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ORCS

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HALF - ORC RACIAL TRAITS

+2 to One Ability Score : Half-orc characters get a +2 bonus to one ability score of their choice at

creation to represent their varied nature.

Medium : Half-orcs are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.

Normal Speed : Half-orcs have a base speed of 30 feet.

Darkvision : Half-orcs can see in the dark up to 60 feet.

Intimidating : Half-orcs receive a +2 racial bonus on Intimidate skill checks due to their

fearsome nature.

Orc Blood : Half-orcs count as both humans and orcs for any efect related to race.

Orc Ferocity : Once per day, when a half-orc is brought below 0 hit points but not killed, he can

ight on for 1 more round as if disabled. At the end of his next turn, unless brought to above 0

hit points, he immediately falls unconscious and begins dying.

Weapon Familiarity : Half-orcs are proicient with greataxes and falchions and treat any

weapon with the word “orc” in its name as a martial weapon.

Languages : Half-orcs begin play speaking Common and Orc. Half-orcs with high Intelligence

scores can choose from the following: Abyssal, Draconic, Giant, Gnoll, and Goblin.

Favored Deities : Calistria, Cayden Cailean, Gorum, Lamashtu, Norgorber, Pharasma, Rovagug

Favored Regions : Absalom, Belkzen, Cheliax, Isger, Katapesh, Nex, Nidal, Realm of the Mammoth

Lords, River Kingdoms, the Shackles, Ustalav, Varisia

Names : Half-orc names oten echo the rough and guttural tongue of their orc forebears, and

nicknames—particularly boastful or insulting ones—are common among half-orcs, though some

half-orcs may seek to distance themselves from their heritage by taking names from other races.

Female Names : Canan, Drogheda, Goruza, Mazon, Shirish, Tevaga, Zeljka

Male Names : Ausk, Davor, Hakak, Kizziar, Makoa, Nesteruk, Tsadok

ORC RACIAL TRAITS

+4 Strength, –2 Intelligence, –2 Wisdom, –2 Charisma : Orcs are brutal and savage.

Medium : Orcs are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.

Normal Speed : Orcs have a base speed of 30 feet.

Darkvision : Orcs can see in the dark up to 60 feet.

Ferocity : An orc remains conscious and can continue ighting even if his hit point total is below 0. The orc is still staggered

and loses 1 hit point each round. He still dies when his hit point total reaches a negative amount equal to his Constitution score.

Light Sensitivity : Orcs are dazzled in areas of bright sunlight or within the radius of a daylight spell.

Weapon Familiarity : Orcs are proicient with greataxes and falchions and treat any weapon with the word “orc” in its name as a

martial weapon.

Languages : Orcs begin play speaking Common and Orc. Orcs with high Intelligence scores can choose from among the following bonus

languages: Dwarven, Giant, Gnoll, Goblin, and Undercommon.

Favored Deities : Gorum, Lamashtu, Rovagug, demon lords, orc shamanism (see page 26)

Favored Regions : Belkzen, Katapesh, Realm of the Mammoth Lords, River Kingdoms, Ustalav, Varisia

Names : See above.

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ORCS of Golarion

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T a b l e o f C o n T e n T s

Orcs of Golarion

Orc Traits

Combat: Horde Tactics

Faith: Cults and Shamans

Magic: Orc Arcana

Social: Class Roles

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PLAYER COMPANION

ORCS of Golarion

“T h e y C o m e f r o m T h e b o r d e r s , l o r d , a m i d T h e s C r e a m s

o f T h e d y i n g a n d T h e w a il s o f m o T h e r l e s s C h i l d r e n .

T h e y f l o w in a b l a C k s e a o v e r T h e h i l l s , a n d e v e r y l a n d

T h e y T o u C h b l a C k e n s a n d s m o k e s w iT h T h e f i r e s o f T h e i r

p a s s in g . T h e y a r e a w a v e o f C o r r u p T i o n , b e a s T s w iT h T h e

s h a p e s o f m e n , a n d T h e y d e f i l e o u r f a r m s a s T h e y d e f i l e

o u r w o m e n . n o n e C a n s T a n d a g a i n s T T h e i r n u m b e r s , f o r

e v e r y r a i d e r T h a T f a l l s is r e p l a C e d T e n f o l d in T h e i r

h o r d e . T h e i r e y e s b u r n in T h e h a l f - l i g h T , a n d T h e s k y

d a r k e n s w iT h T h e i r a p p r o a C h .T o s T a n d is m a d n e s s , f o r w e

a r e a s s a n d b e n e a T h T h e i r w a v e , a n d w iT h e v e r y b e a T in g

o f o u r h e a r T s , T h e y g r o w C l o s e r .”

