4:49 that orcish Smith was so bad, she has the hot end the wrong way round. I know it was a glitch but it's funny that fudgemuppet included that when talking about the great prowess of their smithing
the fact that in the beginning of the game someone took the time to separate the table and bookshelf in the Imperial side proves to me people care enough about non game breaking things to have fixed the derpy smithing bugs by now :P
There was a picture of some nord smith who's hammer disappeared through a glitch, so he was just beating the metal into submission the way real nords do
Orc’s green skin isn’t just to look scary. It’s a bit tougher than average human or elf skin. Not by much, but it can take a beating. But don’t just take my word, go and find an orc and poke him.
@@DsgSleazy You can encounter and Old Orc on the road who says he is waiting a 'Good Death' as he is too old to lead and too old to take wives so he wishes to die fighting
Barring the obvious position of the Wise Woman, I wonder if the same thing applies to the females. Do Orc women experience menopause or do they ovulate for the entirety of their natural lives thus helping them maintain their place in the stronghold or do they go out and seek the good death like the males?
"Orcs are master craftmen, or craftwomen in this case" 4:48 Is that so ? 'Cause from my end it looks like she can't even hold the bar of metal properly.
I made an Orc Librarian for a play though mage with scrolls and staves married a nice orc lady she worn heavy armor and warhammer to bed. I walked funny the next day. 10/10 would orc again
That librarian may also be ancient, and not quite mortal. There's more than a few hints around that Urag may be several hundred years old... which is impressive considering the normal Orc lifecycle is shorter than that of a human.
@@Sacremas that's only because old Orcs try to get themselves killed. even their stronghold tells them to fuck right off once they become old. Urag, on the other hand, is civilised.
@@donaldpowell44 I’d say the Nords around Windhelm and the Stormcloaks as a whole are the real racists, and everyone else has more of a hatred for the High Elves specifically.
Bhusta Cap I'm running a Spellsword kind of build: one-handed, light armor and magic. Usually I don't have much trouble, even in Master difficulty, but orcs often automatically trigger the killmove as soon as they reach me, basically killing me with no chance to dodge. Pretty annoying.
Skirmixstudios Mine too, now after buying Shadow of war I'm kind of inspired to create a new (Evil) Orc warrior again just for fun lol Even though I know technically Orcs and Uruk Kai are different, at least I think
Assuming you are talking about the Mongols of the 13th century Mongol empire, they were a nomadic people. Their lives revolved around horses, while Orcs live in strongholds and wear heavy armour.
giggityguy I guess it's based on their world. They're better at smithing so Their armor would be stronger and heavier than elven but elven only have light armor because of their body structure. Looks like a way to balance that out than to have everyone wear Orchish armor and use their weapons instead of ignoring elen entirely.
Smithing armor and weapons is actually two very different skill sets. From my understanding in IRL medieval times and such, a blacksmith would either make weapons or armor very rarely both. So its not that strange that as a culture the orcs were great at making armor but not weapons.
Lol not even close. The dunmer changes were minor and only in the exterior(skin and eye colour). Otherwise the retained their elven characteristics both cultural and biological. In the case of orcs, it was a major change both in the exterior and in the inferior. Among others, their appearance turned into goblin like and they lost their longevity. They actually lost most, if not all, of the elven characteristics. That's why they are considered beast folk and not kin to the elves. This is something mentioned in numerous books, for example "The Dark Elves would never think of practicing sorcerous necromancy upon any Dark Elf or upon the remains of any Elf. However, Dark Elves consider the human and orcish races to be little more than animals." Ancestors and the dunmer.
Recipe for dead Dragon: Shrouded Gloves. (From dark Brotherhood) Stealth+Invisibility. (By any means you see fit) A dagger or two. The Assassin's Blade perk. (From the stealth tree) A sleeping dragon. For extra spice be an Orc with the Berserk daily power active for a whopping 60x Dagger's base damage.
