Environment

Special abilities

Normal sight 11 | Dark vision 11

Orcs are numerous and very diverse. A typical orc is about one meter twenty tall and weighs around sixty kilograms, but larger breeds grow over a meter and a half. They have strong arms and torsos, crooked limbs, grimacing faces and lower teeth jutting over the upper lip. Their skin is dark green to gray. For their height they are surprisingly strong.

They live in the mountains, where they dig caves and mine minerals. They do not like sunlight; when they must travel, they journey by night and hide in the shade by day. They see excellently in the dark and can run unbelievably fast in underground passages.

An orc community is led by the strongest of them; whoever wants to take his place can challenge him to a duel to the death. Orcs multiply very quickly, so a lair that an army has almost wiped out is full again within a few years. They desire domination, but because of their laziness and quarrelsomeness they rarely succeed.

They love comfort and idleness, and so they hunt slaves who dig tunnels for them, mine raw materials and do the heavier smithing work. Getting along with them is hard, but not impossible: they like to hear flattery, take bribes and will do anything to avoid work and get rich without effort. A larger band of orcs is usually led by a more experienced commander.