Talk:Orikin/@comment-4536066-20140416201007

Out of curiosity, is it intentional on the part of this race's creator for the Orikin to be going extinct? Again, this question isn't a criticism, they wouldn't be the first dying race on Gielinor, I just wonder if it was a conscious choice.

To clarify, the reason they would be going extinct is the one-egg-per-female rule. That means that there are a limited number of orikin and unless one egg hatches multiple offspring or males can also lay eggs, every time a male is born the number of possible orikin decreases by one. That is, because only half of the population is able to reproduce (females), the females would need to have a net average of two offspring (one to replace each parent) in order for the population to stay at the same volume. With only one offspring for each pair of parents, the total orkin population would halve every generation.

If this was on purpose, clever characterization device. If not on purpose, you might want to revisit it, hah.

Oh - one other thing you may want to clarify in the article. I see you capitalize orikin. Did you intentionally make it a proper noun? Does that mean that orikin is a tribe name, the way Mahjarrat is a proper tribe name, or should it be a general noun that names their whole race, like the (not capitalized) human race? The impression I got from the article is that "ras" and "moto" are castes (so would be general nouns like "clergy" and "serf") and "orkin" is the race (a general noun like "elves"). That doesn't match up with the capitalization conventions in the article, though, so working that out could be good.