The orcs remind me a lot of packs of animals in nature. The way that only the alpha male can have wives and children is very interesting to me, and I think that orcs are one of the most unique and most underrated races in the Elder Scrolls games!!
"The Orcs are mastercraftsmen!!!" I just wish their armor and weapons weren't complete shit. I mean, Orcish armor is *barely* better than Dwarven and Orcish weapons are WORSE than Dwarven weapons. I'm gonna just have to assume gameplay and story segregation.
Orcish armor is the second strongest racially affiliated set in the base game and DLC's, so there's that (Hardened Falmer armor is the strongest). And all of the better smithable armor sets require a very high skill level and some fairly rare materials.
Andrew McGlame only being slightly worse than a race of near-godlike beings that combined magic and science to outclass all the other races isn't bad, especially considering that orcish gear isn't made with fancy alloys like dwarven gear, it's good because of the technique involved. Of course daedric and dragon armor are going to beat it, when you work with magical nonsense materials that are hella expensive you have an advantage, but for what it is, orc armor is impressive, far outclassing steel armor or leather or anything else normal humans use
***** It's a difference of .01 armor per weight unit, which is small enough to not be worth noting. Orcish provides better overall protection, so I'd still go with it over Nordic.
So you are saying orcs only breed with family and they are all related, unless someone who is not his son comes in and kills him. No wonder the berzerker rage.
"or if you just enjoyed the visuals" man, you made your research presented a very well made video, with good sound and better text, which is the hardest. guess you're selling your product short. ;) like your videos. hope you continue doing it for a long time.
GlazedGamer yeah my guess would be a massive mod or set of mods. But from the pictures it looked so massive that I doubt anyone could really nail it. Idk :)
Even though these were all pretty basic trivia facts and I knew all of them, I really liked the video. I've been skipping the 5 facts videos on the assumption I'd know all of them, but definitely still well polished and entertaining.
I knew that they were somehow a kind of elf ("mer" is elven kind; OrsiMER), but I didn't know the exact nature of their history. I admire a lot of these "simple barbarian" cultures both in fantasy worlds and in history; they often find simple solutions that we view as barbaric to problems we view as complex (the Blood Price, for example).
Here's something I don't understand about Stronghold Orcs, since only the Chieftain is allowed to have children how have they not died out? Even if they only marry orcs from other strongholds or brought the occasional city orc into the stronghold to avoid marrying their full and half sisters (I don't know if it's stated that this is explicitly what happens but for the sake of argument let's assume that it does), after a few generations they should all be pretty inbred to the point that they not only suffer from rampant physical and mental disorders, but fertility problems as well. If I had to guess the writers didn't think that far ahead but it does raise the question. It also raises the issues about the other male orcs, given the harsh life style and presumably lack of sex seeing as I don't see the Chief taking kindly to someone sleeping with his wives or unmarried daughters. Under these circumstances I just find it hard to believe that there isn't constant infighting among the males. Even if it is done through ritualistic combat that didn't often end in death I imagine it can't be good for maintaining cohesion in the community.
DarkSpyro707 True enough, I blame Matt Patt's video on the mad queen Daenerys theory for making me think of it. Still bad things tend to happen when you have a bunch of men who face a harsh life with no sex, it's one reason why I would not want to be in China when their economy tanks
I think I heard something that female orcs move to a different stronghold when they come of age. Not sure if its cannon though so don't quote me on that.
ThatGUY666666 well alot of them tend to leave the stronghold anyways. The men can also challenge the chief of right to rule if he feels he's up for it.
DarkSpyro707 True enough, hate to be an orc in that position given the strong cultural pressure there is to stay but everyone has to make their choices
Kinda weird if you think about it. If only the Orc chief can have wives, and one of his sons replaces him as chief, that means all the Orc women he takes as wives are his sisters.
