The Ukpik are the southernmost folk of the continent. They trade in furs and bones, but they are best known for their unique breed of oujabe, called samesar in the North. Legends say that Ukpik rescue stranded strangers and feed them to the samesar, painting their heads blood-red. Away from the unforgiving polar regions of Uanlikri, Ukpik have become the stuff of fairytales, bogeyman to scare children on dark winter nights. Of course, the stories are wrong on the people and the oujabe alike, but the people of the North are unlikely to meet an Ukpik to prove them wrong.
North of the Kantishian Mountains, people are unlikely to even know that Ukpik are real, and not simply the stuff of fairytales. However, despites their remote territories, Ukpik are far from isolated. They trade extensively with other peoples south of the Kantishian range through their boreal neighbors the Maa-Ougbig, sending furs, furcrafts, and bone objects north in exchange for wood, metal tools, and beads. Ukpik crafts have a refined simplicity about them which speaks to their sense of beauty as much as to the harshness and scarcity of their homelands. Nevertheless, it is very rare to see Ukpik far from their polar lands.
