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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 330167" data-attributes="member: 177">If you're going to assume that something as mundane and scientific as genetics has any relevance in a fantasy world, you ought to put just a touch more thought into it...The state of being an orc is going to have a lot more than a single gene controlling it.  You're talking about something more similar to dealing with different breeds of dog, where there's mixing of many traits.A human/orc breeding produces a thing which, on the whole is half human, and half orc.A human/half-orc breeding produces a thing that's three quarters human, one quarter orc.  Halfway between a human and a half-orc.  Being far more human than orc, you can probably just imagine that these are just humans.Simiarly, a orc/half-orc pairing is 75% orc, 25% human.  Probably just call it an orc.Just as reasonably, you can disregard genetics entirely, and call it what you want <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>