Inktober Monstrosities: N for Norker

Another old obscurity, the norker is a small goblinoid, said to be a distant cousin of the hobgoblin. They have thick hide, though its form and nature varies a bit depending on which source you look at. Regardless, this thick hide means the norker will eschew armor.

They first appeared in the Fiend Folio for first edition AD&D, then in the Greyhawk appendix of the Monstrous Compendium for the second edition, missing third edition altogether, and being reinvented as a race with deep ties to the elemental plane of earth for the fourth edition.