Uthgardt

The Uthgardt is a collective term used to refer to various human barbarian tribes who worship the deity Uthgar. Each tribe is named after a beast totem of Uthgar who mediates between the deity and his people. The Uthgardt are humans often with black hair and blue eyes. They speak a dialect of Illuskan and are believed to be related to the Northlanders of Ruathym. All Uthgardt will never willingly cut down a living tree.

Beast Totem Tribes

 * Black Lion
 * Black Raven
 * Blue Bear
 * Elk
 * Gray Wolf
 * Great Worm
 * Griffon
 * Red Tiger
 * Sky Pony
 * Tree Ghost
 * Thunderbeast


 * The Red Pony and Golden Eagle tribes disappeared into the Underdark in 576 DR and have never been heard from since. They are recorded in the history books as having been made extinct. Not much else is known of them. They appeared at the Uthgardt Runemeet and both shared the One Stone ancestral mound with the Sky Pony tribe.

History
The Uthgardt originally consisted of northmen raiders from Ruathym, Netherese Runlathan refugees, and various others who swore fealty to Uthgar, their leader. They became the Uthgardt after Uthgar's death from wounds suffered against Gurt, lord of the pale giants in 123 DR. Individuals took up worship of the 13 beast spirits that Uthgar had claimed to have tamed and formed into tribes along this religious divide.

Uthgardt Alliance
In 705 DR the mages of The Covenant used their magic to create an alliance between the disparate tribes of Uthgardt in order for them to stand united against coming orc and goblinoid hordes. The mages tasked them first with hunting down and killing orc chieftains to prevent hordes forming behind them. Their first major engagement was during The Goblin Wars of 753 DR. Then, while fighting an army of ogres, orcs and goblins in the Evermoors, the Elk tribe was almost wiped out defending Flintrock and the survivors descended into banditry. The alliance dissolved in 802 DR when it could no longer sustain the losses that it was taking.