Uutak Mythos

The Uutak Mythos is an Elder Scrolls world-building project started by IceFireWarden (At-Hatoor) centered around a sparsely developed place on Nirn: the archipelago of Yneslea. It seeks to create an entirely new setting in the Elder Scrolls canon that is both unique and fun while also meshing seamlessly with existing lore complete with Bat-Elves, Bug-Goblins, and a horrible secret deep underground.

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The Witch-Hunters of Yneslea

“In general, the Echmer are very mistrustful of magic. In their eyes, it was dangerous and forbidden magic learned from the gods that caused the Deep Folk to disappear from the Mundus and leave them behind amongst the ashes.” 

“This event spurred the early bat elves to place regulations on the use of the arcane arts within the archipelago as their civilization developed, such as mage registration, but it was the “Gift of Hrahndeyl” that placed the greatest emphasis on the need. When the goddess-sage of the Echo Folk granted her people their greatest wish—to have their souls attuned and therefore sent to the Black-Welkin (the Void) upon death—it made the Echmer and Yneslea as a whole more prone to otherworldly possessions and attacks. This resulted in the need for individuals who could help prevent and defend the population from this danger, and thus, several grand orders of righteous witch-hunters and salt-wielding exorcists were born.”

-Dawn Sings Towards the Starry Sea: The Emperor’s Guide to Yneslea

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The Hyu-Ket of Yneslea

The Bug-Goblins of the Yneslean Archipelago, good-natured and even-tempered, the Hyu-Ket were the Goblins that followed the Velothi Exodus east past Tamriel. Once enslaved to the Echmer, they were freed by the Treaty Of Redress in 3E 4. Since that time many have returned to the surface where they once lived, rejoining the many Hyu-Ket tribes of the Archipelago. Though most have integrated into Imperial and Echmeri Colonies, as the colonies on the surface, after years of supporting only small groups, were unable to handle the influx of newly freed Hyu-Ket. It is accepted by most in the Hyu-Ket communities that most of their brothers and sisters either choose to or have to stay in the cities. While it is considered a great sadness the Hyu-Ket belief that everything that happens is fulfilling a grand purpose allows nearly all to accept this as a fact of life.

Hyu-Ket society is matriarchal. each tribe being led by a Chieftess, who is advised by the elders of the community and must serve as a direct conduit of Gol-Thek, the spirit of the Hyu-Ket. When a chieftess dies one is chosen from her living female relatives, or if none exist, one is elected by the elders. 

Hyu-Ket Religion is somewhat unique, if one were to ask as Hyu-Ket how many gods there were, they would reply “Only one”, however the Hyu-Ket worship hundreds, or even thousands of spirits, all refractions and pieces of each other going back to the one progenitor spirit, their one true god. They believe themselves to be aspects of Gol-Thek, who is an aspect of Kulka, who is an aspect of P’ushi and so on.  The Hyu-Ket believe that for all their pain, everything that happens is a part of the journey they most take to complete the purpose of the great cocoon that is the Mundus.

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Hrahndeyl of Yneslea

"I am the thought in your mind made verbal, the words just now reaching your tongue. I am Hrahndeyl, dear mortal, and I will have you know me well."  —Hrahndeyl

Hrahndeyl, Hrahn of the Dale, Hoodoc, At-Hatoor, Harrun-Zhirrah, the travelling-goddess of the Echmer, is the great storyteller of Yneslea. A living god not unlike the Tribunal of Morrowind, she was once a mortal, an Ek’idwes (we sound of ancients) Echmer named Hrahanti Della’I in the first Era. Her many voyages brought her to nearly every corner of Tamriel, from the Padomaic Ocean to the reaches of the Abecean Sea, she learned from all those she met on her journey, in her attempt to find the truth of Nirn’s Existence. Finally her wanderings took her outside of time, where she achieved CHIM and returned triumphant to Yneslea as a god. Where she holds great power to this day, dwelling deep in her Spire in the Dweech, the sprawling cave system under Yneslea. She advises the ruling council of the Echmer, the Council of Dull Chimes.

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The Echmer Of Yneslea

Yneslea is a large Archipelago in the Padomaic Sea, east even of Morrowind, in between Tamriel and Akavir. It, along with the other islands of the Padomaic Sea, were conquered by Emperor Uriel V in his failed conquest of Akavir. Where the Emperor met a race unseen by the people of Tamriel since the Battle Of Red Mountain. 

The Echmer were created by the Eastward Dwemer, the Noraken Clan, as a servant force, eventually inheriting the great brass cities of their masters after the Battle Of Red Mountain. 

Today the Echmer have abandoned the Steam of the Dwemer in exchange of Gala, a product of the remains of the Earthbones not unlike fossil fuels. The Echmer are a studious and private people, open to outsiders but eager to keep their traditions to themselves. They have a great love of order and hierarchy, though not so much as to keep them from spontaneity. And while observing the Aedra and Daedra care little for the distinction between them, separating them instead into the Dead-Gods, Birth-Gods, Keeping-Gods, Wraith-Gods, and Effigy-Gods, all born of P’hanoikhei. They also practice Ancestor Worship, headed by a living god not unlike the Tribunal, who was once a mortal Echmer, a traveller goddess named Hrahndeyl.

The Echmeri food and arts are distinct from Tamriel, eating dishes composed of fruits, fish, and small insects, and exporting a product similar to Ice Cream into Tamriel. Their arts are composed not of plays but of large scale puppet shows, creating and controlling elaborate puppets to enact plays ranging from Histories to Religious content to Comedies, with puppets ranging in size from simple hand puppets and dolls to elaborate contraptions to size of mammoths.