D&D (2024) Goblins and Orcs Not Being Green

[Mecheon]

I don't know if WoW has any orc communities that got charged up with energy from one of the other cosmic forces (life, death, light, void, order), but it wouldn't surprise me if that would change them into another color.

We have void orcs. They're the Pale from Warlords of Draenor

But they also come in a few other colours. While the mag'har are normally brown, there's a few grey examples of them due to hanging out in mountains, most notably the Blackrock clan (who also get firey red eyes in some cases) and maybe the Shattered Hand, though they're a far lighter grey than the Blackrock

 

[Mind of tempest]

We have void orcs. They're the Pale from Warlords of Draenor

But they also come in a few other colours. While the mag'har are normally brown, there's a few grey examples of them due to hanging out in mountains, most notably the Blackrock clan (who also get firey red eyes in some cases) and maybe the Shattered Hand, though they're a far lighter grey than the Blackrock

I think the black rock orcs are younger and have a lot of x shattered hand members in them?
my wow lore is not the best as I have never played it.

 

[mekhawretch]

I'm torn between the green piggy orcs, and the monstrous Uruk-hai style of orc that is like a constructed abomination or something that just crawled out of the earth. I kind of want to have both because they feel like fundamentally different monsters at that point.

 

[pawsplay]

Early on, when it was specified at all, orcs were brown or green, and almost certainly looked very similar to the orcs drawn by the Brothers Hildebrandt for LOTR book covers.

In my youth, I was informed that goblins were yellow or ochre. A lot of things were ochre back then.

Kobolds were goblinoids, but also dog-like in appearance. Sometimes kobolds and goblins were illustrated with horns.