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The Koktos (or know as well as Black Orcs or Tok-Thorian orcs) where created by the Nigromante of Tok-Thoria, by breeding the race from Orcs (Green orcs of Kaiehm, red orcs of Brûm, Vanolosé, Ozcura, Galaw and Schlobohmi orcs), cave goblins -the Ur Dur-, Tokerí Kanov and enslaved humans from the kingdom of Enkel.

With time and patience, he breeded a new race to serve his dark will, the "black orcs", called in that way because of their distinctive skin tones, wich varied from brown to black, and sometimes like burned or charred skin, with red or greenish tones.

However, the mix wasn't completely homogeneous, and these orcs showed off some characteristics of these ancestors (ogres, goblins, hobgoblins, trolls, humans, kanov, demons and elf, among others), be in apparence, inteligence or other features: this was in part wanted by the Nigromante, who assigned these groups of Koktos specific roles in his legions.

The Nigromante, a bazrrod shapeshifter demon lieutenant of the Dark Legion, after the defeat in the First War of the Power hidded in the islands of Tok-Thoria, fearful of the victorious humans and their High Elven allies. But as no one come to hunt him down or lay siege to his last fortresses, he began to plot to regain his power: not only as a lieutenant of the Dark Legion, but as a demonic king on his own.

While he used the savage Tokerí kanovs of the Island to serve as his proxy, being useful servants that served him out of supersticion, as a fallen god, he needed to replenish his legions with loyal soldiers, and so he breeded the Koktos in secrecy for his legions of Horror, to serve as soldiers and slaves reeplacing the small numbers of his disminished, essential demons.

By the 2390, his creation was ready to be tested, and in secrecy, using the Underworld of Kazrrad to displace an army, he send the first army of Black Orcs that Aiers will know to raid and ravage the eastern Aelian lands. While that campaign was ultimately a disaster for the Kokto army, the field test was succesful for the goals of the Nigromante:

The Koktos had proved to be useful slaves.

Quickly, he raised the numbers of the Black orcs, and the Koktos quickly gave the quantity for a numeric superiority everywhere when needed for the Nigromante: His legions, but legions of disspensable slaves: badly equiped, lacking training and supplies, with poor discipline and corrupt officers who didn't flinched sacrificing their slave-soldiers, the result was that they would largelly be mediocre warriors.

While some officers of the Tok-Thorian dark legion called that properly trained and equipped they could make an efficent combat force, the mass of population of Koktos that will harbor the islands in the largest cities, filled with a revolt-prone rabble, due political purposes the demons prefeered to keep to keep the orcs that way, later developing -in time for the Secession of Tok-Thoria from the Dark Legion- the Pixerian Warforged.

However, it will be on the shoulders of the Koktos that the Nigromante of Tok-Thoria built his ambitions.

SOCIETY

While most of the orcs -such as the Green, Ozcuras and Galaw Orcs in general had the tendence to live in small setlements, organizated in clans and tribes, with strong bonds originated in a common ancestor, the Black Orc society will be very different.

They where largelly an urban society, who lived crammed up in massive cities, without clans, families or a sense of community.

The cycle of life of a Kokto of Tok-Thoria:

Since a Kokto of Tok-Thoria was born, only after a couple of days he or she was separated from his biological mother, and thrown to the lower leves of The Pits, segregated by genders, where they where raised only by some apointed nurses, who had to take care of dozens and hundreds and of orc cubs in one moment.

As they grow older -surviving the negligence of nurses, not enough food and diseases- the Litter of Orcs -as they were called- moved to the upper levels of the Pits, where they were raised by new nurses, along with all the childrens of similar age, until they were strong enough to began working:

At the age of 3 and half years old (roughly equivalent to 5 human biological years) the orc children entered in the labor force from Tok-Thoria, to work in an infinity of works who didn't needed excesive force: Opening and closing gates in the mines, looking for pigs and other cattle, as courriers and picking and colecting food, at least until they reached puberty (9 years the female koktos -equivalent to 12 biological ears- and 10,5 the males -equivalent to 14).

