While the people of Aevira sometimes depict them as savage brutes and ravaging barbarians, most orcs are a deeply spiritual people with a variety of different cultures across the continent. Thousands of years before humans came to Aevira, many lands were dominated by orcs. Eventually the elves of the Aetherii Empire scattered the orc tribes, forcing them into the harsher environments of the Havero Expanse, Marrah's Abyss, and the Eastern Marshes. Orcs primarily live in nomadic groups.