Frost Orc Ethnicity in Zoturna | World Anvil
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Frost Orc

Frost Orc society has always been characterized by hardy and rugged living. As a result, they are staunch pragmatists, and never shy from killing if it will protect the future of the orc or his or her clan. All frost orcs, regardless of gender or station, are expected to pull their own weight, and weakness is considered a grave liability. The weakness of one contaminates the strength of all, and it is punishable by the greatest humiliation an orc can receive: exile. At home in the Coalspire Mountains of Sharondis these orcish clans struggle in an endless war over the land. Constant quarreling with trolls, ogres, and elementals has caused the frost orc society to deeply value loyalty to the clan.  

Frost Orc Traits

Ability Score Increase Your Strength score increases by 2.
Age Frost Orcs are trained to fight by the age of 10, by 12 they are considered adults and can live to be 60. Though few reach such an age.
Alignment Frost Orcs tend to be drawn to neutral alignments but can fit anywhere on the spectrum. They fight for what is good for the clan or their allies regardless of what others see as moral. Honor and strength guide their actions.
Size Frost Orcs are between 6-8 feet tall, even casters are large and muscular. Your size is Medium.
Speed Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Born to Fight You have proficiency with the greatclub, handaxe, battleaxe and maul.
Blood Fury
Blood and pain fuel a frost orc in battle. When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can make one attack against a creature within 5 feet of you. If you reduce that creature to 0 hit points, you regain 1 hit point. After you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
Hardiness
Frost Orcs are skilled and sure-footed fighters. You have advantage on saving throws that would knock you prone.
Intimidating
You have proficiency with the Intimidation skill.
Commanding Strike
Frost Orcs are inspiring leaders to their allies. As an action, you can assume command on the attack against a specific creature until the start of your next turn. The first attack roll another creature makes against that creature has advantage. After you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Orcish.
Subrace There are several variants of the frost orc people that evolved separately from the two major clans: The Grey Hand, and the Thundermaw

Grey Hand

Living in the southern portion of the Bladed Peaks the Grey Hand Clan are a hardy folk braving the tallest peaks of the mountain range. Here they live in constant conflict between both the harsh elements and the other inhabitants of the region namely the ogres and giants.   Slow to trust those who are not part of their clan, even if they leave the peaks Grey Hand orcs tend to be paranoid and are never truly comfortable with other races   Ability Score Increase Your Constitution score increases by 1.
Warm Blooded
You are at home in a cold environment, you have advantage on constitution saves against cold effects   Canine Camaraderie You have advantage on handle animal checks when dealing with wolves. Additionally, you may speak with wolves as though you were under the effects of the Speak With Animals spell  

Thundermaw

The Thundermaw clan lives in the northern reaches of the Bladed Peaks, a land of constant storms and raging beasts.   The Thundermaw utilize shamanism and the power of nature to protect themselves from their environment. Their farseers call on the powers of the storms in their region to slay mighty beasts during the hunt or to fight off attackers   Ability Score Increase Your Wisdom score increases by 1   Spirit Guide Your ties with your ancestors is so strong that you may call upon them for advice in a situation. Using this ability you may cast the Augur spell once per long rest   Snow Tracker Having lived in the cold snowy mountains for much of your life you have learned to navigate through the snow. You have advantage on survival checks to not get lost when in snowy terrain

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