D&D 5E (2024) Orc lore in the new Forgotten Realms books?

[Scribe]

Hmm.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Aglarond is weird in this for that reason: they mention human-elf marriages being common, but there's no mention of the children of such unions.

You really just kind of have to read it into it.

 

[Parmandur]

Thar. Valiant orcs fight to defend their territory from ogres, manticores, and perytons in the rocky moorland known as the Thar. Eons ago, this land was a unified orc kingdom. Legend has it that Vorbyx’s Hammer, a great weapon carried by the first king of Thar, lies hidden somewhere here. Thar’s orcs believe that the next orc to wield it will restore the kingdom to its former glory.

That is a potentially cool high Level hook: and the "civilized" neighbors of Thar are all terrible, so ripe for player...intervention.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

You really just kind of have to read it into it.

So weird, since posters here were saying half-orcs and half-elves still existed in FR, it was just that they would now be mechanically represented with the full-blooded ancestor's stats, but now it's all gone Damnatio memoriae.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

So weird, since posters here were saying half-orcs and half-elves still existed in FR, it was just that they would now be mechanically represented with the full-blooded ancestor's stats, but now it's all gone Damnatio memoriae.

I think that is still true, its just that they don't spell it out.