Can orcs and elves mate?

According to AD&D-era lore, elves cannot breed with orcs at all. In Dragon magazine #60 (April 1982), the article "The Half-Elven Point of View" states: Elves and orcs cannot interbreed, which is interesting since both races can breed with humanity. The Complete Book of Elves (1992), p.
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What is a half-orc half-elf called?

Uniya is the term used in Jrusar for people in Exandria who have both elvish and orcish lineage and so are both half-elf and half-orc. Another name for uniya is elf-orcs.
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What is the relationship between elves and orcs?

In The Tale of Tinúviel, Orcs originate as "foul broodlings of Melkor who fared abroad doing his evil work". In The Silmarillion, Orcs are East Elves (Avari) enslaved, tortured, and bred by Morgoth (as Melkor became known); they "multiplied" like Elves and Men. Tolkien stated in a 1962 letter to a Mrs.
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What races can orcs breed with?

Since the beginning of the First War, orcs have interbred with a number of species: mostly humans, but half-ogres and half-draenei are not unheard of. It most often refers to a half orc/human, but can also be used to refer to a half-orc half-ogre, or half-orc half-draenei.
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Why are half-elves half-orcs?

Elves, orcs, and humans are interfertile, so the result is half-orcs and half-elves from byblows. as usually defined, were humanoids born through the union of an elf and a human. Whether a half-elf was raised by their human parent or their elven parent, they often felt isolated and alone.
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World Where Orcs and Elves Coexist With Humans, and Elves Take Control of The Society



Can half-orcs breed?

Orcs and humans have both held the Armlet of Strength and half-orcs are capable of interbreeding with both orcs and humans and continuing to produce fertile children. Interestingly, half-orcs like half-elves can also breed with other half-orcs and have created a fairly stable half-orcrace.
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Can Tieflings be elves?

In the Forgotten Realms setting, elf-tieflings are known as fey-ri. They are the result of a house of gold elves breeding with demons to create powerful heirs. The tanarukk are orc-tieflings, a race bred for war.
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Can orcs fall in love?

There would be no love of family or children, they would just breed like ants, producing workers for the collective, raising them in hate, cruelty, and evil. But. Because orcs do have souls (in most of Tolkien's concepts of his world), there must be potential for good, for love, somewhere.
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How are half-orcs made?

Half-orcs can be explained without the implication of rape. The race came from Tolkien and his half-orcs stemmed from interbreeding between orcs and unsavory humans allied with Sauron or Saruman.
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How do Tolkien Orcs reproduce?

In The Book of Lost Tales, it is said that Orcs were "bred from the heats and slimes of the earth" through the sorcery of Morgoth. Again, Tolkien later changed this, as Morgoth could not create life on his own. This led to the most popular theory that Orcs were created from corrupted Elves.
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How did elves turn into Orcs?

They were created by the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, before the First Age and served him and later his successor in their quest to dominate Middle-earth. Before Oromë first found the Elves at Cuiviénen, Melkor kidnapped some of them and cruelly deformed them, twisting them into the first Orcs.
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Are Orcs immortal like elves?

They could be slain, and they were subject to disease; but apart from these ills they died and were not immortal, even according to the manner of the Quendi; indeed they appear to have been by nature short-lived compared with the span of Men of higher race, such as the Edain.
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What would a dwarf and an elf make?

Half-dwarves were usually the result of a dwarf mating with a human, gnome, elf, or halfling. The offspring of a dwarf and an elf was known as a "dwelf" (which was pluralized to "dwelves").
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Are Uruk Hai half-orcs?

In the movies Uruk-hai are described as a crossbreed between Orcs and "goblin-men". This is presumably a reference to the Goblin-men and Half-orcs in Saruman's service, creatures that blend the traits of Orcs and Men. These Uruks are sent after the Fellowship, and their leader is Lurtz, a movie-only character.
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What color eyes do half-orcs have?

Full orcs tend to have either black or grey eyes, and half-orcs can potentially have any eye color found in humans or orcs. However, the few official mentions of half-orc eye color are predominantly grey, black, and sometimes rarely green.
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What are orc teeth called?

They're fangs. A tusk is bigger (like a mammoth's or an elephant's) and made of ivory. Boars have tusks, they don't have to be the size of elephants.
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How old do orcs live?

Lifespan. Orcs bred fast and lived short lives compared with most other races. They were considered adults anywhere between 11 and 14 years of age, middle-aged at 17, old at 23, and venerable at 35 years of age. The average orc seldom lived longer than 40 years, even if it managed to avoid violent death.
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Are orcs and Goblins the same?

"Goblins" are what J.R.R. Tolkien called the Orcs whom Thorin and Company encountered in The Hobbit. They lived deep under the Misty Mountains in many strongholds, ever since the War of Wrath in the First Age.
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Do orcs have feelings?

Tolkien then goes on to emphasize that an orc has no fea, or spirit/soul. So, I guess it's up to you and your own ideas about the relationships between animals, souls, and emotions. While, of course, always keeping in mind that orcs are evil, and that might affect their emotional range as well.
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Can there be a half tiefling?

Half-Elf (Tiefling) Traits

As a result of the intermingling of hellish and fae bloodlines, Half-Elves of Tiefling descent have access to a wide range of natural and magical abilities. Ability Score Increase. Increase one ability of your choice by 2, and increase a second ability by 1.
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Can humans and tieflings have babies?

Any humanoid plus a tiefling will always result in a tiefling. Elf, dwarf, halfling, human, gnome, orc, etc. Though, there is an error with that chart in the OP - a humanoid and a devil having a baby would not result in a tiefling - it would result in a Cambion.
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What is the best D and D race?

Dungeons & Dragons: 13 Best Playable Races Ranked By Racial Benefits
  • 8 Aarokocra.
  • 7 Gith.
  • 6 Gnome.
  • 5 Halfling.
  • 4 Kobold.
  • 3 Shifter.
  • 2 Yuan-Ti Pureblood.
  • 1 Variant Human.
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Can humans and Hobbits mate?

By that standard, perhaps, hobbits are humans—just short ones. On the other hand, perhaps the existence of occasional half-elvish children is a magical phenomenon, and despite the even closer human-hobbit genetic relationship, no interbreeding is possible under natural conditions.
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Are half-elves infertile?

For elves and humans to be different species they must not produce fertile offspring. We know that half-elves are quite common but they can be interperated as hybrids, similar to mules or ligers, which are infertile.
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