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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8254309" data-attributes="member: 6915329">It's been a while since I've read the books, but as I recall, while slavery is considered evil, in alignment terms, it's also treated as a setting norm. Also, muls are a PC race, but they're specifically bred by slavers, and literally the only way you could have been born was by an enslaved woman being raped, and then likely dying in the childbirth due to how difficult a mul pregnancy is.Compare that to half-orcs; in the 5e PH, half-orcs are described as being the result of political marriages or when a human and an orc community join together. Thus, while there's nothing that says that your half-orc can't be the result of rape, WotC found a way to have an extremely non-rape-centric origin for them.Even if you ignore the very disturbing elements of forced-breeding sex slaves, by getting rid of that element you're also allowing players to have a choice about their character's origin.</blockquote>