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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 9123130" data-attributes="member: 7635">Um... No?The Khorvar were a part of the Kingdom of Galifar until the latter broke apart, just like every other race on Khorvaire. They have no unique lands and are culturally the same as humans or any other species living in that Nation. The only cultural element unique to them are their unique Marks/Houses.Likewise, the Shadow Marches are a unqiue orcish in culture, being a backwater part of Galifar and never having been settled. Orcs and humans co-existed there in relative peace, hence a higher-than-normal half-orc population, but they are still enough of a minority that the only mark/house half-orcs had they still shared with regular humans.Don't oversell Eberron's contribution: both races still lack a unique culture and exist as intermediates between their parent races. The difference is that not every half-elf is first generation human/elf caught between the disdain of their elvish parent and distrust of their human one, nor is every half-orc a child of violence rebelling against one or the other of their parent's species. They are not defined by the fact they don't fit in larger society, and that is a small but important detail. Eberron half-elves and half-orcs aren't culturally unique, it's just that they aren't ostracized as part of their racial backstory.</blockquote>