The avians have met the humans and lizardmen, who have met the elves and dwarves, who have met the centaurs. They were quite wary of these new, intelligent people with weapons and societies of their own, but the deities told them to shut up and give each other a hug. They now help each other, but only because they gain something from it.

OGG, however, has not made contact with the other species. In fact, they’re quite self-reliant. The goblins construct tools, which the orks use to cut trees and mine ores, which the giants carry to the village, which the goblins use to make even more tools. It’s pretty cool, like a giant conveyor belt.

The goblins have recently learned how to forge metal, and they’re currently making weapons and armor. Why, you ask? To go to war!

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Wait, what?

Oh, so that’s what the deities are doing! To insure that the other species trusted each other, and to stimulate their growth, the deities created a bunch of dumb but strong creatures that would serve as a common enemy! OGG, with Exitium serving as their leader, will attack the others every few years, coming out with new strategies and weapons, forcing the others to adapt. I approve!

Exitium chose the strongest and smartest ork he could find and appointed him as the warlord of OGG, serving as his mouthpiece. The ork, named Gothmog the first, whipped OGG into shape and started creating his army.

The army itself isn’t much; it’s essentially about a thousand orks with primitive armor and weapons, but it’s strong to wreak havoc on the other species. Their battle plan is to cross the mountain range and attack anything they find as an unorganized mob. They’ll slowly make their way to the human capital, where they’ll hopefully be stopped by the human remnants and their allies. After, the deities will tell their nations about Exitium, an ‘evil being that hated all that was good’, and that they need to prepare for the next invasion together.

Wait, OGG is moving! As they prepared for war, a couple of them also cleared a path through the mountains, which is currently being traversed by the horde. It’s a long journey, so I hope they packed- they didn’t even bring any food? Seriously? Man, OGG is dumb! That’s ok, though, this first attack isn’t supposed to do much harm, it’s just a wake-up call for the others.

Now the orks have made it through, and they’re hungry! Gothmog sent out hunting groups, but it’s not enough. If the orks want food, they’ll have to pillage it from the humans. I guess it’s some extra incentive as well.

The orks have made contact with their first sentient being! How beautiful! How amazing! How- and they killed him. Well, that was kind of their whole point in coming here. They’re looking for the humans village now, but they’re having some trouble. Maybe they should have asked the human before they killed him.

After a few more hours of anticlimactic searching, the orks have found the village! It’s a bunch of huts surrounded by a simple wooden palisade. It’s population is about three hundred. The guard at the entrance has spotted the charging orks, and alerted the others. They didn’t close the gates in time, though, and the orks are slaughtering everyone. The battle was a complete success!

-20 days later-

The army continued to wreak devastation throughout the human territory, but there were survivors. They ran to the capital, alerting their leaders of the fearsome creatures that slaughtered their families. The human king, some guy named Aragorn, sent messengers to the other species, begging them for help. Their respective deities told them to send aid, and they each sent their strongest hunters.

Because they had never trained as soldiers, the reinforcements were very unorganized; even more than the orks. However, a basic command chain was set up, and they were moderately prepared when the orks arived. The centaurs flanked the horde to there right with giant spears (essentially primitive lances), the humans, dwarves and lizardmen attacked their front and left, while the avians and elves provided support by shooting arrows and dropping rocks. It was awesome!

Needless to say, the orks lost, although they managed to kill a good chunk of the defenders. The deities told their species about Exitium, and how he was the rebel deity, and that they would have to prepare for the next army. They did, by officially training soldiers of their own. When the orks attacked again, they would be ready.