Who are the ORCS? l Warhammer Fantasy Lore

the Orcs are perhaps the largest and most warlike of the green skin race whose large size and raw physical strength easily allows them to dominate much of green skin society as a tendency of their race the Orcs are an extremely violent and brutish species in both mind body and soul they are brutes and louts of the first degree insensitive to pain and higher thought and are singularly geared towards constant and ever escalating Warfare in a more practical term the Orcs simply lived to fight Orcs are known for producing large brutal armies of difficult to kill troops usually supported by a variety of subgroupings of other green skins such as their skills on the battlefield that the majority of the most destructive campaigns ignited by the green Skins are more often led by an orcish warlord of great strength wit and brutality goblins are the more prolific but it is the Orcs that do the bulk of the bloody work in most battles they are an overly pugnacious lot and if the Orcs find themselves without an enemy they will often Pummel each other just to keep their spirits up Orcs naturally take their robust physique for granted and regard everyone else's weak puny or squishy a typical orc is a naturally large creature that stands taller than the average man with long arms and short legs huge slabs of muscle moving underneath tough green skin and their jaws are lined with vicious fangs that jut out from their underbite they have Beady red eyes a generally foul demeanor and are naturally bald normally six feet tall they can be up to seven feet tall when stretched out of their characteristic stoop another strange characteristic about the orcish race is their ability to grow in both strength and stature as they grow older Orcs Respect power and strength and naturally tend towards becoming bigger and stronger as they rise through their society as an awk grows older and wins more battles he would begin to grow at an extraordinary rate to such an extent that should he not be beaten by an even bigger stronger foe in battle the orc would continue to grow for the rest of his life in fact it is said that an orc can never truly die of old age for by then he would have already been beaten by a foe even bigger than himself or just simply killed outright within most of the Known World the Orcs are the most dominant Force within much of green skin Society most tribes are usually a mixture of both goblins and Orcs with the Orcs often possessing the highest position within the tribe's violent hierarchy due to their strength yet lazy attitude the Orcs occupy the warrior cast of green skin Society while the Goblins occupy the worker cast in this Union the Orcs are given a large and plentiful source of laborers that will do all the menial tasks of daily tribal life such as chopping wood crafting weapons or building huts in return the Goblins received the intimidating protection of their larger cousins from the threats of outside Invaders such as Fierce Predators or other tribes of green skins however there are times when a tribe can consist almost entirely Of Orcs the composition of these orc dominated tribes is both wide-ranging and diverse regardless of their composition most orc tribes are formed around a hard-fighting core of orcish Warriors without a large Goblin Workforce to do the tribe's menial neighbors for them the largest of the orcish Warriors forces the smallest and weakest of their members to do the task for them as a result of their violent tendencies this makes the always belligerent Orcs even angrier resulting in many full-on fights at an almost alarming regularity even within green-skinned tribes these physical struggles often help to establish a hierarchy within the tribe forcing the lowliest Warriors to do all the hard work while they're larger and more powerful Brethren are all about an orc is a stubborn and lazy creature and to Bear both the work and humiliation of reproductive tasks such as chopping wood or building huts would only result in another Fierce fight in the imminent future in time these Orcs would once more fight amongst themselves establishing a fresh new pecking order from the remaining survivors this extremely hostile and unstable environment ensures that most awk dominated tribes are smaller yet far more battle-hardened than a typical green skin tribe however a consequence of their frequent infighting the camps of orc tribes usually lack even the crudest amenities that enforced Goblin laborers normally provide such as stockades or even simple skin Huts when the tribes go to war these green-skinned brutes are formed into tough to kill Warriors called awk boys or simply darboys these aux boys would then form up into units simply called mobs which are led by the biggest within their particular group the bosses on the battlefield orc mobs are distinguished by their own symbols or markings which are most often displayed on Shields banners or totems it is common practice to brag about one's own mob while rudely scoffing at other mobs naturally this leads to punch-ups scrums and actual combat between rival groups a unit of aux boys carries a range of weapons into the battlefield such as long-staved Spears a variety of bladed Cleavers giant crude axes blooded clubs Rusty swords and occasionally looted War gear these weapons often feature prominently in a mob's name such as the rusty Choppers boys or gutniks jabbers all orc close combat weapons are collectively called Choppers and are kept in a battered condition to an orc an untarnished weapon is a sure sign that a fight has been long overdue while they lack even the most basic intelligence of more advanced races Orcs possess immense cunning and survival Instinct but rarely adopt new tactics to replace their fondness for Close Quarters brutality before battle mobs of all boys have been known to chant and stomp the ground as a means of intimidation and as a way to pump up an Orcs unnaturally adrenaline rush should the battle take too long to begin fights have been known to break out between individuals or rival mobs as taunts and rocks are flung back and forth as such it is common to see a mob of big UNS traveling up and down a green skin Army as a disciplinary figure to stop such animosity from getting out of control when their warlord Roars his wow Orcs have been known to lend their own guttural voices in the swelling of the barbaric Battle Cry with battle finally commencing these Orcs can finally release all of their violence into one ground-shaking charge [Music]

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Published: Sun Aug 13 2023