Which Lore Background?

[Puulg'Paurk]

I got an idea the other night from watching a gang documentary that maybe "Blood Clan" can be a group of the most vicious orcs who were even imprisoned by their own orcish kingdom and formed "Blood Clan" as a prison gang. Maybe we can incorporate some catch phrase into entering our guild like "blood in blood out".

[Yog'Ktar]

Hrm. The idea of Bloodclan being a group of orcs deemed too savage by normal orcs...

That's pretty good. The prison formation of the clan, I donno if I like that as much. Kinda cliche'-ish.

We can say that our ancestors were banned from orchish society and that the Bloodgod demands their torture and their blood as sacrifices to him. Savage, religious zealots. Sounds jawsome to Yoggi!

[Gnoth]

not everyone in bloodclan worships the bloodgod

[Rugorim]

I like were Yog is going with us being outlaws to the rest of the orks. Just to let everyone know it is feasable to survive as an evil aligned clan. NPCs can be set to attack any not in our clan and we can stay near a good source for food and armor. Hoowah to creating our own lore!!

[Yog'Ktar]

You're right Gnoth, not everyone worships the Bloodgod. But neither would any of us worship some stupid fire dragon or give a poop about over throwing them. Tribes of the Bloodclan have always been diverse on the Bloodgod's existance, and theirs no reason why that should change.

Here's a better question. Why should we join any of the three lore designations for orks? Will it provide us with benefits? If so, do we even want these benefits?

I think that we want as many enemies as we can get, and if we designate ourselves as followers of the fire dragon or the Bighead or members of the guild of thugs, then it stands to reason via lore that we have to ally with other orks who do the same.

I don't want to ally with kiddy MMO'ers who like orcs cause their "just like WOW" or what have you.

It's always been that we ally with roleplay guilds that prove themselves to us in-game as good roleplayers. I don't see what's wrong with that.

I guess I just like the lore that Bloodclan has already established on Hybrid and Div. Yeah, it will naturally be a little different cause it'sa new game. I just don't wanna toss out the baby with the bathwater.

[Luk'Luk]

I guess probably Bighead out of those three, but maybe we should go our own way completely.

[Guban]

I agree with Yog on all points.

Bluud fer da Bluudgod! *prays to the Giitz'Krieg*

All forks must perish!

[Burz'Ro]

I voted Bighead because it sounded easy. Bighead is not a god like the Bloodgod, he's just a leader among orcs. I agree with what Yog said too, and if anyone can come up with a solid backstory that is different than the main 3 choices here, I'd like to see it.

[Muzgash]

Well it looks like it's bighead or go our own way. I think siding with a normal orc or being Savage, religious zealots sounds great. We obtain alot of recruits and attention on our other branches from standing out, so taking a chaotic neutral stance might not be a bad idea :)

[Snog]

Originally Posted by Yog'Ktar

Well, we can't go into town on UO and we survive. Other orcs come and go, but we're around forever and we can figure out ingenious ways to get supplies to our clan.

DFO isn't UO, too early to say if we need towns or if we're good/evil. What we DO know is that city spots/stones for evil clans will be uncommon.

Originally Posted by Yog'Ktar

My goal with this is to stay so devoted to our Bloodgod's cause, that the DFO developers add the Bloodgod into the game. Just as Ryan and other GM's sometimes roleplayed the Bloodgod with us.

Ryan and other GMs weren't on the OSI shards :( GMs there didn't give a flying **** except sporadically(EG - Shadowclan). There is little reason to keep up the Bloodgod thing -- Bloodgod is kinda useless if you have a fundamentally similar big evil diety given by the already-existing lore.

Originally Posted by Yog'Ktar

If so, do we even want these benefits? (from choosing a side)

A while ago a dev said that an ork can fight the Bighead for rule/taxes over the ork capital(Unsiegable by other races, or somesuch) and other orks. They(developers) actually want us to make a choice, to pick a side. That's something to consider.

Originally Posted by Yog'Ktar

"I think that we want as many enemies as we can get, and if we designate ourselves as followers of the fire dragon or the Bighead or members of the guild of thugs, then it stands to reason via lore that we have to ally with other orks who do the same.

I don't want to ally with kiddy MMO'ers who like orcs cause their "just like WOW" or what have you."

Hey Ktar is that you??? Oh well. This is a chance to actually work with other players instead of against 'em for once, not every ork player will be a WoW nerd... ok well maybe a lot of them.