Hero name: Thea Gar Thetch
Hero description: A tall, aged orc, skin more blue than green, adorned with tattoos across his arms, face, and chest. His left eye is gold, and his right eye is red, as all the Shamans' eyes have been since the Deal was struck. His clothing tends towards the more reserved or austere, forgoing decoration in order to lend respectability to his presence. Nonetheless, it tends to remind one of robes or a druid's garb.
Hero/Faction backstory: All success requires sacrifice. Success in the face of great adversity demands even greater sacrifice. Sacrifice is at the heart of the story of the Broken Reed Clan. Once known as the Black Reed Clan, they were a small tribe of orcs in the Whiteburrow Marshes. They honored the spirits of the swamp, like most orc clans, but their reverence for their ancestors was greater than most. Too great, many of the other clans felt. For the orcs of the Black Reed made deals with the spirits, and used magics of their own, to allow their honored dead to serve the tribe even after death. This was much of the reason both for their small size, and for their survival. For when the Men of Silver came, with their steel and guns and death, the orc clans were swept aside, by and large. But the Black Reeds, deep in the swamp, survived for one reason. A lesser shaman within their ranks brokered a deal with a powerful spirit, allowing the dead of all the orc clans to take their vengeance out upon the interlopers to the Marshes that they called home. When a week had passed, not a single Man was left, and the Marshes name changed. Now known as the Demon's Bog, it is surrounded by such superstition, and such a stench of death, that none set foot in that place anymore. Some few orc clans remain, unbothered by the outside world, but the Black Reed Clan could not. The sacrifices demanded by the deal, and the importance of upholding bargains with spirits lest they become enraged, meant that much of the tribe had to leave. The rest served the marsh and the spirits within, keeping the mystery and fear of the place alive to ensure it's sanctity.
Those who left, the majority of what had survived of the tribe, became known as the Broken Reed Clan. Led by the Shaman who brokered the deal, they had to find a new way in the world, and sever their ties with their past life. Thea Gar Thetch took them to a city, where he believed they could form a new life, despite, or perhaps enabled by, the Deal. Surprised was he to find that the cities of stone and iron had spirits of their own. Ones greatly pleased by the manner showed them by the orcs...
Faction name (optional): Broken Reed Clan
Faction race: Orc
Faction type: Occultist
Affiliation with NPC faction (optional): (?? They probably get along or don't get along with factions as would make sense from their background...not sure which those would be, necessarily, though. Necromancers and Druids, probably, besides the demons, at least. I don't know if they'd have any enemies besides the automatic Church of the Dawn and possibly the Heaven's Hand. Might not like the dwarves, depending on their tech stuff, but I don't really know about the rest.)
Starting holding: Graveyard
Starting staff: Lesser Demon?
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