Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26863727-20161003140924

Marius Deximus Maximus was a... questioning guy.

Something he found very interesting?

Orcs. Orc culture, Orc weaponry, Orc art, Orc archictecture, and, most importantly, Orc nature.

Are they born evil, or become it from their nurture, he wondered. If raised away from their caves, would they lose their weakness to the Sun over time? Grow to stand more upright? Become closer to what they once were???

And so, he thought to figure this out for himself. he gathered to himself a suitable complement of men, and traveled to one of the old homes of the Race, where they snuck about in the dark, until they came across what they were searching for: a nest of sorts. Each man took up one infant*, and they fled back the way they came. They had, fortunately, left the caves shortly after daybreak, giving them sufficient head start to escape to safety.

Back in the Empire's boundaries, the Orcs were placed in the care of four loyal Praetorian families who had agreed beforehand to raise them in secret, and who could be trusted not to leak the information to the public. What next, you ask? He waited. The experiment has been going for about seven years for most early Fourth Age RPs.


 * I'm not saying this was necessarily an okay thing to do. In fact, I actually consider it a pretty morally repulsive deed. 