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{{Creature
|name       = 
|image      = [[Image:Norker02.jpg]]
|caption    = A norker, as depicted in the ''Fiend Folio'' (1981). Art by Russ Nicholson.
|alignment  = Usually chaotic evil
|type       = Humanoid
|subtype    = [[Goblinoid]]
|first      = ''Fiend Folio'' (1981)
}}
'''Norkers''' are [[goblinoid]]s with tough, armor-like hide.

==Ecology==
Norkers breed more slowly than [[goblin]]s. [[Iuz]] has been breeding them in great numbers, valuing their tough hide that replaces the need for armor. It may be impossible to mate them with goblins, or Iuz would likely have done so already in the hope of breeding lightly-armored, fast-breeding warriors.<ref name=LGJ3">[[Sean K. Reynolds|Reynolds, Sean K.]] "Enchiridion of the [[Fiend-Sage]]." ''[[Living Greyhawk Journal]]'' #3. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.</ref> They raid and steal from other humanoids, being too lazy to do their own hunting. Sometimes norkers will be commanded by powerful groups of [[hobgoblin]]s, who will use the norkers as shock troops and cannon fodder. 

===Environment===
Norkers are found anywhere that goblins live, and are also found in the [[Bright Desert]]. Their lairs include caves, old ruins, and villages taken by force from other races. They do not build themselves, at least nothing more complex than fences and gates. A norker lair contains one and a half times as many females as males, and twice as many young as males<ref name=LGJ3"/>. 

===Typical physical characteristics===
Norkers resemble goblins, except for their three-inch canines and hairless hides, which range from reddish brown to dark gray in hue<ref name="MC5">''[[Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Adventures Appendix]]''. edited by Mike Breault. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1990</ref>. They are seldom seen in any clothing apart from a loincloth and a belt, which they use for hanging their favored possessions from.

===Alignment===
Norkers are usually chaotic evil. 

==Society==
Norkers live in tribes that rarely exert any influence beyond their leaders' immediate reach<ref name=LGJ3"/>. These tribes are much smaller than a typical goblin or hobgoblin tribe<ref name=LGJ3"/>. Different norker tribes rarely meet, but when they do they often come to blows until it is established which one is dominant. The victors take the fangs of the losers as trophies.<ref name=LGJ3"/>

A norker's favored class is rogue, though their leaders are most often fighters<ref name=LGJ3"/>. 

===Religion===
Norkers worship [[Maglubiyet]], who is also the patron of goblins and hobgoblins. 

===Language===
Norkers speak a dialect of [[Goblin language|Goblin]]. Those of above average intelligence also speak Orc<ref name=LGJ3"/>.

==Gallery==
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File:Norker03.png|2e Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Appendix, MC5 (1990)
File:Norker04.png|''[[Living Greyhawk Journal]]'' #3
</gallery>

==References==
=====Citations=====
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=====Bibliography=====
*Boucher, Grant, ''et al''. ''[[Monstrous Compendium Greyhawk Adventures Appendix]]''. edited by Mike Breault. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1990.
*[[Sean K. Reynolds|Reynolds, Sean K.]] "Enchiridion of the [[Fiend-Sage]]." ''[[Living Greyhawk Journal]]'' #3. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
*Turnbull, Don, ed. ''Fiend Folio''. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1981.
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