A bit of backstory....

Story by ZRaashaq on SoFurry

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Just a bit of a background as to why Z'Raashaq hates being called a Khajiit.


The story of how Z'Raashaq is considered an Orc is this: He was raised by the Orc blood (family) and therefore taught to think and fight like them. Every Orc goes through a trial in which they must be accepted by Malacath or cast out of the blood, and Z'Raashaq was given a choice at 14 (which is early for an Orc to be tried, but the giant war that ESO is based in was just starting and everyone wanted warriors as fast as they could get them) whether to take the trial of his Khajiit bloodline or take the trial of his Orcish upbringing. He chose the Orcish trial, but that meant he had to be "aged up". To explain, there are two types of Khajiit; the two-legged and the four-legged, then their respective races. Z'Raashaq was born a Senche, which is one of the four-legged races. Usually, the spell to turn a four-legged into a two-legged is solely done by a Khajiit shaman, but they didn't have that option at the time. The risks of someone that's not khajiit doing the spell is that it can cause mutations, but Z'Ra was lucky and only got minor ones, which are his ears and pupils. Once he was "aged up", his trial was to face a beast in a nearby cave and come out with its heart, and when he went down to the caves an Orc he had never seen in the area before was down there, telling him that he was there to watch. After Z'Ra defeated the thing, battered and bleeding, the strange Orc challenged him to a fight, saying that he "needed to prove he was worthy to be an exception to the rule." He beat the strange Orc, near death, and was told that the strange one was Malacath. Malacath dragged him back to the stronghold and decared that Z'Ra was considered an Orc in his eyes and "blessed with their curse for the rest of existence."