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Palanan
2017-12-30, 11:30 AM
Are there any published campaign settings that include a primarily half-orc nation?

I don’t think there’s anything like this in Faerûn (with the possible exception of the Many-Arrows crowd) but I don’t know Golarion that well, much less other settings. Is there a half-orc nation out there somewhere?

Novawurmson
2017-12-30, 11:55 AM
Eberron has House Tharashk (http://eberron.wikia.com/wiki/House_Tharashk), which is a half-orc organization. Unfortunately, the "nation" they're most aligned with (Shadow Marches (http://eberron.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Marches)) has more orcs and humans than half-orcs.

Golarion has a single half-orc city - Averaka (https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Averaka). They also have a typical orc nation (https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Hold_of_Belkzen).

hamishspence
2017-12-30, 12:39 PM
Are there any published campaign settings that include a primarily half-orc nation?

I don’t think there’s anything like this in Faerûn (with the possible exception of the Many-Arrows crowd) but I don’t know Golarion that well, much less other settings. Is there a half-orc nation out there somewhere?

For Faerun:

Phsant has a very high population of half-orcs and orcs, and Palischuk was basically founded by half-orcs:

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Phsant

http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Palischuk

quark12000
2017-12-30, 12:41 PM
Kalamar has two hobgoblin nations. Maybe you could tweak that?

weckar
2018-01-01, 05:50 AM
It's a little silly. Why would enough Halfies gather to form a whole nation?

Sian
2018-01-01, 05:58 AM
I'm certain that there's a few Baronies in/around Lake of Steam that are predominantly half-orcs.

But yeah ... Phsant and Palischuk is probably your go-to 'semi-fleshed out' locations if you don't want to play with Many-Arrows

Matthias
2018-01-01, 09:11 AM
It's a little silly. Why would enough Halfies gather to form a whole nation?

Humans and orcs living together over the course of many generations is likely to result in lots of half-orcs.

(There isn't really any inoffensive analogy because D&D races are both more and more cleanly differentiated than human ethnic groups, and because orcs in particular are kind of drawn from the sort of imagery people project onto groups they want to wipe out - but think of how most people in South America have both European and native ancestry, most black Americans have significant amounts of European ancestry, how few white Americans have just one national ancestry, and how some of these emerged despite strict racial hierarchies and taboos. Of course, orcs are made up, and all the caveats above apply, so it might not shake out the same way. Also the 4e PHB has some good non-tragic half-orc origins, like a human clan that intermarried with orcs to become the strongest warriors, or whatever.)