Uvae Khundun


Uvae Khundun was one of the first dwarves to arrive in the North. He was a Cleric of Hemgrid and accompanied Uberstar Khazakhum to the North on the dwarf-lord's quest to find a new realm for the dwarves. Uvae had a special care for miners and those who were digging the deepest tunnels in the dwarf realm became his flock. He would preach to them and keep their spirits high even if they worked under the most harsh conditions deep underground. There are many risks in the life of a miner and Uvae used the healing gifts bestowed upon him by Hemgrid to aid the workers. On one day while the workers were digging a tunnel deep beneath the Crystal Peaks, the entire earth shook.

Uvae saw the tunnel beginning to collapse in front of his eyes. The miners found themselves trapped in a dome-like room. Then the earth shook again and the ceiling of that room was also about to collapse. Hundreds of dwarves were about to be killed. In this moment he called out to Hemgrid for aid. And the divine magic flowed into the tunnels as if protective hands covered the miners. As the dust settled, they saw that all the miners had survived except for one. Uvae was dead. he had given his life to protect the others. To this day, miners pray for Uvae's blessing.

Behind the scenes:
Uvae's Durable Dome is a 4th Level Clerical Spell in the Miner's Sense Domain (DAB CS p 95). Ferros, Hemgrid, Kadis, Kela are Deities who supply this domain.

Some other considerations:
* Uvae means grapes in latin.
* Ovum is latin for Egg.


Notes: Placing Uvae's life at the time of Khazakhum's expedition would allow us to connect it to the Age of Id.

Has anyone come across other references to Uvae in the D20 Blackmoor line?



Edit: Thanks to Ripvanwormer and MrFilthyIke for sparring with me on this topic on FB.


-Havard

Interestingly, Uvae is one of a few items ZGG specifies in their books to be ZGG IP, along with Skelfer.

-Havard

Just saying, "Uvae" is homophonic to the fairly common German first name "Uwe". My guess would simply be, that's his name, and people went creative about the spelling. After all, Dwarves being proto-Germans is a pretty common trope in fantasy RPGs - though I don't remember how ZGG treated Dwarves in Blackmoor, in that respect.