Bronze Orc Warrior

Bronze Orcs are leaner than orcs from colder climates and have ruddy brown skin from a lifetime spent in the desert. Their tools are often crude but effective. The most common weapons are daggers, axes and spears typically made of flint or bone. Armour is hard to come by and impractical in the desert heat so they rely on shields and simple leather helmets to protect themselves. A large proportion of the Bronze Orc population are nomadic bandits that live and die on the loose alliances they make or break with other bandit gangs and the physical prowess of their leader. Bronze Orc culture is based on survival and scavenging at all times making use of every usable material and stealing what they need to get by.

Their cultural habits make relations with the civilised nations difficult at best but warfare with them is exceedingly time consuming as they avoid pitched battles in favour of guerrilla warfare. Amongst the bronze orc tribe or clans, there's a wide variety of martial sub-cultures. The most common however is the use of light armour and a shield. The bare minimum an orc soldier uses is some sort of side arm, usually a sword or axe, maybe in conjunction with a spear or other polearm. Their training is harsh and sometimes fatal, even using dull or wooden training weapons. While they aren't completely bloodthirsty, their culture respects strength above all and will not tolerate weakness among the ranks for long. Those that survive their tutoring and field training are amongst the most brutally direct swordsmen in the material plane.