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In the Realms, orc pregnancies typically last from six to eight months, most being seven and a half months, and result in large babies (twins are rare, triplets very rare and often kill the mother in birthing due to the size of the newborns) who are active from..
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How long do they carry their children, and how fast do they mature to being dangerous? And is it different when it's a half-ogre/ogrillon or similar thing?
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..the outset, and ragingly hungry. They tend to take almost a year to develop more speech than a few family-member names and key words (“Hungry” and “Cold” and “Thirsty,” for example), though they can understand what’s said to them for most of this learning...
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..period.
Orcs tend to put their young to work (gathering firewood, tending cooking fires, sharpening tools and weapons, washing and preparing food, laundry) very young, and entrust them with longer foraging expeditions the older they get.
In their third and...
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..again in their seventh year, orcs tend to put on growth spurts, getting taller, stronger, and heavier (much of it muscle), and great hunger accompanies these periods—when orc elders typically train them to fight and hunt and scout. By the age of fourteen to...
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..sixteen, an orc can have young or impregnate another orc, though in most tribes they won’t be allowed to “pair up” until their twentieth summer.
The moment an orc has its first growth spurt, it tends to shift from dashing about light-footed to “pounding the...
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..ground with its feet” as it moves; as orcs mature, they get increasingly heavy-footed (and only move stealthily when they use great care).
By the time an orc is twenty, they are full-grown and fully mature, both physically and in the regard of their tribe, and...
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..will be given adult duties (hunting and scouting on their own, sitting sentinel, and so on). Thereafter, they may gain size and weight due to frequent exertion and abundant food (if available, which is rarely) and will gain experience (“battle smarts”) and...
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..start to travel more.
Half-ogres, ogrillons, and other crossbreeds tend to develop more slowly, maturing and putting on muscle mass far more slowly than orcs. Which means that “younglings” go through a visibly ‘gangly’ stage where their limbs are lengthening, ...
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..and their height and reach growing, faster than their muscle and body weight. So where an orc always looks “solid,” these individuals may at times look rangy, or even—if food is scarce—skinny.
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