Once reaching adulthood, the litter passed upon an examination made by government officials from the Nigromancer and foremen, who determined the function of the young orcs, depending of the needs of the Nigromante and the characteristics of the young orcs: soldiers (only the males), nurses (females), fishers, farmers, miners, builders, artisans, between others.

Then, the divided litters were spreaded among the "pit" , "nest" or "hive" -alternative names for the Fortress-orc-cities from the Nigromante- according to their gender and ocupation to barracks:

The Koktos, by decision of the Nigromante, didn't had right of owning private property -except from their own clothes and what they could make themselves.-

The Nigromante was the only owner in the pits, and all the orcs, his slaves:

The houses were property of the Nigromante, the lands; of the Nigromante. The weapons and tools: Owned by the Nigromante: Everything was from the Nigromante, and for practical purposes, from the community.

Some explain with this, why Koktos raided and plundered with furor while on campaign, to have some few possession to call his own.

The young orcs worked for about 2 years in their designated professions, until it was done a new redistrubution, depending of the needs of the Nigromante, being assigned the unskilled workforce new jobs.

If an orc had distinguished himself (or herself) at a work, or had began to learn a spezialiced profession -as officers, forge masters, armorers, blacksmiths, etc-, the Nigromante needed as well skilled slaves, and they would remain in such profession: because of this, in the case of some wanted possitions, this will trigger sometimes fierce competition.

The Koktos were negated to have a personality or family, and they didn't had anything in their own as well, and most of them didn't even had a proper profession, but only the bianually assigned professions: due this negation of personality, often offensive nicknames normally where used in the end, as names.

Once as adults, while barracks and housing was segregated, they could have sexual relations -and was in fact, encouraged to have as many sons and daughers as possible- but there was no marriage or anything:

There wasn't possible to live as couple, as there were only comunitary barracks and housing, and as soon as the children were born, due their education and conditioning, the same mothers gave their children to the Nigromante officicers and nurses to raise them, beginning again the circle: everything is from the Nigromante, everything for the Nigromante, so is not to be questioned.

Not knowing family bounds, incest happened quite frecuently: in part due ignorance of orcs, in part because often the demons wanted to strenghten certain features in the Koktos: the demon overseers, who tried to keep the records for breeding purposes, often didn't intervened unless some genetic diseases began to express at an alarming rate.

That's, because the breeding process wasn't a closed process: while the overseers left in part free the orcs to reproduce, the breeding process, guided by the Nigromante, continued. Classified in diverse types of Black Orcs, the Nigromante and his officer sometimes decided to grow the numbers of specific koktos populations or to make more common some characteristics, so the breeding process continued: they picked up the stronger and better females and males to procreate the next litters of officers and professionals, having special quarters: the male "stallions" continued their job and life, but had extra rations and access to the special quarters, where the female orc "concubines" were: these concubines, better fed, had as only duty to nurse the "superior litters", and they could themselves to dedicate themselves to music, art and other jobs which where banned for the bulk of the orcs.

After a live of working, the black orcs aged quickly and died at age of 30 or 32 the bulk of them, due diseases, malnutrition and bad standards of live: and these "Old" orcs didn't knew rest, as they were to work until their dead, but progressively moved to lighter duties -not due tenderness of hearth, but to avoid a declination in productivity-: And after his dead, the Orc continued to serve the goals of the Nigromante, as his flesh become part of the diet of the survivors.

Gender Roles:
The black orcs -fiercely patriarchal- divide their work and roles by gender:

Warriors, sailors, fishers, miners, builders and hunters are only male, meanwhile the nurses, healers cookers, weabers an witches were exclusively female. While other wors could be do by any gender, workplaces where gender-segregated as well: However in general, it was seen that productive areas where mostly femenine, while the only true masculine activity was fighting and hunting.

Government and Religion:
Government and religion, as well, was only in hands of demons and officials from the Nigromante.

