Talk:Orc

Adjective

Is 'orcish' a legitimate adj.? - I think not as it appears nowhere in Bestiary, Orcs of Golarion or the recent Belkzen book. --Fleanetha (talk) 17:03, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Books using "orcish":

• Gazetteer p4, 9
• Campaign Setting p6, 7, 14-15 (half-orc racial section; used 6 times), 65 (twice, once in a heading), 91, 201, 219
• Dwarves of Golarion p8
• River into Darkness p8
• Into the Darklands p8-9
• Classic Monsters Revisited p54-55 (6 times; the Orc chapter uses orc and orcish somewhat interchangeably)

If the term is no longer used, and we want to standardize on the newer term only, we should decide (and ideally note it in the style manual) before enforcing it. Otherwise, both are canon unless one is explicitly invalidated. -Oznogon (talk) 20:18, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes looks like the term has fallen out of fashion more recently then, but thanks for checking - that's enough evidence of canon use - I'll add to the page. --Fleanetha (talk) 23:24, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Does this post count as an explicit invalidation?

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The word "orcish" doesn't exist in Pathfinder. The adjective form of "orc" is merely "orc."

So, you'd have an orc longsword, an orc bloodline, or problems with orc racism... but never an orcish longsword, an orcish bloodline, or problems with orcish racism. [...] "Ish" never gets added to any race in Pathfinder.

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- HTD (talk) 15:11, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

You felt strongly enough about a seven-year-old forums post to overrule us and remove it before asking, so I guess it is. -Oznogon (talk) 18:36, 31 December 2018 (UTC)