Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16060423-20130930190945/@comment-82.17.83.100-20140511032723

People say orcs are the best meaning they're the best for the player to use, because of the racial ability which allows you to deal double damage whilst taking half damage, which is the best racial for a warrior type character to have access to in game. As far as NPCs there is no best race; you could have any race with low health and damage and any race with high race and damage and good abilities within the game.

As far as speculating whether orcs or nords are strongest from a lore/fantasy/rp pov I think the strength potential of both is portrayed fairly equally in game and it's stupid to argue about - "They are quite large, only the Nords are larger and stronger." - why would anyone make that up and try to say it's an official game quote? Must be in love/a boy crush with manly nords to go that far? :P  Though from my own personal view orcs would be stronger than nords because they seem more primal and beast-like, whilst humans have evolved beyond raw strength to be weaker than "beasts" to use fine tools with more dexterity, having less dense muscle for finer muscle control. Plus in game orcs are tougher e.g. the old orc who refuses to die old like nords do (as he points out), only the champion orc is allowed to breed to keep all of the offspring strong etc. They are definitely a more primal tougher race than how the nords are portrayed, many living in luxury, wearing fine clothes, living to old age, allowing weaker members to survive in society and even breed etc. From what I've experienced in game orcs seem to be very tough but very low in numbers or too unadvanced to create a large empire or win large wars.