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A Snotling is a fantasy creature from the universe of the Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 books and games. Snotlings are Goblinoids (or Orkoids in Warhammer 40,000), and are cousins of Goblins (Gretchin) and Orcs (Orks), smaller than the former and stupider than the latter, often used by them as cannon fodder, food or even cannon missiles. They are on the lowest rung of Orkoid society and are bullied by all including grots. Snotlings often wield mushrooms or sticks into battle. In the second edition of the far future version of the game they were used as ammunition for warp-based catapults (Shokk Attack Guns), and while absent in the third edition, the weapon has reappeared for the latest version of Codex: Orks.

In the Warhammer 40,000 game itself, Snotlings could be selected as units until the game's third edition, where their status as a troop type was removed. They continue to be incorporated into the background imagery of the Ork race, however.

'Snotlingfondler' is also a commonly used derogatory term used in the "Trollslayer" series of books

In the 1991 book 'Ere We Go (Subtitled "Space Orks in Warhammer 40,000") the Snotlings were revealed to be the original form of the entire Ork species. They acquired intelligence after consuming a special fungus and soon created genetically engineered slave races to support them; first the Gretchin, and then the Orks themselves. Disaster struck, however, when the new races consumed all traces of the fungus, reducing the Snotlings to their near-feral state. They are now only remembered as the legendary "Brain Boyz".

Recently, this origin has been changed. In current continuity the Orks were created by the Old Ones as a weapon with which to fight the C'tan and Necrons.

• Ansell, Brain; Priestley, Rick, and Stillman, Nigel (1991). 'Ere We Go. Nottingham: Games Workshop. 

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