Hey Michael and Scott, I just wanted to say a few things about the lore videos. Overall I like the videos, they are accurate (unlike many lore YTers) and the facts are that many don't know so they are entertaining. However, I just think they lack a little depth. I don't want too much depth because then there is a higher chance you enter the realm inaccuracies, however, I believe you can pull off a little more depth to the videos whilst keeping them accurate
Not really consistently. They were enslaved only by the Dunmer and to a lesser extent the Empire (Who enslaved everyone who didn't capitulate to their way of life really) But the Argonians always, always, taught those arseholes a lesson for messing with the Histkin!
"Whatever we're not BORN with... we MAKE." - Ur, my Orc character from TES 5 Skyrim. Suits all the hate that they're going through. Born from poop, and look at them now; ELITE.
I know that orc chiefs are selected through combat and must kill the previous chief, but what if an orc just assassinates one in their sleep or after a battle where they were injured beyond ability to protect themself? I know that's obviously not how orcs roll, but what would happen? Would the next orc just call him a coward and challenge him 1v1 to kill him? I get that orcs aren't sneaky and if there's one thing you can count on an orc to do is to stab you in the face and not in your back but still it has had to of happened at least once right?
I've always loved melee toons in all games. Especially ES games. I've probably legitimately logged 10,000+ hours between Morrowind and it's supporting expansions, Oblivion, and Skyrim, etc. I also always play an Orc. This last time through, just for fun, I made an Orc toon that paid homage to Ogre Magi; distant cousins. I used the Mace of Molag Bal for effect, and used destruction in my other hand. I still always kept the Orc mentality though. Lots of fun. So was my off-shoot of Orgrim Doomhammer from Warcraft :3. Or Grom Hellscream if anyone prefers :). Orcs truly are the greatest warriors. Aggressive, fearless, and relentless. They embody the code.
I like how every race "without a doubt" is one of the coolest races in The Elder Scroll xD
they are all cool as heck.
HeShreds the human races are pretty boring
+Bioberserkr Gaming. Bretons are pretty cool...
High elfs are bitches
nicolas roberto laurindo true
4:49 that orcish Smith was so bad, she has the hot end the wrong way round. I know it was a glitch but it's funny that fudgemuppet included that when talking about the great prowess of their smithing
kwadwo baidoo That's just how tough and masterful they are; the metal is worked in their hands while it's still hot
I like how they haven't fixed that glitch yet. Even the unofficial patches doesn't seem to fix it.
Terraflare94 because it's not game breaking and is easily overlooked so it's probably not worth the time
the fact that in the beginning of the game someone took the time to separate the table and bookshelf in the Imperial side proves to me people care enough about non game breaking things to have fixed the derpy smithing bugs by now :P
There was a picture of some nord smith who's hammer disappeared through a glitch, so he was just beating the metal into submission the way real nords do
4:47 so good at smithing they don't feel pain when being touched by heated iron
Gensolink XD
glad I wasn't the only one to see the irony of the timing.
@@JamesMichaelDoyle the I R O N Y
they have layers..thats why..
Orc’s green skin isn’t just to look scary. It’s a bit tougher than average human or elf skin. Not by much, but it can take a beating. But don’t just take my word, go and find an orc and poke him.
Another fact. There are NO OLD ORCS!
old orcs are exiled out of the tribe and must die in the wild.
Lmao wtf😂😂
@@DsgSleazy facts, you only see old orcs in the major cities.
@@DsgSleazy You can encounter and Old Orc on the road who says he is waiting a 'Good Death' as he is too old to lead and too old to take wives so he wishes to die fighting
Barring the obvious position of the Wise Woman, I wonder if the same thing applies to the females. Do Orc women experience menopause or do they ovulate for the entirety of their natural lives thus helping them maintain their place in the stronghold or do they go out and seek the good death like the males?
What about the old orc in one of the stronghold mines
orcs are like onions they have layers
villainy 386 muscle and Magicka
Lovely reference.
villainy 386 and looks like they smells too ...
Is malicath not just another name for the ogrelord?
oblivions orcs look like shrek
Orcs are like that one quiet kid in class. Everybody judges him but no one really gets to know them. Poor Orcs.
