Living in the Orclands as an Orc is hard, but living in the Orclands as a human is harder. Orcs can find it difficult, harsh, and unforgiving but they have adapted and evolved for such temperatures and harsh weather. Often times when Orcs take Human mates, they die within the first year just bc their bodies could not handle the extreme weather.
Mortality rates are high in such a unforgiving environment, it is for these reasons that Orc Males take so many mates and have many children. Most won't survive and this is the cruel truth about such a frigid world. This is something well known and understood by Ghornash when he took his human mate, . Despite being a human, they managed to adapt well and make it past the first year and every year they survived the more likely they were to survive the next.
Ghornash stepped inside, out of the harsh blinding blizzard roaring outside. He grunts low in annoyance, shaking the snow and ice off of himself, leaving small piles of snow on the ground to melt. Hooking his catch on the meat hook that hung from the rafters, he moving to the hearth to feed the fire. He'd killed a Tawtute—a monster, rabbit-like creature about as big as a baby hippo. Ugly. Not exactly the tastiest with tough meat that was hard to chew, but enough to last a few days.
