[WFRP2e] The Power of One - Part 2 - "Transire Benefaciendo"

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Taalia Giovanni


Taalia pursed her lips and furrowed her brow at the news that an orc had snuck into the camp. What were the sentries doing? If anything? Didn't they use dogs to 'man' the perimeter?

But the star of the show was the green cadaver of the orc. Taalia had been around numerous goblins, the smaller, less lethal, but far more devious kin of the orcs. Seeing the greenskin in person, dead as it was, the shepardess could imagine its ferocity in her mind, those ape-like arms and unusual gait providing an awkward movement that would surge forward with powerful locomotion. The girl reached out and gripped one of its large, green hamfists, drew it up at the end of its thick, rope-muscled arm and let it drop drown heavily onto the floor. Flicking her lips, Taalia shook her head and exhaled, standing up.

"No females?" Taalia asked, narrowing her brow at the revealation.

"Not one has been seen?"

The girl knew about the Skaven breeders, the corpulent, chemically-comatosed miserable stand-ins for "life". What Taalia had gathered of Skaven "females", if they could be called such a thing, was that there were very few of them, each one a highly prized commodity and they were sometimes even traded. To gain access to a breeder was sometimes an honour or a payment dolled out to ratmen that provided some heroically valuable service to one whom owned enough of the wretched things to dispense such a reward - because that's how the Skaven were. The girl had to shudder back the very idea of being such a pitiful creature, not something that 'lived' as much as it simply existed to multiply in service of an empire that deserved to collapse onto the ashpile of history.

But that brought her back to the orcs: how did they reproduce?

"You mean this one is..." she thought of a delicate word, "...intact?" she asked.

The shepardess was no stranger to such things. She had ran a farm after all.

If the confirmation is given that the orc is absent such armaments, her next question was simple.

"...if they're not males, why would we expect there to be females?"