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* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'':
** Most half-orcs were implied to be the result of male orcs raping human women after raiding or conquering a human population. After half-orcs were left out of the original PHB for 4E because of the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of this origin, this trope was averted in the PHB 2, which re-introduced the half-orcs to the game and presented a number of non-rape origins for half-orcs in line with the primal power source introduced in the book.
*** It has been mentioned that with some half-orcs born this way, [[Moral Myopia| the human-side is not always the mother.]]
** Some half-elves get born this way as well, particularly in settings where humans and elves have gone to war against each other or are otherwise on hostile terms.
** Also in the 2nd edition of ''Advanced [[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', the ''Monstrous Manual'' implies that minotaurs breed by raping human females.
** Specific example, Acererak, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Tomb of Horrors]]''. Short version, a ''really stupid'' wizard summoned a balor, a very powerful demon, but was unable to control it. It killed him and then raped a servant girl, impregnating her. Miraculously, she survived the birth of her half-fiend son, Acererak, but ten years later she was lynched by a mob who blamed her for bringing this "demon-child" into the world. Doubtlessly, they'd have killed Acererak too, but he was rescued by none other than Vecna himself (still a "regular" lich at that time) who destroyed the town and took Acererak as his protégé, and [[Start of Darkness|the rest is history]].
* In ''[[GURPS]] Fantasy Folk'', it's noted that when it comes to half-orcs, "Contrary to human propaganda, the unfortunate mother is as likely to be Orcish as human."
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