Grimlock
Template:Infobox Greyhawk creature Grimlocks are a race of monstrous humanoids that live in the Underdark.
Ecology
Grimlocks prefer to keep to themselves, but their isolation is often disrupted when mind flayers raid their packs looking for slave fodder or, as more often is the case, their mushroom fields are razed and their water cisterns are drained by drow. This leaves the grimlocks starving and desperate, and they are forced to raid surface communities in order to survive. For this reason, grimlocks are hated and feared by surface dwellers.
Grimlocks act xenophobically toward other races, as they are fed on by mind flayers, enslaved by both drow and mind flayers alike, and subjected to extreme depravity by aboleth.
Environment
Grimlocks are found in various underground environments. Though native to the Underdark, grimlock enclaves are sometimes found closer to the surface, as was the case with Grallak Kur's band, discovered in 595 CY beneath Diamond Lake.
Typical physical characteristics
Grimlocks are humanoid creatures with slightly scaled, gray skin that is usually scarred from hunts through constricted passageways. Perhaps the most striking feature of a grimlock is the complete absence of eyes or eye sockets. Blank skin stretches across the upper face, giving grimlocks a shadowed, masked visage. However, their exceptional senses of hearing and smell more than compensate for their lack of vision.
The average height for a grimlock, male or female, is five to five and a half feet. The average weight is around 180 pounds.
Alignment
Grimlocks are often neutral evil.
Society
Grimlock society is organized along tribal lines. They tend to have intense distrust toward any race other than their own.
Religion
Grimlocks worship Pyremius, though some tribes have been known to revere Erythnul.
Language
Grimlocks speak Grimlock, a patois of Terran and Undercommon.
History
Creative origins
Publishing history
Grimlocks first appeared in 1981's Fiend Folio.
Bibliography
- Boyd, Eric L. Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1999.
- Brown, Lloyd III. "Primitive PC's." Dragon #265. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1999.
- Cordell, Bruce R, Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel, and Jeff Quick. Underdark. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2003.
- Hart, Mark A. "Ecology of the Grimlock." Dragon #327. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2005.
- Stewart, Doug, ed. Monstrous Manual. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1994.
- Turnbull, Don, ed. Fiend Folio. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1981.
- Williams, Skip, Jonathan Tweet, and Monte Cook. Monster Manual. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
- Williams, Skip, et al. Monstrous Compendium Fiend Folio Appendix. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1992.