Morlocks (Time Machine)
Morlocks are a Human derived species that feature in The Time Machine.
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History
The Morlocks were theorized to have evolved from the Old Navy workers who labored underground circa 2100, all wearing blue uniforms and living in harsh conditions. When Graham visited their domain, he already saw signs of them becoming paler and developing a separate strain of English. Much later, the Time Traveler would find evidence that the Morlocks had come from a lower class. In the 33rd Century, the underground world was a massive, sprawling civilization, which was not subject to many of the oppressive laws of the world above, leading many to voluntarily live below. By the 40th Century, a race of 'happy servant-men' as a child native to the time described them had come into being, whose carriage and reaching dexterity suggested to The Time Traveler on a visit to this era they they were a form of proto-Morlock. The child also noted that they were not to be discussed. By 802,701, the Morlocks were feeding on the Eloi, while still clothing and feeding them during their lives. In essence, the Eloi were used like cattle. When The Time Traveler arrived, he was very disgusted and found it difficult to see the humanity in these descendants of him. When The Time Traveler returned, his opinion had softened towards Morlocks after working with his companion Nebogipfel for so long. While working with the Eloi to try and encourage their humanity, he decided to descend to the Morlock Tunnels and work with them.
The entities encountered a major external disruption to their underground infrastructure when a Victorian English inventor, known as the Time Traveller, materialized his temporal apparatus on the surface world. The local clan covertly dragged the heavy mechanism into the dark interior of a hollow bronze sphinx statue to capture it for mechanical examination, establishing their primary objective to hunt the surface-dwelling Eloi population under the cover of night while aggressively repelling the armed intruder to protect their subterranean industrial empire
Overview
In appearance, the Morlocks were a race of humanoids who evolved originally from humans. After thousands of generations of living without sunlight, the Morlocks have dull grey-to-white skin, chinless faces, large greyish-red eyes with a capacity for reflecting light, and flaxen hair on the head and back. Like the Eloi, they are smaller and weaker than the average human. They were a multi-gendered post-human race of subterranean entities whose true physical forms were short, ape-like, and non-humanoid bipedal constructs that possessed a highly specialized troglobitic physiology. They lacked the healthy physical dimensions, vibrant skin tones, and expressive facial features of modern humans, appearing instead as small, gaunt figures with a highly pronounced, flexible spinal curvature. Their faces sported two oversized, lidless, and pupilless grey-red eyes that possessed a highly sensitive luminous quality that flashed in the dark, a flattened nasal cavity, and a broad mouth structure that lacked visible lips. Their physical frames were wrapped entirely in a smooth, cold, and distinctively bleached white skin coating covered in a thin layer of fine, pale-grey fur that felt entirely damp to the touch. From their wide shoulders extended long, muscular arms that ended in large, clawed hands with highly prehensile digits designed for rapid climbing along subterranean metallic ladders. The entities did not wear traditional manufactured garments or physical armor pieces, completely eschewing clothing to expose their raw, clammy hides, which buckled and left them visually blinded when exposed to direct surface light or fire.
Their sensitivity to light usually prevents them from attacking during the day.
The Morlocks were a subterranean mammal-based race of post-human entities, which naturally granted its collective membership the basic biological traits of flawless night vision, an absence of physical claustrophobia, and a highly resilient respiratory metabolism capable of enduring stagnant underground atmospheres. Their unique, cave-adapted anatomy offered individual entities a highly advanced tactile spatial awareness and the capability to effortlessly scale vertical subterranean shafts, though they did not possess independent telepathic traits, passive flight, or modern scientific intellect. The creatures possessed a feral, pack-hunting combat intellect, using a specialized vocal dialect to coordinate physical ambushes against the passive Eloi population whom they systematically bred as a direct livestock food supply. Their primary capabilities allowed the species to maintain a massive network of ventilation shafts, operate ancient industrial ventilation machinery beneath the earth, and use their superior physical numbers to overwhelm and drag down surface intruders, though their battlefield efficacy remained strictly bound by a critical biological vulnerability where any exposure to small chemical matches or open fire would trigger absolute visual paralysis and force an immediate retreat.
Members
- Nebogipfel :
Notes
- The Morlocks were created by H. G. Wells where they featured in the setting of The Time Machine universe.
In other media
Films
- In The Time Machine, the Morlocks appeared in the setting of the 2002 live-action film. These versions were divided into a caste based society consisting of Hunter Morlocks, Spy Morlocks and the ruling Über-Morlocks.
Appearances
- The Time Machine: (1895)
- When the Sleeper Wakes:
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