They are now a thing of the past, and the main body was completely defeated by the army of conquerors. Although some of them escaped into the Giant Plains, they could no longer be successful and could only become vassals and thugs of other monster tribes.
Second only to the Troll Kingdom is the Hobgoblin tribe. Their organized warlord characteristics make them very competitive in the wilderness, and the Giant Plains is no exception.
It's just that they are the priority targets of the goblins in Blood Gorge City for annexation.
Nowadays, except for the goblins of Blood Gorge City, no other large-scale and organized goblin tribes can be seen in the Plains of Giants.
They have either become part of Blood Gap City, or they have escaped into the Giant's Run Mountains or the Troll Mountains to hide.
After the two head races were knocked off, the race that was originally suppressed by them naturally came up from behind, and they were those dirty orcs.
In Faerun, orcs are synonymous with savagery and destruction.
They rarely engage in production. The living materials they need are either provided by enslaving other races or plundered through war. They will not let go not only of intelligent races, but also of monster races.
They are everywhere in the wilderness. Whether they are intelligent races or monster races, they hate them deeply and maintain a high-pressure war state.
But they were never able to exterminate them. On the contrary, many towns of intelligent creatures were occupied and destroyed by them, and many monster tribes were wiped out by them.
This is mainly related to two aspects.
On the one hand, it is naturally their strong fighting power. This kind of humanoid creature has a pig-like face, with huge fangs protruding from the outside of its lips. It has a stooped body like a gorilla, dragging a pair of ridiculously thick arms. It is as strong as Hobgoblins are indistinguishable.
If fighting alone, at the same level, it is difficult for the hobgoblins to be the opponents of the orcs. They are natural barbarians, and most of them have bloodthirsty and violent characteristics and an uncontrollable desire to kill.
But if fighting in groups, the well-disciplined hobgoblins often have the advantage.
For intelligent creatures headed by humans, hobgoblins and orcs are synonymous with devils and demons in the world.
If you encounter a group of hobgoblins, you can also use a series of means such as negotiation and trading to temporarily appease them with huge benefits like drinking poison to quench their thirst. After they have wiped out the benefits, they will come back with greater power.
If you are facing a surging orc, be prepared for a fight to the death. Either keep them out, or be captured by them. The men will be reduced to slaves or food rations, and the women will face a more miserable situation. , are used lightly to vent their animalistic nature, and they are often reduced to reproductive tools for orcs.
Here I have to mention another extraordinary ability of the orcs. They have received the blessings and gifts of Ruseko, the wife of the orc god Gruush and the orc fertility goddess, which allows them to reproduce offspring blindly and frequently, giving them greater All humanoid races have strong reproductive capabilities, even inferior to those of goblins and kobolds.
Twins, or even multiple births, are a common phenomenon among orcs. Eight out of ten are born. Moreover, they have a faster growth rate than ordinary humanoids. Their fertility matures at the age of seven or eight. Entering adulthood at the age of two.
Theoretically, their lifespan can reach sixty or seventy years. Their average age in Faerûn is no more than twenty, and they are very rare who can live over forty.
The most evil thing about this reproductive blessing is that it makes it easier for orcs to break reproductive isolation and produce hybrid offspring with other races. When humanoids of similar size (such as humans, dwarves, or hobgoblins) combine with orcs, their The offspring will only be orcs or half-orcs.
The combination of orcs and ogres or trolls results in half-animal ogres or half-animal trolls with amazing physical strength and brutal characteristics.
There may even be half-beast giants, but this possibility is very slim. In front of the giants, the orcs are more like cannon fodder or slaves.
There is also a relatively rare situation where the beastly orcs focus on those animals, and more twisted, deformed, half-human, half-beast Warcraft will be born.
They are not lycanthropes, they have no ability to transform and contract lycanthropy, they are just monsters cursed and resisted by the gods.
Therefore, when most intelligent races know that the enemy they face this time is the orcs and they cannot defend it, they would rather kill their wives and daughters than let them fall into the hands of the orcs and accept inhuman treatment and torture. , giving birth to filthy blood and bringing disaster to others.
The number of orcs in Faerûn is far greater than what the world imagines. Their reputation is extremely bad, and they are not discriminated against and targeted in only a few places.
Not only do they have the strong physique of their fathers, but they also have the intelligence of their mothers. Those half-orcs who have found their place in the orc tribe usually do not have a low position.
What really limits the development of the orc population is not the situation of being surrounded by enemies, but food.
As long as they have enough food, they will spread like cancer cells on the earth.
All in all, they are humanoid locusts, and they will gather together from time to time to erupt into even greater orc disasters.
Orc disasters are more frequent in West Heartland than in other places because there are two huge orc habitats, the High Waste and the Eternal Waste.
The orcs produced by the former threaten the safety of Waterdeep to the north, and invade Baldur's Gate to the south.
The orcs produced by the latter swarmed out more than ten years later, under the leadership of a tribe called Arrows, and established an orc kingdom called Dark Arrow near the Silver Moon Alliance, which was regarded by the Silver Moon Alliance as the largest. threaten.
