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Culture
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History
Ogre society originated in Ur, a parallel world where they prospered for millennia before the realm's destruction upon the arrival of the Chariot. At the time of their exodus from Ur, humans had recently constructed the first "Slipgates," which allowed for limited communication and eventually facilitated transportation of matter and beings between worlds. From early communications it was clear that the Ogre also possessed knowledge of the Truth, despite having never made contact with our world. Human engineers surmised that they had reached "The Outer World," and thus hastened the development of the Slipgates with help from their contacts on the other side. It was only when ogre refugees came through that this theory proved false. What remained of the architecture on the other side looked nothing like the shadows found on Earth, and these shadows in turn were completely alien to Ogre scholars. Thus Ur was dubbed "The World-Between-Worlds," and hope of any journey to the true "Outer World" was abandoned by both civilizations.
After the desolation of the ogre homeworld, humanity quickly determined that their fates and the fate of the Ogre were intertwined, and great pains were taken to show their new compatriots the utmost hospitality. Ogre craftspeople were masters of the forge and had developed a sophisticated intuition for machinery, beyond what humans had thought possible at the time. Ur-al liturgy also provided nuance and much-desired insights to mankind's own religious doctrine. It was not long before Ogre and Human culture were mutually integrated, with Ogre now constituting a large part of contemporary society.
Religion
The ogre possessed knowledge of The Truth and the Horsemen prior to any human contact, but much of the original Ogre liturgy was lost or left behind in the journey to the waiting world.
The most influential holy text to be brought over from Ogre culture was the Heroic Apocrypha, a corpus of legendary stories of heroes from the ancient past triumphing over demiurges and other supernatural forces. The Apocrypha seemed to cleave to existing liturgical canon, but differed in its interpretation of The Truth's finality. To the ogre, the will of Fate could be made subordinate to the will of man, if only mortal beings possessed the strength of guile and artifice to conquer their fates.
Technology
Machines
Slipgates
Weapons of war
Magic
Astrology
Anthropology