Orcs

Common Orc Spiritual beliefs hold that a Soul can only grow stronger by overcoming Challenges in life, and they see intruding on another person’s Challenge unasked for as not just Rude, but Deeply Harmful. You’re Stealing their chance to Grow. Asking for help is deeply personal, and doing so can be either a way to grow closer with them or a too-personal intrusion, depending on your existing relationship with them. An exception is Children. As far as most Orcs are concerned, all Children are fundamentally the responsibility of the Whole Community, regardless of whose child they are, or even if said child is an Orc at all.

This means that Orcs who live near Core neighbors often seem Rude and Standoffish, if not outright hostile, because they neither ask for nor offer aid in times of trouble, and respond to unasked for aid themselves with Anger. There are even rumors that they Steal Children, because if an Orc finds a lost child in the woods they’re pretty much immediately going to start feeding it, and if they can’t find where to bring it back to, or it doesn’t seem to be well cared for, they’re just gonna keep it.