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unusual facts about ORC


Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum

The player assigns each character a race at creation time: Human, Elf, Half-orc, Gnome or Dwarf.


Beleg

He has larger commands such as the battle in Brethil against a Legion of Orcs as Captain commanding the axe-armed Sindar with Halmir and the Haladin archers.

Black Orc

Black Orcs are a fictional race, a sub-breed of Orc appearing in Warhammer Fantasy Battle & Warhammer Fantasy, created by Games Workshop.

Cape Wind

A 2007 Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) survey of 600 state residents found that 93% Massachusetts residents agree that the state should be "a national leader in using cleaner and renewable energy on a large scale by moving ahead with offshore wind power" and other clean energy initiatives.

Izmir-Eğirdir railway

The ORC was granted another concession to extend the railway to Denizli in 1881.

The ORC opened the first section of the line, between Alsancak and Gaziemir and Seyiköy in 1858, thus becoming the first railway in Turkey.

Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns

The Mareten (humans), Gauri (dwarves), Drauga (orcs), Haroun (elves), Slaan (lizardfolk), Undead, and Shadow have Kohan that resemble them, although supposedly all Kohan originally appeared human.

Odonata Records Committee

The Odonata Records Committee (ORC) is the recognised national body which verifies records of rare vagrant dragonflies in Britain.

Orc Stain

Orc Stain was developed as a result of Stokoe's love of The Lord of the Rings, which led him to consider whether all orcs were as simplistic and warlike as those depicted by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Order of Sleeping Car Conductors

In 1942 the National Mediation Board monitored an election in which the conductors voted to join the Order of Railway Conductors (ORC).

Rail transport in İzmir

The ORC also built a tramway from Alsancak station along the Kordon to district of Konak in İzmir.

Seal of Ohio

The Great Seal of the State of Ohio features the U.S. state's coat of arms surrounded by the words, "THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF OHIO" in news gothic capitals (ORC §5.10).

The Ladder of Divine Ascent

--sic? the CathEnc has 'Bibliotheque Rationale', which seems to be an ORC error--> and was probably brought from Florence by Catherine de' Medici.

Uruk-hai

In Morgoth's Ring, Tolkien states that Saruman did interbreed orcs and men, resulting in "Man-orcs large and cunning, and Orc-men treacherous and vile."

An account of the first Battle of the Fords of Isen in Unfinished Tales apparently treats Uruk-hai and "orc-men" separately.

Warcraft: Day of the Dragon

Set after Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness but before Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Day of the Dragon is the story of how a human Mage, Rhonin ventures into the last remaining Orc-controlled lands in Khaz Modan by the order of Krasus.


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