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im curious about this mammoth now, is it similar to the Oilipants on LOTR?

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Yarim, it means "half" in Turkish.

Gruks, Gurks or Gorcs

Could we have a Giant Dire Brahma Chicken as an option instead?

It would be great if the Mongolian orc chief was like zurgo helmsmasher

Giant mystical bear? Really guys? Well it does have multiple purposes. Scale it down and its a good Druid/ranger companion or Druid wild shape.

GREAT, really need these orcs for my next project. Hope there is a bow :)

Greatorcs?

a powerful Orog warchief (not certain if it will appear as a male or female) FEMALE!

Giant Monkey is the correct answer :)

I'd love to throw in an idea not on here. After a recent trip to the Smithsonian museum of natural history, a take on the extinct ground sloth could be really cool and terrifying.

I really appreciate the versatility. Wolf mounts become separate wolves. For the big beast I like things I can use and show off. For me that’s Maticore or Drsgons. You can’t have enough dragons :)

Honestly, I don't know why an orc would be with a bear. Bears are usually with more spiritual forest creatures like elves or dwarves. I'm not understanding why an orc would have a giant bear giant wolf or a mammoth or a rhino or something like that seems more suited to orcs even the giant yak if they were northern orcs

what is the difference between worg and giant wolf ?? What do you think about WereYak of mar... ;p

I think they would worship something of great physical size and power, similar to the way the Frostmetal Orcs had the big wooly rhino thing. I think Yak or Bear might make the most sense, I would like to see you do a bear because it is something fairly common but havent had your take on it (that I can remember) My first vote would be for monkey though, although maybe not for this faction, I would like to see your version of a giant gorilla! (maybe later)

I’d love to see a dire boar mount in the future.

It also says they are the Lords of Wolves, so surely a giant wolf would be cool, maybe elemental in nature like a huge frost wolf, with an icy mane and icicle fangs.

Orog is one of the things Half orc/ half ogres are called in D&D, that and Ogrillion. But how about Logre (little ogre) or Greorcs (great orcs) or perhaps the local humans misheard and call them Grey Orcs.

I would love to see the elephant. I dont have any scenario it fits really well. But we never see war elephants like in LotR etc. Kinda sad to see people voting mostly for bear, since there is a ocean of bear models already available.

I asked on the lens but realized it's not super conducive for actual conversation... These pics made me suddenly realize that there might be some accessible software that could open STL files and let me color them in different color schemes and figure out my colors before starting to apply paint. Is there anything out there that would let me do that?

Maloc, Magar, Mogurk? A giant, tusked woolly gorilla with huge fractured fingernails. I’m thinking there should be a platform on his back with a built in throne—you wouldn’t want to be on this guy when he starts getting mean.

Since they're primarily raiders "to survive" I think the bear fits. Bears hibernate when they don't need to be active and to conserve their energy stores, much like a nomadic tribe might settle in a particularly good area/valley for a season, only to pick up when the weather warms again. As far as names go:Ogruks - or if you want a real world analog you could go for the Migoi or Mi-go (Tibetan: མི་རྒོད་, Wylie: mi rgod, ZYPY: Migö/Mirgö) translates as "wild man". I think Yeti when I hear about these guys.

Maybe Monroc. Definitely like the idea of a werebear or totem bear. Doesn't even need to be a mount.

If they are nomadic raiders, I would like to see a beast pulling a supply/loot wagon. Could make for an interesting campaign element different than another "big scary monster" or "the heroes mount". Something to feel sorry for rather than scared of. Also if the hero could be the oldest and wisest rather than the strongest, that would be different and cool too.

The Kul'dai. If using a name for your universe, why not go wild ?

I love the idea of a yak that's been trained to be a beast of war instead of farming. I can imagine its horns having armoured extensions on them.

Idk why most of the votes go to the obvious and generic choices. i already have so many of those, bit would love a monkey or iguana.

I would love a sweet mammoth mini for polymorph reasons, also a platform on a mammoth could be sooo sweet.

