![]() ![]() By this time, Aloy’s bravery, skill and fearlessness had begun to drive home her suggestion indeed, as they faced Odund’s Marvels, Uthid remarked with a smile that he had come there to die, but she was starting to change his mind. The High Priest had come to watch Uthid’s demise. Soon after, a group of Oseram bounty hunters called Odund’s Marvels appeared, accompanied by Bahavas and his personal Kestrel guard. Aloy fought alongside him together they killed them. As Uthid considered the idea, a group of Banuk bounty hunters, known as Kikuk’s Killers, appeared. She suggested an alternative: defect to the Carja, and serve a king who both understood and valued honor and sacrifice that the Shadow Carja leaders had spat upon. She informed her that his most probable location was the Greenclimb, for aforementioned reasons.Īloy went to the Greenclimb, where she indeed found Uthid, prepared for his last stand. Vouching for Uthid's character, Vanasha asked Aloy to help Uthid. Aware of her reputation as a helper of the innocent, she approached her and set up a meeting with her in Shadowside. Vanasha spotted Aloy when the machine huntress arrived in Sunfall. That way presented itself in the form of Aloy. Knowing the absurdity of the accusation, she quickly deduced that Bahavas was trying to hide a scandal Uthid had stumbled upon, and thus sought a way to help him without compromising her cover. What Uthid did not know was that someone in the Citadel was looking out for him: Vanasha. Meanwhile, Bahavas accused Uthid attempting to murder Itamen, declared him a traitor and put a bounty on his head. He therefore wanted to make a last stand at the Greenclimb, ending his life fighting. His faith in the Shadow Carja shattered by Bahavas's wickedness, he deemed that all his two decades of service to the Sun-King with honor and sacrifice were meaningless. Uthid did not expect to survive the onslaught, nor, truth be told, did he want to. Knowing that Bahavas would send bounty hunters to find and kill him, he wanted to make a last stand at this location, as he was very familiar with it. Uthid was the only survivor, and he escaped to a remote location known as the Greenclimb, where he had once held off an entire Bandit clan. Knowing that this action exposed him as the perpetrator of the killings, Bahavas set the Kestrels upon Uthid's men. Bahavas thanked Uthid for his diligence, and then had the murderer released. Unbeknownst to Uthid at the time, Bahavas himself had ordered the murders. With a group of other soldiers, he apprehended the murderer and turned him over to the High Priest Bahavas. Uthid investigated and found it to be the work of an assassin, poisoning victims in the dead of night. The dead were always the elderly, infirm or very young, and the deaths were in far too rapid a succession to be from natural causes. Then came a spate of mysterious deaths among the underclass. Uthid continued helping the underclass, becoming more and more disillusioned with the rulers. Uthid became respected and well-regarded among the Carja in Shadow for his righteousness, especially by the Carja spy Vanasha. He did his best to alleviate as much of their suffering as he could by feeding orphans from his rations and protecting the elderly and infirm, punishing anyone who harmed or took advantage of them. This was exemplified by their complete lack of care for the destitute underclass, who lived in squalor in Shadowside, the tent city around Sunfall’s palace, the Citadel, while they lived comfortably behind the Citadel’s walls. However as time passed, Uthid noticed that the actions and attitudes of the ruling priests did not square with the honor and integrity that they claimed to profess. Here the two most senior loyalists, Helis and Bahavas, established the Shadow Carja as a splinter tribe from the Carja, with Itamen as the de jure Sun-King, though they held de facto power. This belief compelled him to go with the Jiran loyalists, their slaves and other members of the Carja underclass to Sunfall. When Jiran was overthrown by his middle son Avad, Uthid believed that Jiran’s youngest son Itamen, not Avad, was the true Sun-King, as he was Jiran’s chosen heir, though he is but a child. However, he took no part in the atrocities that were a staple of these raids. He was a captain in the Carja army during the Red Raids, and because of his belief, did not question them. ![]() He believed Jiran was the chosen of the Sun, which is worshiped by the Carja as a deity, and that this was irrespective of his despotic rule. ![]() Uthid was a respected Carja soldier with twenty years of loyal service to Sun-King Jiran.
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