Orcs are a sapient species characterized by their exceptional strength and durability, coupled with enhanced sensory capabilities. They have a wide range of features but always have sharp tusks, green-tinted skin, and powerful muscles. Orcs tend to be opportunistically social and spend most of their time traveling in small, temporary groups consisting of a few individuals. They are omnivourous, diurnal, and their communities often form around a hierarchy of dominance. They are well known to be warriors, slavers, raiders, and tend to reject typical patterns of thinking present in other civilizations, which makes them very creative problem solvers.
History
Orcs are native to Solace, and for thousands of years they lived in harmony with Giants, Hobgoblins, and
Beastmen during the Primal Peace, but not much is known about this era outside of the secretive
Giant Chronicles. Orcs are not a well loved race in most places, their blood runs wild in their veins and their traditions formed in the face of extinction call them to embrace violence. As such, they rape and pillage any caravan or outpost that they catch out, to appease the Lord of Bones many of them now worship.
There is a deep hatred for those who immigrated to Solace including Humans, Halflings,
Draego, Dwarves, and Elves in the culture, and Orcish civilizations will often kill or enslave them on sight. While it is certainly not true of all Orcs, many of them are children of rape or slavery, raised either in the aggressive orcish cultures that spawned them, or a foreign culture that treats them as outcasts at best and abominations to be discarded at worst. Orcs tend to not form strong bonds based on heritage, rather preferring to form community with a found family of close friends.
In Game Traits
Base Movement Speed: 7 Tiles
Average Size: 7 to 9 Feet tall, 300 to 600 pounds
Racial Bonuses:+3 to Strength, +3 to Constitution, +3 to Dexterity, Orc Type Bonus, Orc Proficiencies
Physical Traits
Can survive without food for up to 18 weeks, Can survive without sleep for up to 3 weeks, Can survive without water for 18 weeks, Can survive without air for 6 to 8 minutes
Sexually Dimorphic-Males have larger tusks and greatly increased muscle mass, Females generally have lower mass with higher fat content and greatly accelerated healing process
Puberty-Age 6
Full Adulthood-Mid to Late teens
Orcish
Reproduction-Precocial Species, Females typically give birth to litters of 2-12 children, Able to interbreed with other species
Magical physiology, Omnivorous
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