tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post2181626966838971492..comments2024-03-18T10:25:36.314-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: What Rough Beast: The Orcish MindTreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-10506229523215241872013-02-19T13:40:47.227-05:002013-02-19T13:40:47.227-05:00I never said I was above demonization. :)
Yeah, I...I never said I was above demonization. :)<br /><br />Yeah, I'm a fan of the Gargun (why I didn't mention them here, I don't know)--good stuff!Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-36513267841193909752013-02-19T13:38:31.173-05:002013-02-19T13:38:31.173-05:00Well sure, but this portrayal just demonizes those...Well sure, but this portrayal just demonizes those who don't conform to the dominant neurological standard.<br /><br />Seriously though, you should (if you haven't already) check out Harn's Gargun, a version of orcs that I wish I'd thought of myself.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10265603888131427078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-1373400524605858732010-05-09T18:33:32.647-04:002010-05-09T18:33:32.647-04:00A couple of possibilities:
1) Who says they didn&...A couple of possibilities:<br /><br />1) Who says they <i>didn't</i> turn on their creators?<br /><br />2)Presumably Dark Lord Sauron stand-in made 'em so they wouldn't rebel against him.<br /><br />As to the other point, note I said "brain hardwired for hatred of all beings non-orc"--obviously their would be a certain amount of "in-group" mediation of violence. Likely some sort of neuroedocrine signal (pheremones) that keeps 'em from slaughtering each other.<br /><br />Or it's magic. Take your pick. :)Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-71627992301790794162010-05-09T18:11:46.812-04:002010-05-09T18:11:46.812-04:00I am all for magical bioengineering but building a...I am all for magical bioengineering but building a race purely to encourage them to preform violence seems like a very bad idea. What would keep them from turning on each other or on their creator?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-74078756901933610202010-04-27T11:43:58.715-04:002010-04-27T11:43:58.715-04:00I like that, too. Degeneration is very pulp. And...I like that, too. Degeneration is very pulp. And of course, there's:<br /><br />"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-4752434460312187812010-04-27T11:34:53.945-04:002010-04-27T11:34:53.945-04:00Interesting. I came to a similar conclusion, albei...Interesting. I came to a similar conclusion, albeit from a different direction. <br /><br />IMG Orcs are what happens if soldiers (or bandits, raiders, adventurers, etc.) enjoy the 'sack, pillage, torture, rape and butcher' part of their job entirely too much. There's a gradual degeneration into bestialism as moral restraints and taboos decay under the pressure of violence, lust and gluttony. <br /><br />The ultimate end result: what was a man becomes a beast. To put it in terms of E.G.Palmer's 'folklore is true' <a href="http://oldguardgamingaccoutrements.blogspot.com/search/label/Wyrd%20Greyhawk" rel="nofollow">Wyrd Greyhawk</a>: the wind changed, and their faces stayed that way (just as they were warned as children).<br /><br />Why do Orcs move across the landscape like locusts, destroying all they set their eyes on? Because that's what made them Orcs in the first place.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04072272223837426211noreply@blogger.com