—a n o n y m o u s r e f u g e e , T o g e n e r a l h a r C h r i s T o f l a s T w a l l

ORCS of Golarion

h i s T o r y o f T h e o r C s

Stories of marauding orcs and the depravity of their

monstrous raiding parties have dominated ireside tales

and bedtime stories for both children and warriors for

thousands of years. With their terrifying combination

of bestial features and unnervingly human shapes and

behaviors, orcs represent a horror that is both tangible and

metaphorical—a manifestation of the beast that resides

inside humanity. Few corners of the world, no matter how

remote, have escaped knowledge of orcs, nor the inchoate

fury of their blades.

Yet orc civilization, such as it is, is in decline. Once a

dominant race across all of Avistan, orcs thrived and

prospered while Golarion lay under a shroud of darkness

caused by the apocalyptic Earthfall. But when the

conditions that allowed the orcs to lourish were removed,

the disjointed orc empire began to crumble.

i n T h e d a r k l a n d s

Although many orcs claim that they were created by

Rovagug, their knowledge of the Rough Beast only dates

back to the Age of Darkness. Before that, when the orcs

of Golarion dwelt entirely in the caverns and tunnels of

the Darklands, they were barely more than humanoid

animals, struggling among themselves over resources

and

as the Starstone , the surface world proved a fruitful escape

route for the retreating orcs, and they took to their new

home with ease. These upwellings of orc hordes occurred

in scattered locales all over Avistan, but primarily in what

would later be called the Five Kings Mountains. The irst

groups of orcs to emerge were among the weakest of their

race—the frail, the injured, and the addled, sent irst in the

retreat so that the capable warriors might ight a rearguard

action—but their number also included some more clever

and ambitious specimens, who quickly realized that this

vast, cold, lightless place was all but undefended. Just as

the orcs could not defend their homes from the dwarves,

the surface-dwellers could not defend their homes from

the orcs.

T h e s a C k i n g

Thus began the time that orc storytellers oten refer to as

“The Sacking,” when they spilled forth from the Darklands

and stormed across the surface world, slaughtering

the hardscrabble settlements of the humans, crushing

and enslaving the survivors of the Earthfall and their

descendants, and founding their new, barbaric kingdoms

on the ruins of once-glorious cities, particularly those of

fallen Thassilon. For several centuries, the orcs ruled all

they sought to claim.

Although orcs came to develop a civilization of sorts,

they progressed little technologically or philosophically.

The most intelligent among them gradually unraveled

the mysteries of rudimentary magic—and literacy, for

that matter—from scrolls and artifacts recovered from

the rubble of temples and libraries, but were never able

to quite grasp the more powerful spells. Orc shamans

began communing with demonic forces, seeking more

and more power. They discovered deities like the Rough

Beast, Rovagug, as he inally took notice of them, granting

them a measure of his unholy vigor in their savage quest

for dominion and destruction.

So aided by arcane and divine magic, orc warlords

spread out and conquered everything within their reach,

instituting the rule of the strong and the subjugation

of the weak. In some areas, orc brutality threatened to

wipe out the surface-dwelling races once and for all, but

a little over a century into their reign, their old enemies,

the dwarves, inally fulilled their great quest. Seeing that

they had not wiped out the orcs—as many had erroneously

assumed when the majority of those still belowground

died or led for the surface—they built their 10 mighty Sky

Citadels, and began to take back some of the surface world

from their ancient foes.

The clashes between these two enemies were many

and mighty, but the orcs had had a century to entrench

themselves, and proved far more diicult to dislodge

occasionally

menacing

other,

intelligent

subterranean races—particularly the dwarves.

In an ironic twist, it was their frequent clashes with

dwarves that taught orcs how to use tools—mainly

weapons, scavenged from fallen dwarves—and encouraged

them to try to make their own. Their progress was initially

slow, but as the dwarves began their Quest for Sky and the

orcs faced ever-greater numbers of dwarven foes, the orcs

were forced to adapt more quickly.

The dwarves’ vicious pogrom had several efects on

orcs’ development. First, captured weapons became

rarer; dwarves attacked in greater numbers, and worked

harder to recover their dead. And although battles were

brutal, and neither side was willing to retreat, the sheer

number of dwarves surging up from the lower Darklands

tunnels where they had traditionally resided forced

the orcs to abandon lair ater lair, which meant leaving

behind not only their caches of captured weapons, but

also their rudimentary forges. Orc weapons and armor

from that point on became cruder—made of what could

be scrounged, and tacked together as quickly as possible,

oten mere minutes before battle.

Finally, as the constant upsurge of the dwarves stretched

into decades of running battles, orcs at last burst forth

onto the surface and began to spread out across the face of

Golarion. Recently ravaged and covered in a pall of dust and

darkness by the tremendous strike of the meteor known

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