Just like devils and demons will start fighting when they meet, hobgoblins and orcs are both monster races in the wilderness. The possibility of peaceful coexistence is very slim. They are more about competing for survival resources, enslaving each other or driving them to extinction.
It is this characteristic that allows them to inhibit each other and slow down their development in the wilderness.
Usually these orcs squeeze others and make them pay tribute to them and pray for peace. Now the hobgoblins in Blood Gap City are trying to extract benefits from them. They are all filled with righteous indignation. If the other party had not used swords to prove that they are not good stubble, they would He had already rushed forward with the giant ax in his hand.
These orc tribes are vaguely headed by a half-beast troll named Urkruna. This guy is like stacking BUFFs with many unique advantages. His troll bloodline gives him powerful abilities. In terms of regeneration ability, he has become huge. In terms of size, he is comparable to those noble trolls, starting at six meters.
In terms of body shape, he is more like an orc, with explosive muscles, a pair of exposed tusks, like a pair of small tusks, and he has the ability to overlook the entire scene even while sitting there.
The mixed blood flowing in his body gave him not only charisma among the orcs, but also the right to rule among the trolls. After the collapse of the troll kingdom, most of the areas that collapsed on the Giant Plains were annexed by him, especially There are no less than ten noble trolls.
Although this guy is the product of the combination of two races that are not known for their intelligence, his own intelligence is very good.
When Blood Gorge City showed an unstoppable rise with the support of the army of conquerors, they immediately moved their tribe to the Giant's Run Mountains, where they held high the flag against Blood Gorge City and gathered those who were killed by the Blood Gorge City. Xiacheng defeated or harmed the forces to strengthen itself.
After the conqueror's army stirred up trouble on the Dragon Coast, he immediately made peace with the Eight Cities Alliance and took a lot of benefits directly from them.
The reason is simple. The Troll Demon tribe he leads will help the Eight Cities Alliance to contain the Blood Gorge City on the Giant Plains, so that they will not continue to grow here.
For this alone, the Eight Cities Alliance has no way to refuse.
It is not something that ordinary people can do to fully turn an unfavorable situation into a favorable situation for their own rise.
"If you want war, I will give you war. Chief Urkluna, believe it or not, as long as I give the order, your Trolloc tribe will be buried in the dust of history in less than three days.
Don't think that we can't do anything to you if you hide in the Giant's Run Mountains. Are you sure the cave you are hiding in is strong enough to withstand the large-scale explosion of the kobold flutter bomb? "
Blood Claw knows very well that when shooting a person, shoot the horse first, and when hitting a person, you should start with the head.
Now that the resistance forces on the Giant Plains are headed by Urcluna, there is no need to worry about anything else and just keep an eye on him. As long as he nods in submission, the rest will be simple.
How did you know our tribe was hiding in the cave?
The half-beast troll Urkruna swallowed this stupid question back into his stomach. It is impossible for the other party not to know that the little tricks he made in the Giant Plains and the Dragon Coast must be harmful to his tribe. Conducted reconnaissance and even placed spy posts in his tribe.
With the large-scale development of the Conqueror's Road, the flutter bombs of those humble little kobolds have become familiar to everyone.
This thing is a sharp tool for breaking mountains and rocks, especially in narrow caves. It has extraordinary power. Once a large-scale landslide occurs, even if the people inside are not crushed to death, they will be trapped alive.
From now on, those dark caves are no longer safe places.
"If you have the ability, try it. Will you send my tribe into history, or will I make it impossible for you to come back?" Urcluna is not scared. If he is threatened or shouted, he will lower his head. If he gives in, he doesn't need to be the leader of the Troll Demon Tribe. He can just be a slave to the hobgoblins in Blood Gorge City, leading horses and herding cattle.
"Two clan leaders, please calm down. We are sitting here today just to look for opportunities for peaceful development. The cold winter is coming. If the war continues, life will be difficult for both sides. Why don't we each take a step back and maintain the current pattern? How about developing each other's strengths without being able to fight against each other?"
"What Chief Haru said is right. If we continue to fight, it will not be good for all of us. On the contrary, the humans in the north are likely to take advantage of the situation. They have now formed an alliance and are forming their own regular army on a large scale. , although they are in the name of fighting against the army of conquerors, as their closest neighbor, our Giant Plains will become the target of their expansion if we are not careful, especially with the convenience brought by the Conqueror's Road. "
"I think the Road of the Conquerors is the source of harm to our Plains of Giants. The Plains of Giants has been in our hands for thousands of years because there was no trade route belonging to humans passing through here before. Now that it has it, it originally belonged to us. The wealth of various tribes in the Giant Plains is losing rapidly, and the place will gradually fall under the control of those races that claim to be civilized.
General Bloodclaw, are you willing to be a human servant and lackey?