But no one messes with them or they will get beat
Just like in highschool if you're ugly no one wants to talk to you. Orca are hella ugly
And then the quiet kid pulls out Volendrung from his backpack
@@isexuallyidentifyasukraini5407 “some of you are alright. Don’t visit the Stronghold tomorrow.”
@@MadMamluk88 LMAO
"Orcs are master craftmen, or craftwomen in this case"
4:48
Is that so ? 'Cause from my end it looks like she can't even hold the bar of metal properly.
Looks like she is trying to cool down the side that isn't even cold!
Yukie Gueroult she doesnt want any heat on the cold part and will hammer the hot part
Yuo see Ivan, when yuo hold metal bar wrong, hot end always touch hand. This make hand stronk.
How do you know? Maybe that's the proper way and we are just a bunch of ignorants.
Give her a break she lost a lot of blood with that thing stabbing through her hand
I find it odd that there's no Orc in the Companions or Khajit in the Dark Brotherhood.
Kubo Edgeworth There could be if you choose 1 of those races
Kubo Edgeworth You know the random encounters where an assassin from the dark brotherhood will attack you? The assassin can be a Khajiit.
EntrancedSnow70 Really? It's always an Argonian for me.
Ferdinand II granted he's terrible at sneaking and uses a battleaxe with steel armor, but hey, he's still part of the family.
Skulduggery Pleasant So are Festus Krex with his Destruction Magic and Arbjorn with his Battleaxe and Werewolf form.
I made an Orc Librarian for a play though mage with scrolls and staves married a nice orc lady she worn heavy armor and warhammer to bed. I walked funny the next day. 10/10 would orc again
Captain Cokecan The librarian of the College of Winterhold is an Orc.
That librarian may also be ancient, and not quite mortal. There's more than a few hints around that Urag may be several hundred years old... which is impressive considering the normal Orc lifecycle is shorter than that of a human.
@@Sacremas that's only because old Orcs try to get themselves killed. even their stronghold tells them to fuck right off once they become old. Urag, on the other hand, is civilised.
What did s.. s.. s.. do to make you walk funny
Always thought Orcs and Nords seem like they would get on well...
But never seen any evidence of that in any of the games.
They have a similar culture but nords are stereotypically racist
@@Ducky1033 they're not really that racist, especially compared to a lot of other races
@@donaldpowell44 I’d say the Nords around Windhelm and the Stormcloaks as a whole are the real racists, and everyone else has more of a hatred for the High Elves specifically.
@@Ducky1033 I think they're more xenophobic than racist in that they just don't want outsiders in their lands. Similar to the Dunmer I think.
#6: they instakill you in Master difficulty.
CidGuerreiro1234 dont get hit.
Bhusta Cap Sometimes it goes straight to the killmove, not giving me a chance to dodge the attack.
Your playing melee i take it?
I just summon dremora lords on top of threats. They dont make it to me.
Bhusta Cap I'm running a Spellsword kind of build: one-handed, light armor and magic. Usually I don't have much trouble, even in Master difficulty, but orcs often automatically trigger the killmove as soon as they reach me, basically killing me with no chance to dodge. Pretty annoying.
I hated elves and loved orcs now I really hate elves and still love orcs
But...orcs ARE elves (dun dun dun)
And lions are cats just bigger and a shit load tougher
I smell a Nord
Orc 4 life
Dang elvs they eat our food and pollute our city's
Skyrim belongs to the Horde!
FckBoiTatskie A Kosovo je Srbskie.
Zug zug
WAAAGH!
Oops, wrong game...
Jon Jon OI! Da Waaghh iz neva out o' place, ya git. WAAAAAGHH!!!
The Elder Scrolls have the coolest version of Orcs in any fantasy setting.
Orsimer has such a better ring to it then just Orc
I married borgakh on my male redguard character. No regrets
Pretty good at working that ebony I hear
Hue hue hue
Nice.
