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<DIV align="center">The Pig Children<br>
by Tyston Bane<br>
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<DIV align="left"><IMG src="Book/fancy_font/n_63x62.dds" width=63 height=62>o one -- not the oldest Dark Elf of Mount Dagoth-Ur or the Ancient Sage of Solitude himself -- can recall a time when the Orc did not ravage our fair Tamriel. Whatever foul and pestilent Daedra of Oblivion conjured them up could scarcely have created a more constant threat to the well-being of the civilized races of Tamriel than the obnoxious Orc. <br>
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Orcs are thankfully easy to recognize from other humanoids by their size -- commonly forty pertans in height and fifteen thousand angaids in weight -- their brutal pig-like features, and their stench. They are consistently belligerent, morally grotesque, intellectually moronic, and unclean. By all rights, the civilized races of Tamriel should have been able to purge the land of their blight eras ago, but their ferocity, animal cunning, and curious tribal loyalty have made them inevitable as leeches in a stagnant pool. <br>
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Tales of Orcish barbarity precede written record. When Jastyaga wrote of the Order of Diagna's joining the armies of Daggerfall and Sentinel "to hold at bay the wicked Orcs in their foul Orsinium fastness... and burn aught in cleansing flame" in 1E950, she assumed that any reader would be aware of the savagery of the Orcs. When the siege was completed thirty years later, after the death of many heroes including Gaiden Shinji, and the destruction of Orsinium scattered the Orcish survivors throughout the Wrothgarian Mountains, she further wrote, "The free peoples rejoiced for that their ancient fell enemy was dispersed into diverse parts." Obviously, the Orcs had been terrorizing the region of the Iliac Bay at least since the early years of the First Era. <br>
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<DIV align="center">「豚の仔」<br>
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<DIV align="left"><IMG src="Book/fancy_font/n_63x62.dds" width=63 height=62>o one_誰も――_Dagoth-Ur_山の_Dark_Elf_の最古老や_Solitude_の古の賢人も――_Orc_が我々の美しい_Tamriel_を荒らさなかった時代を思い起こすことはできない。Oblivion_の汚らわしく、危険な_Daedra_が何を呼び出そうとも、あの不快な_Orc_ほど_Tamiriel_の文明種族の安寧に不断の脅威をもたらしはしなかっただろう。<br>
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感謝すべきことに、Orc_はその大きさ――通例、身長は４０_pertans、体重は１万５０００_angaids――と粗暴な豚のような顔貌と悪臭によって他の人種と容易に区別がつく。彼らは終始好戦的であり、間違いなく異様で、低能で、かつ不潔である。すべからく、Tamriel_の文明種族はとうの昔に暗黒時代を浄化できるはずだった。しかし、Orc_の狂暴性と獣のような狡猾さ、そして種族への奇異な忠節が彼らを淀んだ水たまりの蛭にように避けられないものにしてしまった。<br>
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Orc_による暴虐の伝承は書き残された記録よりも古い。第１時代９５０年に「汚らわしい_ Orsinium _要塞に巣食う邪悪な_Orc_どもを追い詰めて逃がさないため…そして浄化の炎で全てを焼き尽くすために」Daggerfall_と_Sentinel_の連合軍に参加した_Diagna_の騎士団について_Jasdtyaga_が著述した際、彼女はどんな読者でも_Orc_の野蛮性に気づかされるはずだと考えた。３０年後に包囲戦が終わった時、すなわち_Gaiden_Shinji_を含む多くの英雄の死後、Orsinium_の破壊によって_Orc_の生き残りは_Wrothgarian_山の至る所に四散した。彼女はさらに述べている。「自由となった人々は不倶戴天の大敵が異境へと追い散らされたことを大変喜んだ」と。少なくとも第１時代の初頭以来、Orc_が_Iliac_湾一帯を脅かしてきたのは明白である。<br>
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