Now the conqueror army has left the Dragon Coast and is blocked by the human coalition forces. Now we only need to destroy this road so that they cannot go south... Ah... How dare you... kill people here... Dog demon...why is there a demon here...ah..."
"General Bloodclaw, how dare you arrange killers here..."
"General Bloodclaw, what do you mean?"
"This is a trap!"
"burst."
"boom!"
"No one is allowed to move. There are kobold vibration bombs buried in the ground here. There are enough to blow you and me into the sky. If any of you dare to act rashly, we will die together. I have prepared enough There are many resurrection spells and materials, are you sure you are ready?"
"Damn it, all the plane spells here are banned. The other party is plotting against us."
"Bloodclaw, you broke your promise. We came here believing you, but you actually engaged in conspiracy."
"Believe me? Hey, don't think I don't know. You sent out the entire elite of your tribe, less than ten kilometers behind you. There is no trust between us at all. During the meeting, I It's been made very clear.
The road to the Conqueror is absolutely indestructible. Anyone who dares to destroy this road, even the idea of starting this road, is the enemy of our entire Blood Gorge City. We will eradicate it at any cost, regardless of anyone or anyone. Power will never stop.
He dares to sow discord between me and the Conqueror here. Do you think he should die?
I don’t want any of his tribe’s population, territory, or livestock. You can divide it among yourselves. "
Blood Claw used his actual actions to explain what it means to kill decisively.
Before the chief of the Gnoll tribe who proposed destroying the road to conquerors had finished speaking, the giant wolf that was lying in front of Bloodclaw suddenly stood up and appeared in front of him like a ghost, accompanied by With a wolf howl, its size doubled, and its already terrifying size became even more terrifying, reaching its peak of super size.
Nearly ten meters long and more than four meters tall, he faced the chief of the Gnoll tribe with a frenzy of claw claws. The claws were longer and sharper than ordinary swords, and he was cut into pieces in just a few strokes. The arm was removed on the spot.
Then the big mouth that was flatter and larger than the ordinary giant wolf opened, and with a click, the head of the chief of the Jackal tribe was violently twisted off. Along with the sound of chewing, a huge suction force came from the giant wolf's mouth. A bloody shadow emerged from the body, sucked out of the body of the Jackal tribe chief, and swallowed it into his stomach along with the skull fragments.
Nibble!
Soul gnawing!
The opponent is not an ordinary giant wolf mount at all.
But a devil, a dog demon from the Shura field.
This dog demon is not only astonishing in size, but also a bit unbelievable in speed. Even those creatures known for their agility cannot possess such agility and speed. It is obviously blessed by powerful magic, and is surrounded by terrifying magic. This dog demon The demon has an extraordinary body. Even if it does not have legendary life dice, it still has at least 19, entering the ranks of high-level demons.
He is definitely a high-level assassin who comes and goes without a trace on the battlefield. Few people can resist his crazy output on their own. Once they fall into his mouth, even the chance of resurrection is greatly reduced.
This dog demon is none other than the capable evil general who first followed Gavin.
Recently, he has been here in the Giant Plains, both as Bloodclaw's mount and as his senior staff officer. When necessary, he will also act as his tool of intimidation like he does now.
To deal with those monsters, the dog demon's method is very effective in killing people on the spot, eating their souls, and preventing their resurrection.
After doing this, the dog demon shrunk himself into an inconspicuously large size, and walked back to the blood claw slowly, and continued to lie down and close his eyes to rest, as if he was a mount and harmless to humans and animals.
But no one dared to despise it as before.
Killing people at this kind of alliance meeting would have easily aroused public anger and provoked group attacks.
However, following Xue Claw's order, the ground not far away shook violently, and the scene of countless earth and rocks bursting and splashing directly restrained them, and they did not dare to act rashly.
What really makes them fearful is not Blood Claw and his Blood Gorge City, but their own tribe.
Once they and the elite cronies they led suffered heavy casualties in the process, their dominance in the tribe would be in jeopardy.
After all, they are different from Blood Gorge City. There is a more powerful conqueror standing behind him who will resurrect him. Their method of maintaining governance is the high-pressure rule brought by their powerful force.
The more powerful the tribe, the more serious this situation will be.
When they came here before, they had not considered traps, and had sent spell casters from the tribe to conduct repeated inspections to make sure that no powerful magic was being used here. Only then did they dare to attend the meeting with confidence. Many of them went out as a whole family.
Unexpectedly, he still fell into Blood Claw's trap. He actually arranged the entire venue on a pile of flutter bombs, and he and the elite earth elves he led were the bait above. They were now sitting on a bomb that would erupt at any time. It's the same as on the volcano, and this button is in Bloodclaw's hand.
Bloodclaw typically gave a stick to a jujube, directly throwing out the interests of the jackal tribe and letting the other tribes present divide it. The tribal leaders looked at each other for a while, as if they could see the greed in each other's eyes.
No one here is a good person, they are all predatory. They only make sure that they do not become the target of being robbed, but they are full of interest in plundering other people.
(End of chapter)
