<div class="floatright">(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a91/Redfoxmagi/halforc_zpsybp1naad.jpg)</div>Name: Zugg (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=863031)<br/>Race: Half-Orc (Ashnir)<br/><br/>Background: Despite the previous wars with the human being mostly successful until the advent of the magi, the Orc tribes were under no illusions that they were the strongest of the monsters.  In fact, compared to some of the true horrors that humans had faced, the tribes were probably among the weaker species.  Under constant pressure from both sides of the conflict, the Orcs knew they needed leverage in order to ensure their tribe's survival.  So, they took the only gamble their collective minds could come up with.<br/><br/>They gangbeat a magi and captured him for breeding.<br/><br/>Of course, this was no mean feat.  Magi were powerful beings that could destroy many lives.  In fact, it was an action that caused the loss of almost an entire tribe.  However, even the Orcs' lesser intellect could tell that they were at risk of falling behind in the arms race with the increasing power of the humans with the magi and the strength amassing with the monsters.  And in their culture falling behind in strength lead directly to a very messy end.  There was no mercy in the tribes.  So, throwing bodies repeatedly against the magi until he had nothing left to give, they wore him out and captured him, making him the breeding slave of the orcish women.  The clan leader offered such lucrative rewards to the female who managed to become pregnant with a magic-user that the magi they had captured eventually died from the repeated attempts to breed with him.  Luckily for the Orcs, one of their females not only became pregnant with a magic-user, but had struck the motherlode.<br/><br/>Thus Zugg was born.  Some of their race found the young half-orc disgusting.  After all, he was significantly lacking in tusks around his mouth, and though his body was well-muscled and skin green like theirs, he was significantly smaller than the rest of them in both height and size.  Though, his mother had done well indeed because the blue, glowing scars along his skin signified that not only had she birthed a magic-user, but had birthed one that was formed of magic itself: an Ashnir.  Thus, he became the hope of the Orcish tribes.  A magi with Orc blood of the most powerful magic lineages.<br/><br/>However, just because Zugg was to use magic did not mean that the clan chief was going to permit the half-orc to lack in the things that made an Orc what it was.  Thus, Zugg was pitted against other Orcs in combat from the time he could walk, often bleeding until he could not stand anymore in the way of his people.  Usually, this was a method maintained by the Orcs in order to allow their warriors to tap into their primal fury that made them such deadly melee combatants.  However, as if guided by his blood, Zugg often bested his opponents with weapon abilities unheard of by the Orcish people.  He did not tap into his fury, but instead learned how to feel the precise moment in combat when it could turn in his favor and accurately pushed that point.  Leverage, combat positions, and precise movements became his weapons of choice against the other Orcs who were at least a head taller than him or more.<br/><br/>Eventually, it became apparent that the Orcs needed help in training the young half-orc as he had still not manifested the skill with magic they had hoped.  Not one of them knew what was required to train a magi, after all.  They thought they were simply born with magical words on their lips calling down thunder from the heavens.  So, they sent him on a journey alone to the Magical Academy of Magnus in order to enter into whatever harsh training was required.  To Magus Reimon Woghaul, Zugg was not only an ideal candidate, he was<em>precisely</em>what he was looking for.  An Ashir with Orcish blood meant that he was more fertile than many other candidates to walk into the door.  Not to mention that he could likely pass on the traits of an Ashir to potential offspring.  It was as if a prized stud had walked through the doors of the Academy and requested to enroll.  Even if the Orc wasn't smart enough to become a brilliant magus, his seed would be enough to propel the Academy into a new era.