Tribal Orcs

There are bands of Orcs that do not wish to join the civilized world of the Humans, seeking to remain true to their tribal origins. These Orcs are considered outcast; as they tend to avoid settlements and cities, remaining mobile, hunting and foraging like the tribes of old. Due to their secluded nature, it is not uncommon for the Tribal Orcs to have conflicts with those around them, including Humans and Orcs alike.

Naming Traditions

Family names

Traditional Orc family names.

Other names

Several of the Tribal Orcs have earn warrior or hunter names from their great deeds.

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

Traditionally Tribal Orcs will only speak Orc; usually with a thicker and more guttural accent than the more domesticated City Orcs.

Culture and cultural heritage

The Tribal Orcs believe in living as a part of the land, not separate as most of their people have chosen to do; hunting, gathering, warring, and other traditional practices such as ritualized art and combat.

Shared customary codes and values

The tribe stays together, but the members must fend for themselves and their mates.

Average technological level

Stretched skin tents, natural medicine, crude metalworking and leather working.

Common Etiquette rules

Blood, swet, dirt, and more blood are traditional parts of the Tribal Orc society, whether eating food, greeting friends, or crafting weapons.

Common Dress code

Tribal Orcs dress in a traditional Orc garb of leathers, furs, cloth, bones, and ritualized ornamentations.

Art & Architecture

Tribal Orc art and architecture often is more functional than created for beauty. Every structure, every ornament, every painted shield; are created that way to ritualize the objects and hold true to their traditions.

Common Customs, traditions and rituals

Tribal Orcs will often use Blood Rage for combat and hunting dangerous prey. The City Orcs abandoned the use some time ago. Tribal Orcs will also have regular test of skills and strengths; where they will battle each other to the point of exhaustion, using broken and blunted weapons.

Birth & Baptismal Rites

Like all things within the Tribal Orcs culture, births are traditionally bloody, requiring a fresh sacrifice; the stronger the prey, the stronger the Orc would grow in the coming year.

Coming of Age Rites

The first year that an Tribal Orc can hunt and kill their own sacrifice for their birth celebration, is the year that they are considered grown.

Funerary and Memorial customs

Tribal Orcs are traditionally brought before a group of Orcs, after death, and are repeated chopped into until all remaining parts are small fragments of their body. The remains are left for animals to consume; which the Tribal Orcs will observe and stalk for a week, to allow the Orc's strengths to enter the animal's bodies; after which they are killed and consumed by the tribe.

Common Taboos

Trusting Humans, Lings, or City Orcs. Those that do not see themselves as a part of nature are not to be trusted.

Common Myths and Legends

The strengths of the dead Tribal Orcs will pass into the bodies of the creatures that consume them; the animals are to be protected until a week passes, at which point the tribe will consume the animals to gain the fallen Orc's strengths.
Blood Rage is the truest form of the Tribal Orc, become a killing beast; granted strength from nature itself.

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

Scars are a sign of strength and could be considered a mark of beauty.

Courtship Ideals

The larger prey you bring your potential mate, the more likely they will accept your courtship.

Relationship Ideals

Tribals Orcs will stay with a mate for as long as that mate is able to bring value of some form to the relationship. This is true for both mates in the relationship.

Major organizations

Various Tribal Orc clans roam the grasslands of the Human region.