The Koktos where taught to fear and worship the Nigromante as a sort of deity, but in general they weren't very religious and didn't participated in massive rituals: however, they where very supersitcious, and from contacts with the Tokerí Kanovs and orcish mercenaries of the mainland, they will take a number of amulets and practices that weren't sanctioned by the Nigromante.

As well, while they didn't participated in government, there would be organizations among the Koktos -such as organized crime-, that often fought each other in the disease-ridden cities of Tok-Thoria.

Malcontent

While from the outside, the armies of the Nigromante of Tok-Thoria seemed lie a well oiled, senseless machine of destruction, the society in which the Koktos lived generated a deep discontent, specially among the ones who didn't get to had any possition in their pyramid: this often expressed in spontaneous and often irrational acts of violence and vandalism:

However, the critic to the system will only begin when arrived continentalorc mercenaries -with other societal models-, who compared the society of the Nigromante's Orcs and their own, sharing that view with the Koktos. After that, the existence of a critique to the system, the irrational acts of violence often will end in revolts -violently crushed by the iron grip of the Nigromante and his overseers-, organization of gangs and bands within the cities, and what will become the problem of desertion, as sometimes whole units could desert, hoping to create their own hordes and societies:

However, many times, these "free hordes" limitated themselves to replicate the societal model impossed by the Nigromante, but placing themselves, the leaders of desertors, as the "superior orcs" in place of the overseers and demons, but without the knowledge or hability to run said societies: often, the free hordes will be short lived.

After the Cataclysm:
While Tok-Thoria was severly hit by The Cataclysm, the black orcs didn't extinguished: but without the demons and overseers, and without the infraestructure of the empire of the Nigromante to keep running the cities, these where abandoned and the Koktos disbanded. The attempts to perpetuate their societal model failed, as had failed before the free hordes -the longest lasting Tokerí society lasted 80 years in the early modern period-.

Like the Ozcuras, other race of orcs created by demons, in the end the Koktos will mix with other orcish groups, dissapearing as differentiated groups.

Description

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The Koktos (or know as well as Black Orcs or Tok-Thorian orcs) where created by the Nigromante of Tok-Thoria, by breeding the race from Orcs (Green orcs of Kaiehm, red orcs of Brûm, Vanolosé, Ozcura, Galaw and Schlobohmi orcs), cave goblins -the Ur Dur-, Tokerí Kanov and enslaved humans from the kingdom of Enkel.

With time and patience, he breeded a new race to serve his dark will, the "black orcs", called in that way because of their distinctive skin tones, wich varied from brown to black, and sometimes like burned or charred skin, with red or greenish tones.

However, the mix wasn't completely homogeneous, and these orcs showed off some characteristics of these ancestors (ogres, goblins, hobgoblins, trolls, humans, kanov, demons and elf, among others), be in apparence, inteligence or other features: this was in part wanted by the Nigromante, who assigned these groups of Koktos specific roles in his legions.

The Nigromante, a bazrrod shapeshifter demon lieutenant of the Dark Legion, after the defeat in the First War of the Power hidded in the islands of Tok-Thoria, fearful of the victorious humans and their High Elven allies. But as no one come to hunt him down or lay siege to his last fortresses, he began to plot to regain his power: not only as a lieutenant of the Dark Legion, but as a demonic king on his own.

While he used the savage Tokerí kanovs of the Island to serve as his proxy, being useful servants that served him out of supersticion, as a fallen god, he needed to replenish his legions with loyal soldiers, and so he breeded the Koktos in secrecy for his legions of Horror, to serve as soldiers and slaves reeplacing the small numbers of his disminished, essential demons.

By the 2390, his creation was ready to be tested, and in secrecy, using the Underworld of Kazrrad to displace an army, he send the first army of Black Orcs that Aiers will know to raid and ravage the eastern Aelian lands. While that campaign was ultimately a disaster for the Kokto army, the field test was succesful for the goals of the Nigromante:

The Koktos had proved to be useful slaves.