I used a mod to make Garbash gay, and married him on my male Bruniik character (Bruniik is a race mod, if you didn't catch on back dere)
Always marry Borgakh in every playthrough. Can't get better then the love of an Orc (also, that sweet green thiccness isn't harmful either)
the orcs are very underated. they're deadly warriors that have principles similar to the nords with that honorable death thing
Orc are my favorite race! :D
Same
Skirmixstudios orc for life
Skirmixstudios Mine too, now after buying Shadow of war I'm kind of inspired to create a new (Evil) Orc warrior again just for fun lol
Even though I know technically Orcs and Uruk Kai are different, at least I think
I love this channel! You guys have improved video quality immensely.
+NXVC prince Thanks so much for letting us know you noticed. It really makes what we do so much more rewarding :D
Anyone else think that the Orcs are based off of the Mongols?
The Furthest North they are in many aspects
no not really there more like lions
Tolkien based his orcs on mongols.
Assuming you are talking about the Mongols of the 13th century Mongol empire, they were a nomadic people. Their lives revolved around horses, while Orcs live in strongholds and wear heavy armour.
Wanted to make a Genghis Khan build..should it be an Orc?
here's a fact that i still haven't heard yet: how come orcish armor is awesome but orcish weapons are garbage?
giggityguy I guess it's based on their world. They're better at smithing so Their armor would be stronger and heavier than elven but elven only have light armor because of their body structure. Looks like a way to balance that out than to have everyone wear Orchish armor and use their weapons instead of ignoring elen entirely.
Daron Gates both suck all about dragon scale and guild master armor my light is so high guild master is stronger than daedric
giggityguy don't know
It's Bullshit
Smithing armor and weapons is actually two very different skill sets. From my understanding in IRL medieval times and such, a blacksmith would either make weapons or armor very rarely both. So its not that strange that as a culture the orcs were great at making armor but not weapons.
I love me some Orc womens.
Nosebleed Macgee Just watch out for the teeth.
I like a woman that can swing me around like a warhammer
Don't let her mouth close to you, imagine if she's a vampire.
I'd imagine that they'd take it up the clacker real good.
Oral with an orc, it's like a circumcision you have to pay for with jewelry.
No one bests an Orc.
Bane 15X thats what they all say
before i cut them down
Jonny Williams That's because you didn't let them activate their beserker rage ability.
Bane 15X if that happens the difficulty goes to novice
i've triumphed once again
Yeah because they run like pussies when my nord uses his warcry and cuts them down like a hot knife through butter
@@ethanwood217 I have seen one orc take down three nords
That Orc armor mod looks fantastic...
Also I love that the orcs in your game actually look bigger than the other races (like they're supposed to...)
Orcs/Orsimer didn't just use to be elves, they still are. They are changed high elves, just like the Dark elves are
Lol not even close. The dunmer changes were minor and only in the exterior(skin and eye colour). Otherwise the retained their elven characteristics both cultural and biological. In the case of orcs, it was a major change both in the exterior and in the inferior. Among others, their appearance turned into goblin like and they lost their longevity. They actually lost most, if not all, of the elven characteristics. That's why they are considered beast folk and not kin to the elves. This is something mentioned in numerous books, for example
"The Dark Elves would never think of practicing sorcerous necromancy upon any Dark Elf or upon the remains of any Elf. However, Dark Elves consider the human and orcish races to be little more than animals."
Ancestors and the dunmer.
Both have the appearance changed by a Deadric Prince
I think it just depends on how you look at it
What happens when an Orc father beats all of his sons? Who gets the title then?
*****
Sure.
What if he dies before he makes more offspring?
The God you never knew i guess that the wise women would pick another orc who deserves the title of chief
Luis Piedra
Some wise Orc woman huh?
I wonder how she'd make that decision.
*****
Isn't supposed to be an honorable fight or is it some kind of free for all with no ethics?
The God you never knew what if a orc cheif is a homosexual?
Orsimer are easily my favorite skyrim race, playable and non.
Recipe for dead Dragon:
Shrouded Gloves. (From dark Brotherhood)
Stealth+Invisibility. (By any means you see fit)
A dagger or two.
