Orcs

Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks.
To feel the thunder of orcish war drums outside the gate and to hear a chorus of voices growling, "Gruumsh!" is the nightmare of every civilized place in the world. For no matter how thick its walls, skilled its archers, or brave its knights, few settlements have ever withstood a full-scale onslaught of orcs.
When orcs attack a settlement of Humans or Halflings, they will kill anyone who presents a threat, but they are more interested in grabbing plunder and food rather than in wanton slaughter.
Occasionally, though, tribes that have a common concern band together. The result is an orc horde - a sea of slavering killers that washes over the countryside and leaves vast tracts of devastation in its wake. Such an event is rare in the extreme, but its consequences can lay low entire nations that are unable to stand against the wave.

Orcs around the Azure Sea

Savage and fearless, orc tribes are ever in search of Elves, Dwarves, and Humans to destroy. Motivated by their hatred of the civilised races of the world and their need to satisfy the demands of Gruumsh, the orcs know that if they fight well and bring glory to their tribe, Gruumsh will call them home to the plane of Acheron.
Orc tribes can be found in all places around The Azure Sea.
The largest and most feared orc tribe in the western lands, where they most commonly come in contact with Humans, Dwarves, and their allies, is Ghoshbeg Rel, who live in their ancestral city of Rel Grugkun in the Western Commonlands.
Khergug is a foul orcish drink that has found some favour in a few taverns around the lands.

Orc by jjklion

Related Organizations

• Ghoshbeg Rel

Related Myths

• The Bloody Birth of the Orcs
• The Eye of Gruumsh