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I want to know your opinion on orcs in my fantasy novel and how they came to be

amirkhafan

Dreamer
The archaic orcs descended from the third wave of archons who rejected their civilization and migrated north.Northern humans eradicated most of the orcs, and the remaining orcs diverged into kobolds, goblins, trolls, and ogres.
The Tursarians started the orc breeding program to create better slave soldiers for the army—soldiers that were not weak, unruly, cowardly, or overly consumptive.
The Tursarians exploited the fighting between ogres and trolls to buy their female children for the breeding programs, while raiding kobold and goblin settlements for males.

The creation of orcs took multiple generations.
Females from larger races made mating and giving birth easier.
Pairing male kobolds and female ogres created the compatible hybrid known as boggarts.
Pairing male goblins and female trolls created the compatible hybrid known as boggles.
Pairing boggles and boggarts created the semi-compatible hybrid known as orcs, and after a generation of maternal and paternal pairing, they produced a stable population.
Pairing kobolds and goblins created the compatible hybrid known as beggeys.
Pairing ogres and trolls created the compatible hybrid known as bugganes.
Pairing male beggeys and female bugganes created the compatible hybrid known as orcs.
However, female beggeys and male bugganes had no use in the breeding program, so the Tursarians did not mass-produce them, as half were useless to them. Creating stable beggey and buggane populations seemed unnecessary.
The Tursarians used beggeys and bugganes captured from border regions and accidentally recreated orcs, but the low numbers of beggeys and bugganes made creating orcs from these hybrid races impractical.
After the orcs liberated themselves and conquered the eastern regions, they imposed a Blood Tax on the subjugated races, forcing each goblin, kobold, and beggey family (if found) to surrender one son, and each ogre, troll, and buggane family (if found) to surrender one daughter, to sustain orcish reproduction.
Orcs descended from bugganes and beggeys fled to the east and are known as feral orcs by the Tursarians; they live among troll, ogre, goblin, and kobold tribes.
There are no genetic differences between feral, freed, and slave orcs.
The size differences between male ogres and female kobolds make pairing impossible.The size differences between male trolls and female goblins make pairing impossible.
The size differences between male bugganes and female beggeys make pairing impossible.
Trolls and kobolds are too genetically divergent to pair.
Ogres and goblins are too genetically divergent to pair.
  • Male goblin + female troll = boggle
  • Male kobold + female ogre = boggart
  • Male boggart + female boggle = orcart (proto-orc)
  • Male boggle + female boggart = orcle (proto-orc)
  • Orcart + orcle = orc
  • Goblin + kobold = beggey
  • Troll + ogre = buggane
Hybrid mounts are created by shamans through sacrificing animals and forming new creatures.Hybrid mounts:
  • Bison + boar = yale (rider cavalry / waggon cavalry)
  • Bear + wolf = gulon (chariot cavalry)
  • Hedgehog + porcupine = bruch (sled cavalry)
  • Elephant + rhino = behemoth (howdah platform tower cavalry)
Flying bat hybrid mounts:
  • Chamrosh
  • Yale + chamrosh (flying rider cavalry / ballooned waggon cavalry)
  • Gulon + chamrosh (ballooned chariot cavalry)
  • Bruch + chamrosh (ballooned sled cavalry)
  • Behemoth + chamrosh (ballooned howdah platform tower cavalry)
Riders and mounts:
  • Goblin / kobold / beggey: boar rider / boar waggon; wolf chariot; hedgehog sled; rhino tower
  • Orc / boggle / boggart: yale rider / yale waggon; gulon chariot; bruch sled; behemoth tower
  • Ogre / troll / buggane: bison rider / bison waggon; bear chariot; porcupine sled; elephant tower
Orc hybrids:
  • Half-orc: human + orc
  • Half-boggle: human + boggle
  • Half-boggart: human + boggart
  • Puck: elf + orc
  • Half-puck: half-elf + half-orc / puck + human
 

pmmg

Myth Weaver
Didn't I answer this one someplace else?

Its a lot of work, but its too far into the weeds for me. In reading a story, I am not sure what I would need to care how the baddies became Bogarts or Boggles, just that they are another thing we might have to fight.
 

amirkhafan

Dreamer
Didn't I answer this one someplace else?

Its a lot of work, but its too far into the weeds for me. In reading a story, I am not sure what I would need to care how the baddies became Bogarts or Boggles, just that they are another thing we might have to fight.


yes i didnt know how to delete it
sorry for that
 

skip.knox

toujours gai, archie
Moderator
I agree with pmmg here. This is author background, not reader background. Tell me a story, please.
 
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