The Morgen was a Dutch water-dwelling entity, that claimed the bodies of those who ventured too close to its lair, converting them into its unwilling pawns.
Origins[]
The origins of the Morgen are shrouded in mystery. Its name derives from the Celtic term for a water-spirit, though it is unknown who first described the creature in these terms. It resided in the depths of a large Dyke, situated not far from the Dutch town of Arnhem. When passers-by strayed too close to the edges of the Dyke, it would surface and drag them into the water, drowning them in the process.
But once a victim was down in the depths of the Morgen's lair, they would find they were still fully conscious and aware of their fate, but somehow physically paralyzed. The Morgen was able to emanate some form of field or chemical, that retained the mind of its victim, giving it full power over their body. This same force also seemed to be able to preserve bodies and clothing in water, greatly slowing their decay.
The Morgen would move throughout its underwater kingdom, posing and animating the bodies of its gallery of victims for amusement. Sometimes it would allow them to think they were escaping or would move them closer to the surface to watch thunderstorms, only to then return them to the depths.
The Eighty Years War[]
In October 1585, a combined English and German force relieved the garrison town of Arnhem from the Spanish forces that had previously occupied it.
As the defeated soldiers began to trudge home across the Dutch countryside, several strayed too close to the Morgen's lair.
One of these, Alonzo Molina, was claimed by the Morgen, and then used in the coming centuries to claim further victims.
World War II[]
The arrival of the occupying German army in Holland in 1940 increased the potential number of victims for the Morgen.
Several Wermacht patrols were subsequently claimed by the monster and its grown horde, the vehicles and weapons of the missing men later found discarded alongside the dyke.
In 1944 at the height of Operation Market Garden, a British glider containing members of the British Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron crash landed into the dyke, whilst on route to Arnhem to reinforce their comrades.
The Morgen dispatched its entire horde to claim the glider and its crew, meeting unexpectedly tough resistance from the British paratroopers.
The fiercest spirited of the defenders would turn out to be the aircraft pilot, James Nolan, who single-handedly engaged the horde with only his knife and a knuckle-duster.
The monster's situation further deteriorated with the arrival of a nearby panzer grenadier unit, led by a Master Sergeant named Metz.
With the surviving British and German troops fighting together, the Morgen was unable to benefit from its numerical advantage and was eventually killed by a shot from German Panzershreck.
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