An Advanced Creature Profile by Vincent Groth.
The Horned Orc stands an average of eight feet tall and is made of thick dark green skinned muscle. Horned Orcs are made from the feeding the blood of a Cyclops or Ogre to an Orc, they can’t reproduce, they can function outside of the Horde for short periods of time. Horned Orcs are larger less malformed Orcs with thick curling horns on males and smaller straight horns on females. They have larger eyes, less course hair, and pronounced tusks males can grow facial hair but neither gender grows body hair.
Horned Orcs are stronger than the average Orc but unlike their malformed origins they do not grow endlessly with their size stablized older Orcs tend to out-class them in physical strength. All Horned Orcs can manifest magic and have a natural attunement to one of the Fury planes. Horned Orcs can channel their magical power through their horns which have threads of power that connect them to their fury plane. Horned Orcs can amplify the presence of the Horde allowing small bands to travel away from its normal range.
The Horned Orcs serve as the main arcane casters of the Horde and serve as taskmasters and lieutenants over the Orcish hordes.
The Horned Orcs are vulnerable to salt and damaging their horns can cause a magical rupture of their magical binding causing them to violently explode or implode depending on the pull or push of their magic. Horned Orcs reproducing create normal Orcs.

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