Orcblood Pass

A craggy and dry mountain pass leads the way for travelers between the Far West and the Far East Roadways through The Ashen Range. It is so named for the orcs who were slain in countless battles within the pass before they began attacking southwards to the War Fields. Humans and others say Orcblood as if the title of an achievement, while orcs say Orcblood to honor their fallen.

More often than not the pass is safe for those who would travel through it. On occasion, an orc raiding party, or on even rarer occasion, a human one, may accost travelers if they look like they may have worthwhile goods.

There are also stories told about the pass, and how the souls and blood of the slain orcs was given as an offering, or how all the bodies acted as a lure for some terrible creatures. Some travelers like to tell ghost stories about the spirits of the orcs haunting those who travel through. Others who frequent the pass claim to have seen wyverns carrying off mountain goats though these sightings are quite rare.