Burning Homes

Burning Homes is a quest in Second Orc Book

## Background

The Orc Islands were the staging point of Orcs who survived the Great Journey. But the peace was not to last, as a force of genocidal humans, called Redfist and their Dwarven allies start attacking the islands, killing all of Orcs, regardless of gender and age.

## Opening

The Deathbreeze Clan guards are fighting a losing battle against Redfist soldiers. Commander Fox was briefed by a Merciless about the situation on the islands. The Orcs stood no chance against them. The Commander wants all Orcs dead, as the Duke wants. A Crusader asks what to do with the survivors, the Commander wants all dead and commands them to be used as target practice, so the Redfist soldiers massacre all Orcs present.

Serok tells One-Eye that this fight is getting nowhere. The veteran warrior agreed, they must flee and tell Rangul of what is happening on the island. The Humans took the harbor and the shrine of the Kraal. The only chance was on the Goblins, despite the extravagant price they wanted.

## Quest

### Main Quest:

* Find a way to leave the island.
* One-Eye must survive.

Description: The Orc Islands are lost. The attackers are too far numerous to be taken by force and most of the warriors of the clans left with Rangul. These attackers do not seek to simply conquer the island, they are setting them ablaze, destroying everything on them. The blademaster One-Eye has to gather all survivors he can find and flee. The goblin merchants could still be alive, he has to seek them out, and hire their zeppelins.

### Side Quest:

* Find the Sword of the Kraal.

Description: One-Eye has been told that the Humans have taken control of the shrine of the Kraal. It is likely they will attempt to steal the sacred Blade of the Kraal. The blademaster cannot allow that to happen, he has to kill the thieves and claim the weapon for himself.

## The Battle

One-Eye allowed a handful of survivors to recuperate, when having recovered enough, they fought several Redfist soldiers who are hunting remnants. Them, One-Eye and the survivors rescue another party under attack from Redfist units, including some Conquerors. He saved a handful, but the rest got killed. Then, after rescuing them, he used Wind Walk to scout the area. Then he returned until the duration expires. Then, when the survivors recovered enough, they followed the path and eliminated the Redfist sentries, but further losing any unit heavily wounded by the attacks. Then, One-Eye and a handful of healthy Orcs went on a detour towards the Shrine of the Kraal.

The Shrine were guarded by a Merciless, who mocked and taunted One-Eye. They then fought off and defeated the Redfist Merciless and One-Eye took the Blade for himself. Then, with the survivors, they pushed on towards the Goblin camp, but found it locked. One-Eye must find the key to access the camp.

On the way of finding the key, they encountered several Redfist sentries, eventually fighting and defeating the one who held the key. He took it and opened the gate to the camp.

## Aftermath

The Goblin merchant asked One-Eye for their service, which the blademaster accepted.

One-Eye and the survivors left the island for Rangul's base. The Redfist secured their objective by wiping out all Orcs present. A Merciless asked Commander Fox to chase them, which the latter says let them go, let them tell others what happened, implying a psychological warfare.

## Note

Do not attack the area near the docks in the South-West, as the Redfist soldiers there are too strong for One-Eye.

In the True Story, it is revealed that Redfist ships and the commanders were on the port, fighting them is inadvisable.

## Interlude: A New Enemy

Lerrig Goldheart meets Daric, leader of Daric's Mercenaries to give him orders.

Daric greets Sir Lerrig and asked him what assistance they require. Lerrig was on his way to Kerrel to support the frontlines. He commanded Daric to destroy the Orcs, as they cause problems. Also, Duke Volarian Redfist the Tyrant is destroying the Orc Islands as they speak, only Rath Wolfscar who slain Selior Cleavehand was on the loose. Daric asked why they attack Orcs, instead of assisting against the Demons. Lerrig said that never underestimate greenskins. He commanded them to finish what Blen Greymoore started, finish all Orcs. He was given the remnants of Imperial Army under Daric as assistance namely Imperial Regiments, then left. Logan the Skirmisher questioned why he obeyed Lerrig. Daric just rebuffed him up and commanded Logan to think of his actions.