If one were to try to create a fictional world in which the Orcs were a real race, a people with a culture, society, and existence of their own, not just a band of monsters that seem to exist only to go to war, then how would one go about it? one? Are you going to create that concept? Certain truths would be proposed: that they would be a tribal society, that they would exist in resource-poor areas to justify their martial nature, and that they would be rebellious and given to internal warfare. How can you take this concept and make it happen?
First, suppose they reside in a mountain range the size of the Alps, large enough and infested with enough orcs that humans could not clear them with a few sweeps from their army. Second, suppose that the lowland tribes are the most prosperous, care more about humans, and have evolved to be smaller and less strong. Thus, we have a difference between the more primordial highland orcs and the more civilized lowland orcs. Suppose also that the lowland orcs control most of the passes, except the largest, which is manned by a human army, and that they are also herders of sheep and goats used for subsistence. Let’s also give the lowland orcs mountain ponies for some form of mounted combat.
Now, we would have three main lowland tribes, each covering an area as large as Switzerland along the mountain edges, while the interior of the mountain belongs to a vast and broken tribe, equivalent to the Mongols but weak and more clan-based than one. unique tribal identity. These three lowland tribes would be huge, with about 30,000 individuals each, and they would derive their resources from a combination of trade, herding, collecting tolls for the use of the passes, and assaults on the northern and southern kingdoms. However, what are the identities of these three orc tribes? That is what we must address in the next article, as we examine its composition.