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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8765154" data-attributes="member: 2629">What makes an orc an orc?  That depends upon the fiction from which we extract them, but in the MM the adjectives / evocative words (beyond physical description) are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Savage</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bloodthirsty</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Raiders</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pillagers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Destroyers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Scavengers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Patriarchal</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Unbigoted</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Indesciminate</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fertile</li> </ul>At first blush, that does not lend itself to a goodly culture.  However, if you want to remain true to these ideas and make them a goodly culture, I could see a path, but not one without problems.I see a gregorious clan of zealots devoted to stamping out the evils that plague the lands - ancestral enemies of their Divine Creator.  They show no mercy to the evils they hunt, and travel any distance to hunt them down.  They celebrate life and welcome any creature into their clan if it is willing to join in the fight - and once you're part of the clan, you're part of the clan in every respects.  They revel in their hunt and sustain themselves by scavenging from the remains of their victims.  They count amongst themselves Zealot Barbarians, Vengeance Paladins, War Clerics, Wildfire Druids, and Hunter Rangers. Perhaps their enemies are demons that sweep into a lang, possess the dead, kill to create more host bodies to possess and try to conquer all.  As these invaders sweep into a land, the people might pray for the orcs to come and save them from the darkness.  The orcs might arrive in a rolling cloud of vengeance, ripping through the demonic undead hordes with song on their lips and righteous anger behind their blades.  They relish in the battle and know in their hearts that they are will of the Light - sent to wreck righteous fury on the Darkness. In a few days time they may have vanquished all of the demons from the land, earning the love and praise of the peoples that remain.  They take their fill of the spoils leftover - some freely given, some taken as compensation when there was nobody left to make just claim to it.     This is still problematic, as the basic underlying foundation upon which the MM description is presented is problematic, but it is a possibility.</blockquote>

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