Editing Orc (section)

=Piggish Looks=
On occasion, a person may find orcs depicted as pig-men, despite the generally accepted portrayal of orcs as being (usually green-skinned) Frazetta Man style cavemen fellows. This goes back to [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition, where orcs were described as having a fundamentally "piggish snout" for a face and depicted as more or less a boar's head on a hunch-shouldered, ugly, green-skinned chimpanzee. Some depictions of orcs thusly refer back to this. It's most common in Japan, where old-school [[neckbeard]]s grew up to have a huge impact on art, manga and videogames. For a reference cue there, see the Moblins from [[the Legend of Zelda]] series. Similar incidents of redesign of classic tabletop gaming creatures include dogfaced [[kobold]]s, pumpkinheaded [[bugbear]]s, starving-looking lanky [[troll]]s, and slinky hobgoblin-like [[gnoll]]s.

In the west, probably the most notable case of porcine orcs are the [[Farrow]] from the [[Iron Kingdoms]] setting of [[Privateer Press]]. Resembling bipedal pigs, they are a savage yet cunning race, who practice both the barbaric [[Blood Magic]] of the [[Bone Grinder]] and the beast-magic of the [[Warlock]], yet have also gleefully adopted the technologies of their more advanced neighbors, namely [[gun]]s and even inventing a particularly cruel form of tank that uses [[wat|tumbler-cages full of pigs that have been set on fire for wheels]].

The downside to their popularity in Japan is that Pigfaced Orcs are often portrayed in hentai as Big Ugly Bastards who do /d/eviant things to beautiful women.

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Image: PigOrcMiniatures.jpg|Pigfaced Orcs in the style of the original D&D Monster Manual, made by Kev Adams, creator of the original version of Warhammer Orcs!
Image: GreenskinPigfacedOrcs.jpg
Image: Farrow.jpg
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