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'''Morlocks''' are subterranean [post-]humanoid predators which HG Wells predicted in his satirical novel ''The Time Machine'', whose prey is us here on the surface. Wells had delved into all manner of European lore about trolls under bridges, dwarves in the mountains, and the ''[[drow|svart alfr]]''.
{{topquote|You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!|H.G. Wells, ''The Time Machine''}}
 
'''Morlocks''' are subterranean [post-]humanoid predators which HG Wells predicted in his satirical novel ''The Time Machine'', whose prey is the lazy and childlike Eloi who dwell on the surface. Wells had delved into all manner of European lore about trolls under bridges, dwarves in the mountains, and the ''[[drow|svart alfr]]''.


Morlocks joined [[gremlin]]s as neomythology when the [[derro]] came into our knowledge. And the C.H.U.D.s.
Morlocks joined [[gremlin]]s as neomythology when the [[derro]] came into our knowledge. And the C.H.U.D.s.


[[Dungeons & Dragons]] has several morlock-in-all-but-name monsters, not least those derro, but also the [[Fiend Folio]] [[grimlock]]s and maybe meenlocks which precede even them. But it didn't get around to including morlocks themselves.
[[Dungeons & Dragons]] likely would have included morlocks at some point if they hadn't already added the fan-submitted [[Grimlocks]], which are just Morlocks changed a little bit to avoid legal trouble with the Wells Estate.
 
[[Paizo]] however doesn't like made up names and prefers to take its monster names from pre-existing mythology or media. They also figured out that by the late 2000s all of HG Well's works were public-domain; so they included morlocks by name in [[Pathfinder]].


Perhaps TSR worried about copyright, perhaps TSR figured these beasties - as a future race - unfit for a mediaeval setting. (As if that stopped other time traveling races like [[illithid]]s, or all that scifi crap in City Of The Gods and Barrier Peaks.) [[Paizo]] got a clue or, maybe, figured out that by the late 2000s all that Victoriana was public-domain; so included them in [[Pathfinder]].
In [[Warhammer 40k]], Morlocks is the name for the elite veterans of the [[Iron Hands]] chapter.


[[Category: Monsters]]  [[Category: Pathfinder]]
[[Category: Monsters]]  [[Category: Pathfinder]]

Revision as of 13:34, 28 January 2022

"You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!"

– H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

Morlocks are subterranean [post-]humanoid predators which HG Wells predicted in his satirical novel The Time Machine, whose prey is the lazy and childlike Eloi who dwell on the surface. Wells had delved into all manner of European lore about trolls under bridges, dwarves in the mountains, and the svart alfr.

Morlocks joined gremlins as neomythology when the derro came into our knowledge. And the C.H.U.D.s.

Dungeons & Dragons likely would have included morlocks at some point if they hadn't already added the fan-submitted Grimlocks, which are just Morlocks changed a little bit to avoid legal trouble with the Wells Estate.

Paizo however doesn't like made up names and prefers to take its monster names from pre-existing mythology or media. They also figured out that by the late 2000s all of HG Well's works were public-domain; so they included morlocks by name in Pathfinder.

In Warhammer 40k, Morlocks is the name for the elite veterans of the Iron Hands chapter.

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