Orc females? Yes please, reminds me of a Jadzia Dax and Worf situation just reversed. Strong women are attractive!
Jadzia Dax and Worf?...
So the Orc would be raised by humans, get beaten up by every monster they encounter to show how threatening the monster is, can hardly go say three sentences without dropping the word "honor" in there and is a total deadbeat mother who completely abandons her kid with those who raised her-- twice, even after they brought the kid back the first time and said they are too old to raise another Orc?
And the human has a centuries old giant worm inside him that grants him memories of the previous several people that the worm had been implanted in (one of which was an orc and another was a serial killer)?
I'm just not seeing the explicit parallel there otherwise.
The Seiple story had the human father go off advenutring while leaving the orc mother (shaman) to raise the children in a town full of humans who generally mistreat them, except for the oldest half orc daughter who gets religion, becomes a paladin and hunts monsters, including in the end, her mother.
A half-orc absolutely can be the product of a completely consensual union between two half-orcs, or between a half-orc and either a human or a full orc.
Also, while a full orc in most settings may not be interested in consensual dalliances with "soft city-dwellers", they might be more inclined to such things with, say, members of human barbarian tribes.
And in some settings - Eberron, for example - Orcs aren't universally brutish, violent, and evil. They're just people, with different ethnic features (and different racial abilities and attribute modifiers).
As others have mentioned, 5th edition, Half-Orcs have been around long enough to be their own separate, independant race. They can interbreed with Humans and Orcs and produce more Half-Orcs with a appearance-slant towards the non-Half-Orc parent, but the child is still a Half-Orc. It is fully lore-compliant to be part of an entirely Half-Orc family tree going back several generations and living within a place like Waterdeep or in a farming village settled by a band of adventurers and a gaggle of slave-children they rescued during their travels and hey presto, you have a thriving community of Half-Orcs and Humans that could become a plot-hook when an Human purist refuses to see the difference between a 'true' Orc and these peaceful civilians, or a Cleric of Grumuush gets annoyed that these 'thin-bloods' are going the way of Obould's kingdom and decides setting their everything on fire is the solution.
I mean, if Tieflings are allowed to just walk around without people immediately trying to crucify them like they did in previous editions, a Half-Orc shouldn't do more than make people blink as they pass.
Orc females? Yes please, reminds me of a Jadzia Dax and Worf situation just reversed. Strong women are attractive!
Jadzia Dax and Worf?...
So the Orc would be raised by humans, get beaten up by every monster they encounter to show how threatening the monster is, can hardly go say three sentences without dropping the word "honor" in there and is a total deadbeat mother who completely abandons her kid with those who raised her-- twice, even after they brought the kid back the first time and said they are too old to raise another Orc?
And the human has a centuries old giant worm inside him that grants him memories of the previous several people that the worm had been implanted in (one of which was an orc and another was a serial killer)?
I'm just not seeing the explicit parallel there otherwise.
not sure if sarcasm or troll blowing a mundane post out of proportion. O.o
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Jadzia Dax and Worf?...
So the Orc would be raised by humans, get beaten up by every monster they encounter to show how threatening the monster is, can hardly go say three sentences without dropping the word "honor" in there and is a total deadbeat mother who completely abandons her kid with those who raised her-- twice, even after they brought the kid back the first time and said they are too old to raise another Orc?
And the human has a centuries old giant worm inside him that grants him memories of the previous several people that the worm had been implanted in (one of which was an orc and another was a serial killer)?
I'm just not seeing the explicit parallel there otherwise.
Doesn't have to be grim.
Perhaps people have orc-fetishes.
Who wouldn't want the rippling muscles & hot-blooded passion that an orc provides?
The Seiple story had the human father go off advenutring while leaving the orc mother (shaman) to raise the children in a town full of humans who generally mistreat them, except for the oldest half orc daughter who gets religion, becomes a paladin and hunts monsters, including in the end, her mother.
A half-orc absolutely can be the product of a completely consensual union between two half-orcs, or between a half-orc and either a human or a full orc.
Also, while a full orc in most settings may not be interested in consensual dalliances with "soft city-dwellers", they might be more inclined to such things with, say, members of human barbarian tribes.
And in some settings - Eberron, for example - Orcs aren't universally brutish, violent, and evil. They're just people, with different ethnic features (and different racial abilities and attribute modifiers).
As others have mentioned, 5th edition, Half-Orcs have been around long enough to be their own separate, independant race. They can interbreed with Humans and Orcs and produce more Half-Orcs with a appearance-slant towards the non-Half-Orc parent, but the child is still a Half-Orc. It is fully lore-compliant to be part of an entirely Half-Orc family tree going back several generations and living within a place like Waterdeep or in a farming village settled by a band of adventurers and a gaggle of slave-children they rescued during their travels and hey presto, you have a thriving community of Half-Orcs and Humans that could become a plot-hook when an Human purist refuses to see the difference between a 'true' Orc and these peaceful civilians, or a Cleric of Grumuush gets annoyed that these 'thin-bloods' are going the way of Obould's kingdom and decides setting their everything on fire is the solution.
I mean, if Tieflings are allowed to just walk around without people immediately trying to crucify them like they did in previous editions, a Half-Orc shouldn't do more than make people blink as they pass.
Fixed that for you. :D
Yeah, but if she’s green and can lift you over her head even better.
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not sure if sarcasm or troll blowing a mundane post out of proportion. O.o