Will there be "half-orcs" included by any chance? 👀

Orc Hulks or Hulking Orcs

I think maybe a complete new named based on which ever god they worship in your world. They could be a race favorite by their deity chosen to lead the smaller orcs and not as intelligent ogres. As with the Hero, would love to see a hulking muscular specimen with bulging arms, metal breastplate, bracers and greaves. 2 handed great sword with alternate helmet on/off. But please cut down on the skulls, spikes and facial scars.

Grorks

The real question is, why not have two heads on the epic mount?

Ogrkes, a rino

This would be something out of the box but in the idea of the troll mount you did for the goblins, a hill giant or an ettin would be a perfect mount for orcs.

The Ogrucs!

Orgs

I took a look at Norse words for ice, and found the following : Snow-snaer, ice - isaz, frost - fror, and icicle - jokull. The frost giants were called Jotunn or Jotnar, the god of ice and winter was Ullr, and Skadi was the goddess of winter. The afterlife was a frozen wasteland called Niflheim, and the frost giants hailed from Jotunheim. So why not cobble something from these or something else in the Norse language. maybe in a particular region, these guys are thought of as 'lesser trolls'. As for the mount, I think that a shaggy dragon of some kind would be interesting.

Great idea as always! Actually while reading your description about these species I couldn’t help it but got struck with the heavy turko-mongolic vibe for this steppe roaming tribe. I know maybe I got little or no support but it would be awesome to see something brutal even feral looks combined with as majestic clothing as the furred and lamellar heavy warcoats and armors the mongol horde used during the khaganate or the proto-rusin variants seen in the Kiyev Rus. Just imagine the terror an army of snarling orc/ogre hybrids clad in nomadic armor could raise. With recursive bows, bucklers, nasty sabers and an actual, very sinister khan or khagan as the leader or this feral horde.

Wooly Rhino seems like a great mount for half breed Ogres. Ogruks sounds ok I suppose.

Werewolf orc with a wolf totem spirit around him/her would be great chief

I think a wolly Rhino would fit perfect in the setting. My Name suggestion would be „Orogar“.

How about Orcagurk for the species name? Both the "O" and the "u" would have the double dots above them. Sort-of Norse sounding...

The name could be "ocars".

I like Orog, it may be trademarked by wotc though. Great Orcs, like great goblins. Ogre-kin, Ogren, Deep Orcs, High Orcs, Orkhun, Urog, Orken. I could go on, but it's a tough decision. Love the concept tho

Maybe call them Ograun?

It obvious that the bear is the right choice but it seems many don't understand... lol

Volibear inspired mystical giant bear? Or something like the golden compass?

Cool idea but you do bring up your old stuff any chance you will revisit some of them and update like you did with your demons?

I take the Elefant. (I can always use another Elefant-Miniature for painting up a present for my mother.) ^^

As you wore describing them I was picturing bug-bears, my old dm had a clan of ruthless banded together orcs ogres and like he called the "K'un K'hali"

Oops, hit return too soon. As far as the monster you want to sculpt, I see a lot of ideas that you've already done - mountain dragon, giant troll, manticore, giant wolf, and wyvern you've already covered brilliantly, and most people could just enlarge their prints of those things if they really wanted a larger version of something like your wyvern. I'd suggest a monster you haven't done yet, like a Chimera or a Cockatrice, or something like a Jabberwocky. I would love to see your take on those, and maybe the Chimera could have a couple alternate heads, since so many Chimeras have 3 heads but are different beasts - lion heads, bird heads, goat heads, dragon heads, I'm sure there are other Chimera heads I'm not remembering. Chimera would honestly be my vote were it there.

I really don't mind that Orog sounds like Uruk - there's plenty of fantasy names that are derived from other fantasy stuff, it helps people identify uncommon terms more easily. Every big name in miniatures does it, including the biggest, GW. Maybe spell it something like Oroggs, or O'rogg.

Hey Andrea we call the Half-Ogres in our D&D campaign Orkul - a completely home-made name but one the players now fear ;)

Fingers crossed for the chunky dragon from the old days, back when we voted on 3-month rewards.

I do like the idea of wargs; but honestly, there's something hugely epic about giant spirit bears.

If you do the mammoth, how about a howdah, or even a giant rider?

