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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8019983" data-attributes="member: 87792">I'm currently writing a fairly old school Warhammer Fantasy inspired RPG which has Dark Elves. They're known as Dark Elves because of the colour of the sails of their ships and the colour of their armour - and feared because they are slavers. One of the rumours in the setting is that every elven trading vessel keeps a black sail and some armour paint in the hold (and the elves are already suspicious enough given that the biggest group of elves the PCs are likely to meet work for the East Megorinvian Company).At a risk of setting the cat among the pigeons there does seem to be a singificant difference between British and American orcs. Two of the biggest sources for British orcs are Tolkein and Games Workshop; Tolkein's orcs are very definitely lower class and talk like British infantrymen did at the Battle of the Somme (where Tolkein was present) and for all we're told things like they were made in mockery of elves and are all alike whenever we see them they have different perspectives to each other. Meanwhile early GW orcs were explicitly based on British football hooligans. American orcs do, I agree, seem to draw on tropes from Westerns (and the Law vs Chaos setting where the boundaries of the kingdom are unsettled also feels very Western-inspired).</blockquote>