Online:Ancestral Orc Style

Ancestral Orc Style
Book	Crafting Motif 88: Ancestral Orc Style
Material	Etched Manganese
Outfit System
Armor Styles	1	Weapon Styles	1
Small Armor	00000500500	1-Handed	000015001500
Large Armor	000010001000	2-Handed	000030003000

Not to be confused with the Ancient Orc Style.

Ancestral Orc Style is a crafting motif available with the Greymoor expansion. Chapters can be found using Treasure Maps in Daggerfall Covenant zones and the Antiquities system.

The armor style appears to be based on the original Orc racial motif from the base game—but has been visually reworked and upgraded. As a result, this style appears to be more of an upgrade to the older racial style, as opposed to a brand new style.

Some of the weapons already exist as Tier 5 Racial Styles. However, some are new designs.

Motif Pages

All pages are excavated from different zones in Daggerfall Covenant territory via the Antiquities system. The Leads for these pages can be obtained from chests found with Treasure Maps only. The zone that the dig site is located in is also identical to where the lead was found:

Armor

Type	Items
Light Armor
	Hat	Epaulets	Jerkin	Robe	Gloves	Sash	Breeches	Shoes
Medium Armor
	Helmet	Arm Cops	Jack		Bracers	Belt	Guards	Boots
Heavy Armor
	Helm	Pauldrons	Cuirass		Gauntlets	Girdle	Greaves	Sabatons

Weapons and Shields

Weapons and Shields
Dagger	Sword	Axe	Mace	Greatsword	Battle Axe	Maul	Bow	Staff	Shield

Codex Entries

Alongside being readable as books, these motif pages are also accompanied by a short antiquity Codex Entry:

Chapter	Lead Source	Codex Entry
Ancestral Orc: Axes (link)	Stros M'Kai maps	Time nearly disintegrated this book. I'm surprised the contents are still legible. We should handle this with care, the binding won't last much longer unless we take precautions. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Belts (link)	Betnikh maps	Orcs of the past depicted historical figures in their armor. It's a practice we're only just now rediscovering. I'm sure the origins go back even farther, too. This was just the first one produced with some kind of consistency. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Boots (link)	Stormhaven maps	This book smells like some Orc stuffed it in his boot and kept it there for the last few centuries. Still, a good read. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Bows (link)	Glenumbra maps	If stories are to be believed, Torug gro-Igron loved bows and became proficient while hunting game. Most of the time he's depicted weilding dual axes, but that might be artistic interpretation. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Chests (link)	Glenumbra maps	Orcs are just rediscovering these kind of precise metalwork techniques. They were lost to us during the fall of Orsinium in 1E 980, and it is only by historical accounts such as these that we're able to reclaim them. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Daggers (link)	Rivenspire maps	This book looks like it went through the jaws of a Sabre cat and then came out the other end. A few of the words were hard to make out, but with a little effort you can parse it out. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Gloves (link)	Alik'r Desert maps	There's an old folktale about a warrior named Urzatash the Bloody who picked a bar fight with the wrong Orc and got his face punched in. In the story, he has to live with a concave face for the rest of his life. Maybe it was based on some truth. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Helmets (link)	Stros M'Kai maps	This is in great condition. Someone took great efforts to preserve this book. It looks as though there was a bit of restoration done to the inside binding but otherwise, this has all the original material. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Leg Greaves (link)	Bangkorai maps	The leather binding on this book is odd. It's soft, but hasn't completely disintegrated over time. Someone might have replaced it early on, or tried to pretty it up to make it part of a display. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Maces (link)	Stormhaven maps	Maces are an Orc favorite, always have been. The ones addressed in this book seem particularly brutal. Maces with pointed heads are an entirely different breed of weapon. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Shields (link)	Bangkorai maps	It's rare to find descriptions of Orc craftsmanship that include the word beautiful. The author seems to have great reverence for the detail found in the shields they describe. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Shoulders (link)	Rivenspire maps	This book looks ... flat. The text is still legible, but it looks like a mammoth stepped on it. The binding is crushed, the pages thinned, and the cover is almost comically stretched out. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Staves (link)	Betnikh maps	I've never known an Orc to carry a staff that didn't look like it could double as a bludgeoning weapon if push came to shove. Even though many of these practices were lost to history, it seems as though instinct carried this one through to present day. — Ugron gro-Thumog
Ancestral Orc: Swords (link)	Alik'r Desert maps	A good read. The author posits some theories that I've not heard debated, but perhaps they were at the time it was written. I don't think it matters nearly as much as the design itself. Note that Turog is featured once again here. — Ugron gro-Thumog

Gallery

Armor

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  Heavy

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  Shield

Weapons

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  Axe

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  Battleaxe

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  Bow

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  Quiver

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  Dagger

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  Greatsword

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  Mace

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  Maul

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  Staff

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  Sword

Achievements

There is one achievement associated with this style:

Achievement		Points	Description
​	Ancestral Orc Style Master	50	Learn every chapter in the Ancestral Orc style book, obtained by following antiquity leads that are occasionally found by opening treasure map chests.