Morlocks

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Morlocks are the youngest of the three Elder Races of the Shard Scape; and, from one point of view, also the oldest. This is due, of course, to the whole time travel paradox that spawned the Morlocks in the first place.

As you may know from the Saurian and Thulian entries, the Morlocks come from somewhen in the far distant future; at least from the viewpoint of those living in what we think of as present times.

In this distant future the whole Shard Scape, or most of the easily reachable parts, were being overrun by the ZerEk Hive/Swarm who were assimilating or killing everyone and everything. So the Morlocks along with members of all the other races that they could contact and trust; and maybe even some they didn't really trust all that much; joined forces and built the Great Ship: "The Maelstrom's Bore" . Which they then flew down the middle of the great Paradox Maelstrom at the center of the Void Between. A crazy desperate move to be sure, and made all the more so by the ZerEk Swarm managing to follow them. Try flying down the center of a tornado while having a running firefight with giant mutant bugs and see how well you do.

As you know from the other entries, they did make it into the distant past. Dropping bits of their ship and ZerEk all along the timeline. Thus, quite likely sowing the seeds of the very disaster they were fleeing from in the first place.

 

In any event, it is quite clear that the Morlocks Paradoxed themselves into existence as they are the only race that has so high a level of spatial/temporal instability. Which grants them their innate teleportation abilities.

And while it is true that there are creatures that can teleport, phase, and so on; as far as anyone has been able to prove so far, none of them came by these traits naturally. All of them were either Bio-Engineered for the ability, mated with something that had it, or were exposed to some mutating agent.

 

As noted elsewhere Morlocks have Psi-Powers; some of which were innate and the rest of which were learned from other races. most notably the Saurians and the Thulians. With whom they traded their advanced technological know how for knowledge of Psionics and Biomancy.

Which is hardly surprising given that knowledge of Biomancy was what they came into the past to get in the first place.