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The Five Plays of Brakkar refer to the five most famous plays written by the Great Ogre playwright, Brakkar in the late 1900s AS. Though Brakkar did indeed write several more, none were as successful and all have been lost since the playwright's death.

The plays include:

"A Distance Within" - A deeply moving play reflecting the path Kutu took on his metaphorical journey from warrior to prophet of Tumbruk.

"Bruku ah uta Egutu" (The Fate of Egutu) - Perhaps the most popular of Brakkar's plays, The Fate of Egutu is an epic tale of Egutu the Bloody's acquisition of the Crystal of Fate and subsequent war on Orath. Though the original version holds true to Egutu's eventual conversion to Tumbruk and life as a monk, there exist several official revisions which each have a slightly different ending, the more popular of these has him slain by a hero shortly after Queen Scaktha blinded him.

"Dom Arut Qagh" - Though often simplified as a story of adventure and revenge, the original is a complicated tale of morals and allegory in which a sorcerer roams the lands of ancient Orath, before being offended by the Yumec people and stealing their Sunstone away, causing the downfall of their society. The title is never given in translated form, but means something along the lines of "Dust and Meaning".

"Unity" - Another epic, set in a time of great war. A group of friends, one of each of the extant races of Orcs and Ogres is visited by the spirits of the Western Orcs and charged with reuniting their scattered peoples and leading them to salvation before all is lost in the tides of war. This play has been significantly reworked into human, Dwarven, and Lilithian specific versions.

"Karpag a'u Garpath" - The most upbeat of Brakkar's plays, it's title is slightly obscure as "Garpath" has fallen entirely out of use since Brakkar's time. It is usually translated liberally into something along the lines of "The Lives of Love" though it almost certainly means something else. It is a rousing tale of drink, dalliances, and fierce battles with brigands. The characters in this play have become famous to the point of being thoroughly written about in other works by varied other Ogre poets and authors. Some say that a young Kekkad The Seducer was inspired into his own life which so reflects that of the lead of the play through this piece.

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