Tainted orc

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Alignment = Always chaotic evil

Tainted orcs gain a monstrous form. Tainted orcs look like orcs of massive size, 8 feet tall. They have green skin mottled with gray and their dark hair hangs with thick tangles. Their eyes shine with crazed, savage light. Orcs once cultivated a shamanistic society upon the dying world of Draenor. Then the dark magics of the Burning Legion corrupted them. Lured to the world of Azeroth through a dimensional gateway, they were manipulated into waging war against human nations. Recently, most orcs threw off the shackles of demonic influence and now strive to recover their lost heritage. Some orcs remain under the thrall of the Burning Legion, however, to the point where they are twisted into mockeries of their former selves. Orcs appear to other races as a barbaric and brutal people, but they are proud and noble in their way. Those subject to demonic taint give vent to their brutish ways, however. A tainted orc can channel his warrior fury to become truly fearsome in combat. A tainted orc's body has swelled in size due to the Burning Legion’s corruption, gaining a monsterous form. Anger rules the tainted orc’s heart, diplomacy and intimidation are less effective on the orc.^{MoM 127-128}

Tainted orcs show some signs of corruption (large size, mottled skin). They have been augmented.^{MoM 127}

Note

• Tainted orcs are essentially the orcs we know from the games. It is not said if tainted orcs have a way to become uncorrupted orcs again, although Thrall and his new Horde are trying to recover their lost customs. In Warcraft III, it was seen that fel orcs have a chance to become tainted orcs once again as shown when Grom Hellscream, who was a fel orc for a short time, was able to become his former self with Thrall's help and the combination of orc shamanism and elven magic.
• Tainted orcs are created from the template "tainted" from the Warcraft The Roleplaying Game game series found in Manual of Monsters.