Grotcaval


 * Orcish Tribal Lands
 * Government: Horde tribes
 * Races: Orcs with a number of races acting as thralls and servants

The scourge of the northern world is the orcish warbands of Grotcaval. This peninsula is covered in cave riddled mountains and sparsely gamed evergreen forests. It is a hard land of stone and snow, and home to the un-unified orcs.

History tells that many hundreds of years ago the orcs were slaves to the great elven empire of Onalia. They were warped and bread for war, used as reavers and raiders to do the most deplorable acts in battle that no elf was willing to do. The orcs tell a legend of the great slave Grotcaval who rose up against his masters and freed his people, crushing the elven empire and sending the entire elven race into the wind. Scholars of the Golden Sea, however, have said that the slavers and dragons of the south were threatened by Onalia, and assisted the orcs in their rebellion, providing weapons and supplies. The truth burned with Onalia.

What remains are the children of warrior slaves, armed with a fierce desire to keep their freedom and an almost frenzied pride with regard to their fighting prowess. They will suffer no slavery, but will allow prisoners of their wars to swear themselves to the orcs as a thrall. In this way the prisoner may earn their lives by being an indentured servant for five years. It is always five years.