The number one slave race.
Orcs are muscular, powerful, rowdy, warlike and resilient. About as tall as a human, yet bulkier. They are not stupid as such but their minds deal far better with physical matters rather than the abstract. They are good carpenters but worthless architects for example. Orcs have grey,green, dark brown or black skin. Underbites and large fangs are the norm and more often than not a thick mane of black, gray or dark brown hair adorn heir heads.
Orcs breed fast and their offspring grows to adulthood equally fast, being able to walk after just a few months, able to quarrel and fight almost at birth and can be considered grown-up at the age of five or six. The average orc lives for about 35 years before dying from old age. In some way, however, longevity is associated with intelligence and orcs who display intellects far more sophisticated than the average (about one in three or four thousand) seem to have a natural life-span of some 100 years give or take a decade. Why this is is not yet known but research is in progress.
Being firm believers in Might Makes Right, and the fact that Drow have the Might. it comes fairly natural for Orcs to serve the dark elves, but woe betide the city the day the drow start showing the slightest sign of weakness as a whole.
Orcs are being bred by most breedingmistresses pretty much like goblins are and new orcs are regularly brought in from the surface too, if only to keep the genepool in good shape. Most famous of all are, of course, HouseHasdrubel 's orcs who are in a league of their own.
An example of a classic female orc beauty can be found in Noona, an orc in owned by Zhaunil of HouseNemalzhi.
Another famous orc is Borak, one of the most skilled veteran gladiators at the Arena