Orcs are one of the major ancestries found on Kishar. These proud, traditionally nomadic peoples have been forced to adapt their societies and cultures greatly as the world has shifted around them in the last two millennia. While in some parts of the world orcs find themselves ostracized as old enemies, in others their presence, and especially their reputation as skilled warriors, is greatly appreciated.
History
Orcs traditionally consider a wide swath of the world to be their homeland, stretching from Rothurland in the west, through Laurentia and the nations that were carved out of Razgovir, along the northern coast of the Phiora Sea, and much of central and eastern Thadria. Historically the largest orcish populations were in this last region in particular. As Viridia inexorably expanded eastward and human settlements in the area consolidated and grew, however, these orcs began to be pushed out of territory in which they had lived for generations. By the late eighth millennium, after decades of fighting against the states that grew in their lands, the orcs of eastern Thadria had come to the conclusion that their position was untenable. Large migrations began out of the region; over the next four centuries, the majority of orcish clans departed, leaving their homelands behind. The vast majority traveled north past the edge of the Zakros Range, into what would later become Druzda, but some chose other destinations.
Elsewhere in the world orcish societies have not been subjected to so much upheaval. They continue to have a strong uninterrupted presence amongst the tribes of Laurentia, for example, and though their communities were subjected to the same period of chaos in Razgovir after the Viridian invasion of the region under the Sun King, they were never cast out of their lands and now form integral parts of the nations that arose in the aftermath.