Orcish Clans - a helping hand for beginners by Gorrka
Hello fellow roleplayers.
Sometimes I find it rather tough to remember which orcish clan is which, and how they all act/varies.
Thus I have made this wee flowchart to help myself – and figured some of you might enjoy it aswell.
Now, this is meant to be a helping hand and nothing else. If it’s not helping you, then ignore it please. As usual when I post – English is not my native language, and the Goblin Grammar Police are looking for me, to blow me up. Please bare with me, or skip the post, if you can’t handle it.
Why didn’t you sort the orcs by colour/tusksize/random other personality feature?
I have tried to sort the orc clans by a mix of history and personality. My reason to do so, is that often new roleplayers start out with a simply small background, and a personality, more than an elaborate background, which explains how the char ended up with the personality it has today. This flowchart might be able to guide people, to further check out a few of the clans, which might fit their story/personality. I am aware several other features could have been interesting aswell.
The first question regards their main personality. I believe a brutal traditional Blackrock orc would fit very poorly within the Frostwolf clan, thus I felt this question to be of importance. Also a lot of the orcs are somehow influenced a lot by a stay in internment camps, or perhaps avoiding this experience.
What about me? I am from the Stormreaver clan?
The Stormreavers are not a part of the Horde, although very few of them are neutral. This clan consists of cunning Warlocks and Necrolytes, are residing on Draenor and only very few is left. Good luck roleplaying it realistic, and respect to you if you do.
I have also ignored the Thunderlord clan aswell as the Dark Scar Clan, as they are both extinct, a loooong time ago. I took the Rageroar Clan into the flow chart though… partly as I’m very inconsistent – but mainly as they were extinct not too long ago, thus if you REALLY wish to be snowflake, then I guess a baby from this little extinct clan could have somehow survived in a orphanage or so.
Gwendyn was so kind to remind me of the Bleeding Hollow Clan. Although those in Kalimdor are a part of Horde, since the liberation from internment camps, those remaining in Outlands are not. A few of those remaining in Outlands are part of the Mag’har, thus neutral to Horde, but not a member.
You forgot all the other clans!
I have only focused on the clans, which are a part of the Horde, as they are the most viable roleplaying options in my optic. If you feel different, by all means roleplay the way you like it. Expect to be killed fast though.
The remaining clans, which are not a part of the Horde, are:
Bonechewer – in Outlands, cannibalistic
Burning Blade – Chaotic, warlocks, not only orcs in the clan
Laughing Skull – in Outlands, thieves and assassins
Shadowmoon – Very few left, the first liches might have come from this clan
Twilight’s Hammer – cultists, more a cult than a clan, not only orcs.
Redwalker – Very few left, little is known, opposed Kil’jaeden aswell as the Horde
Searing Blade – Warlocks, only few left, resides in Ragefire Chasm only.
Whiteclaw – Extinct, had sympathies for the Frostwolfs, yet were against the changes made to the new Horde. Killed by stronger clans.