A spirit woven from loyalty, battle, and the voices of the ancestors. “One life - make it count” The Empire was founded as an empire of humanity, but the

nation as thralls Revere their ancestors - the Jotun are the most devout of all the orc nations and treat their ancestors like gods Seek death in battle

voices of their ancestors when they are in a heightened state, especially when fighting, angry or afraid. Some orcs hear their ancestors more often, and

worthy. Orcs who have powerful ancestors may receive help from them when they die. It is commonly believed that the ancestors come for those who have managed

attention of the ancestors in much the way battle does. These ancestors were hostile and disruptive as is the way with many Imperial Orc ancestors and this made

Doctrines - the Doctrine of the Howling Abyss and the Doctrine of the Ancestors are much later additions. Proposed by Bonewall Rek and Bonewall Cole of

keep the traditions of ancestor reverence alive among the Winterfolk. Before the Way, the three peoples honoured their ancestors as exemplars of heroism

by the Thule; that they are physically immortal; that they are living ancestors, possessed by the spirits of the greatest Thule who have ever lived; that

Highguard, Urizen, and the Brass Coast. Before the birth of the Empire, the ancestors of the Grendel controlled much of the land that is now part of these nations

the Empire seeking the ancestors of the Sunstorm orcs, but might also include dangerous trips into the Mallum seeking ancestors of the Ethengraw, Illarawm

their cultural heritage stretches back centuries - they claim to have ancestors that roamed the forests of what are now Therunin, the Barrens, Brocéliande

Shaman have a powerful connection to their ancestors. Most orcs only experience communion with the ancestors when battle is upon them but a few individuals

helps to strengthen the connection between an orc and their ancestors - in particular any ancestors whose history the items are connected with. This is particularly

Orc ancestor would be an orc who embraced and lived their life by the tenets of the Imperial Virtues. Shaped by the path of virtue, such ancestors would

septs how to use meditation to still the voices of the ancestors; to allow them to connect to an ancestor whose advice they sought; and how to forge a permanent

several battlefields here that date back to pre-Imperial times when the ancestors of the modern Winterfolk, spurred on by their successes against the trolls

when it does not come directly from an ancestor, and other shamans have an affinity for one or more helpful ancestors whose words often seem to be more relevant

Imperial Orcs, being too closely representative of the slavery they and their ancestors endured at the hands of the Empire. Some have adopted the horse (especially

not hear their ancestors as often or as strongly as adult orcs do, it is important to teach them the difference between 'good' ancestors (those who offer

the Winter Sun experienced powerful visions of the many generations of ancestors who had lived as Imperial slaves. Embracing these visions the general,