Quickly, he raised the numbers of the Black orcs, and the Koktos quickly gave the quantity for a numeric superiority everywhere when needed for the Nigromante: His legions, but legions of disspensable slaves: badly equiped, lacking training and supplies, with poor discipline and corrupt officers who didn't flinched sacrificing their slave-soldiers, the result was that they would largelly be mediocre warriors.

While some officers of the Tok-Thorian dark legion called that properly trained and equipped they could make an efficent combat force, the mass of population of Koktos that will harbor the islands in the largest cities, filled with a revolt-prone rabble, due political purposes the demons prefeered to keep to keep the orcs that way, later developing -in time for the Secession of Tok-Thoria from the Dark Legion- the Pixerian Warforged.

However, it will be on the shoulders of the Koktos that the Nigromante of Tok-Thoria built his ambitions.

SOCIETY

While most of the orcs -such as the Green, Ozcuras and Galaw Orcs in general had the tendence to live in small setlements, organizated in clans and tribes, with strong bonds originated in a common ancestor, the Black Orc society will be very different.

They where largelly an urban society, who lived crammed up in massive cities, without clans, families or a sense of community.

The cycle of life of a Kokto of Tok-Thoria:

Since a Kokto of Tok-Thoria was born, only after a couple of days he or she was separated from his biological mother, and thrown to the lower leves of The Pits, segregated by genders, where they where raised only by some apointed nurses, who had to take care of dozens and hundreds and of orc cubs in one moment.

As they grow older -surviving the negligence of nurses, not enough food and diseases- the Litter of Orcs -as they were called- moved to the upper levels of the Pits, where they were raised by new nurses, along with all the childrens of similar age, until they were strong enough to began working:

At the age of 3 and half years old (roughly equivalent to 5 human biological years) the orc children entered in the labor force from Tok-Thoria, to work in an infinity of works who didn't needed excesive force: Opening and closing gates in the mines, looking for pigs and other cattle, as courriers and picking and colecting food, at least until they reached puberty (9 years the female koktos -equivalent to 12 biological ears- and 10,5 the males -equivalent to 14).

Once reaching adulthood, the litter passed upon an examination made by government officials from the Nigromancer and foremen, who determined the function of the young orcs, depending of the needs of the Nigromante and the characteristics of the young orcs: soldiers (only the males), nurses (females), fishers, farmers, miners, builders, artisans, between others.

Then, the divided litters were spreaded among the "pit" , "nest" or "hive" -alternative names for the Fortress-orc-cities from the Nigromante- according to their gender and ocupation to barracks:

The Koktos, by decision of the Nigromante, didn't had right of owning private property -except from their own clothes and what they could make themselves.-

The Nigromante was the only owner in the pits, and all the orcs, his slaves:

The houses were property of the Nigromante, the lands; of the Nigromante. The weapons and tools: Owned by the Nigromante: Everything was from the Nigromante, and for practical purposes, from the community.

Some explain with this, why Koktos raided and plundered with furor while on campaign, to have some few possession to call his own.

The young orcs worked for about 2 years in their designated professions, until it was done a new redistrubution, depending of the needs of the Nigromante, being assigned the unskilled workforce new jobs.

If an orc had distinguished himself (or herself) at a work, or had began to learn a spezialiced profession -as officers, forge masters, armorers, blacksmiths, etc-, the Nigromante needed as well skilled slaves, and they would remain in such profession: because of this, in the case of some wanted possitions, this will trigger sometimes fierce competition.

The Koktos were negated to have a personality or family, and they didn't had anything in their own as well, and most of them didn't even had a proper profession, but only the bianually assigned professions: due this negation of personality, often offensive nicknames normally where used in the end, as names.

Once as adults, while barracks and housing was segregated, they could have sexual relations -and was in fact, encouraged to have as many sons and daughers as possible- but there was no marriage or anything:

There wasn't possible to live as couple, as there were only comunitary barracks and housing, and as soon as the children were born, due their education and conditioning, the same mothers gave their children to the Nigromante officicers and nurses to raise them, beginning again the circle: everything is from the Nigromante, everything for the Nigromante, so is not to be questioned.