The Assassin's Blade perk. (From the stealth tree)
A sleeping dragon.
For extra spice be an Orc with the Berserk daily power active for a whopping 60x Dagger's base damage.
I did 10,000 damage and named my dagger the Kiss of Death
Master craftsmen...... *holds hot iron in a very wrong way*
No pain no gain
Orc Master Race
If I could get a Meridia facts video, that'd be great
I like it how FudgeMuppet said that orcs were master crafters even though they were doing it the wrong way
orc facts are the only facts that matter in life
"Boethiah ate and shat him out" That gave me a reason to life.
Best two handed warrior build for me.
Nord for shield+one handed
Dunmer for vampire-mage
Orcs make great combat archers too! I love learning the lore about all the races! Keep these coming!
1. They have the biggest ****
TheXtremeGuy ur the 1 wana fucking medal u virgin fuvk
Eero Lyly You're gay lol
TheXtremeGuy explane how dat makes ne gay
You should join the next door kindergarten spelling bee
Eero Lyly I guess you have no time to type properly even though you are on TH-cam.
The orcs remind me a lot of packs of animals in nature. The way that only the alpha male can have wives and children is very interesting to me, and I think that orcs are one of the most unique and most underrated races in the Elder Scrolls games!!
Orcs are definitely my favourite race ever. They are not ugly, they're beastly and all round badass
Really great video! Keep it up! =D More lore videos! =D
+The Panacea thank you!!
FudgeMuppet What up fudgemuppet
4:44 "they are master crafting"
are you sure? she even't are grabing the iron rigth jajajaja
She is so pro that she heats that handle and hits the cold metal and still make a great bow out of a solid peace of steel !!!
Mister Nainty Not only that their weapons are terrible compared to other races in the game. 😂
And you are totally a masterful speller!
Love the orcs. Any elder scrolls game, from Morrowind to Skyrim, I have played three builds. Nord first, Kajiit, then Orc.
So elegant when he said he became malacath when he got eaten and shat out
"Remember we fought off 50 orc beserkers?"
I love orcs
"The Orcs are mastercraftsmen!!!" I just wish their armor and weapons weren't complete shit. I mean, Orcish armor is *barely* better than Dwarven and Orcish weapons are WORSE than Dwarven weapons. I'm gonna just have to assume gameplay and story segregation.
Orcish armor is the second strongest racially affiliated set in the base game and DLC's, so there's that (Hardened Falmer armor is the strongest). And all of the better smithable armor sets require a very high skill level and some fairly rare materials.
Andrew McGlame only being slightly worse than a race of near-godlike beings that combined magic and science to outclass all the other races isn't bad, especially considering that orcish gear isn't made with fancy alloys like dwarven gear, it's good because of the technique involved. Of course daedric and dragon armor are going to beat it, when you work with magical nonsense materials that are hella expensive you have an advantage, but for what it is, orc armor is impressive, far outclassing steel armor or leather or anything else normal humans use
***** It's a difference of .01 armor per weight unit, which is small enough to not be worth noting. Orcish provides better overall protection, so I'd still go with it over Nordic.
They aren't as good of craftsmen as the Dwarves though.
Thesaurus Rex Actually Ebony craftmanship is Dunmer Craftmanship look at the armor style, it's clearly Dunmer
Good video, I've always loved the Orcs and their Noble Outcast lifestyle.
"Orcs are master craftsmen, or craftswomen in this case" *Orc holds wrong end of hot iron*
I like our overlords the lizard men
*better
So you are saying orcs only breed with family and they are all related, unless someone who is not his son comes in and kills him. No wonder the berzerker rage.
Fudge Muppet, not Pudge Muffin, is the Elder Scrolls Lore GOAT
"or if you just enjoyed the visuals"
man, you made your research presented a very well made video, with good sound and better text, which is the hardest. guess you're selling your product short. ;)
like your videos. hope you continue doing it for a long time.
by the way, I started a new character based on the Jedi, inspired by your builds.
