Email 2021-06-27 17:26

Orcs are actually extremely varied in size and stature.
Nomadic Orcs (or Free Orcs): Slightly shorter than humans but much stockier, skin is brown/green, somewhat leatherlike; Somewhat civilized in taste but with a carnivorous leaning.
Dark Orcs (primarily found around Ghoulagabba): Similar build to Dwarves, dark brown/green skin, will literally eat anything
Grey Orcs (scattered, main concentrations in NW with Saurians/Solarans and some coastal enclaves): Human sized and stocky with overlong arms, skin tends towards a grayish palour, again pretty indisciminate in what they eat. Know themselves as 'Native Orcs'.
Darrell
On Sun, 27 Jun 2021 at 00:11, Steve Dodd <wsteved@hotmail.com> wrote:
Just a question on Brokev
Reading Drogo Fatbelly's note on orcish cuisine, one notes:
" ...  these small and slimy cousins of the mightier Trolls, the subject of their diet is of some interest to the serious refectionist. ...  both slave and livestock to their brutal masters. Their lives are thus brutish and short, and an Orc who is nine or even eight is considered ancient. They have no talents, no culture and very little language. ... this degenerate species actually consumes the...how might one put it with a modicum of delicacy? Let us say that their repast is... predigested.
"So, imagine then the challenge in preparing a banquet for Trolls, which will also delight their Orcish servants the next day."
Very Hobbesian. I suspect hobbits do not like Orcs very much. Question is, is Brokev slimy? Is he short, compared to a human? Does he have unusual/copious diseases of the skin? Is crap the preferred diet of the Orc?
I had assumed Brokev was slightly shorter and broader than the average human, and that his skin, while coarse and mud-coloured, was reasonably healthy, owing to the improved diet of the unenslaved. Possibly a close relative of Neanderthal man, but having something porcine about him. His ancestors were grubbing round the tree for acorns while ours were still swinging from the lower branches.
Guidance welcome.