"Before he could finish greeting, the Orc Leader was already dead. This was the seventy-sixth victim on the battlefield.
Moving through the battlefield, Hudson was like the Grim Reaper's scythe. Any Orc that dared show their head was immediately harvested.
Each tribe fighting for itself had the great advantage of strong cohesion and utmost trust, but this required that the chieftain remained unscathed.
In most Orc tribes, the chieftain held the military and political power, with no deputy in place.
Only those next in rank to the chieftain, the Sacrifice Shamans, were respected more for their personal prestige than for their military command.
Any rational chieftain, for the sake of power balance, would never allow religious leaders to control the tribe's military.
The smaller the tribe, the more obvious this was.