Nochnick is an orcish nation situated in the Overdark Forest, governed by a highly horizontal and egalitarian council-of-councils system. There is no single head of state — authority flows through nested councils, each representing communities within the broader network.
Nochnick spends most of its time and energy on a singular, unending task: fighting creatures from the Mouth. The Mouth refers to large openings in the Overdark Forest that connect to the Abyssal Vaults — subterranean spaces from which dangerous creatures continuously emerge. The orcs of Nochnick are not warriors by ambition but by necessity; their entire social structure is organized around the perpetual defense of the surface world from what lives beneath it.
Religion
Nochnick worships two deities: Sajjan, god of the moon, and Ronahiya, goddess of the sun. This dual worship reflects a cosmological completeness — the full cycle of day and night, light and dark — that the Nochnick consider fundamental to proper existence.
Alliances
Nochnick is a steadfast ally of Teorainn, the halfling Nation of Spies. This alliance is one of the more durable partnerships on Wiege — two nations that survive through competence rather than conquest, each bringing something the other lacks.