Orc#
My grandfather's grandfather was a giant. I don't need to be tall. I need to be the last one standing.
Orcs are the children of daemunai and the giants of old. Short for a giant's child and twice as stubborn, they hit hard, take a beating, and share the dwarves' thick hide.
How they live#
The orcs you’ll hear about are fighting Mandak’s Legion in the Bleak outside Narsis.
Sixty is old for an orc, which is why so few of them bother saving for anything.
- Temper
- Violent when pushed. In hard times they turn on other races first.
- Leaving
- When a city turns bad they leave as warbands behind whoever is strongest.
- Money
- Spend whatever they have.
- Crowds
- Feel crowded long before anyone else does.
- Tongue
- Orcish, spoken from birth and known perfectly, besides common.
- Drawn to
- Humans, as much as to their own kind.
- Children with orcs
- Orc
What others say#
An orc tells you exactly what it's going to do to you, and then it does it. I've had worse employers.
My grandmother said orcs were made from giants and daemunai. Looking at them, I believe the daemune part.
Where they live#
How 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
- Will live in
- CreciaNew SaellemEstharTharsis
Body and blood#
- Era
- Stone and blood (Age of Peace, about 21,000 BB)
- Lifespan
- Comes of age at 18 and can live to 60
- Height
- 5 to 7 feet
- Weight
- 160 to 320 pounds
- Genders
- Female (6 in 10) and male (4 in 10)
- Favored stats
- Strength and intelligence (the game's race menu lists these; they don't change your scores)
Playing an orc#
Any race can take any class. These are the ones 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.
Elementalist
Strength 12 leads and intelligence 11 backs it, which surprises everyone but the orc.
Headhunter
Strength 12 leads, and the Legion pays for heads.
The Legion’s price
Mandak’s Legion is paying by the head for orcs out of the Bleak, and an orc warband is paying more for the Legion’s. The party gets both offers on the same day.
Names#
Short and harsh, on g, k, r, z and sh. One syllable for the young, two for the proven. Gorash, Krasha Blackmaw, Tzacko, Gor’ash Skullsplitter.
