The best part of the game is when all the systems interact in ways you didn't predict or expect. I had a wild experience last night and it has given me an interest in hearing stories from other people. I'll start.
I had killed the 2 war chiefs and dominated half of the hierarchy. I took on one of the generated missions where one orc was going to raid another's camp, and I decided to try and dominate one of them. After ambushing them all hell broke lose, so I called in 2 of my bodyguard orcs to help out since both the enemy orcs were higher level. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the one legendary orc in the region (which I had previously dominated and levelled) decided to turn traitor and ambush my ambush. He descended in to the battle with his own guys and I ended up getting overwhelmed and killed by him.
Insulted by this despicable traitor (and annoyed that I had lost a legendary orc) I hounded him all over the map shaming him as this has a chance to remove the "Iron Will" trait that traitors gain when breaking domination, preventing me from simply dominating him again. I shamed him like 5 times down from 22, to 8, at which point he took my shame as a badge of strength and went back to 22. After shaming him a few more times he went back down to level 3, at which point he was so weak he burned to death in a final encounter just trying to run away from me.
It was chaos that created a real nemesis that I wanted to get revenge on.
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