Half-Orc#
Both sides of my family want me to pick one. I picked the side holding the axe.
Half-orcs come out of the northern reach, where orc raids on human villages have gone on for generations. They're built like orcs, live hard and short lives, and are welcome in Narsis and not many other places.
How they live#
A half-orc is born to an orc and a human, or to two half-orcs, though a child of an orc and a human takes after one parent as often as not. Half-orcs are strong and tough, and seventy is old for one.
Most grow up in human villages, where they’re the first one blamed when something goes missing and the first one asked when something needs lifting.
- Temper
- Quick-tempered. In hard times they turn on other races first.
- Leaving
- When a city turns bad they leave a family at a time.
- Money
- Save little.
- Crowds
- Like some room around them.
- Tongue
- Orcish, spoken from birth and known perfectly, besides common.
- Drawn to
- Humans and orcs, as much as to their own kind.
What others say#
You want someone who's been hit by an orc and got up? Hire the one who was raised by one.
They have our arms and the humans' patience. That's the dangerous combination.
Where they live#
How half-orcs feel about settling in each of Sedia’s provinces. Each links to the province’s page, and Home Province covers what it takes to become a citizen of one.
- At home in
- Narsis
- Glad to live in
- TharsisNew Saellem
- Will live in
- Crecia
- Never lives in
- Jewall
Body and blood#
- Era
- Since the Breaking (0 TB onward)
- Lifespan
- Comes of age at 18 and can live to 70
- Height
- 5 to 6 feet
- Weight
- 140 to 280 pounds
- Genders
- Female (6 in 10) and male (4 in 10)
- Favored stats
- Strength and constitution (the game's race menu lists these; they don't change your scores)
Playing a half-orc#
Any race can take any class. These are the ones half-orcs start closest to, with the race’s starting score in each of the class’s two stats.
Page
Constitution and strength both start at 12, a page's two stats.
Plainsman
Strength 12 leads, and nobody in the northern reach grew up soft.
Headhunter
Strength 12 leads, and a reputation does some of the work for you.
Both sides of the raid
An orc warband raids a human village where a half-orc in the party, or one they owe, has family on both sides.
Names#
Starts orcish and ends human. Gorinor, Krashett Ranholt, Mogan Stanmore.
