Ways of Blood

"It is always possible the records are incomplete."

- Proverb of the Azurejays, Scholar-Knights of San Sylvester

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The Ways of Blood are formal orcish philosophies of warfare, the closest analogy of which found in other cultures of the world being the Chivalric Orders of Bastonia. Unlike these orders, the Ways are not highly formalized or organized per-se, and sometimes competing interpretations or competing schools of the ways exist.

The major Ways of Blood are:

• The Way of the Blood Rage, a school that teaches its students to embrace the natural prediliction of orcs toward rage and to harness that anger as a battlefield tool.
• The Way of the Consuming Fire, a school that combines elements of Orcish Shamanism with armed combat, creating something similar to a magus.
• The Tears of the Third Eye, a rarer school that teaches a balanced and structured approach toward philosophy and warfare, known for creating monks.
• The Way of the Porcupine, a relatively modern school embraced by Lum Spear-Breaker that empathizes readiness, open-handed combat, and the readiness to improvise.
• The Way of the Longriders, a school which leverages the settled position of Kalkin Gol to facilitate the training of formal cavalry, a rare luxury among the orcs.