Editing Tarek (section)

==The Orc Connection==
During the era of [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]], fans of [[Dark Sun]] had to wonder; where the tareks some kind of mutant [[orc]] who had survived the Cleansing Wars and evolved into a new form over the degeneration of the world?

Yes, the connections weren't as obvious as, say, those between [[Ssurran]] and [[Lizardfolk]], but the basic lore of tareks as arcane magic-hating, elf-phobic, mountain-dwelling muscle-bound raiders does match up a lot with the general depiction of orcs, and their art from the MCA ''is'' pretty orcy...

[[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] pretty much canonized the idea. Whilst it never explicit says that tareks are mutant orcs, it ''does'' say that to create new tarek statblocks, the easiest way is to take any orc statblock you like and swap out its Swift Charge and Warrior's Surge racial traits for the Deathless Warrior trait.