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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 3983207" data-attributes="member: 40166">Why? Depending on the world, peaceful matings between humans and orcs could be massively unlikely. I don't see it happening in Middle Earth, or any other setting where the orcs are really monstrous. To take a real-life example, I would suspect that very few of the interracial children in antebellum South were romantic meetings; I suspect the most common thing was that one partner accepted because it wasn't in their best interest to object.If you don't say anything, then you don't say anything. As a DM, I wouldn't assume any default, and if I cared, I'd push for more background. And if you didn't care, I'd make up whatever worked well in the story. ("Oh, yes, now your mother is the owner of Smeg's Brothel and Bar. But don't worry, she threw you to the orphanage when you were a child. Your father...well, that might explain why you're getting these odd notes about your heritage and everytime you talk to anyone who seems to know anything, they either try to kill you or get killed." or "Your parents loved each other very much. Unfortunately, they loved Tharzadun more and Sir Carlof here had to kill them. He wanted to kill you but his order wouldn't allow it. Oh, and now he's the advisor to the king that you're trying to warn...")</blockquote>