Subject: I have something to say.
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Posted on: 2013-07-08 14:47:00 UTC
Firstly, apologies for not notifying the world which Dark Lord Aakmal lives in. I, the narrator, places him in The-Real-World-As-The-Seventh-Age. It may be assumed as a subsidiary world I make of the Tolkienverse, where the ages had changed orcs, elves and other creatures. It may be considered separate, if only by time. There is also where my character gets his orcs, which are now in hiding, although in some places, they may go out and interact with humans safely.
If this world is risking Arda, I apologise beforehand.
And Ungoliant's spawn are not really the weavers. We just take the silk from their nets and cocoons. They are well-tamed by the orcs before I arrive. Also, the orcs already have their own weavery industry before they choose my character to be their Dark Lord.
Oh, I must speak about how orcs of the Seventh Age choose their own Dark Lords. Dark Lords of today are the far cry of the powerful Dark Lords of the First, Second, and Third Age. Dark Lords of the Seventh Age are merely humans serving as mediators between orc villages and to the wider world.
Orcs are most often in hiding, but they still need to eat. The best way to secure their livelihood is through trade, and my character's orcs have been weaving ever since time immemorial. As the Ages progresses, all non-human being have trouble to communicate with humans, thus the need to have a mediator for diplomacy and trade. Thus the requirement of a Dark Lord.
Dark Lords are recruited by allied orc village chieftains, who will find a young man or woman, who will be trained in the ways of the orcs. After the end of the training, the Dark Lord will swear an oath to care, represent, and help the orcs, while delaying the arrival of Morgoth Bauglir by his or her ability, then the orc chieftains will swear fealty to the Dark Lord. Thus, my character isn't the only Dark Lord. There are a few tens of other Dark Lords and Ladies in Sabah itself.
The Dark Lords have to sell the orcs' produce and return the money earned to the treasury, where a committee will distribute the pay to each and every working orc family. The Dark Lord have no say in the distribution except as advisor, but the full power of the finance rests on the Orc chieftains themselves. Dark Lords also have to protect the secrecy of the orcs' existence, while trying to establish connection with other Dark Ones. This is a hard task, especially as some orcs may be hostile to discovery.
And thanks for the grammar correction. I try to make my tense as consistent as possible, but I may slip off, especially when trying to refer to past events.
And English is my second language. I speak Malay firstly.
