and where formal magic is predictable and reliable, hearth magic is none of these things. While the principles that underlie hearth magic are common throughout

with many Imperial Orc ancestors and this made mastering ritual magic incredibly difficult. For a while some mages worried that the Imperial Orcs might simply

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their forebears dwelled in cities, but they were lost to war with the orcs and magic run amok. They carry the memory of that loss with them everywhere they

Empire was founded as an empire of humanity, but the Imperial Orcs are not human and never will be. Orcs exist in two worlds, guided by the whisper of those

promise when the Wintermark people bequeathed Skarsind to the Imperial Orcs. Now the Orcs have a territory of their own, tens of thousands have travelled

Custodianship of the Quarry is an Imperial Title that brings with it a Seat on the Imperial Bourse. It produces 27 Imperial wains of white granite every season

their spirits that is important to the practice of ritual magic. Every Spring Equinox, Imperial Orcs arcoss the Empire celebrate the Night of Worth - a festival

to the Imperial Orcs. A motion was brought before the Imperial Senate to relinquish Skarsind so that it could be reassigned to the Imperial Orcs. The motion

However most Imperial Orcs still regard mines with a great deal of distaste and few Orcs can be convinced to work them. As a result the Imperial Orcs usually

boyars who became rich capturing and enslaving orcs to work in the mines of Volodmartz. When the Imperial orcs joined the Empire and it became illegal to keep

the rope are sometimes a matter of contention for the Preachers of the Imperial Orcs, being too closely representative of the slavery they and their ancestors

Custodianship of the Great Mine is an Imperial Title that brings with it a Seat on the Imperial Bourse. It produces 22 Imperial wains of mithril every season.

— while the core ideas of magic are settled, Urizen magicians can still find much to argue about. Not just the nature of magic and reality, but the application

created a precedent for future conflicts. When the Imperial armies march to war against a foe that uses magic, the Urizen magicians work to provide what support

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brought to the Imperial Orcs by the Illarawm, however, this is no longer the only way an orc can become connected to an ancestor. Imperial Orcs derive no benefit

before the orc rebellion, large numbers of slaves worked here and it was the site of a bloody confrontation between the revolting orcs and Imperial forces

the Grendel orcs. As an Imperial territory, Feroz was represented by a senator elected in the Summer. As the territory is no longer Imperial, the senator

Orcs revel in battle, and the Imperial Orcs are no exception. At present there are two large Imperial Orc armies, each roughly fifty percent larger than