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Description
This female orc is one of the rank & file in a mixed polearm infantry unit. Some of the tribes don't differentiate and simply throw all raw warriors into a single formation until they've proven themselves in battle and this young female White Tusk during the era of Tammux is no exception.

She wears thick polar bear hide leather with a wooden, hide-covered hoplon and wields a bronze pole axe with a crude bronze long-bladed knife analogous to a spatha when she needs to get in close. Her pack would also contain tools like a stone hand axe (bronze if her tribe is doing well, steel if she's taken it in a raid), a drinking horn or waterskin, bone needles & sinew for repairing or making new gear, and other survival gear as nearly all White Tusk tribes remained nomadic in some way even up to the age of muskets when Stazlohk rallied the tribes for another great war.

Her hair is naturally white as White Tusk hair varies from silver-gray to a few shades of white but bears dyed tips: when many female orcs in Tammux's time joined a warband they would shave their heads, dye or bleach it once it was two fingers in length, then let it grow out as a way to show how long they've been a warrior. She has only one cheek tattoo signifying that while she has apparently been in a warband for some time, she's only participated in one proper battle (raid tattoos are usually worn on the forearms or back). White Tusks don't usually range far enough to wage any amount of proper warfare and their nomadic nature would preclude any metalwork so her band is most likely an auxiliary unit working with a more established and sedentary tribe that has issued them polearms for the duration of their service and promised them pay in tools or materials her tribe lacks.

Description
This female orc is one of the rank & file in a mixed polearm infantry unit. Some of the tribes don't differentiate and simply throw all raw warriors into a single formation until they've proven themselves in battle and this young female White Tusk during the era of Tammux is no exception.

She wears thick polar bear hide leather with a wooden, hide-covered hoplon and wields a bronze pole axe with a crude bronze long-bladed knife analogous to a spatha when she needs to get in close. Her pack would also contain tools like a stone hand axe (bronze if her tribe is doing well, steel if she's taken it in a raid), a drinking horn or waterskin, bone needles & sinew for repairing or making new gear, and other survival gear as nearly all White Tusk tribes remained nomadic in some way even up to the age of muskets when Stazlohk rallied the tribes for another great war.

Her hair is naturally white as White Tusk hair varies from silver-gray to a few shades of white but bears dyed tips: when many female orcs in Tammux's time joined a warband they would shave their heads, dye or bleach it once it was two fingers in length, then let it grow out as a way to show how long they've been a warrior. She has only one cheek tattoo signifying that while she has apparently been in a warband for some time, she's only participated in one proper battle (raid tattoos are usually worn on the forearms or back). White Tusks don't usually range far enough to wage any amount of proper warfare and their nomadic nature would preclude any metalwork so her band is most likely an auxiliary unit working with a more established and sedentary tribe that has issued them polearms for the duration of their service and promised them pay in tools or materials her tribe lacks.