In the Orc Empire, "half-orcs" are a somewhat embarrassing group.
Different from the fantasy novels Sui Xiong read before traveling through time, in this world, the distinction between "orcs" and "half-orcs" is not based on blood, but on faith.
The orcs are all creations or descendants of the orc gods. Due to the influence of blood, they are naturally believers of the orc gods, and even their souls are controlled by the orc gods.
This situation is almost unique to this family. Although the creator gods of other races also have strong influence, they can never reach the point of controlling the soul - for example, the human creator god "Mother of Water", who has great influence on human beings. His control and influence were not very high, so he died at the hands of the Lord of Glory later.
Because the soul is affected and controlled, the orcs are very devout in their belief in the orc gods. But this situation is not absolute. Sometimes, orcs awaken for various reasons and escape the control of the souls of the orc gods. Within the orc empire, this situation is called "degeneration"; there are also orcs and other races. The mixed-race children, because their bloodline is not dense enough, are naturally beyond the control of the orc gods.
Whether it is nature or nurture, once a soul escapes the control of the orc gods, it is called an orc.
In the Orc Empire, the situation of half-orcs is not good. Even if their beliefs are as pious as before, the orc gods will not respond to them - for the orc gods, believers who are not under their own control are not qualified believers. They treat such believers like farmers treat roadside believers. weed. You might consider eating them when you're hungry, but no one would include them in their diet.
For a devout believer, it is very painful to have his faith ignored and not receive any response.
But this is not the only pain. The orcs are not friendly towards these guys who do not get the response from the gods. In the past years, there have been more than one wave of massacres of orcs to purify their faith, each time resulting in thousands or even tens of thousands of orcs being slaughtered.
Fortunately, this kind of situation has not happened in the past one or two hundred years, probably because the talented Yunero is secretly controlling public opinion. But even Yunero is not friendly to the orcs. Not only does he heavily exploit and oppress them in normal times, but every time a war breaks out, he also organizes the orcs into independent armies to carry out those tasks. The most difficult, dangerous, but not very rewarding task.
Half-orcs are not fools, nor are they masochists, so after being educated by the cruel reality, many half-orcs will change their past beliefs and lifestyles, leave their homeland, and travel far away.
In the main plane continent, half-orcs are the most common wandering race. These have the blood of orcs, but they cannot get the response from their creators like orcs. Among the confused wanderers, there are the best mercenaries, but there are also the most ferocious ones. robber.
A small number of powerful orcs, after losing their faith, regard honor as their life creed. What they do, even the proudest knights have to admit that they are upright and noble. But there are also many powerful orcs who, after their faith collapsed, completely indulged in material desires and degenerated into cruel and cunning bandits, wreaking havoc everywhere.
The orcs, who make up the majority of the population, have little ability. They are neither able to act chivalrously nor do evil. They lived a miserable life, constantly wandering and working. After saving some money, they continued wandering, looking for a place where they could feel at ease. But the vast majority of such half-orcs cannot find a place where they can feel at ease until they die. They can only grow old in constant wandering, and finally die in poverty.
Generally speaking, most orcs are living a very unhappy life. They are eager to find a place where they can live and work in peace, or learn some skills that can make them live a stable life.
Recently, the climate in the Orc Empire has not been very good. Although there have been no large-scale natural disasters, the food harvest has indeed declined. It is said that this is because the new generation of Sun God has a good relationship with the human gods and deliberately makes things difficult for them. In addition, after the death of the Harvest Goddess, this priesthood has not been inherited yet.
In the past, the orc gods often gave many benefits to the Harvest Goddess in exchange for the fertility of the orc prairie. It is precisely by relying on this purchased abundance that the huge numbers of the orc tribes can be maintained. Since the death of the Harvest Goddess, fertility can no longer be purchased. The orc prairie has lost extra fertility, and the number of people it can support has naturally dropped significantly.
If many people hadn't been killed in the Battle of When the Sun Dies and many of the population had not been wiped out, the situation in the Orc Empire would have been even worse and the population pressure would have been even greater.
When population pressure increases, food will naturally be insufficient; when food is insufficient, the orcs will naturally be the first to go hungry.
In recent years, the orcs have been suffering from hunger, and many people have died of starvation, living in extreme hardship.
So this time when I heard that the new technical school in the Northwest Republic was free of tuition, a large number of relatively strong half-orcs ignored the danger and followed the businessmen who wanted money at the risk of their lives through the vast desert and through several canyons in the barren mountains. Arrive at the Northwest Republic.
In the Northwest Republic, they met their fellow villagers, the orcs who had already settled here.
The Northwest Republic has no discrimination against orcs. Sui Xiong is usually very kind, but he is still quite harsh on many issues, one of which is racial discrimination.
This is not a policy that was introduced after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is a basic national policy that has been established since Sui Xiong established the Church of the Masked Void and the Masked Void Amusement Park. In the Northwest Republic, racial discrimination is a high-voltage line. Anyone who steps on it will be electrocuted to death. This is not a description or a metaphor. The punishment in the Northwest Republic really includes "electrocution". It is inspired by Yang, a man with a very bad reputation on the earth. The surnamed man mainly punishes those with ideological problems, and racial discrimination is one of the key points.
Over time, everyone's attitude naturally changed.
There are many orcs living in the current Northwest Republic. A few of them moved here, but most of them were born and raised here since childhood.
Although theoretically the Northwest Republic and the Orc Empire are neighbors, in fact they are separated by the world-famous dangerous area "Great Gobi". For ordinary orcs, this is really a natural chasm. Therefore, over the years, the half-orcs who have moved here from the Orc Empire have Orcs dare not say there are none, but there are very few of them. The half-orcs in the Northwest Republic now either moved here from the Southern Gold Coin Federation, or they are relatives and friends of those strong half-orcs.
Among them, even those who are relatively weak have at least been away from home and wandering for a period of time, and are much stronger mentally than their compatriots who have just left the orc empire. In addition, I have settled in the Republic for a long time and am influenced by the open-minded, friendly and positive atmosphere here. My mental outlook is completely different from that of the newcomers.
The difference is even greater among the new generation who were born and raised in the Republic.
These half-orcs have never received any education since they were young, such as "Only those who believe in the creator can be truly happy", and they have never been discriminated against. On the contrary, because of their respective bloodlines, they often have an advantage in one aspect of their body. They may be tall, powerful, or agile, and they stand out among their peers, so they are full of self-confidence. There was a joyful and positive atmosphere, as if the whole person was in a state of high morale.
They stood together with the recent immigrants. Although they looked similar, their temperaments were completely different. They were two completely different races.
"It only took a few decades to achieve such results." Sui Xiong was invisible in the air, looking at these two completely different orcs, he couldn't help but smile, and his heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment and pride.