14/05/2021
A dark, cloaked figure enters the ruined watchtower. Inside, a dozen orcs jump to their feet, wiping the beer foam from their mouths. They all grab nearby axes and start waving them towards the stranger with agitated growls.
From the first floor a grim faced one appears with scruffy gray beard and tribal paintings. He points his spear towards the newcomer and starts chanting. When his lone eye meets the two burning cinders under the black hood, his pupil dilates as he gasps for air and flees into the tower screaming. The orcs look in the direction where the old one has disappeared, with confusion and a hint of fear.
The dark figure takes advantage of their hesitation to fold his hood back, revealing the red skin and the numerous horns adorning his bald head. “Klash pha vorgyrr!” - shouts the tiefling with the crackling of fire in his voice. The orcs roar up wildly with the same burning rage in their eyes as in the intruder’s. They throw themselves at each other's throats hacking and slashing. One of them charges toward the intruder with a greataxe and cuts into his shoulder. To the side the stranger darts, mauling the orc to death with a single barefisted strike to its temple.
Like a dark whirlwind of crushing fists, he wades through the warriors. The orcs fall one after another, but some of them manage to wound the tiefling. His pace never slows, even as he loses more and more blood. Only a handful of fighters remain when a spear pierces the cloaked man’s chest. He falls to his knees, wheezing, coughing blood. The one-eyed orc walks out from behind him, snarling at him with satisfaction, then lets out a cry of glory towards his fellows. They return the triumphant howl, but their celebration is interrupted when the tiefling springs to his feet and snaps the old orc's neck. His eyes are no longer cinders, they are twin red suns, furnaces of roaring hatred. He ignores the axes cutting deep into his flesh, bashing in faces, crushing bones until he is the only one left standing.
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Way of the Hatred Monastic Tradition - Crush your foes as a monk of hatred! Show the world that peace is a lie! Monks of the Way of the Hatred are quite unusua