consequence, most orcs would just as soon fight one another."
"No. The reason we slay elves and men is because we CAN ... and because we know that if we did not, they would destroy us. We know this because the Shadow tells us so. But the Shadow's voice will not reach these orcs any longer. So I will fill that void with MY voice, and I will tell these orcs who to slay. I will tell them to murder the legates who robbed them of their birthright, and to execute those orcs who remain weak, who do not possess the strength and pride to rise up and butcher these masters themselves. I will fill them with hatred of the god who has made his own children into a race of pathetic slaves who cannot even see the chains about them, and we will turn the full force of the Shadow's own fury back upon him. And once this is done, they will have no reason to care whether those fighting alongside them are men, fey, demons or the walking dead. All that will matter is whose blood they are set to spill, and whose screams are to be cut short by their vardatches."
"I have given them a new name. They are Blood-Wolves no longer; they will now be known as Dulugolauk. Their old commander is dead. Their old orders: failed. They are not the orcs they were. I mean to reforge them, and if they cannot be reforged, they will be broken and discarded."
"And yes, once they have proven their loyalty to us and our cause, I intend to teach them to write, and read. We will not be slaves or beasts of burden any longer. The Shadow forbids it because it allows one to craft his own destiny. I can think of no better gift to grant a race of orcs remade."
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LINKS
PORTAL | DURGAZ | ERANON | KYUAD | ZAL'KAZZIR
