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Well the Five Siblings and the El’adasir are aware of one “sort of” prophet of Orcus, Tiss-Arog-Dale

Now, whether they truly though of him as a prophet is debatable, the El’adasir were concerned enough to issue a contrary prophecy to prep their people.

And of course, like most humans, they would probably dismiss an orc prophet as sort of ‘illegitimate” It’s part of their culture’s institutional racism. Humans and their gods, tend to look down upon most of the other races, other than elves and the Aetós, Orcs are barely civilized in most humans eyes.

I am going to add a poll for this one.

According to the font of all knowledge: Google

em·is·sar·y
ˈeməˌserē/Submit
noun
noun: emissary; plural noun: emissaries
a person sent on a special mission, usually as a diplomatic representative.
synonyms: envoy, ambassador, delegate, attaché, consul, plenipotentiary; More
Origin

early 17th century: from Latin emissarius ‘scout, spy,’ from emittere ‘send out’ (see emit).

so technically is someone on a “mission” an “emission” of some other authority. So the use is technically correct.

The problem is, our connotation of it is diplomatic as they say above.

So the question is, do we think the orcs/D’Orcs would have the same connotation? They are sensitive to all things diplomatic.

I’ve settled on interlocutor for what the Grove does to handle things like the armistice between the alvar and orcs.

Excellent point! I was thinking of it more in terms of meaning “messenger” Orcs do technically allow for emissaries from those seeking to parlay/surrender. They will negotiate, it’s more the “culture of diplomacy” they despise.

But there could definitely be something better.

Time to go to thesaurus.com 🙂

I was trying not to use Apostle (yet)

You do recall how upset the D’Orcs got when Tom tried to compare Doomalogues and embassies.

I vote Harbinger. It’s not quite Apostle but it indicates someone with authority to wreak havoc and set terms.

I don’t know Herald sounds like a title you give to one of your most badass minions. And priest doesn’t seem to fit. He should just stick to calling himself a Shaman

OK,

In fixing this one, I do a search on emissary and find it used again by orcs in Orcopolis:

“On this great adventure to begin the Restoration of Glory, I have committed the resources of the Deathfinger clan, to be spearheaded by my son and heir Aggfred and his shield-mate Snoggard, who along with a band of Deathfingers, shall accompany Lord Tommus’ designated emissary to Ithgar, Beya Fei Geist, to the Doom of Ithgar!” Orcag proclaimed to loud cheers.

In this case it makes more sense to use emissary as in messenger.

And shaman does not work so well because there will eventually be more than one shaman. Plus it just doesn’t sound right.

representative?

Thoughts?

You could also call them the voice. Example (I am Tal Gor the voice of Tommus) and for a group of people they could be called the voices of Tommus. Or the voices of Doom.