Chapter 179: Volantis (2) (1/2)

Chapter 179: Volantis (2)

Volantis re what Aldrich said Then, after a sain "An orc? Even I find that difficult to believe I had always thought orcs as vile, simple, brutish creatures

I myself have drenched my hands in their blood many times Few I have ever found worthy to add their bones to my collection" "I'm almost completely sure about this," said Aldrich He put a hand to his chin out of habit as he continued to think and remember

There was almost no doubt in Aldrich's mind: Volantis had been an orc

Orcs in Elden World were generally regarded as gruff, unintelligent, barbaric creatures by other races due to their bloodthirsty warly with their every waking moment

Many races looked down on orcs because of this, and Volantis himself, with his memories erased, saw them as brutes But it was simply a difference in culture and circumstance A matter of perspective

Orcs did not care about building towering cities or longstanding civilizations that would last through the test of tied with routine devastating storms that would wipe out any attempt to build a city

Hence, the orcs were nomadic, but this also meant they were rand archives that told thousand-year histories of their people They moved far too much to ever have a place to store any kind of document of their lives

Instead, the orcs told their tales through stories passed down fro other peoples to believe they lacked any real sense of culture

The orcs did not worshi+p a God or a pantheon of Gods, for as a people, they were too scattered, too fragmented in countless different noh to sustain a proper God Nor could the orcs who lived for the ible nature of more major Gods that shared their presence only with a precious few priests

Instead, they worshi+pped what they could tangibly see around them every day —nature But this also meant some peoples, particularly the zealous followers of the Goddess Amara, believed the orcs to be Godless heretics

Orcs loved to battle, with the thirst for the fight wired into their very blood, and thus they were perceived as bloodthirsty brutes

But that trait kept the orcs alive in an ever changing yet constantly harsh environment Their culture reflected this reverence and desire for the fight with their penchant for taking bones as war trophies A sign of respect a their ways, but to other peoples, such an act screa obsession with fighting powerful ene their bones likely came directly from this orc practice

But then as this leader that Volantis had followed? This leader that had influenced Volantis so strongly that he retained vagueprocess to beco process crafted by deinal soul

That level of soul ion

Necroet there, showcasing just how advanced the de this h all that "Then the leader | folloas also an orc?" said Volantis "It cannot be For so long, I had thought of orcs as sihter You are to say that

I was one of theht," said Aldrich "Youinto forest and snow and fire That indicates you traveled across huge swathes of land, far beyond the Shatterlands that the orcs called home that's mostly barren steppes

I know that at a certain point, orcs started to unify every so often under a warfather or warreat hordes that traveled past the forbidding es and even the store scale raids

You must have been a member of one of these hordes" "Ahorde2" Volantis spoke slowly, as if he hi "You left the steppes, into forests, deserts, snow, and fiream, not many warfathers or warmothers could have made it that far That should narrow it down, but as it exactly" Aldrich, absorbed in his thoughts, continued to parse through his memories of Elden World's rich and extensive lore

The reason Aldrich needed to focus so much to recall this lore was because of how Elden World was structured When it came to lore, Elden World was incredibly hands off The player had aDark — and that was really it How they approached this goal and howso was entirely dependent on the player