I was curious about something. You can definitively say humans come from certain places (Empire, Tilea, Estalia, etc). You can definitively point to where dwarfs come from (mountain holds and suchlike). You can deliberately point to Ulthuan as the elves' home.

So where do orks primarily come from, or do they just kinda grow up in random places due to their... unique method of reproduction?

They have some particular areas that they are endemic to. The badlands and a few areas beyond the world's edge mountains. Black Fire Pass is the most frequently attacked by Orcs since it's from beyond that direction that they gather in such numbers.

Nabikasu said:

Well, random places is the right answere. I quess the type of race all the Greenskins are it is hard to them build something permanent - Offcourse time to time the Waaagh seems to boost their abilities, but it also boosts their violence, so that is not good. And if they build something, its even harder them to hold it. That makes them more or less nomadic, even some permanent places do exists.

Major living areas:

• Badlands & Border Kingdoms: Orcs, Goblins, Snotlings, Boglars, Kobolds...
• Southland: Probably Savage Orcs (maybe Goblins and Snotlings)
• The Dark Lands: Black Orcs, Orcs, Goblins, Gnoblars, Hobgoblins, Snotlings
• The Ogre Kingdoms: Gnoblars
• Eastern Steppes: Hobgoblins
• Under-Empire / Underground: Night Goblins

Other areas:

• The Grey Mountains, Black Mountains and The World Edge Mountains (from where they attack Dwarf Holds and the Empire): Orcs, Goblins, Snotlings
• The Vaults: Orcs, Iron Orcs, Goblins

There isn't that much info about the far-east (Kingdoms of Ind, Grand Cathay, Khuresh...), but I imagine that Greenskins have spread there too. Maybe lesser amount in the Araby deserts. And I dont really know how much Greenskins are there in the New World and Lustria? Maybe none?

Since orcs are bourne of spores and budding, its probable they can spring up anywhere, but traditionally they come from the east.

jh

That source of green skins, has it ever been expressed in Warhammer old world? I know it is in the 40k sci if version but have never seen it in the fantasy version.

In the Doomstones Campaign they said something like the Dark Lands to the East as the original Orc teritory. I think also on old maps there is something like the Hobgoblin Hegemony south of the Chaos Dwarfs and East of the WorldEdge Mountains.

And as far as I know, spore breading orcs is something from 40k. I think Fantasy Orcs need to somehow reproduce. But there are no female orcs or goblins for that matter.

valvorik said:

There has been couple of topics in the past forums about Greenskins and how they are born... In WFRP1 there was female Greenskins and even half-Orcs, but that fluff is now long gone in official sources. And it seems Greenskins do not have different sexes and are born from some sort of spores.

I did present once idea, that maybe Greenskins were slave-race original created or brought by the Old Ones to Warhammer World. Maybe to use in war. And maybe the race had originally females, which were as rare (and protected) as Dwarf and Skaven females are. But after milleniums of violent life-style has changed the entire race (all the subraces) - And finally females started to become much more rare and evolution changed the entire race --> And spores they came since that... But that time of evolution would be now in the Warhammer world, so there could be females also still...