Half Orc

Half Orcs are the result of breeding between humans and orcs during the days of the Dragon Kings in an effort to create a race with the mental A half-orc is the offspring of a human and an orc, or of two half-orcs. Because some intolerant people see orcs as more akin to monsters than people, they sometimes hate and fear half-orcs simply due to their lineage. This commonly pushes half-orcs to the margins of society, where some find work in manual labor or as mercenaries, and others fall into crime or cruelty. Many who can’t stand the indignities heaped on them in human society find a home in orcish nations, among their orc kin, or trek into the wilderness to live in peace, apart from society’s judgment. Humans often assume half-orcs are unintelligent or uncivilized, and half-orcs rarely find acceptance among societies with many such folk. To an orc tribe, a half-orc is considered smart enough to make a good war leader but weaker physically than other orcs. Many half-orcs thus end up having low status among orc tribes unless they can prove their strength. A half-orc has a shorter lifespan than other humans, living to be roughly 70 years old.