Orc RP help

Argent Dawn
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Hey everyone,

After moving in with my partner i finally have some free time to be able to begin rping!

However i want to be an Orc and im a bit lost on the phrases id say or just where to begin really, is there any guides someone could send my way so i could do some research please?

If all goes well i hope to RP with you all as well as maybe find an orc guild!

Thank you and happy rping :smiling_face:

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I’m not an orc roleplayer so I’m sure somebody else can give you a more in-depth answer, but for now:

https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Orc
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Orcish_(language)

warcraft.wiki is the general wiki of choice for reading up lore and the second link has an Orcish language primer in it full of phrases you can learn for use.

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Lok’tar, brother man. Good to see you’ve picked the correct race.

There isn’t a lot of mystery to it. Pick a clan, pick a vibe, have fun and DESTROY THE ALLIANCE!

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The most common ones that people use, in my experience:

  • Mok’ra, Mok-ra, Mok’rah, Mok-rah: Used as a greeting, basically an equivalent of ‘hello.’
  • Throm-ka, Throm’ka: Another common greeting used by orcs, another equivalent of ‘hello.’
  • Aka’magosh: ‘A blessing on you and yours,’ used as a respectful farewell in my experience.
  • Lok-tar, Lok’tar: ‘Victory,’ a common exclamation when celebrating victory or any other positive event, also used as a war cry. There’s also ‘lok-tar ogar’ which means ‘victory or death,’ but this is associated with the past regimes of disgraced warchiefs and not used that often these days.
  • Zug zug, zug-zug: One of the two ways of saying ‘yes’ in orcish. You use this confirmation when speaking to an equal or lesser. It’s used for casual acknowledgement, affirmation and agreement, like ‘okay.’
  • Dabu: The other way of saying ‘yes’ in orcish. This is a more respectful confirmation used when speaking to a superior, a way of saying ‘I obey,’ like saying ‘yes, sir.’
  • Swobu: Haven’t seen this one used as much, but it’s a lot like dabu, a more respectful confirmation used when speaking to a superior.

There’s a lot more orcish phrases than these, but these are the only ones that I see regularly used and regularly use myself.

One more thing, be prepared for different people to use hyphens, apostrophes, spaces, no spaces and capitalisation when typing out these phrases. Even Blizzard often jumbles up how it chooses to spell orcish phrases. No matter whether roleplayers or writers type it as lok’tar or Lok-Tar or Loktar or lok tar, it all means the same thing.

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We wrote some clan-specific orc RP guides back in BFA, with the Warsong written by Manata/Acrona, Frostwolf by me, Blackrock by Demirgen, Bleeding Hollow by Gardhal and Dragonmaw by Abel. Along with a general view at the clans written by Tazkram, this thread has them all listed under the Orcish section:

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Language-wise there’s a glossary of phrases to go on. Besides that, you have some basic cultural quirks where an orc identifies by their parent. “I am Narog, son of Rakar” etc. They’re still tied up in an honour culture by way of the old clans and many still identify along those lines.

The question here is what kind of orc you’d want to make because the different clans give a lot of diversity in style, concept and disposition.

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Thank you all! You’ve given me plenty to go on ans research, ill be sure to do it as i level my Orc until hes ready for rp. If anyone else has any more tips feel free to lay em on me :grin:

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Hello and welcome to orc rp!

To add on other very useful advice here, a good thing to consider is how old would be your orc and where were they during all the events happening to them. Orcs specially had a lot of impactful events during last ~40 years, which the orc would likely be aware about, if not taking part in (For example, Vol’jin rebellion was ~12 years ago, and if your orc was living in Orgrimmar or surrounding areas at the time, that’d likely affect them, even if they were a child at the time)

https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline - I usually check the timeline here for which events my characters would live through and which events they could have heard about from their parents/caretakers/etc.

This is a very important question, a (for example) Frostwolf shaman would be very different from Warsong warrior, and they both would be different from an orc who doesn’t know or have a clan and considers themselves to be a part of the Horde first. If your character is from AU Draenor, that also adds a lot of difference to their upbringing & mentality.

Ksar here, for example, was born in a human camp after the First Horde was defeated, and, while he knows that his father is from Blackrock clan, he doesn’t think of himself as a part of it - and doesn’t care much about the Horde itself for plenty of other personal reasons.

My other character is a mag’har who lost his parents as a child and was raised by vulpera caravan. While he considers himself to be a part of that caravan, he has his father’s (who was from Burning Blade clan) sword and tries his best to make a good use of it and the clan’s values (the way he understands them, at least)

Good luck with finding out what kind of character you’d like to play and finding a place for them!

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Thank you very much! This is really helpful,

That timeline you sent is amazng and has given me plenty of ideas! Hopefully by the end of the weel ill have a full character sheet ready to go :grin:

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Welcome to orc RP,

you sadly just missed the massive orc culture festival Kosh’harg by a week sadly, but we will back in spring for the next years festival, where we delve deep into orcish culture :slight_smile: Like om’riggor and various rites, like rite of spring. but others haven given plenty of good advise to learn orc RP here :slight_smile:

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