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Another Pathfinder race for my fantasy setting, this one being my take on the orcs.
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Historical Origin: Throughout prehistory, orcs were seen as savage barbarians and a constant threat.
Orcs were great warriors and hunters who raided villages, raped men and women alike, and took whatever they wanted. So there were good reasons to fear them.
This changed somewhat at the dawn of the bronze age, when it became more profitable for the orcs to trade with the growing city-states and empires.
The orcs of the Kuzrek desert and the Elruk plains became heavily involved in the slave trade and the bronze trade, trading copper from Kebtu and tin from Behir. Eventually, the Uzkal tribe began to dominate the Kuzrek and Elruk lands and established the Bronze Road. The Bronze Road allowed for rapid, safe travel, and the Uzkal protected traders and travelers in exchange for a toll.
As a result of the Bronze Road, a few Uzkal cities began to form along the road, marking their transition from a nomadic people to an empire.
Another consequence of this trade was that a few orcs began to immigrate to the neighboring empires, and almost always found work as professional soldiers.

Description: Orcs are an aggressive and dominating race, famed for their strength and martial prowess.
Orcs almost universally prize practicality over the ornamental, and judge others by their merits rather than by their titles, blood, or looks. Orcs respect not only strength and power, but also skill. Orc social units are usually meritocratic in nature.
They are generally hard-working and tend to believe that everyone should earn their keep.
Because of their value of merit, orcs generally hold the same expectations for both males and females and tend to treat both genders equally. Both males and females also tend to find a significant level of skill, especially when it comes to physical skills, to be an attractive trait.
Orc women are just as aggressive as the men, and in most societies they occupy the same roles as men do. Meaning that the number of males and females will almost always be equal in any group of orcs.
Orc women are also just as prone to violence, sadism, sexual assault, and rape as men are. This is especially evident when at war.
Although orcs are omnivorous, they tend to crave and consume meat more often than most other races.

Physical Description: Possessing a muscular yet lean build, with broad shoulders and wide hips, orcs typically stand just a few inches taller than most humans, with an average height of six feet. They typically blood red to black skin, and long, black coarse hair. Aside from the top of their head, orcs are completely hairless and have very smooth, albeit thick skin.
Eye colors range from amber, blue, brown, grey, green, hazel, red, to violet. Orcs also have two pair of fangs, as well as short claws on their fingers and toes.
Males and females have the same height and share the same muscular, lean build.

Racial Traits
+2 Strength, +2 Constitution, -2 Charisma: Orcs are strong and tough, but are brutish.
Humanoid (Orc)
Medium: As medium creatures, orcs have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Normal Speed: Orcs have a base speed of 30 feet.
Darkvision: Orcs can see in the dark up to 60 feet.
Ferocity: If the hit points of an orc falls below 0 but it is not yet dead, it can continue to fight. If it does, it is staggered, and loses 1 hit point each round. It still dies when its hit points reach a negative amount equal to its Constitution score.
Intimidating: Orcs receive a +2 racial bonus on Intimidate skill checks.
Relentless: Orcs receive a +2 bonus on combat maneuver checks made to bull rush or overrun an opponent. This bonus only applies while both the orc and its opponent are standing on the ground.
Languages: Orcs begin play speaking two languages which are based on the era and region. Orcs with high Intelligence scores can choose from a pool of seven languages.

Description
Commissioned from
Another Pathfinder race for my fantasy setting, this one being my take on the orcs.
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Historical Origin: Throughout prehistory, orcs were seen as savage barbarians and a constant threat.
Orcs were great warriors and hunters who raided villages, raped men and women alike, and took whatever they wanted. So there were good reasons to fear them.
This changed somewhat at the dawn of the bronze age, when it became more profitable for the orcs to trade with the growing city-states and empires.
The orcs of the Kuzrek desert and the Elruk plains became heavily involved in the slave trade and the bronze trade, trading copper from Kebtu and tin from Behir. Eventually, the Uzkal tribe began to dominate the Kuzrek and Elruk lands and established the Bronze Road. The Bronze Road allowed for rapid, safe travel, and the Uzkal protected traders and travelers in exchange for a toll.
As a result of the Bronze Road, a few Uzkal cities began to form along the road, marking their transition from a nomadic people to an empire.
Another consequence of this trade was that a few orcs began to immigrate to the neighboring empires, and almost always found work as professional soldiers.

Description: Orcs are an aggressive and dominating race, famed for their strength and martial prowess.
Orcs almost universally prize practicality over the ornamental, and judge others by their merits rather than by their titles, blood, or looks. Orcs respect not only strength and power, but also skill. Orc social units are usually meritocratic in nature.
They are generally hard-working and tend to believe that everyone should earn their keep.
Because of their value of merit, orcs generally hold the same expectations for both males and females and tend to treat both genders equally. Both males and females also tend to find a significant level of skill, especially when it comes to physical skills, to be an attractive trait.
Orc women are just as aggressive as the men, and in most societies they occupy the same roles as men do. Meaning that the number of males and females will almost always be equal in any group of orcs.
Orc women are also just as prone to violence, sadism, sexual assault, and rape as men are. This is especially evident when at war.
Although orcs are omnivorous, they tend to crave and consume meat more often than most other races.

Physical Description: Possessing a muscular yet lean build, with broad shoulders and wide hips, orcs typically stand just a few inches taller than most humans, with an average height of six feet. They typically blood red to black skin, and long, black coarse hair. Aside from the top of their head, orcs are completely hairless and have very smooth, albeit thick skin.
Eye colors range from amber, blue, brown, grey, green, hazel, red, to violet. Orcs also have two pair of fangs, as well as short claws on their fingers and toes.
Males and females have the same height and share the same muscular, lean build.

Racial Traits
+2 Strength, +2 Constitution, -2 Charisma: Orcs are strong and tough, but are brutish.
Humanoid (Orc)
Medium: As medium creatures, orcs have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Normal Speed: Orcs have a base speed of 30 feet.
Darkvision: Orcs can see in the dark up to 60 feet.
Ferocity: If the hit points of an orc falls below 0 but it is not yet dead, it can continue to fight. If it does, it is staggered, and loses 1 hit point each round. It still dies when its hit points reach a negative amount equal to its Constitution score.
Intimidating: Orcs receive a +2 racial bonus on Intimidate skill checks.
Relentless: Orcs receive a +2 bonus on combat maneuver checks made to bull rush or overrun an opponent. This bonus only applies while both the orc and its opponent are standing on the ground.
Languages: Orcs begin play speaking two languages which are based on the era and region. Orcs with high Intelligence scores can choose from a pool of seven languages.