Editing Warboar (section)

==Warhammer Fantasy==
For reasons unbeknownst to anybody, the forests and hills of the Old World are infested with huge herds of particularly large and savage swine. It's possible that the answer may lie in a combination of their porcine resilience and their omnivorous diets; warboars may descend from herds of wild pigs that have fed on the flesh of dead [[beastmen]] or other [[Chaos]] beasts left to rot in the wilderness, and have managed to gain in size, strength and ferocity without picking up any more major or detrimental mutations. This same process may ultimately have culminated in the birth of the [[Razorgor]]s, which likely descend from swine that either glutted themselves on a particularly beastman-heavy diet or which were less resistant to mutation.

Warboars are still omnivorous, but definitely prefer meat to vegetation. Even by the standards of normal wild swine, they are savage, vicious, ill-tempered brutes - all traits that the orcs admire greatly. Warboars grow bigger than horses, able to carry an orc in full battle regalia upon their backs, and will attack just about anything in pursuit of food or just for the sheer hell of it. Like normal swine, warboars have natural armor under their hides and dulled senses of pain, allowing them to shrug off terrible injuries and continue to fight on even when mortally wounded.

Because of all of these traits, orcs have universally adopted warboars as their steeds of choice - well, except for that bunch of weirdos over in [[Bretonnia]] who have taken to riding [[hagranym]]s instead. The tradition of riding a bloodthirsty warboar into battle is so ancient that even the Stone Age, technophobic Savage Orcs gleefully ride them into the fray.