#uthalian

An irritated Uthalian warrior. While they can be respectful neighbors, present day Uthalians prefer to keep their distance from other sentient species. Opting to construct their coastline settlements far from the established cities under Oriancari watch, mostly due to a long held distrust of their precursor counterparts. They provide plenty of warning to trespassers. But invade one of these spaces, intentionally or not, and the welcome you receive may not be the most pleasant. 

True Uthalian bonds are sacred and they never forget a slight. Due to the interconnected memories that link individuals of a single colony, a connection that circulates around a colony’s queen. Something that not only gives them zero privacy (which they don’t seem to mind), but also allows them to infinitely remember long forgotten histories. In a sense, Uthalians hold no secrets in their society. Wrong even one of them and the rest of their colony will instantly know of it. This mindset doesn’t exactly help to ease their wariness of strangers. Their ancestors’ memories are their own, and they remember what you’ve forgotten. 

Here are those species examples! I could have used Ashtearul’s temple form for the Orinacrian example, but he’s technically five generations removed from the ancient line. Erracor (center) is decent enough, I just used the design of his spectral projection since that’s really the only visual image I have of him. The other two guys are Civelryun (left) and an Uthalian warrior (right) who I’ve yet to name. 

While at one point they would have rivaled one another industrially (enough to start a war), Civelryun’s race is far more technologically advanced than the Oriancari in their current state. For the Oriancari, the conclusion of the cataclysm permanently sealed their link to the Allriaken and the energy recycled within it. However, it also brought with it the collapse of their species. Without the shared use of the Allrian caverns, Orinacrian societies fell, until all that remained were the Oriancari and a number of deviants, those who (at the time) refused to give up the consumption of the Allrian and were ostracized. (of course this decline and mass death, due to deprivation from the Allrian as an energy source, were blamed on Erracor’s actions and were ultimately the reason for his demise). 

The Uthalian warrior is a character I intend to build upon. What I really need to work on, though, is a design for his Queen. Their societies work in a hive-mind mentality. While individuals may retain core personality traits, all share the same memories and motivations. Those remnants who have survived until modern day still recall the time of their ancestors. Their Queen would sit at the center of this structure as an elder, and steer their society down what she would consider the most beneficial course. I explained a bit more about their history in this post here which mainly covers a subspecies of their kind, but also discusses what backstory I have on them.

Then whooosh a change in groove.