You mean "social" doesn't just randomly happen when two people are nearby? ...Okay he has been trying to occasionally start conversations with people he doesn't know. That counts, right?
He shakes his head, realizing that he just assumed that she'd have the cultural knowledge of something that wasn't guaranteed to exist in other worlds in some form. In this case, that's an especially ridiculous assumption to make and he knows it.
"They're from a series of books and games. They're the founding race of the Horde, like the humans are the founding race of the Alliance. They were tricked into going to war with the humans, and even years later the Horde and the Alliance don't get along very well; the humans still remember how the orcs invaded their lands and burned their cities, and the orcs still remember how the humans rounded them all up and put them in internment camps at the end of the war and used them for slave labor. But before the orcs formed the Horde they were a group of clans who hunted game and had shamans who could speak with the spirits of nature and their dead ancestors. They were fairly peaceful and valued their honor highly. They threw all that away during the war, but after they were freed from the internment camps the new Horde they formed went back to as many of the old ways as they could."
He leans back and lifts up the edge of his tank top to reveal the belt buckle he always wears and usually has on display.
"This is the symbol of the Horde, if you were wondering."
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He shakes his head, realizing that he just assumed that she'd have the cultural knowledge of something that wasn't guaranteed to exist in other worlds in some form. In this case, that's an especially ridiculous assumption to make and he knows it.
"They're from a series of books and games. They're the founding race of the Horde, like the humans are the founding race of the Alliance. They were tricked into going to war with the humans, and even years later the Horde and the Alliance don't get along very well; the humans still remember how the orcs invaded their lands and burned their cities, and the orcs still remember how the humans rounded them all up and put them in internment camps at the end of the war and used them for slave labor. But before the orcs formed the Horde they were a group of clans who hunted game and had shamans who could speak with the spirits of nature and their dead ancestors. They were fairly peaceful and valued their honor highly. They threw all that away during the war, but after they were freed from the internment camps the new Horde they formed went back to as many of the old ways as they could."
He leans back and lifts up the edge of his tank top to reveal the belt buckle he always wears and usually has on display.
"This is the symbol of the Horde, if you were wondering."