Hi,

I want to start a new character and I don't know if it kinda fits with the lore, because usually Orcs are warriors and not mages . So, a little info on my char:

Skills

- 1 hand combat

- Destruction (Ice Magic)

- Conjuration (necromancy only, not atronachs)

- Illusion (at higher levels after my Orc becomes a Volkihar vampire lord, at around lvl 40)

He will try to gain more power by any means, even serving the Daedra lords who will grant him their items.

He will especially worship Molag Bal.

Is there any reason why an Orc would be evil from the beginning? Are there Orc mages who use forbidded magic?

Thanks

Its not the standard Orc, but yes, why not ? He may be an Orc born out of Orsinium or out from an orc camp. Look at Mogrul, the librarian. He does not look like the typical orc.

I don't know much of Orc lore, that's why Im asking, so Orcs in Orsinium are more acceptable to magic?

You may want to focus on a different school of magic. A lot of enemies in Skyrim resist frost attacks.

But, as far as being an Orc Mage? Sure, why not? Racial stereotypes aren't true here, and I don't assume they're true in Nirn either. Not every Orc is a big, dumb, stinking killing machine. Yours doesn't have to be one either.

In a way yes, granted most likley Orzinium orcs wouldn't like daedra worshiping warlocks anyway, but they would be more okay with magic, trying to become a civlised and recognized country is their thing.

I get the impression that Orsimer don't exactly hate magic the way many Nords do, they just aren't all that impressed by it, either. They have a shaman in their strongholds who at the very least does alchemy and I would guess probably has some magic capacity - in fact, you can tell from Sharamph's (Mor Khazgur) UESP page she is a Destruction mage and knows some other spells http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Sharamph Atub from Largashbur is even a trainer in Illusion http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Atub

+1, you don't have to stick to the "lore", all it says is that Orcs in general are good blacksmiths, but that definitely doesn't mean that every single Orc out there is a smith. Similarly, magic is frowned upon in Skyrim, but you still see Nord mages and necromancers.

Orcs don't hate magic. They're not typically very good at it, for elves, but there's Orc battlemages and shamans. And there's nothing to say they can't get good.

While Orcs are rarely Mages, there is no reason why they can't be a mage. We have plenty of them in the game and in the past games too.

The Lore Reason why there are fewer Orcs as Mages has to do with the Orc's having other natural abilities to get by with, so they did not need to study the Arcane Arts as much.

Be anything you want, don't listen to the stereotypes of a race because they are sure as hell wrong. Hell, we see Orc mages in Morrowind and Oblivion, one was even a skilled Necromancer.