Or did they become Ogres and start practising cannibalism because of that.
> To me, the latter seems more likely. It was the great darkness, all was loss, starvation, despair, and no doubt people sought out anything that would let them survive, and since chaos seemed to be 'winning' no doubt some sought to join it. Cacodaemon seems like one of the more comprehensible of the chaos gods. He'll grant you great powers, turning you into a sort of super-man....all he asks is that you show your devotion to him with sacrifice--on the surface not so different from many gods.
But if Ogres didn't exist previously, how would they know that this option is open to them?
In the Nietch inspired myth for my own campaign the proto-ogres start out as dedicated chaos fighters who form an elite caste dedicated to protecting their community from the chaos monsters that roam the surrounding countryside. They are from a caste based community (modelled on Plato's Republic), but the warrior caste soon comes to see itself as superior to and apart from the common people.
Food becomes scarce and people start dying. Some members of the warrior caste become cut off during an expedition and survive by eating the flesh of their fallen comrades. Later back at the settlement they start consuming the flesh of commoners who died of starvation, then later they begin selecting commoners to kill secretly for their meat, all in the name of the greater good. After all, if they weaken from lack of food they cannot protect the community as a whole.
Eventually the community devolves into concentration camp like farming operation where the 'defenders' treat the rest of the population like cattle, but keep this secret from neighbouring communities. In the end a visitor discovers the truth and they are destroyed, but of course some of them got away.
Simon Hibbs
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