Editing Notes from Freedom City setting for Man'O War (section)

==SUB-TERRA==
Most of the Serpent People perished in the sinking of Lemuria, but some escaped into subterranean tunnels, deep beneath the surface of the Earth.
There they set about creating a new slave race to serve their needs. They engineered a breed of human with great physical strength and the ability to operate in near-total darkness.
Unfortunately, these new slaves eventually rebelled against their serpent masters. They seized several underground cities for themselves, expelling the Serpent People from them. The Serpent People were forced to sue for peace with their former slaves, who became known as the Morlocks. Legends about the Morlocks may have inspired various human myths, as well as the work of H.G. Wells in his novel The Time Machine.
In time the Serpent People engineered a new servitor race, carefully weeding out individual initiative or any ability to rebel. These new slaves, while controllable, proved no match for the savagery of the Morlocks, whose continued attacks against the Serpent People drove them to abandon many of their subterranean cities, and their new slaves along with them. Without any real initiative of their own, the Sub-Terrans continued maintaining the ancient cities and machines, going about their duties without really knowing (or caring) why they did so.
The conflict between the Morlocks and the Serpent People exhausted both societies and drove them both deeper into barbarism. The Serpent People continued to degenerate, until they lost nearly all vestiges of civilization.
Cults worshipping terrible, alien gods flourished in both cultures, contributing to their degeneration.
Today, the Morlocks and Serpent People are savages, rarely ever visiting the surface world. There remain some civilized Serpent People, mainly priests and sorcerers from ancient Lemuria preserved in a kind of stasis, or genetic “throwbacks” with greater intellect than their brethren. Morlocks occasionally see mutations with greater intelligence and psionic abilities.
Such mutants typically become leaders of small tribes. Although the Morlocks tend to be mistrustful of magic, there are secretive cults ruled by priests of demons or alien gods.
One such cult was mystically transformed into humanoid creatures of molten rock known as Magmin. They live in the deepest depths of Sub- Terra, near natural pockets of magma and lava vents, since they prefer the super-heated environment. Surface drilling and blasting, along with natural eruptions, have occasionally driven Magmin to the surface, where they attack anyone not of their own kind before retreating down below once more.
Some years ago Jerris Trent, the Terra-King, discovered the Sub-Terrans (see Chapter 6). The servile creatures fixated on Trent as their new master and he established his own underground empire (also known as Sub- Terra). Using the ancient, abandoned science of the Serpent People and his legions of Sub-Terran slaves, the Terra-King has made several attempts to conquer parts of the surface world, thwarted by heroes like the Atom Family and Dr. Metropolis.