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==Recollections by Ci==

The Study teaches us that there is no honor in the taking of a life, and that all living things are part of the same oneness, and yet...these Shòurén - these Orcs. They do not respect life of any kind, not even their own. Is not the world more whole with their absence? Are they not more like a blight on the living, than truly living themselves? A mockery of life, rather than one of it's myriad expressions? So many of the monks of my order believe, though Grandmaster Kain disagrees. I cannot find in these creatures any spark of the divine that Yanji teaches us is in all living things. I think of the horrors visited upon my parents by creatures much the same.... but no. That path is the path of despair... the path of anger. It is not the path of the Study, and down that dark road, I must not go.

During our encounter at the orc camp. I dispatched a great many orcs... a few from quite a distance. I felt nothing... no pang of regret as I do when I apply my skills against even the worst beings of the sentient races. However necessary, violence against another is always to be regretted. Yet as my arrows sped from my bow and the orcs fell, I felt no more than I did while tending the garden at the monastery. My bow was like my scythe... removing the weeds, so that the crops may flourish. Two of these creatures even stumbled naked from a dirty hovel, clearly disturbed from rutting in the muck with each other. As they died, the thought that we had prevented another orc from plaguing this world pleased me.

What then did we learn from these orcs? That their encampment sought to forge a nest for a Dragon egg. The implications of orcs in possession of a Dragon egg are dire indeed. Such a thing could not be, but for some desperate purpose... but for whose purpose remains a mystery. Surely not the purpose of the orcs. They nurture no living thing, I was told. Even their own offspring are left to fight amongst the scraps left by their elders so that only the strongest among them survive. Some other agent is using these creatures as a tool, and any being that would make use of these things has not peace and prosperity as his goal.

After reporting this, and our observations of the cave system previously visited by others in our group, we were enjoined by [[The_Red|Headmaster Danavus]] to continue to Kill them all. As I find no discord between this entreaty and my own path, I will endeavor to do just that.