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Lost Queen : That would be the Ukaros, a creature that could or could not have been real. It was a creature of folklore and told stories of, but it’s existence was never proven.

The tale goes that there was once a deranged, banished kurosian female called

Kalabaul

that wondered the mountains in her lonesome. What she was banished for changes depending on the storyteller, however she was consumed by hatred for her own kind as a result. The banishing mark kept her from entering Kurosia, keeping her from revenge, so she decided to bare offspring to send in her place. She allowed herself to be taken by an Uka, and the blasphemous Ukaros was born. However, the beast was mindless, unable to understand what it’s mother wanted of it, so she allowed it to eat her heart and gain the devilish will. Kalabaul began to rot away but her soul stuck to her bones, as Bhailiu refused to take her, but she is unable to move from her dreadful cave among the mountains. 

Now, with the bloodthirsty will, the Ukaros crawled into Kurosia, and haunts it’s streets, feasting on the hearts of Kuros that dishonor their families.

It was a tale parents would tell children as a lesson to always honor their bloodlines and or people, otherwise the Ukaros would come and eat their hearts. There are many varying versions of this creature’s origin, some make the creature as some sort of vampire that drinks the blood of Kuros that secretly don’t honor darkness or their people, some say they work like werewolves in that a bite from it will turn the Kuros into one too. There’s always stories of Kuros seeing one but never proven true.

OOC : Two of the more hand-drawn knots from the Bound by Blood and Fate pieces I did! All of the knots drawn for those were done by hand, but again traced as they were just banners. These two had more notable variants to the sources.

The top one is an Uka drawn in the style similar to how dogs/wolves were portrayed in celtic artwork. Since Uka were such enemies of the Kuros, I imagine them being used in a lot of the artwork.

Kurogh’s is based off of the snake eating itself to signify his eternal hunger for recognition, greatness and power. 

After drawing these, I’m even more determined to get the hang of Celtic knots! They’re stunning and beautiful, but I am NOT one for symmetry so it’s incredibly difficult for me to draw them. But I’m getting more determined to practice and get them down, cuz DAMN they’re fun and pretty!

Lost Queen : Well in general speaking; our gods were beings of Darkness. To others, they appear as demons, and what fought for good were our ‘demons’. Rather, we considered the others ‘enemies’ less than demons; things we were meant to combat or control. But I do understand what you’re asking, and we did have some creatures that we could consider ‘demons’.

One of them was known as the Ukari’Sirbigh ( Oo-kuh-li-see-ur-bi-k) which translate to… *sighs*

Kaos : ….eh? Why are you looking at me?

Lost Queen : …which literally translates to “Uka King of Doom”

Kaos : …..HA! That’s a good name.

Lost Queen : -_- *sighs* Anyway, the Ukari’Sirbigh were giant god-sized Uka that lived in the Kurosian mountains. Uka, as I’ve mentioned before here are bat like creatures that have the ability to hypnotize us with their tails and eat us. The Ukari’Sirbigh was one that grew to full size and maturity, which often takes hundreds of years and lots and lots of Kuros to feed upon. While it’s called a ‘king’, other Uka flee if one is present, as it also feeds on other Uka as well, or kills them as they were considered competition for food.

I’ve definitely never seen one myself, Uka were rare enough as the Kurosian population dwindled. I doubt there’s any alive now honestly. 

None-the-less, we considered these beasts an almost god like creature that symbolized the wrong treatment of Darkness; the very creature other villains and Kuros could turn into if they abuse that which was evil. Greed (as it often got them killed), betrayal of thy own people (as they killed other Uka), and destruction of everything that it once was; leaving nothing but a mindless, honorless, hungry beast.