Maurading undead orcs are a rather obvious plague upon a village, and they certainly don't try to hide that they are rampaging through a village. Now that we are being penalized for having them around, could there possibly be some way for us to tell if a village is orc-free or not besides running through every room? I'm not sure if orcs follow or wander into trees, but half a year after the Viravain mess ended, we still found a mass of tentacles in a tree, still alive because noone found it or noticed it. As orcs move quite a bit, a lone orc could slip around the person running through a village and avoid detection, and constantly traversing each village gets rather annoying after a while.

Just a thought.

Real easy way to tell, if your tithes are not normal, there are probably some orcs in that village.

Oh... Guess I'll just have to bug our power ministers/aides then. Was hoping to be able to tell *before* the tithes came in to prevent that from happening. Ah well.

If you go to your village obelisk, it looks different when a gate is open, and if a gate is open there's a good chance the orcs are already in, and if they're not there's a good chance they're coming.