Greywulfen's world Orcs
Orish culture is broad with many tribal variations, but some basic traits hold across the entire race.
The bards/skalds/etc (tribes have different names) are absolutely untouchable in battle or combat. They wear bright lime green and yellow to mark themselves. Regardless of which tribe or side they come from, neither will ever harm them. (they do wear armor as accidents can happen but brandish no weapons.) It not uncommon for commanders to set up a place for the skalds to meet before a battle to decide where they will stand to watch.
The skalds are needed to tell the tales of glory, victory, defeat and history of the battles. They can often walk within fights, or beside great heroes without much danger.
Because of the warrior mentality females do not usually fight. This is not sexist so much as practical. No females, no breeding, no tribe. Only the most powerful or most desperate tribes allow their females into mainline combat.
This results in an unusual situation when orcish war parties come across well armed and equipped female soldiers. They usually become much calmer and more deferential to the women then men opposing them. The logic is if they enemy can afford to arm and equip women like that.. they must be very rich, very powerful, and a very dangerous foe.
Hence why in many areas that are subject to orcish raids, the women's armor often seems comically overdone to accentuate the female attributes. It sees odd but make a great deal of tactical sense given the human/elven likely opponents.
While battle is the purview of the males, healing both mundane and magical, and cooking are considered female work. This is not considered lesser, just different. Healing is a critical skill given the violent behavior of orc society An orc who belittles or insults the healers is not long for this world.
Cooking is considered by the orcs to be a form of magic. Done wrong, it can cripple, or kill an entire encampment. Done right, it can strengthen an entire encampment.
As women do not fight or raid, and men cannot cook, this leads to a problem for raiding parties. The most common solution is to make one of the raiders an honorary female for cooking purposes. He will be trained on the basics, and given a wooden spoon as a symbol. This cannot be transferred to another male raider so if the cook dies or is incapacitated the raiding party cannot cook. This leads to the common assumption that orcs eat food raw or simply roasted over an open fire.