Not knowing family bounds, incest happened quite frecuently: in part due ignorance of orcs, in part because often the demons wanted to strenghten certain features in the Koktos: the demon overseers, who tried to keep the records for breeding purposes, often didn't intervened unless some genetic diseases began to express at an alarming rate.

That's, because the breeding process wasn't a closed process: while the overseers left in part free the orcs to reproduce, the breeding process, guided by the Nigromante, continued. Classified in diverse types of Black Orcs, the Nigromante and his officer sometimes decided to grow the numbers of specific koktos populations or to make more common some characteristics, so the breeding process continued: they picked up the stronger and better females and males to procreate the next litters of officers and professionals, having special quarters: the male "stallions" continued their job and life, but had extra rations and access to the special quarters, where the female orc "concubines" were: these concubines, better fed, had as only duty to nurse the "superior litters", and they could themselves to dedicate themselves to music, art and other jobs which where banned for the bulk of the orcs.

After a live of working, the black orcs aged quickly and died at age of 30 or 32 the bulk of them, due diseases, malnutrition and bad standards of live: and these "Old" orcs didn't knew rest, as they were to work until their dead, but progressively moved to lighter duties -not due tenderness of hearth, but to avoid a declination in productivity-: And after his dead, the Orc continued to serve the goals of the Nigromante, as his flesh become part of the diet of the survivors.

Gender Roles:
The black orcs -fiercely patriarchal- divide their work and roles by gender:

Warriors, sailors, fishers, miners, builders and hunters are only male, meanwhile the nurses, healers cookers, weabers an witches were exclusively female. While other wors could be do by any gender, workplaces where gender-segregated as well: However in general, it was seen that productive areas where mostly femenine, while the only true masculine activity was fighting and hunting.

Government and Religion:
Government and religion, as well, was only in hands of demons and officials from the Nigromante.

The Koktos where taught to fear and worship the Nigromante as a sort of deity, but in general they weren't very religious and didn't participated in massive rituals: however, they where very supersitcious, and from contacts with the Tokerí Kanovs and orcish mercenaries of the mainland, they will take a number of amulets and practices that weren't sanctioned by the Nigromante.

As well, while they didn't participated in government, there would be organizations among the Koktos -such as organized crime-, that often fought each other in the disease-ridden cities of Tok-Thoria.

Malcontent

While from the outside, the armies of the Nigromante of Tok-Thoria seemed lie a well oiled, senseless machine of destruction, the society in which the Koktos lived generated a deep discontent, specially among the ones who didn't get to had any possition in their pyramid: this often expressed in spontaneous and often irrational acts of violence and vandalism:

However, the critic to the system will only begin when arrived continentalorc mercenaries -with other societal models-, who compared the society of the Nigromante's Orcs and their own, sharing that view with the Koktos. After that, the existence of a critique to the system, the irrational acts of violence often will end in revolts -violently crushed by the iron grip of the Nigromante and his overseers-, organization of gangs and bands within the cities, and what will become the problem of desertion, as sometimes whole units could desert, hoping to create their own hordes and societies:

However, many times, these "free hordes" limitated themselves to replicate the societal model impossed by the Nigromante, but placing themselves, the leaders of desertors, as the "superior orcs" in place of the overseers and demons, but without the knowledge or hability to run said societies: often, the free hordes will be short lived.

After the Cataclysm:
While Tok-Thoria was severly hit by The Cataclysm, the black orcs didn't extinguished: but without the demons and overseers, and without the infraestructure of the empire of the Nigromante to keep running the cities, these where abandoned and the Koktos disbanded. The attempts to perpetuate their societal model failed, as had failed before the free hordes -the longest lasting Tokerí society lasted 80 years in the early modern period-.

Like the Ozcuras, other race of orcs created by demons, in the end the Koktos will mix with other orcish groups, dissapearing as differentiated groups.