The Lizard King kept mentioning Crab Lord, and finally somebody worked up the courage to ask him what the hell that was. The Lizard King didn’t directly answer the question then, though he did look confused at being asked. After ordering the shellacking of the Grand Canyon, the Lizard King requested Crab Lord build a monument to the Lizard King’s greatness over the top. Crab Lord fell from the sky onto the shellacked surface of the newly filled Grand Canyon and set to work. The building process began with incessant, guttural, ceremonial humming from Crab Lord, and the secretion of a thick purple fog from Crab Lord’s eyes. When the fog cleared after a fortnight, the Grand Shellac Course was.

For the rest of the Lizard Apocalypse, Crab Lord established itself as a politically unaffiliated entity. It was not part of the Lizard Wars on either side, nor was it at the Lizard King’s beckon call. In fact, many scholars believe Crab Lord intentionally added frog motifs to the Grand Shellac Course’s walls to spite the Lizard King, who hates frogs.

Crab Lord announces the score when someone completes the miniature golf course; sometimes falling from the sky above the course to do so, other times tunneling upwards from underground several miles away and scuttling over. Crab Lord is not known to speak audibly, other than the occasional throaty hum. Rather, it communicates spiritually. Those who have communed with it say it is exceptionally articulate, quite charming, and laughs at puns.

Crab Lord is close friends with Praying Mantis.