Oh I just read Erik's post do ogrillon.

I actually like Orog. Makes me think of second edition DnD. They use to have half ogres/orcs.

Orog is also a type of Orc in the Dungeons & Dragons lore/books already, so you may want to avoid that. Bharog, or Barogh maybe? Especially if they end up riding bears.

Frost Orcs, that's what the Orcs call their bigger ogre like brethern who dwell on the snowy peaks in my homebrew setting. :>

Since they are a mix of Orc and ogre, basically giant-kin; Orc-Giant-Ogre. Mix all the letters and one result is: Oogric'Tegran 😊👍

Love the idea of a huge bear, I feel that’s fitting for a orc/ogre hybrid too. I don’t think it matters if a name sounds similar to something from another franchise, I think Orogs is fitting!

I actually like the name "Orogs". It's very fitting and self explanatory so I would prefer it if you named them that. Besides who cares if it's a bit similar to LOTR?

As for a name I like “Korrug” it has the same vibe but differentiates itself enough. I really like the idea of the Bear or Yak for the Mount/mystical beast

I really want a Wooly Rhinoceros. Mammoths are common, rhinos not so much. I’m also a fan of hyphenated names, so how about the Ur-Got.

Black Oricks

@jay peake I like the Black Orcs.

Hoping the Bear outlasts the other options. For a species name, I think "Orkonos" would be fitting. Has familiar elements, but doesn't land too close to already established names.

Id have called them Black Orcs as they were always larger than normal orcs. more heavily armoured. Uruk Hai in LOTR were just like black Orcs

Think alot of the name sugestions are leaning into the "o" territory. I will say how about "Thraug" for a race name.

I agree about the name being a bit similar to LOTR. I like it though. Maybe Orgul/Urgul. That has a similar vibe to me. Orgroth sounds like ogre and ork but also feels powerful with a kind of menacing vibe. Olgor sounds like ogre too, but also feels brutal and violet with the inclusion of the 'gore' sound. Those are some ideas.

Se me ocurren, Morkron o Morkhron, introduce la palabra orco en inglés y al final la pronunciación recuerda a la palabra ogro.

I feel like we've already had a few of these animals as epics, so I vote bear. As for a name? Maybe something that sounds heavy, Orgoc or something like that.

Thinking of a name like Rocgree is my submission.

Go mammoth!

If you go by D&D lore there is already a name for half orc half ogres, they are called Ogrillon. https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ogrillon

Armored wholly rino.

How about using an anagram made from all the letters in ogre and Orcs, such as "Crogore"

Names... huge + orcs + ogres = horkre ? Or huge + ogre + orc= hogork?

I want to see all of those options! 😂 I feel like something off the wall would be a lot of fun, but it looks like Bear is winning and I am just fine with that!!! I am excited to see your Bear!!!

I'm getting a Conan the Barbarian Picts vibe. Bulky, heavily muscular, probably pale or a light greenish tinge, and say in the range of eight feet tall with top knots and body paint/tribal tattoos. the war mammoth would go well with that vision.

Love the pics. Little bit iffy about the half orc half ogre riding wolves. Half orc half ogre I would assume to be quite big. Wolves kind of small, would prefer yaks!!! Big strong. Yak chariots too!

I went with bear because all the other ideas, Andrea hs already done :D if anything I would say maybe a giant bison/buffalo. EDIT: he hasn't done all but a bear fits the landcape better in my opinion.

Ogrin or Ogre-kin works well. Thought I would be cool to have the tribe be comprised of different half orcs variants gathered from the raided villages as orcs tend to cast out or imprision halfbreeds. Opportunity to reflect other half-orc or half-ogre subspecies.

OK first: Awesome that you let use chose! Secondly: Urch! We got the option for some realy rare and different stuff like giant iguana or Manticor mount and the dragonlovers take it away. 😐 Its like putting something against werwolfs and/or vampires, who allways will be pickt over different, crazzy stuff that's not so widely known. So please for the future. Don't let coole and rare stuff comped against "the save option" = basic fantasy stuff that everybody knows. Or we will probably never see the realy rarly or even never before used stuff. Still I love you guys, I never regret to be your patreon for all this time now. Awesome shit! Hope you still have fun and stay healthy. 🤙

Orogs might get confused with 5e Orogs that are basically better orcs but live in the underdark. I was thinking something like Bellowbog but I don't feel confident in that name since they are not Swamp Half orc half Ogres.

