Orog 442667 190175737 2008-02-09T13:55:25Z SmackBot 433328 Date the maintenance tags or general fixes {{Notability|Proposed|[[Wikipedia:Notability (fiction)]]|date=January 2008}} {{In-universe | subject = a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Forgotten Realms|Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game]] | described_object = a fictional creature | category = [[Category:Articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction]] [[Category:Non-article D&D pages]] [[Category:Dungeons & Dragons articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction]] }} {{Nofootnotes|date=February 2008}} {{context}}<br /> {{Infobox D&D creature |name=Orog |alignment= |type= |subtype= |source= |first= }} In the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] [[fantasy]] [[role-playing game]], an '''orog''' is a crossbreed between a male [[Orc (Dungeons & Dragons)|orc]] and a female [[Ogre (Dungeons & Dragons)|ogre]]. Orogs usually live among orcs; they are stronger, more intelligent, and more highly disciplined than typical orcs. They seem{{Who|date=February 2008}} to have been inspired by the [[Uruk Hai]] from the [[Lord of the Rings]]. Variants on the orog include the ''neo-orog'' and the ''ogrillion''. The neo-orog is a specific orc-ogre crossbreed created by the [[Red Wizards (Dungeons & Dragons)|Red Wizards of Thay]] to be used as elite soldiers. The ogrillion is the brutish, armor-skinned offspring of a female orc and a male ogre. In the [[Forgotten Realms]] setting, Orogs were an orc tribe who became cut off from their mountain home after a great attack into the civilised world, they eventually found a way into the Underdark and hid from their Elven and human enemies. They remained in the Underdark for thousands of years, fighting deniziens of that terrible realm all the time. Eventually they became superior in strength and personality to normal mountain Orcs. Both orogs and ogrillions appear in [[BioWare|BioWare's]] [[Baldur's Gate]] PC games. ==References== *Cook, David, et al. ''Monstrous Compendium Volume One'' ([[TSR, Inc.|TSR]], [[1989]]). {{D&D creatures}} [[Category:Dungeons & Dragons humanoids]] [[Category:Forgotten Realms creatures]] {{D&D-stub}} [[fr:Orog]]