Meta:Orc
Removals
The following content was removed from the article or revised for irreconcilably conflicting with later sources.
- Revised this to focus more on the depictions of pain and scarification in Player Core and Ancestry Guide:
“Orcs seems to experience emotions more intensely than other humanoids, but only seem to express rage, jealousy, lust, and similar emotions. This may be a result of their violent culture.1 Orcs have an incredibly high pain threshold, though this is not physiological. They experience pain as vividly as any other sentient race but possess a near unparalleled stoicism.23
Orcs fatalistically embrace pain, allowing them to survive agony that would break or even kill another creature. Some even claim that orc eyes have never adapted to the burning light of the sun, they have just learned to endure it.3
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- Removed or commented out these assertions, particularly parts from Classic Monsters Revisited, which is complicated or in conflict with the presences of multiple orc ethnicities that didn't exist when it was published, and of multiple orc characters who are mothers but aren't withheld from battle:
“Orcs make up for their short lifespans and the high attrition of their violent societies by reproducing at an astonishing rate.4 Orc mothers are kept from the battlefield and typically give birth to between two and five young at a time. They occasionally birth a single child who has devoured their siblings in utero, which is seen as an omen of greatness.5 Their fecundity is so great that a tribe decimated in battle can almost totally replenish its numbers in as little as a decade.4
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- Removed for conflicting with almost all 2E artwork depicting orcs and being sourced solely to Classic Monsters Revisited:
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Additional sections were replaced due to a canon conflict (see Talk:Orc/Conflicts) and moved to Hold of Belkzen.
For the version of the page prior to these changes, see revision 378831. -Oznogon (talk) 22:54, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
References
- ↑ . “Chapter 2: Uncommon Races” in Inner Sea Races, 148. Paizo Inc., 2015
- ↑ . “Ancestries & Backgrounds” in Player Core, 70. Paizo Inc., 2023
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 . “Chapter 2: Uncommon Races” in Inner Sea Races, 149. Paizo Inc., 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 . “Orc” in Classic Monsters Revisited, 54. Paizo Inc., 2008
- ↑ . “Chapter 2: Uncommon Races” in Inner Sea Races, 150. Paizo Inc., 2015
- ↑ . “Orc” in Classic Monsters Revisited, 53. Paizo Inc., 2008
Unincorporated sources
* An extensive article on the venerable orc exists on pp. 52-57 of Classic Monsters Revisited, not to mention all of the more recent Orcs of Golarion. --Brandingopportunity 09:37, 8 December 2010 (UTC) Either incorporated or supplanted by newer sources. -Oznogon (talk) 01:07, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
- Links and details about current and forthcoming sources of information on orcs and Belkzen are in the Honor the Hold! Paizo blog post, including:
- "a number of all-new Belkzen animals detailed in the forthcoming Giantslayer Adventure Path bestiaries"
- Orc treatment of half-orcs in Orcs of Golarion.
- "orcs being held prisoner and brutally interrogated in such Lastwall border strongholds as Castle Everstand" in Castles of the Inner Sea.
- Belkzen, Hold of the Orc Hordes
- Daughters of Fury, which will be about orcs. --Oznogon (talk) 20:49, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- Monster Codex: complete chapter (specifically gorthek) --Oznogon (talk) 20:49, 18 September 2014 (UTC) & --Fleanetha (talk) 14:15, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
- Occult Mysteries 44 --Fleanetha (talk) 16:07, 22 August 2016 (UTC)