King Kong!

I can't really help with the name, but wanted to chime in that there's a serious lack of orc models for any type of bard or performer, and it would be great to have some representation there - shaman, oral story teller, drum player etc.

The yak sounds cool and unique, so that’s my vote. As for the name, if they’re based on the Mongolian steppe, you could use that as a basis. “Tribe of Giants” in Mongolian is “avarga ovog”, which could be collated to “Avoga” or “Ovaga”.

I picked Elephant as a War Elephant for a barbarian Orc tribe sounds awesome (also very LoTR, though I maybe off track as you did list it as a 'Mystic' elephant - but it wont win this vote anyway haha). Of the three leading choices currently - the Bear is my pick. The Rhino and Mammoth options remind me too much of the Frostmetal clan Rhino/Mammoth mix you made (which is awesome) Would love to see a Chimera done in your style one day!

Orogs are a d&d breed of orcs. And ogrillons are an orc/ogre mix. Maybe play on the orc god “Gruumsh” name something like Gurushi or Grumshar? Wyvern is classic orc warlord mount but maybe some kind of yeti or a dire boar (all spikey)?

Mammoth for sure, it's something new and will definitely be unique to this set

Something I don't think works linguistically but sounds amazing to me is the Greek okhra which is just the color ochre which I got from ogre with a C from orc.

Orog sounds nice.

I went Wyvern. Please place some large teeth or tusks on the wyvern to keep the big tooth theme.

Ogrorc, simple as f*** 🤣 For the epic beast, as we've already seen a sort of rhinoceros in the Frostmetal clan, i would assume that a mammoth (or a wyvern, maybe in a sort of WoW style like your) will fit magnificent 😉 maybe also a dragon like the proto ones would fit

A Rhino/ orc combo would be amazing.

There is a homebrew race called "The Ogrillon" They are the result of a coupling between an Ogre and some other race, usually orcs. And I am all for a GIANT SIEGE RHINO! Out on the steppe plains it would allow the rhino to achieve maximum speed before just plowing into anything and everything. I imagine that it could rip a caravan apart in a single pass.

There are thousands of dragons and wyverns available. I’d rather have other creature like the wolf or the bear

A fur Rhinoceros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_rhinoceros) would be great! As for the name Orog...he is cool IMO!

Love the idea of a bear, would have voted wyvern, but we already have an epic looking wyvern.

Sounds awesome! A brutish Wyvern like a Maw-Krusha would be sick.

Absolutely love the aesthetics of these guys. I may be alone here but I really think a horse mount would suit these best. I'm getting a real horsemen/nomads of the steppes vibe from the art. Would love to see mounted archers. And big yes to a giant bear.

Orkgre.

Every possible word beginning with Or or Ogr works, so I'll suggest a name that orc/ogre society might call their halfbreed offspring and I noticed in the teaser and the oni hero: Underbites.

surprised with such complicated and detailed models from this team, people still just want dragons.

A massive dragon-ogre would be epic for this tribe IMHO https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/monster/images/d/d0/A44C99ED-4C1D-45DE-8E1C-5745D2004096.png/revision/latest?cb=20180511192948

Do something unique, too many dragons, rino or mammoth would be be cool

You probably want to avoid the name Orog, as that's very similar to Olog, which is the name in Lord of the Rings for Trollfolk in Mordor. All of the really big boys you see mixed in with the Uruk'Hai are Olog'Hai.

Is the name Orog covered under the OGL, otherwise it fits well with using them for a dnd/pathfinder game! Also a Giant monkey sounds awesome to me

A mammoth or bear seems fitting

Given we've already had both Wyverns and Dragons in previous sets, a yak or rhino would rock and stand out.

A massive reptile with a ape like body posture

I don't see it listed here but please visit bugs or insects at some point

This seems like a perfect place for some Khans of Tarkir beasts. Siege rhino go!