Orcks are former humans or daemyr that have had their bodies altered due to overuse of the drug Galaminaflaxin, otherwise known as spores. As with many drugs, use of Galaminaflaxin can cause tolerance buildup and addiction, eventually resulting in users consuming large amounts. Late-stage Galaminaflaxin use can commonly cause various physical alterations such as "cartilage explosions." A condition in which one's ears and nose become stretched, deformed, and flared out like oak leaves. Galaminaflaxin can also lead to rock-hard fruiting bodies to grow through the user's skin, resulting in what appear to be horns and scaly patches of varying sizes and shapes all over the body. These fungal growths will also frequently grow in the mouth and protrude through the lips, looking like strange fangs. More mundane changes include weight gain and hair loss. Along with this, users' skin can turn varying sickly shades of green, grey, blue, or yellow. Strangely, orcks often exhibit increases in certain physical traits, such as strength and stamina. However, it is often at the expense of mental acuity. More scholarly types attribute this to nutrient demand from the hyphae which perforates their muscles and bones staunching the brain’s flow of sustenance in favor of feeding the fungal organism and, inadvertently, the surrounding muscle tissue. Among more decent folk, numerous myths and misconceptions surround the orcks. They’re insane and unpredictable, they’re bloodthirsty monsters, the fungus is contagious, they forcibly inflict innocent citizens with orckism by making them consume galaminaflaxin, and so on. As a result, orcks are commonly ostracized from society at large, leading them to congregate and live together in ramshackle tribes where they brew and use their own Galaminaflaxin

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