go make it yourself

Already on it! Though it's no fun alone. (Also maybe I shouldn't be jumping straight into Crack Pairing territory. Oh well.)

People are already pairing Rox and Braham.

I sense Rytlock + Eir in the future.

I can sort of agree to having a separate character page for the races, and all the important NP Cs for one race are all in one place. I don't think we need to move tropes that apply to the race in general, like the Five Races, or the asura being the short, annoying, smart ones.

I would also like to add my agreement to this idea.

Just decided to set up the character page. What do people think of the organization?

(I realize that it will almost certainly change at some point, but I think I got most of the bases covered.)

Blizzard Orcs are defined by 1) being green, 2) shamanistic, low-tech culture, 3) being a Proud Warrior Race. Charr are big-cat-people, are atheist and tied with Asura for the highest tech-level in the game, and are only kind of a Proud Warrior Race. A Charr is perfectly happy with being a merchant or an inventor if it's in service to their Legion. As mentioned in the article, they're more a Proud Soldier Race.

In summation, not Orcs.

They're really more of an inversion of the orc tropes. When they were shamanistic they were Always Chaotic Evil, low tech, and generally the whipping boys of the universe, pawns of greater evils. So, aside from the shamanistic culture and looking like cat people, they were Tolkien orcs. Now they're athiest and industrial, but have more character depth, are treated as individuals who can be good or evil like any other playable race, and are definitely a proud warrior race in that their life revolves around their legion; every individual doesn't have to be a warrior(only the most flat, one dimensional proud warrior races fit that definition).

So in summation, totally orcs, just a lot of playing with the trope.

Here's another way of looking at it; humans, despite being the same old humans, occupy the standard position of elves in this game, even though the sylvari more closely physically resemble elves and have the whole closer to nature thing going on. Charr, likewise, don't physically resemble orcs, but occupy the same basic place in the game as a standard blizzard orc would.

And the trope namer for Blizzard orcs are rather technologically advanced, themselves, so that's not an instant disqualifier.

But we're not calling the humans Our Elves Are Better, are we? Occupying the same narrative position that orcs usually occupy does not make them orcs. They share some similarities in narrative and culture, but not enough to be Our Orcs Are Different. None of the races are standard fantasy races (except humans, but duh), so let's stop trying to shoehorn one of them into a pre-existing mold they don't fit.

EDIT: Just saw we totally are calling the humans Our Elves Are Better, my bad. And even though yes, each of the races got an Our X is Different, Charr are far enough away from orcs that they shouldn't be included as Our Orcs Are Different.