Pathfinder Ancestry Guide: The Orcs

Happy Friday everyone. I'm doing another Friday release this week of my new video. Hope you all enjoy.

This is my final video on the Ancestries of Golarion. This video we are talking everything Orc! This is the history of Orcs in general fiction, of Orcs in Golarion, of the Hold of Belkzen, plus coverage of orc subtypes and what to know about playing an orc character in Pathfinder.

▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 - Preamble
0:44 - Evolution of the Orc
10:17 - Orcs in Pathfinder
14:32 - Orc Tribes
19:55 - Orc Religion
22:14 - Orc Citizens in Human Settlements
23:33 - Outro

CREDITS

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[johnlastname]

A game that I think a lot of people overlook when discussing the evolution of orcs is Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall from 1996. The orcs there are portrayed as a noble people that are fighting to have their own country through intrigue, diplomacy, and war when necessary.

[berserkape]

God, I love that you reference Death of Hellscream. That cut scene alone cemented my love for Orcs as a fantasy race.

[Ofley_Adventures]

Awesome to see orcs covered in such a complex light. The can be one of the best races to roleplay with. Have a magnificent day everyone! Thanks for the vid.

[DaDunge]

8:30 God that's a good freaking cutscene.

[brianj.]

Very Klingon-esque, even a bit Romulan. The Klingons too were once enemies.
Found this series a bit ago and enjoying binge-watching; very well done.

[SerDerpish]

After you finish the main pantheon, maybe revisit this series and discuss some of the ancestries from the Lost Omens Character & Ancestry Guides, like Kobolds, Hobgoblins, Iruxi, and Azarketi

[JustinBania]

Man, I feel like I learned so much watching this. I had no idea just how complex and varied the orc societies were in Golarion.

[miket]

I really like how you go deep into all aspect of the races when you do a race video, going from their pop culture origin to ingame representation, tribes or clans, history and pantheon, to modern day in the game settings. Thank you for your work realy appreciate your videos and looking forward to see more of them!

[SomersetDrinker]

Glad to see more pathfinder channels popping up. Would love to see you do a beginners guide after the gods.

[agsilverradio]

6:42 This cutsceen reminds me of the Devil-Hulk fight, from the game Incredibe Hulk Ultimate Destruction

[morgansides]

I'm new to Pathfinder and am finding the player book a little overwhelming. Thank you so much for these videos!

[OmegaWyrm]

Your story about the history of orcs in fiction finally helped me put something together that has always nagged at me; why orcs are depicted as pig guys in japanese fantasy stuff. I knew that an early version of DnD became fairly popular over there not long after it was released. Orcs in Dragon Quest, Record of Lodoss War, and Final Fantasy are all based on that original concept. So they started from the same place, why did they not evolve in the same way the orc concept did in the west? I'm fairly certain about 2 things, but not their relative importance in this history: 1. Warhammer and subsequently Warcraft simply did not have the impact there that it did in the west 2. Japan kind of doesn't need that version of Orcs, because the visual design space is covered by Oni, and the "noble race of warrior natives" concept is less directly applicable. Not that mainland Japanese culture doesn't have a conflict history with native populations, they absolutely do. But their conceptualization of that history is not directly compatible with ours as presented in the fantasy Orc. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to hear that the Oni was an influence on the Warhammer Orc.

[flibbernodgets]

5:33 the way I heard it, GW contracted Blizzard to make a Warhmmer Fantasy game, but never got back to them. Blizzard was like "well we have all these assets and a game pretty much made, it would be a shame to let it go to waste."

Edit: man, you really put that whole cutscene in there! I gotta go watch the Warlords of Draenor one now. I love orcs (and orks) so much!

[Red_Eye_Wonder]

I would love to see an in depth ancestry video on cyclopean / Ghol-Gan pathfinder lore. You're channel is awesome loving all the pathfinder content. Currently running a shackles/darklands setting in pathfinder 1e.

[blurootz]

I have watched this video a number of times. I'm am thinking of creating a homebrewed world and this video has given me a lot of inspiration.

[HuevoBendito]

Oh thank the gods, another Pathfinder channel. Keep up the good work! Channels like yours help spread the word and show others that games other than D&D exist and can also be fun!

[israelmorales]

allways a pleasure to hearyou sharing knwledge, thanks!

[cernunnos_lives]

Thanks for your hard work brother. Keep the lore spilling out. I hope Pathfinder 2e video games are on the way. And I hope the writing is going to be good.

[TheBlazegeo]

Great video, you go above and beyond giving a background on how the pop view of these ancestries came to be.

[Vattghern_]

Just like the Elves video, another splendid analysis of the race across time and media. While I prefer the more grounded, realistic D&D Orks, I can't deny the influence Games Workshop had on the archetype. Blizzard is also a nice touch, I was there 3000 years ago when Orcs & Humans came out, we were hooked instantly. By the way, the death of Grom Hellscream cutscene is IMHO Blizzard's major opus (before they sold their souls to Bobby Kotick, a herald of the Burning Legion).