Vipera,

More pleasanter and all that was intentional. The double "there were" wasn't, but, well, it's hard to proofread your own work. Or maybe it's just more harder for me.

Vegetable,

Utopia? No. Not a conscious one, anyway.



Trinimac getting void-[censored]ted happened so far in the past, who knows the truth? All we have is Malak's Book of Invective, a few stone and iron tablets being dug up at Orsinium, and Orcish liturgy patterned after Malak's original words, repeated in a baritone chant on holy days (tathagatagarbha, garba, garba gabastard, tathagatagarbha, garba, garba garbastard, tathagatagarbha...).

Officially, The new PGE says that the faction believes Malak is a pretender wishing to keep them as perpetual pariahs and that Trinimac still lives somehow. It never gives specifics. But it does identify the digestive journey of Trinimac as a legend, not a fact. And when we consider that this happened before the War of the First Council, the exact details of which are likewise obscured, we can see how maybe the orcs were mistaken about their origins.

A few other official http://til.gamingsource.net/obbooks/father_niben.shtml floating around are trying to reassert orcs as aboriginal beastfolk, though, so that might tie into things somehow. Although that's so BATW that it hurts.

I'm not sure if that answers your question. But Tedders would probably be the best person to ask, as he's the one that wrote the new PGE.

Lorus,

Oh, there'll be more. I might to return to the orcs in the future, perhaps exploring their close rivalry with the nearby Nords and Breto-nords, but there are a few things waiting in the wings that promise to far surpass this dirty little gem. And they'll be truly magical.

Ah, I thought so.

I hope I didn't come off as a Grammar Nazi. :hehe:

This is a wonderful meditation on the metaphysics of poo! So cleverly and beautifully written. My favourite bit: "May he sink deep into his own ordure like the merdivorous cackard that he is!" And the final sentence. Surely you must be British?

As for the literary references, may I hazard a guess at Paradise Lost, especially Satan's speech to the fallen angels at the "Synod of the Gods".

As for as official lore is concerned, I hope they keep Orcs as warped elves. I like Malacath as the friend of the outcast and proclaimer of liberty and equality.

No, though I'm big on British literature. I'm a colonial. An Australian.


Wow. This is something of a surprise to me, because I think you just uncovered a subconscious influence. I was actually reading Paradise Lost at the time of writing, so some of it may have definitely stuck.

This entire story actually started off as an attempt to write an imitation of an Albert Camus short story, The Renegade, and was intended to be a very grim work on goblins and goblin beliefs. The only element that made it into this story was the existentialist undertones.

Thanks for the praise.

I've always thought of Milton as a kind of proto-Existentialist, as this would explain his spectacular failure to "justify the ways of god to man" in the poem and his obvious sympathy for the fallen angels - the first 'outsiders'. So that makes sense! Great work, hope to see lots more.

I laughed uproariously at this. I particularly liked the curse for Bothog, "may his bowels bleed in unusual colors."

this is pretty good, unique, and I'm tired of all the other elves' views, this is best

Albides:

Can I use this as a book (credited to you) in an upcoming Morrowind Mod?
(LGNPC Secret Masters).

Since you bumped my story up again, sure, why not.

I can't believe I missed this! What a gem! Orcs and poop, it doesn't get much better.

Thank FSM this somehow rose mysteriously up from the depths, I almost missed out! The Gods of Forum Diving have truly smiled upon me today.

Oh dung! I missed it. Great story and great fart. Love it.

With Albides permission, this story was included as a book in the Morrowind mod LGNPC Secret Masters. It was released this week.

Oh wow, I always wanted to hear how the orcs would state the creation story, this rules. it's awesome as :chaos:

Too bad the parchment it's written on smells so bad, I think an orc borrowed it when he went to the bathroom.

If ever I think of this subject in future I shall think of you - life is what you make of it - in your case I recon that makes you an Imperial Albides - and explains much.