Orc

Physical Attributes
Orcs are monstrous humanoids, averaging six feet in height, 230 pounds, with muscular builds. They have gray skin, red eyes, pronounced tusks, and are considered hideous by human standards. There is little sexual dimorphism among orcs, although men tend to be taller and more muscular than women. They are most defined by the blood rage that drives them to homicidal anger at little provocation.

Culture and Religion
The worship of Gleb and the curse of Harkon define orcish culture and religion. The blood rage has made violence a common occurrence in orcish groups, causing a strong cultural taboo among orc against insults or needless posturing. Violations of these taboos are viewed as challenges to the individual's honor, and are almost always met with violence.

Battlemasters of Gleb share the teachings of their god, and help moderate disputes among and within orc tribes. However, the blood rage grows over time, and worse yet has proven to be infectious among orcs. Unless released upon an outside target the tribe will ultimately destroy itself in a fit of uncontrolled fury. As a result, raiding, bullying, and an eagerness for war has come to define the orcish people among outsiders.

Orc social groups seldom grow larger than ten families, and support themselves with a semi-nomadic herding and frequent extortion of sedentary farmers. Occasionally, orcs gather into large hordes, but unless they have a target to release their rage upon, infighting with cause it to quickly fracture.

History
Orcs consider themselves to be descended from the Children of Gleb. The orc homeland of Rietza was conquered by The Empire in ID 7768. Imperial efforts to integrate the orcish population into The Empire met with constant failure. This ended with the vast majority of the orcish people migrating into the borderlands in ID 7860 under the Warlord Wojech.

Notable Orcs
Gleb

Wojech

Tsbor

Seblinsk

Boloslas

Zbyiat