SKRAAG - CITY OF THE ORCS





Home to over twenty-five thousand rampaging orcs, Skraag is a city of pure brutality, a place of nightmare that even the bravest adventurer will fear to tread. Built from the ruins of an ancient dwarven stronghold the orcs themselves destroyed, the hordes of Skraag range for miles in every direction, bringing slaughter and misery to any community unfortunate enough to be within range of their predations.

Few dare to make their way into Skraag, for the orcs are an evil race that despise any not of their own kind. To travel on the plain of Skraag, or within its deep caverns is to court death itself. No amount of skill in arms or magic will prevail here and yet there is much that must be discovered about the orcs' organisation and overall aims. Do they intend to stay within the boundaries of the city? Or are the warlords of the marauding orc armies building up their strength so as to sweep all kingdoms before them in a murderous red tide of blood-letting and carnage?

The rulers of the city detest any interruption of their interests and the order maintained over its barbarous inhabitants and so ruthlessly quash all uprisings. The common orc endures much hardship beneath his masters and yet remains loyal to his race, his allegiance bought by the promise of gold and the ever present threat of death. Goblins live at the bottom of the social strata of the city and yet even they provide no in-road for a would-be invader and vanquisher of orc-kind. Life within Skraag is characterised by murder, brutality, poverty and starvation, but no inhabitant seeks escape whilst the forces of man, dwarf and elf do their utmost to eliminate any weak orcish presence found beyond the boundaries of the city. The city remains an eternal threat to all those who hold dear the forces of righteousness and civilisation. It falls to the swords and wit of heroes to overcome this great menace, to perform the very acts of legend and succeed where entire armies might fail.

Skraag is a large city housing over twenty five thousand orcs. Split into two halves, many spend their entire lives on the Hearth Plain, scratching out an existence whilst trying to avoid the attentions of the various factions vying for total control of Skraag. The majority, however, exist within the mountain, in the old caverns of Ironhallow Hall, the original dwarven settlement. Though poverty, strife and death is never far away for the weak and helpless, those that manage to move to the undercity tend to have a far higher life expectancy than those exposed to the elements outside the great stone archway.

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