When I play Skyrim again, I'll play as a Orc.
Ever start again!?
Honestly, Orsinium looks awesome! TES6 location??? Probably not but it still looks great. Loved the video FM!!:)
Southern Discomfort no it should still take place in Valenwood but Orsinium would just be cool. I don't really like hammerfell deserts
ESO I'm pretty sure, that's just an educated guess though, otherwise maybe some sort of very impressive Mod
GlazedGamer yeah my guess would be a massive mod or set of mods. But from the pictures it looked so massive that I doubt anyone could really nail it. Idk :)
***** Yeah I thought it was from ESO
That picture was from the Elder Scrolls Online DLC Orsinium which in my opinion was their best DLC with great story and incredible Landscapes.
Even though these were all pretty basic trivia facts and I knew all of them, I really liked the video. I've been skipping the 5 facts videos on the assumption I'd know all of them, but definitely still well polished and entertaining.
+fudgemuppet you should bring back the old podcast m8s give us old viewers some nostalgia PS you guys are legends keep it up
Any chance of some more modded skyrim builds?
oh hey, a vid at 2:03
good, another thing to keep me a wake, why do i do this?
SoulReaper where are u at. its 5:10 am here
Mr. Trollston 2:11 AM my cat woke me up at 4:36
Mr. Trollston Dude, you live in WV?
4:20 over in minnesota
SoulReaper z
Skyrim is not only the home of the nords but also the orcs
I knew that they were somehow a kind of elf ("mer" is elven kind; OrsiMER), but I didn't know the exact nature of their history.
I admire a lot of these "simple barbarian" cultures both in fantasy worlds and in history; they often find simple solutions that we view as barbaric to problems we view as complex (the Blood Price, for example).
Here's something I don't understand about Stronghold Orcs, since only the Chieftain is allowed to have children how have they not died out? Even if they only marry orcs from other strongholds or brought the occasional city orc into the stronghold to avoid marrying their full and half sisters (I don't know if it's stated that this is explicitly what happens but for the sake of argument let's assume that it does), after a few generations they should all be pretty inbred to the point that they not only suffer from rampant physical and mental disorders, but fertility problems as well. If I had to guess the writers didn't think that far ahead but it does raise the question.
It also raises the issues about the other male orcs, given the harsh life style and presumably lack of sex seeing as I don't see the Chief taking kindly to someone sleeping with his wives or unmarried daughters. Under these circumstances I just find it hard to believe that there isn't constant infighting among the males. Even if it is done through ritualistic combat that didn't often end in death I imagine it can't be good for maintaining cohesion in the community.
ThatGUY666666 you might be thinking about this too hard. genetics in elder scrolls uses pokemon logic after all.
DarkSpyro707
True enough, I blame Matt Patt's video on the mad queen Daenerys theory for making me think of it. Still bad things tend to happen when you have a bunch of men who face a harsh life with no sex, it's one reason why I would not want to be in China when their economy tanks
I think I heard something that female orcs move to a different stronghold when they come of age. Not sure if its cannon though so don't quote me on that.
ThatGUY666666 well alot of them tend to leave the stronghold anyways. The men can also challenge the chief of right to rule if he feels he's up for it.
DarkSpyro707
True enough, hate to be an orc in that position given the strong cultural pressure there is to stay but everyone has to make their choices
Top 5 Orc Fact :
1. They are green
2. They have ugly face
3. They have big teeth
4. They are strong as f*ck
5. They have ear like Elf
Kinda weird if you think about it.
If only the Orc chief can have wives, and one of his sons replaces him as chief, that means all the Orc women he takes as wives are his sisters.
" When the Daedric Prince Boethiah ate him and shat him out " I laughed too much at this than I should of xD
Oh god I know too much all of these top fives add nothing to my knowledge
Why do you and Camelworks sound the same? (._________.)
Hey Michael and Scott, I just wanted to say a few things about the lore videos.
