Are your Orcs Elf-descendants? After all, that would explain their propensity to have hot, steaming tea with elf women...
>>97662687>dogshit one-line survery thread designed to make the site look active for advertisers
>>97662687My orcs are spirits of war that possess the fallen dead of the battlefield, transforming them into living monsters that seek only slaughter
>>97662962>orcs are just weaker Barrow-wights Bloody hell, that isn't actually bad idea.
>>97662687My elves are supernatural, so they're above concepts like having descendants.
>>97662962>>97663132It's also etymologically sound, as the original word, "orc," means "demon" in Old English. "Orc-neas" is a compound-word meaning "demon-corpse," and it's why Orcus is the demon-lord of the undead.
>>97663132>Intelligent beings can't be all evil, that would be morally wrong, so no, not orcs are evil>how about dragons, sir?>fuck those cunts!
>>97662687Orcs and elves were created at the same time when their respective gods fought with each other. The blood spilled from the elf god begot the elves, the blood from the orc god the orcs. The two races conduct ritual war against the other in mimicry of this divine incident. However, they are naturally predisposed to each other and consider themselves brother races.
>>97667531United in their mutual contempt for dwarfs, no doubt.
>>97666289So the original orcs are more like draugr?
>>97668159Less like zombies and more like a corpse puppeted by a malevolent, forceful intelligence.
>>97662894Who even advertises on this site anymore?
>>97663132That's what some of the orcs like boldogs were in 40k, as long with maiar in orc body starting lineages
>>97662687They're artificial beings created by an evil wizard around 2000 years ago. After the wizard was stopped the orcs eventually found work as bodyguards and mercenaries, and in the modern day they run one of the most prolific arms manufacturing companies (the setting's version of H&K, the wizard and thus the orcs were german-coded) in the world.
>>97668438Bungie, judging by the damage control that was going on in Marathon threads during their beta
>>97662687Why dont you ask the worldbuilding general.
>>97666940>so no, not orcs are evilQuit tiredposting, Anon.
Are Orks and Eldar in 40k supposed to be genetically modified from some existing species or were they made out of whole cloth by the Old Ones?
>>97666940Dragons in the first draft of fall of gondolin were robots that spewed crews of orcs over the walls, I think they were always intended to be extensions of Morgoths will or demons wearing flesh as they are usually described in a way that references a spirit within speaking through the body. I think the two plausible Tolkien dragon sources are either balrog like creatures that have taken or possessed flesh forms or morgoth's greed puppeteering them like trolls
>>97662687My orcs are pigs genetically spliced with humans to be cheap soldiers. But the project failed as enhanced pig brains failed to produce consciousness or even higher thoughts. In essence producing simplistic warrior race that acts like locust.Generic concept, I know. I just like my orcs to have pig heads and nothing in it.
>>97669978It's somewhat suggested they worked off a common ancestor since Humans and Eldar (both old one spawn) can interbreed in old lore.
>>97662687OP self-inserts as the elf twink orcs mistook for a woman.
>>97668399So like a death knight?
>>97678732Or a Dybbuk.
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