User blog:BioChimes/Ork Clan vs Ork Tribe

After the Clan/Tribe debate last night I was reading through the separate Ork Tribes / Ork Clans categories, and really only ONE of the pages on the Clans list was actually a clan, the rest were tribes that have been mislabeled. People, including myself have been misunderstanding the difference between the two.

So, a CLAN is sort of an orkish extended family. It contains every ork who shares a common ancestry - Bad Moonz, Evil Sunz, and so on. These Clans are biologically separate from one another, and an Ork spored as, say a Goff is a Goff regardless of whether of not they know it.

A TRIBE is a grouping of orks from the same area, under the same leader. The tribe may contain members from only one clan (though if this is the case they usually just call themselves their clan name, and act as part of the greater clan), or from several clans - A Goff warboss may have a contingent of Snake Bites in his tribe, because he has a taste from Squigoffs, of something like that.

CLAN - Are from the SAME bloodline, but may have a DIFFERENT leader. TRIBE - May be from DIFFERENT bloodlines, but have the SAME leader.

So, there are quite a few Ork pages that are mislabeled, and so few (one?) fannon clan that I'm not sure that the "ork clan" category is necessary, or even cannon friendly. Since there are only six clans ever mentioned and no indicator that there are more, I really don't think that any others actually exist, and the Clans are a biological fact that can't be changed.