Overall I like the videos, they are accurate (unlike many lore YTers) and the facts are that many don't know so they are entertaining.
However, I just think they lack a little depth. I don't want too much depth because then there is a higher chance you enter the realm inaccuracies, however, I believe you can pull off a little more depth to the videos whilst keeping them accurate
More about the races plz. I find these to be a fun little distraction.
Waaagh?
I killed the whole orc stronghold when my orc companion died so I'm hunting down every single orc
4:46
Dang, she's a real trooper!
When I watch any skyrim videos it makes me want to play again
But Argonians are still the master race tho
The Argonian State now rules over those who enslaved them. But you are right xdd.
Not really consistently. They were enslaved only by the Dunmer and to a lesser extent the Empire (Who enslaved everyone who didn't capitulate to their way of life really) But the Argonians always, always, taught those arseholes a lesson for messing with the Histkin!
YE BOI!
Southern Discomfort That was just a clever argonian plan to infiltrate the dunmer. And it worked!
despite us orcs being the litteral strongest race? there's a reason the saying "no one bests an orc" exists (berserkerer rage ftw).
wow...
orcs are like muslims
but orcs are more peaceful
Happy Soul fuck off you Trump loving sack of human faeces.
Tadhg McElligott i dont even live in america and trump is just dumb but you are just triggered
IraqI GaMer nope
I just like to be realistic
Happy Soul
Realistic?
What are you? A video game?
IraqI GaMer lol
I like how 90% of orc adaptations are just elves that got fucked over
The Orcs are the best Race in Skyrim
Favorite elderscrolls race by far!
"Whatever we're not BORN with... we MAKE." - Ur, my Orc character from TES 5 Skyrim.
Suits all the hate that they're going through. Born from poop, and look at them now; ELITE.
The Strongholds always reminded me of Lion Prides in a way.
been loving these fun fact videos not enough people know about the lore
FINALLY!! Thank you for making this!
love the better quality
Ya she's so good at smithing, she can hold glowing hot metal like it's nothing
"Orc women are great smiths" 4:48 she then proceeds to hammer the wrong end of the metal lmao.
Thankyou fudgemuppet !
I love the Orc pain sounds.
If you think about it the orcs are basically just another elven race.
Hey FudgeMuppet! I love your vids!
I already knew all this from lore vids and books good vid anyway
Need more Orc lore!
I know that orc chiefs are selected through combat and must kill the previous chief, but what if an orc just assassinates one in their sleep or after a battle where they were injured beyond ability to protect themself? I know that's obviously not how orcs roll, but what would happen? Would the next orc just call him a coward and challenge him 1v1 to kill him? I get that orcs aren't sneaky and if there's one thing you can count on an orc to do is to stab you in the face and not in your back but still it has had to of happened at least once right?
Orc is my favorite race in Elder scrolls to play
Please do a video like this for all races! The wood elf one better be dank as fuck
4:44 master blacksmiths indeed.
Not a fan of Elder Scrolls, but I like hearing about legends about the orcs.
One of the chieftain sons overthrows the chief; ok, I guess Orcs have a lot of inbreeding going on.
When an orc becomes the new chief:
YES! I get to bang all the wome- I mean, uuuuh. . . . . I get to lead the tribe to glory..... yeaaaah...
Awesome video Fudgemuppet!
Makes you wonder what happens when the duelists kill each other.
I've always loved melee toons in all games. Especially ES games. I've probably legitimately logged 10,000+ hours between Morrowind and it's supporting expansions, Oblivion, and Skyrim, etc. I also always play an Orc.
This last time through, just for fun, I made an Orc toon that paid homage to Ogre Magi; distant cousins. I used the Mace of Molag Bal for effect, and used destruction in my other hand. I still always kept the Orc mentality though.
Lots of fun.
So was my off-shoot of Orgrim Doomhammer from Warcraft :3. Or Grom Hellscream if anyone prefers :).
Orcs truly are the greatest warriors. Aggressive, fearless, and relentless. They embody the code.