History

The Gelflings were a diminutive and peaceful race, which managed to colonies much of Thra during the Age of Harmony. After The Great Division, the Gelflings maintained amicable relations with the Skeksis, but the latter subsequently began to enslave them. The Skeksis later attempted to exterminate the Gelflings altogether, after discovering a prophecy revealing that a Gelfing would end their rule.

Name

The name "Gelfling" is a transliteration of Ghel-lflainnk, which means "those who live without knowledge of the future".