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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2096354" data-attributes="member: 29014">This is a generalisation built upon certain real-world assumptions, and modern Western assumptions based on 12th-century Catholic reforms at that. Some societies don't place so much of an emphasis on the inheritance and prominence of children, in fact even early-Christian Ireland distributed land to all male relatives of the deceased (uncles, nephews, cousins, illegitimate children, etc), not just natural-born children. The tiny minority of fringe half-orcs who do adopt this belief join the barbarians. Edit: If we must get into real-world analogies to explain this, consider the role of the bastard son of a ruler in early Europe.  Most just went about their business, keeping the minor aristocratic positions given to them by their parents (as in the children of famous philanderer Charles II), but some, considered "evil" like Shakespeare's Edmund of King Lear, did get upset that they would get nothing, and created schemes to gain power.</blockquote>