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<blockquote data-quote="QuentinGeorge" data-source="post: 8208801" data-attributes="member: 20990">Interesting topic.In my homebrew, orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears, orogs, et al, are all a single grouping of people who self-identify as &quot;Orschans&quot;. In the distant past they were humans, elves, gnomes but the elite of their society began experimenting with fleshwarping magic, and turned themselves into their current forms.Now the reason behind this depends on who you ask, for the &quot;unchanged&quot;, ie the humans, elves, gnomes etc of the setting, the Orschans are horrid monsters under a dark curse that has twisted their minds and bodies. For the Orschans, they have gained powerful bodies with their minds untouched, why would they see that as a curse? Yes, their appearance has changed, but beauty is subjective.Non-Orschans see them as evil since they are a society that raids its neighbours and tends to wage wars of imperialistic expansion, but is that so different to humans?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="QuentinGeorge, post: 8208801, member: 20990"] Interesting topic. In my homebrew, orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears, orogs, et al, are all a single grouping of people who self-identify as "Orschans". In the distant past they were humans, elves, gnomes but the elite of their society began experimenting with fleshwarping magic, and turned themselves into their current forms. Now the reason behind this depends on who you ask, for the "unchanged", ie the humans, elves, gnomes etc of the setting, the Orschans are horrid monsters under a dark curse that has twisted their minds and bodies. For the Orschans, they have gained powerful bodies with their minds untouched, why would they see that as a curse? Yes, their appearance has changed, but beauty is subjective. Non-Orschans see them as evil since they are a society that raids its neighbours and tends to wage wars of imperialistic expansion, but is that so different to humans? [/QUOTE]

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