Urok'gar Confederation¶
The Urok'gar Confederation is "a confederation of Orc, Ogre, Goblin, Half-Orc and Humans"1 that "has seen considerable success and growth in the lands of former Dalmar and Naher" (S057). It lies beyond the eastern cliffs of Etterwood, east of Proturas, and its borderlands are "mostly rocky and hilly plains" (S057).
Overview¶
"The Confederation is ruled by the High Urok (chieftain). Urok is the name of the orc which united the confederation 200 years ago" (S057). Its people "practice slavery, favoring human and boreal elf slaves. Orcs, Goblins and others can also be slaves". They "commonly ride Rock Trolls, Iron Drakes and Dire Lions", and "they worship the Sun God, Rak'or" (S057), who is counted among the demigods. Urok himself is among the minor figures of Proturas.
Urok patrols ride in three kinds: "Air (a pair of drake riders) … they will not engage .. but one will leave to get a larger ground patrol while the other keeps an eye at a distance"; "Heavy Cavalry (a group of lion riders with a ground drake rider in the lead) … they will apprehend with Nets and subdue resistors"; and "Light Cavalry (a pair of lion riders)" who retreat if outnumbered and return in strength (S057).
Gap
The sources describe only the borderlands near Agor'haem. Nothing says how far the Confederation reaches into Dalmar and Naher, where the High Urok sits, or how its nine-priest cities are governed from above.
The borderlands¶
Between the elf-forest and the orc cities one may find "a border village/colony", "a refugee village … well hidden from the air", a logging camp, a patrol by air or land, or "a hermit (stays out of the way) … maybe a Proturan Exile" (S057). Near Agor'haem the cliffside forests are "Boreal Elves, well patrolled"; at the cliff bottom are caves and the Rock Troll Warrens; a small river basin holds "a large Orc village" and a mill "operated by an old orc"; on the roads move ranchers "leading Bison or Sheep, Cattle or Rock Lizards", and patrols (S057).
Agor'haem¶
A "large stone tiered city made from huge rocks (hauled by rock trolls) … decent sized town, pop about 2500 orcs, trolls, goblins, half-orcs, ogres" (S057). It is ruled by nine priests, the Princeps; Princeps Hrok'thog of Agor'haem detected the Seed of Caerylas being carried through the borderlands and trapped its bearers in their cave (S059).
The Rock Troll Warrens¶
Caves at the cliff bottom are home to the rock trolls and to Irek, an Aeten'Daru or Trollfather, "an Elemental Earth Archon" who "can merge with stone at will and pass through stone" and whose "'children' are the Rock Trolls and their lifeforce is bound to him" (S059). "He may reference that he has two 'brothers' … but that there were once many Trollfathers living here in peace before the orcs came and destroyed or enslaved many of his kind." He keeps two Greater Rockworms, Aeten'Thoqqua, "which can melt, tunnel or phase through rock", and "knows the path to unused underground roads to the Southwest" (S059). The Urok hold his children with the Sunmetal Collars of Dominion, magical collars that cannot be removed without dispelling, that deliver "debilitating psychic PAIN" if the wearer strays more than fifty squares from the control rod they are bound to or tries to harm its holder or any collar (S059). Irek "has no love for Dwarves, which in his experience care little for others and are obsessed with possessing the mineral wealth of the earth. However, aside from their greed … they are better than Orcs who destroy and enslave his children" (S059). The collars are among the lesser relics; Irek among the minor figures of Proturas.
In Play¶
The Proturan Campaign party, carrying the Claw of Vixseranyol and the Seed of Caerylas, "made their way out of Etterwood, pursued by a band of Boreal Elves", into the borderlands, where the Princeps found them and trapped them in a cave (S059).