Originally Posted by Xzoviac
Originally Posted by GloriousZote
Originally Posted by Elphirein
It's a fantasy video game that has no correlation with real world. There are no "racial appropriations".
Tell that to Wizards of the Coast who made Orcs "not inherently evil" anymore for exact such ridiculous reason.
so what race does a orc represent in the real world?

While I'm not sure of the answer to this (and this conversation feels really uncomfortable), if I had to hazard a comment I'd say it probably isn't something that's very...thought about?.... by most people when people are considering the different races of fantasy creatures/how they could have come from harmful stereotypes, but they might still make some people uncomfortable. Kinda like with goblins.

That being said, this is probably not the best line of questioning to be having here haha.