Orcs are tough and brutish humanoids, whose mere name often suggests marauding hordes and bloody pillages.
Orcs are on average about as tall as humans, if not a little shorter, but broader and heavier, often with a hunched or uneven posture. Their race presents
greatly heterogeneous features, from their very varied faces, noses and snouts, to their divere ranges of fangs or tusks, to the many possible colours of their
leathery skin. They are closely related to goblins, that share this diversity and have often similar features, if on smaller and frailer proportions.
Orcs are renowned for their strength and savagery, but also for their industriousness; they often build cities and fortress of wood and stone, although crude,
and grand forges to produce weapons of war. They farm animals and grow tubers and hardy crops, even if they prefer to hunt and to steal food from sacked
settlements; they weave cloths, sew hides and smith armours of good iron, even if their crafts are unreliable and ramshackled.
Orcs inhabit all corners of the world and have developed varied cultures, even if mostly barbaric: from nomads of the steppes to goat-ranching
mountaineers, from isle-dwelling bucaneer kingdoms to warrior city-states. They are commonly despised and considered monstrous and cruel by humans
and elves; and for good reason, as they are often more keen on pillaging and enslaving than on establishing peaceful relationships with neighbouring
cultures. Still, it is possible and not uncommon to trade with Orcs, and even to instaurate a degree of diplomacy; and while Orcs, like Goblin, are
renownedly less emphatetic and less concerned about the deaths and sufferings of living creatures, some of them are still capable of developing
relationships of trust, and even care and friendship, with other creatures.

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