YMMV / Of Orcs and Men

• Complete Monster:
  • Emperor Damocles is the ruler of the Iserian continent. Desiring to have the people united as one, Damocles cajoled the public into following his ruling as he saw fit. When he tried to expand his empire south and discovered resistant orcs who wouldn't give up their land, Damocles had his empire besiege their villages, and ultimately began a genocide against all Greenskins. In the decades to come, millions were slaughtered, thousands of orcs were enslaved, and hundreds more were assimilated into Damocles's empire. Anyone who opposed Damocles's ruling, regardless of what race they were, was either arrested and tortured in various dungeons, or publicly executed. Upon realizing that a resistance was forming consisting of humans and Greenskins alike, Damocles tried to ally himself with the dwarves and elves all so he could use their combined power to crush the Greenskins for good.
  • Lord Barimen is Emperor Damocles's traitorous assistant. Plotting to take over as Emperor himself, Barimen manipulated the Resistance into infiltrating the Emperor's lair so they could assassinate him. After Arkail succeeds in killing the Emperor, Barimen immediately turns on him and uses the Emperor's murder to solidify his alliance with the elves and dwarves. He then smugly informs Arkail that he'll be publicly executed for his crimes, and that all the remaining Greenskins and their allies will be hunted down and slaughtered. When cornered by Arkail and Styx later on, Barimen desperately tries to cajole Arkail into sparing his life by saying he can reverse everything he's done, despite knowing full well his actions have cemented that the war against the Greenskins is going to continue.
• Sequel Displacement: The Spin Offs staring Styx are more well known than this game, to the point that when players come to check out the game where Styx debuted, the uniform reaction is to question why Styx is actually the deuteragonist and you have to play as the Orc Arkail.

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