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dorn
Acolyte
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 Posted - 21 Apr 2006 : 06:41:27
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There would be few living groups in faerun that hate orcs more than the Uthgardt tribes.
Yet i have seen reference to Half-orc uthgardts around the place. Now i cant remember this being canon or not.
I would have thought a half-orc child born to a raped uthgardt woman may be put to death, and no sane barbarian male would mate with a orc female and have her live with a tribe....
Also for how a chief and tribe would respond to any half-orc that came to their encampment. How would you play the tribes reaction?
cheers lads
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 21 Apr 2006 : 07:18:55
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| Son of Thunder novel has a half-orc. :) So, yes it's canon. |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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Murray Leeder
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 21 Apr 2006 : 14:20:15
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Better still, he was canon before I decided to use him: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/cc/20010629a . But these are the Tree Ghosts and they are the most atypical tribe.
I definitely do present a half-orc Uthgardt as being something very rare, if not outright unthinkable. I'd tend to agree with the situations you present, dorn, but how about adoption into the tribe, as was Rask Urgek's situation? Uthgardt, I feel, are gruffly tolerant in their way, and if a half-orc were to demonstrate to them that he'd risen above his racial heritage they'd contemplate admitting him on the strength of his character. |
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Half-orcs ad uthgardt's
