Orcs: First Blood

The Orcs is a three-piece in the original fantasy novel series by British writer Stan Nicholls, which was summarized in the German translation of a book. The title of the original volumes are: Bodyguard of Lightning (literally: Bodyguard of Lightning ), Legion of Thunder ( literally: Legion of Thunder ) and Warriors of the Tempest (literally: Warriors of the Storm ). They were under the general title Orcs 2000 and 2001 in the years 1999,: First Blood published in the UK. In Germany, the Orcs published in 2002 by Heyne Verlag. The German translation is by Christian Jentzsch. Under the title The Orcs: Blood Vengeance and The Orcs: Blood Eight of the Heyne publishing house published in December 2007 and August 2009, the continuations of the bestseller. In October 2011, with the Orcs: Blood Hunt published the final of the second trilogy.

The German release of Orcs attracted a number of international specific fantasy novels by German authors themselves, which gave the Heyne publishing house in order. Examples would be The Dwarves by Markus Heitz ( 2003), The Elves of Bernhard Hennen (2004) and The Trolls of Christoph Hardebusch (2006).

The novel The Return of the Orcs of the German author Michael Peinkofer and its sequels do not belong to the series.

Action

The story, set in the fictional world Maras Dantien so that Jennesta, Queen of the Orcs, their best warband, the gluttons, the contract is to procure a mysterious cylinder in a uni - human settlement ( begins Uni = monotheism; Manni More God = faith) and is helpful in the fight against Jennestas to be enemies. Stryke, the leader of the Wolverines, do not know what it is with this, but he accepts the offer and conquered the cylinder. On the way home but the Orktrupp stolen the strange artifact by a group of goblins. When she did not therefore comply Jennestas ultimatum believes this, they were deserted, says the officers Stryke, Coilla, Alfray, Haskeer and Jup, who is a dwarf, and her whole troop of outlaws and additionally sets bounty hunter on it.

The wolverine manages to regain the cylinder. You learn by a scholar named Mobbs that in the cylinder of a five-star is called Instrumental and promise great power. As the orcs have anyway already drawn Jennestas wrath, decides Stryke - without knowing exactly what it is in the stars - look for them. Hardly begins his quest gets Stryke dreams and visions of another world, live together in the only orcs in peace. The closer the captain to the end of his quest is, the stronger haunt him and his dreams.

The second star to find the orcs in a large university people settlement. Because of its size it is the gluttons impossible to attack them, so send Stryke the dwarf Jup into it to steal the star secretly. The plan succeeds, but the team was from now on, followed by the angry people. Jup also brings in experience that another star, located at the trolls who live in an underground labyrinth.

With difficulty the Wolverines can defeat the trolls and remove them the third star, but Haskeer is overwhelmed by the concentrated power of the three instrumentals, overwhelmed Coilla and rides with the stars of it to bring it Jennesta. But again it create the Wolverines to save their skin by Haskeer seek and bring them to their senses.

From the Troll King Tanar, they have taken hostage, they learn that the fourth star is located at the centaur. You are looking at the forest of horse people and close a trade off. Should it create the Wolverines, bringing the chief of the Centaurs a healing tear from Adpar, the sister Jennestas, in order to heal his leg, then they would gain the star. When they return from their successful mission, they reported a dealer who stop off at the centaurs that he has seen the last of the instrumentals in a orkfreundlichen Manni human settlement.

Stryke and his men decide to ride there. You are welcome and even overwhelmed with the hospitality of the people. But then attack the man robbed the university city. Since Jennesta also anrückt, people can be put to flight. The Orc Queen rides in the settlement, but the Wolverines have previously made ​​with the five stars from the dust.

Now that they have all the instrumentals, it is possible Stryke bring them together like a puzzle. Immediately, they are teleported into an inhospitable ice plain. You will find a ice palace and entered it, which is a big mistake because there dwell demons. With her telepathic powers, they take the orcs from four stars and lock them in a prison. There they encounter Sanara, the sister Jennestas and Adpars, which is also captured. Seraphim, the father of Sanara, - who met the orcs previously disguised even as a storyteller - is added unexpectedly and tells them that they can leave the palace safely only through a portal. Stryke act by Seraphim and Sanaras magic powers to overpower the demons and to procure the stars again, as only they can activate the portal.

When they arrive at the stars in the portal, Jennestas troops storm the palace already. Seraphim explains that there is a world for each race and that the orcs of the party should carry out their last opportunity to leave the world of men, and to go into their own world. It is those who have dreamed of the Stryke so often. But then Jennesta emerges to claim the power of the stars. It kills Alfray who lays down his life for the Wolverines, so that they can activate the portal. Seraphim intervenes and pushes his daughter through the gate, even before a destination has been set. Jennesta is decomposed by the portal.

Seraphim sets the destination of the orcs. Jup decides to stay in the human world at Sanara because he sees no place for him in the strange dwarf world apart. Seraphim considers it safer if Stryke entrains the stars. So go Stryke, Coilla, Haskeer and the remaining orcs without him with the instrumental through the portal to begin a new life in the other world.

Characters

Stryke

Jup

Haskeer

Coilla

Alfray

Jennesta

Seraphim

Special

With the orcs for the first time describes a novel is a story from the perspective of the " obnoxious " fantasy people of orcs, trolls, and ogres are the next to the sinister ones most commonly used in the fantasy genre. While trolls and ogres mostly be as simple and instinctively aggressive, but not described as willfully evil, orcs are considered cunning and deliberately sneaky. The fact that the Wolverines still act sympathetic, Nicholls achieved not by the fact that he represents the people as vicious, but by an even more sinister counterpart (namely Jennesta ) to give the orcs a misunderstood, suppressed and thus pathetic role, the role of the "good " taking.

Book editions

English-language original editions

  • Orcs: First Blood: Stan Nicholls: Bodyguard of Lightning. Gollancz, 1999, ISBN 978-1857985580.
  • Stan Nicholls: Legion of Thunder. Gollancz, 1999, ISBN 978-1857985603.
  • Stan Nicholls: Warriors of the Tempest. Gollancz, 2000, ISBN 978-1857985627.
  • Stan Nicholls Orcs. Gollancz, 2004, ISBN 978-0575074873. ( Anthology )
  • Orcs: Bad Blood: Stan Nicholls: Weapons of Magical Destruction. Gollancz, 2008, ISBN.
  • Stan Nicholls: Army of Shadows. Gollancz, 2009, ISBN.
  • Stan Nicholls: Inferno. Gollancz, 2011, ISBN.

German -language editions

  • Stan Nicholls: The Orcs ( Bodyguard of Lightning, Legion of Thunder and Warriors of the Tempest, 1999-2000). Heyne, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-453-86371-2.
  • Stan Nicholls: The Orcs: Blood Vengeance ( Weapons of Magical Destruction, 2008). Heyne, München 2007, ISBN 3-453-53201-5.
  • Stan Nicholls: The Orcs: Blood Night (Army of Shadows, 2009). Heyne, München 2009, ISBN 3-453-52494-2.
  • Stan Nicholls: The Orcs: Blood Hunt ( Inferno, 2011). Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-52701-0.
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