I made this drawing towards the end of a long road trip around America, back in 2020. I had a lot of pent-up anger and frustration, and since I couldn't find a real orc anywhere to decapitate (we hadn't stopped through DC), I simply drew it instead. I took inspiration from lines from two songs, "The Song of Hammerdeep", and "When the Hammer Falls", both by Clamavi de Profundis. They go thusly:
"The orcs came to our land
And we fought them hand to hand
Sweat and blood
Turned the groud to mud
Dwarf and orc in strife
Sought to vanquish every life
When the hammer falls
When the hammer falls
Back our enemy crawls
When the hammer quakes
Orc-ish cowards bones will break
When the hammer cracks
And it beats their armies back
When the hammer's boom
Sends the monsters to their doom
When the hammer falls
When the hammer falls"
("When the Hammer Falls", by Clamavi de Profundis)
"But when a Dwarf is sent to war
He pines for home, his heart is sore
Though never was such bravery
Nor strength of hand or weaponry
A Dwarven fire is raging heat
His foe is fallen at his feet
With painful cries, the spirit stalls
Of evil, when the hammer falls"
("The Song of Hammerdeep", by Clamavi de Profundis)
Here are the full songs if you'd like to give them a listen (please do, you won't regret it [no, I'm not sponsored]):
https://youtu.be/Xm96Cqu4Ils
https://youtu.be/y2EnV6wunZY
And, yes, I realize the swoosh marks from the axe don't line up with the neck stump. My ex post facto explanation is that the cadaver had started to fall backwards from the impact. So there.
