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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 8210204" data-attributes="member: 3887">I've mainly done variant orcs in my campaign settings. I don't think I've ever used Pure Strain Tolkien orcs.In the World of the Islands, orcs and their fellow monstrous humanoids were the creation of Changer, one of the seventeen gods. Modifier of old species into new. They weren't evil. Unfortunately, Changer had a rebellious Lucifer-esque first-created helper named Alpha who, unsurprisingly rebelled, fled their their holy mountain home with a chunk of population, and promptly got corrupted by demons. In the World of CITY, orcs and their fellow monstrous humanoids were imported as menial laborers from other worlds and planes through the Gate Builder Empire's magical Gates. They were also experimented on and altered via alchemy, because apparently I like fantasy genetic engineering? Eventually the empire collapsed, and its successor state granted orcs and their kin full rights and citizenship, while doing little to reverse the effects of all the prior state-sponsored racism... In the Port on the Aster Sea, orcs hailed from the Isle of Beasts, and despite the rather derogatory name of the homeland, were fairly well respected semi-mythic honorable warrior types. Known for being scrupulously honest mercenaries.</blockquote>