In Delicious in Dungeon, Laios’ party comes across orcs, a race that inhabits the lower floors of the dungeon.
Whenever Senshi, who uses golems as vegetable patches, harvests the vegetables, he sells the excess to his usual customers, who turn out to be orcs.
Believing that it would be hard to find orcs, Senshi decides to trade the harvest with merchants.
There, Senshi and his group, consisting of humans and elves, encounter orcs who are plundering different places to find food.
This time, the orcs are not willing to trade as they usually do. They have nothing to barter for Senshi’s vegetables.
Their tribe is desperate, and they need to secure food, even if that means killing Senshi, who has been their friend.
The chief of the orcs makes his dislike of humans and elves very evident. However, in exchange for Senshi’s vegetables, he allows them to spend a night with his tribe.
The orcs’ desperation, driven out of lack of food, has a lot to do with their lives in dungeons, which is a product of an age-old orc, human, and elf conflict.
Displacement from their home
Orcs live on the lower floors of the dungeon, but this has not always been the case. Long ago, orcs used to live on the surface.
Orcs, humans, and elves could not coexist peacefully and killed each other, which led to humans and elves driving orcs underground and stealing their land.
Although they were chased underground, orcs found a new home for themselves there and lived peacefully for a long time.
However, the peace did not last long. As orcs raided the villages of other races for their survival, they faced retaliation from humans and elves.
Humans and elves poured oil into their caves and set them on fire. Orcs lost their home once again and were forced to live in the dungeon.
Orcs are not the only ones who live in the dungeon. Several other races and monsters pose a threat to their home.
It is believed that whoever defeats the mad mage who built this dungeon will get to rule the castle, so numerous adventurers come to explore the dungeon in search of the mage.
Orcs believe that adventurers are greedy. They worry that a human or an elf might someday seize control of the castle, leaving them without a home once more.
Due to that, they kill all the surface dwellers they encounter. The animosity of orcs towards humans and elves stems from their determination to safeguard their villages in the dungeon, which is their home now.
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