Steppe Orcs

Color Associations

• Red: honor, mourning
• Orange: cowardice, speed
• Yellow: danger, allure
• Green: the people, the land
• Blue: wealth, luck, the herd
• Purple: outsiders, skill
• Black: visions and shamans

Grass Braiding Signs

• A large ring: good place for an encampment
• A lone, standing, forked shock with cleared space surrounding: hidden danger nearby
• A sloping shock: this way (towards the lower end, braided bands running perpendicular to the ground may indicate miles)
• A conical shock with ends braided in and a scrap of cloth worked into the grass: memorial (the cloth is a strip of the dead person's clothing)
• A long continuous braid that extends for a considerable distance: water source at the end
• A spiral: sacred ground
• A series of three forked shocks: city or town nearby
• A series of three forked shocks, ends singed: hostile city or town nearby
• A braid around an unforked shock: trading point
• A braided X flat across the ground: unstable ground, don't bring your herd here

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

• More colors = more wealth = hotter
• High contrast and intense hues please the orcish eye
• Yellows, especially neon yellows, are especially alluring
• Gold or copper leafing to highlight head spikes, brow ridges, or cheekbones are the most popular form of cosmetic
• Decorate everything. Too much is not enough.
• The further back the hairline the better, especially if you have tall head spikes
• High heels are practical for stirrups, but high heels are also very attractive
• Tall women best women

by Hero Forge