The Savage Orcs are a primitive and superstitious breed of greenskin, dwelling in the wildest reaches of the world far from the more organised tribes of their kin. Eschewing armour in favour of war paint and bone fetishes, they daub their green hides with crude symbols and charms that they believe ward off harm, and in their unshakeable conviction such magic often seems to hold true, blows glancing away as though turned by an unseen hand.
Within the Orc and Goblin Tribes, the Savage Orcs occupy a place of feral reverence, for their shamans, the Savage Orc Great Shamans, channel the raw power of the Waaagh! with a fervour bordering on frenzy. Working themselves into a bloodthirsty ecstasy before battle, these Orcs charge headlong into the fray wielding crude choppas and stone weapons, careless of wounds and driven by an almost religious lust for slaughter.
While their more cunning cousins may scorn them as backward, none can deny the ferocity of the Savage Orcs, whose untamed savagery has broken many a disciplined battle line across the untamed frontiers of the Old World.