IN A HURRY?
by Henry Livingston
"Please forgive my
embellishment during this telling - Orcs aren't the best storytellers
and my translation may be a bit... umm, different on occasion. Anyhow
onto the story of G-Gore."
G-Gore, Abilai's strongest of Orc effortlessly towers over any of his
race, standing as tall as a full grown Hill Giant by age 13. He was
raised in a small Orc village by his mother Kerra, and father Gorge
until their horrible death just shy of G-Gore's 14th birth year.
Historically, as it is written by the Illumians, G- Gore's parents were
killed by a now extinct race of Stunted Orcs known as the Sootan.
Savage, yet skillful warriors that often clashed with their cousin
counterparts in clan wars for land and waterhole ownership, their stocky
dwarf-like bodies allowed a quick attack by day or night on many
unprepared Orcan communities. This "fact" however is not true in the
least bit. Truth be told from a village elder, that G-Gore's parents
were not killed by the Sootan but by his own village peers; as ordered
by their Chieftain Ga-Raa.
Ga-Raa watched G-Gore for many years before deciding to force G-Gore to
leave prematurely. He noticed as the young Orc gained a strength burst
of ten times any Orcan he had ever seen a few short years from the womb.
By 12 G-Gore was as strong as one-hundred Orcs and skillful with a
Falchion. G-Gore's speed and cunning made him a sure candidate for
Chieftain and Ga-Raa did not want to see this action come to pass, so he
did the unthinkable and striped the young Orcs only true tie to the
village; his mother and father.
G-Gore had just returned from a glorious triumphant battle against the
Ogres and was devastated as his roar that day was heard for miles across
the land when he discovered Kerra and Gorge's mutilated bodies in his
stone carved hut.
G-Gore demanded retribution against the butcher's that took his only
family. Ga-Raa agreed and told G-Gore that the Sootan butchered his
mother and father. Continuing he added that the village could not
challenge the Sootan for one family after so many casualties with the
Ogres and denied G-Gore his swift vengeance. G-Gore was outraged. He
spoke openly and challenged any Orc to go against the Chieftain's
ruling, but none were moved by the nearly teary-eyed, oversized Orc, for
they feared in loosing their families to the same fate as their peer.
G-Gore roared yet again, in fact, it tore holes in the Chieftains hut,
and then G-Gore left to rid the world of any Sootan that ever lived.
Sootan Males, females, children and half-bloods were slaughtered day and
night for four years by the G-Gore. Each time he killed a female he
could see his mother's face, Mutilated and desecrated, laid out for the
world to see what should have been kept private. For every male, images
of his father showing him how to fish and how to hunt flashed just
before the gruesome sight of the headless 'body that he once called
father washed the happiness away. G-Gore rested only when he had to and
ate when he needed to, solely ridding, nay, exterminating an innocent
Race of Abilai for the sake of a lie and to this day there isn't a trace
of Sootan blood anywhere because of that fact.
Three more years G-Gore wandered aimlessly about Abilai until he met a
female Half-Orc named Li-Fi who taught him how to come down from his
self-made mound of unhappiness and vengeance and deal with life as it
was meant to be lived. She bore him three boys and one girl. An attack
by humans killed Li-Fi, two male heirs and fatally wounded the remaining
male Glade, but Fe-Gah, the girl child, survived. G-Gore was overcome
and turned to killing humans until Fe-Gah stopped his swing with her own
strength. Yes she had his strength and her height increased with every
year passing. Soon she towered over her Race as her father had in the
past.
On her 14th birth year Fe-Gah overheard some of the Orcan women speaking
of the slaying ordered by a Chieftain Ga-Raa to kill Kerra and Gorge and
she knew this Chieftain was once her fathers and asked G-Gore if those
names sounded familiar to him. G-Gore, now 34 birth years old roared
like Fe-Gah had never heard him roar. He reached out and snatched up his
Falchion and went to the village he had once deemed as home. Fe-Gah
followed.
Upon entering G-Gore was met with much resistance as several young Orcan
males stepped in-between G-Gore and Ga-Raa. G-Gore made three large
swings and the males were just as dead as the Sootans he hunted so many
years ago. G-Gore roared and demanded Ga-Raa come forth and explains the
rumor he heard from his own flesh and blood.
Ga-Raa stepped out into the center of the village and admitted he had
given the word to kill Kerra and Gorge. G-Gore slammed his Falchion into
the ground so hard that it shook the entire area where they stood only
seventy-feet apart, and then charged Ga-Raa with his hands in a
claw-like manner. Upon reaching the Chieftain, G-Gore pushed Ga-Raa's
still beating heart though the leader’s back. G-Gore roared and dropped
to his knees. Ga-Raa's lifeless body slammed hard with a thud as the
villagers watched in awe.
G-Gore's eyes filled with tears as he smelled the nearby grove of
flowers his mother used to pick from. The wind also carried the smell of
the river he and his father fished out of. Tears fell fluently.
The angered Orc stood up and let the Chieftain's heart fall from his
loosened grip. Turning to the other Orcs, he wiped his tears and uttered
a phrase that meant who were the others involved. All was silent. G-Gore
demanded they atone or he would kill everyone in the village. Because of
their silence, he continued, a race had been annihilated and he didn't
want that to happen again, nor did they as he would have started with
them.
Soon the villagers confessed as to all the Orcs involved and G-Gore
lined them up. One by one he executed them by hand until there were no
more. He removed his Falchion from the ground and called to his daughter
F e-Gah. F e-Gah came along side him and he muttered that she was
Chieftain now. Then, without another word he left and was never seen or
heard from again.
Fe-Gah's Great-Great Grandson Ge-Saw is Chieftain now and for his 14th
birth year he received a Falchion from a stranger as a gift to
commemorate his journey into adulthood. A note attached to it read: Pass
this down to your heirs, boy child or girl child, as they become adults,
lie to no one and I will protect you, for I am always with you.