Orcs

Big, green, betusked, and to most folks pretty scary-looking, orcs have a not entirely unearned reputation for being violent, borderline feral raiders. It’s a reputation that stems from prejudice, both against orcs and by orcs against everyone else. They were hit hard in the dying days of Homeworld, when physical might was less important than magical skill, and are still pulling themselves back from the edge of extinction.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Orc names are like this: a parent’s name, then a birth number, then a personal name, traditionally given when the child comes of age, like Marek’s First Arthog, or Grun’s Third Sharn. To better fit with Royal bureaucracy, orcs have taken family names, often as boasts, like Mightiest or Elfsbane, or with great reluctance, like Makeme or Nonegiven

Major Organizations

The Klehnaki are the most feared pirate menace in the sea, and recently their leader, Morag's Second Klehnak escaped from a Hegemony penal system.