Erjak the Savage
Name: Erjak the Savage
Species: Orc
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Specialization: Warrior
Tragic Backstory: If one were to look at Erjak from the distance, standing solemnly with his axe leaning on his back, one might think that this orc is different from the rest of his kinsmen, more calm and collected, smarter than most of his peers and maybe one to be a leading example of how his people should act... he's only halfway there.
Needless to say, being nicknamed the Savage by a race of savage people that know only war shows that Erjak is anything but a calm orc, though he is smarter than his peers, that does not serve him much when for most of his life he was surrounded by a people killing one another, and for most of his life, he was part of that machine, being especially efficient at killing other people since he was just a child, however, upon meeting his first slave, a young elven woman, he began to slowly change, a bit calmer and bit smarter.
Though the slave looked like she had just grown to adulthood, she was much, much older than him, though even under the threat of death she did chose not to reveal her name. Every time he would gain a book, or anything that looked nice, he gleefully brought it before her and asked her to reveal it's history if she knew it. In time, she taught him how to read and even how to write as well and the two began to slowly share some mutual feelings for one another.
However, it wasn't meant to be, it seemed that some of his fellow orcs were either jealous of his relationship with the elf, or simply hated that she was changing Erjak into something a bit more... civilized.
One day, when Erjak returned from yet another raid with a heap of books and trinkets that looked interesting, he was greeted at the entrance of his village by half a dozen orcs standing in his path, on the shoulders of one of the orcs resting a body mangled and mutilated beyond recognition. Said orc tossed the body before a very confused Erjak, who stared at not knowing what to think about it.
It was a while until the orc in front finally spoke
"We had fun with your little elven toy!" and when he spoke, it took only a moment for Erjak's emotions to do a complete turn. He was angry... very angry, so angry, that he barely remembered letting himself loose upon the orcs in front of him, slaughtering them with great savagery, doing to their bodies what the orcs had done to his elven's friends body and then some more. The rest of the tribe said that he spent over half a day mauling their bodies with his axe before he finally recovered from the rage.
And when he did, he got his nickname by his fellow kinsman, henceforth, he was known as Erjak the Savage. After that, he realized that his people were savage beyond belief, he needed to change them if he were to avoid situations like these from ever happening again and the only way to do that was to usurp the leadership of the horde's from the current overall leader, the Warlock.
And so, to gain the leadership of his people, he infiltrated the Warlock's army, figuring that someone with his skills and renown in killing would do well in such an army.
Goals:
- Taking lead of his people
- Teaching his people of his more peaceful ways... by force if necessary
- Acquiring more books to study from, and possibly learning the elven language
- Finding any possible elven relation of his former elven friend
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