| Yzzn | |||
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| General Information | |||
| Universe | No Man's Sky | ||
| Intelligence | Sapient | ||
| Biochemistry | Carbon-based lifeform | ||
| Biological Information | |||
| Reproduction | First Stage: Second Stage: Third Stage: Sexual; bursts open for live birth | ||
| Locomotion | Bipedal | ||
| Feeding Behavior | Carnivorous | ||
| Prey | Blood Harvests: Ankoku, Gek, Vy'keen | ||
| Distinctive Features | Cyclopean eye | ||
| Eye Color | Varies | ||
| Skin Color | Varies | ||
| Lineage Information | |||
| Cultural Information | |||
| Alignment | Lawful evil | ||
| Personality | Blood ritual zealots and traders | ||
| Organization | Cults | ||
| Language(s) | Yzznese | ||
| Affiliation(s) | Euclid: Independent Kyklos: Crux Space Pirates | ||
| Capital City | Bludfount | ||
| Sociocultral characteristics | |||
| Members | Bide, Chide, Skarizat, Skride; Unspecified "partner" of Haniver | ||
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| Other Information | |||
| Status | Vulnerable | ||
| Creator | Somarinoa | ||
The Yzzn (iː.zn) are a violent race of brutal warrior-traders. A millennia-long cease fire agreement had been reached with the Ankoku, only for the treatise to finally be broken above the planet Nodershan Kone in 3419. They are currently embroiled in the Yzzn-Ankoku War. They are sometimes found in the services of a Kketh Overlord.
Culture[]
The Yzznese culture is centered around vitality trading, which consists of hunting sapient races to drain their blood for processing into "elixirs of life" to sell to high-paying individuals and species looking to prolong their own lives. Their is no evidence that this process actually works but those who buy into it are fully devoted to the idea of this "folk medicine".
Their religion also requires blood rituals to improve their luck with their blood deities and those races not considered to be customers are weighed as potential ingredients for their nefarious potions or as luck-increasing sacrifices. Though they are mainly confined to the Euclid Galaxy as a minor race not as often directly seen by the three major players in the galaxy (the Gek, the Korvax, and the Vy'keen), they are known to have gained access to intergalactic travel and thus have been recorded as having traded with the Lunacites of the Kyklos Galaxy. Those that have traveled to the Kyklos Galaxy hold the now-extinct Zomm in great reverence and both those of the Euclid and Kyklos galaxies have been found in the employ of each galaxy's local Kravvyn.
Background history[]
Attack on the Ankoku[]
| “Clearly downed by an attack from a superior vessel, the ship's interior is a charred mess of burnt metal and debris. It feels like it could fall apart at any moment.
The craft shudders as I head into the cockpit where its black box projects footage of the ship's purpose and final moments: a diplomatic vessel attacked by a vigilante warrior race. Wars have been started by less. This craft is likely sorely missed by its people...” |
| —Somarinoa discovers and enters the Shield of the Ankoku |
In 3419, the Yzzn finally broke their long-held cease fire treaty with the diplomatic Ankoku when a group of malicious blood monks shot down the Shield of the Ankoku, a ship carrying several diplomats, important cargo, and what is believed to be a young member of the Ankoku royal lineage. Evidence of this attack was later discovered through a pair of distress beacons on the planet's surface — first at the crash site of the Shield of the Ankoku (which just so happened to have been the crash site of the Hyper Son FI1 as well as the landing site of Somarinoa's own ship, the Final Daughter KS3.
Boiled alive[]
| “Two bodies lie slumped on the control panel. Their expensive red robes would suggest they carry riches, but the altar in the cargo hold indicates they were devotees to a religion of some sort.
Whatever religion it was, it doesn't look pleasant. The altar is bloodied, sits in a dank cloud of incense and seems to hark back to a brutal and ancient time. The holy traders carry valuable technology.” |
| —The fate of some of the blood monks is discovered at the Rebroad Glade facility |
When Somarinoa finally reached Rebroad Glade, a small abandoned Gek research station, he finally discovered what had happened to at least a few of the Yzzn that had attacked the Shield of the Ankoku and her crew. He discovered a pair of blood monks collapsed over a control panel of their disgorged distress beacon with no starship in sight, though the research station had been converted into a horrifying blood altar where the former scientists had apparently been slaughtered. Upon further inspection of the monks' clothes, Somarinoa was able to procure a thermal protection module from the gauntlet of one of their crew, damaged like the other's but still serviceable as a blueprint to install the tech into the Loranche's own exosuit.
Evidence on the bodies and the damaged thermal modules suggested to Somarinoa that their modules were damaged in a scuffle with the Gek scientists and these two had theirs broken. The other blood monks must have abandoned them to their fate and fled while these remaining two were left to boil alive in the next incoming steam storm.
Creating the Wormlord[]
A number of Yzzn were involved in bringing down several Vy'keen military freighters are brought down over Wasan as they were arriving to investigate rumors of a Titan Worm awakening. One Yzzn in particular, a space pirate named Chide, cared little for the Worm Cult that had been forming but saw it as an opportunity to collect blood to sell. To this end he ended up siding with two other pirates: A Henzap and member of an unspecified species. When the Henzap encountered Gnurr he tried to steal the Vy'keen soldier's materiel that he had been processing. He was caught and Gnurr attacked him, but the Henzap was able to nearly best his opponent. Gnurr made an emergency call to his squadmate Kragslakk and this other Vy'keen came to his aid, killing the Henzap as he came flying down in his ship. However the Henzap had sent his own distress call to his allies. While Kragslakk checked on Gnurr and made sure he was alright, Chide and the other pirate ambushed them and killed both Vy'keens. It was Chide who put the final laser blast through the back of Kragslakk's head. Unfortunately for Chide and his ally, the Boun'darri Splish had stepped into the realm and had witnessed the murder. The obvious cruelty of the attack and having encountered the Yzzn species before led Splish to immediately attack the two pirates, killing them both in the process.
Although unintentional, Chide's murder of Kragslakk led to the creation of the Wormlord, as Kragslakk's body was used as an attachment point for a maggotling. The maggotling gained access to the Vy'keen's body and could this control it with its own cerebral ganglion, but it also began to absorb the deceased soldier's memories.
The Apmaneessu Invasion[]
A member of a small brigade of space pirates calling themselves the Doom Raiders aligned themselves with The Blight and were the ones to bring them over via portal hijacking. With the portal opened, the (original) Dread Pirate Dvorak ordered their ships to be sabotaged with the hopes of killing the entire team in one fell swoop. It was later revealed that the Raiders' resident Yzzn and older brother of Chide, Skride, was the saboteur and he attempted to kill the rest of his old team. Though defeated multiple times, he kept returning, much to the chagrin of the survivors.
Trivia[]
- The entire basis of this species (outside of their names, which was generated randomly as a combination of two letters the creator didn't think he'd used in conjunction with each other yet ("y" and "z" together, respectively) was built upon two distress beacons found during regular game play in late 2020.
- While initially no physical design had been decided upon for the species, the creator had considered using the Abyssal Horror custom head (Horrific Flesh Helmet) as their overall design.
- However with the Tower of Vuul project started, the creator went through numerous head options in No Man's Sky and decided that the Iteration Hyperion Visage had the potential to look much more wicked; while initially considering changing the planned design for the Yzzn, it was decided that they would associate with members of another race to be called the Kketh, as this would also be the head the creator would want to use in multiplayer No Mans Sky games but didn't want to link that lore directly with blood rituals since violent acts are not how he naturally plays.