Savage Orcs

Primitive Tribes of Savage Orcs

"Knock down da walls wiv big rocks and kill all the men wiv arras."

—Marak Barbspite,before the Orc was being cooked over an open fire.

A thunderious charge of a Savage Boar Boy

Savage Orc are considered a sub-group of Orcs, notorious for their stone-age technology, and are considered "stupid" and primitive even by Orc "standards". They are extremely stupid, often denying other advanced weapons such as iron cleavers and axes, for weapons made by stone, bone, and wood. They also are most notorious for abandoning the concept of "armor" and often are nearly naked. The only protection they wear is always body tattoos which they believe will magically protect them from harm, although more than often this idea seems to be evident on occasion.

This sub-group of Orcs mostly live in the hot and arid areas of the Badlands, where the searing sun regularly fries the already small brains of the Orcs. Only the most vicious of the Orc tribes live here, as its a fight for survival, and the land is most notorious for having many tribes of Orcs and Savage Orcs in the land fighting for tribal boundaries and loot.  

Overview

By ages past, all of the Greenskin races were savages with no means of manufacturing metal weapons, armour or war machines. These primitive brutes lived a nomadic existence using rudimentary weapons to stalk their prey. It is no easy task to bash to death a great land leviathan using only simply clubs, yet such contest proved immensly statisfying none the less, as a day full of fighting mammoth creatures followed by eating them was a proper life for any Orc's. Indeed this "Old Way" of life is still kept by the vast majority of the Savage Orc's. 

However as the Orcish race fought against the more advanced civilization's, Orc's began to salvage, and steal bit's of armor and weapons used by them, such as the Dwarves and High Elves of ancient times. Soon competition for these weapons and armor became largely common, as the biggest and strongest of Orc's claim these prized weapons and armor as their own. However the Orc's have yet to manufacture or even create simple Iron cleavers or axes of their own, and as such still mostly used Bone,Wood and Stone weapons. Soon however, Orc's who escape the large slave markets and mines of the Chaos Dwarves stronghold, began to teach their fellow brothers the art of making simple Iron Weapons. This "technological advancement" had aided the race to becoming a major threat to the advanced civilizations. It became apparent once the tribes of Man began to migrate west-ward in the thousands, as their still primitive bronze swords and spear's can't match the Orc's Iron weapons. 

Still, there are still a few tribes of Orc's that still refrained themselves from this revolutionary advancement, and soon this distinction became increasingly known. Over the year's, the Savage Orc Tribes still keep to their tradition of the "Old Way". These Orc's abandoned the concept of Armor, and would wear nothing more "luckily" then some sort of cloth or fur to cover themselves. It is also worth nothing that the Savage Orc's language and custom's are considered cruder then those of the more "advanced" Orc's, which is saying something. Savage Orc's have many manner of rituls and odd traditions. One of which is their tradition of warpaint, as a form of protection against the foe's of their tribe. These rituals are almost always conducted by the Shaman's of the tribe, who splatter and draw crude glymphs and shapes unto their skin, in a form of spiritual protection from blows and stabs. These crude tattoo's have been noted to work on occassions, where blow's seem to magically boucne or shear off, leaving the skin unharm, which further confirms their belief of their old way's. The tattoo's and differ from each tribes Savage Orc's, where some are simple pictograms of certain objects or symbols, while otehrs take on glyphs such as Thunderbolts or lighting.

Drawn depiction of a Savage Orc

A Savage Orc's personally wear's are usually cloths, or fur taken from animals, which adds to their animalistic and barbaric apperance. These clothings can also differ, as Orc tribes like the Boneklubbers favour tiger pelts, while Snakeskinz famously wear brightly patterened hides of enourmous serpents. Their appearace alone are considered wild, but their methods and life-style are similiar in many way's. Their drum and chants themselves can turn a Savage Orc into a bloodthirsty rage before a battle. While other Orc tribes consider their customs "primitive" or "backwards" they all can agree on one thing; The Savage Orcs are ferious fighters. Due to their more barbaric and wild life-style a Savage Orc is more unpredictable then the common Orc. Once enganged in combat, Savage Orc's fight furiously with their clubs and stone axes enthusiasticly. Some Orc's make use of stone-arrowhead bow's and are also known to use an oddly oversized spear called a "Big Stabba", a two-orc team carring a massive spear to chuck or stab a large opponent. Savage Orc's make great use of Boar's as a type of heavy calvary for their tribe, for Boar and Orc are viewed as both brutish and savage, which get them along well.  These traditions have been used for huntings since the time the Orc's first came to this land, where large mammoth size creatures roamed the land. 

Source

• Armybook: Orcs and Goblins (5th Edition) pg. 90
• Armybook: Orcs and Goblins (6th Edition) pg. 11
• Armybook: Orcs and Goblins (7th Edition) pg. 21