Üneküm combined the features of a human and an orc. Originally the half-breed outcome of interbreeding between those two, üneküm were given the ability to parent their own children by Morabis making them their own ancestry. Üneküm were sometimes called half-orcs, though this was considered derogatory by some given the nature of their past. They were most common in Ealia where their kind originates, but they also held dominion over Islingar along with elfkin.

Üneküm shared many qualities with their orc heritage, but their blend of human traits made them unmistakable for either. Their skin tones ranged from dark to light grey and their hair was black, brown, or dark shades of purple. Their faces often combined the rounded facial features of a human with the broad and flattened features of an orc, with their ears notably having orc-shaped upward-pointed tips. Üneküm also had the distinctive lower tusks of an orc although they were not as large, typically extending just beyond the upper lip.

Üneküm were slightly taller than humans on average, standing between five and a half and six and a half feet tall. They were naturally more muscular and broad than a human. An üneküm would mature faster than a human and reached physical maturity by 12-14 years old. They could live up to 80 years before dying of natural causes. An üneküm would show no signs of aging until the last few months of their life, at which point their health rapidly deteriorated. Üneküm were often sought after as bodyguards, physical labourers, and soldiers for their innate strength and endurance.

Üneküm were originally the rare, infertile half-breed offspring of humans and orcs. The orcs that occupied the Deep Fields in central Ealia frequently raided the surrounding regions of Torwick, Westmark, the Northern Lowlands, and the Witchwood for valuable resources as well as slaves. While raiding, both male and female orcs forcefully bred with the humans and elves in these regions. While mating with elves and other ancestries did not produce offspring, humans would produce half-orcs.

Half-orcs became highly sought after by orcs as prized possessions. They made superior slaves, and their company was preferred to that of humans and elves. Half-orcs also had the same evil in their hearts that orcs did, and would serve orcs in battle willingly. However, because they were infertile, orcs had to continue producing them with interbreeding. Nearing 600 BDC, half-orcs in servitude to orcs numbered in the thousands. As part of a long-standing dispute with his brother, Morabis used a piece of his shard to grace half-orcs with the capability of goodness and the ability to have children of their own. At the turn of the century 600 BDC, half-orcs all across the Deep Fields rose up against their orc masters. While not all half-orcs embraced their newly gifted sense of good, the majority distanced themselves from orc-kind. They initially formed their own horde in the Deep Fields and called themselves the Üneküm, or free people in the orcish language.

Many wars between 600 and 500 BDC forced üneküm to abandon the Deep Fields and seek life among the human societies that bordered them, primarily in Westmark, Torwick, and the Northern Lowlands. They continued to live alongside humans for a thousand years until the Great Migration in 422 DCplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDC

An abbreviation of Diminished Callisae. One of the two time periods tracked by the common Aedelorian calendar. This is a dating method which counts the number of years after the Withering., which would see üneküm migrate south to Islingar by the hundreds of thousands. By 500 DC, üneküm were a minority in most places of the world except in the Commonweal of Islingar, which they shared dominion over with elfkin.