Uta/Development

*The following piece is part of the game's development process, and may or may not reflect the final version of the game.*

## Developers' description

Uta's role is to demonstrate another, higher level of ideas, conflicts and events in the game. That is why her status is relatively labeled "goddess". This creature has human appearance, but bears a much bigger essence than that of a human. She is free of down-to-earth human interests, motives or logic. As a general will command formations and corps (not the destinies of soldiers), as the ruler operates parties, blocs and states, a divine entity would make decisions of universal importance. It is quite clear, that a human destiny has an appropriate place in its thoughts, plans and calculations, but a place of minor significance.

Uta is definitely conscious of her bond with someone (likewise a young princess understands the need of political marriage for the sake of her country) as well as of her responsibility and her mystical origins. Soul has little to do with personality, it's more like a connection of the human being and the divine entity. This connection is her mission and her purpose.

Uta seems to be petrified (unlike Ava) from the reality she encounters. She sees the Creature which is a divine entity far more powerful than her or any other soul or hunter. She still can't get over the shock from looking the universe in the eye and getting its response, which seems to be thrilling and terrifying at the same time. She is much alike a person, who spend hours and days in front of the mirror after catching a glimpse of reflection of the dead relative in it; or the one who seem to have heard the words of revelation in the whispers of the wind and now can't stop listening to it hoping for the continuation. It seems to be within the gasp and yet so far. At last this is the kind of religious shock a man would encounter feeling a strong gaze of omniscient and ferocious Creator from the bottomless pit of the sky.

In reality no Concubine is aware of the Creature. Only the Hunters do, but their notion is of different origin than Uta's. They see the shape and know the doctrine, but they don't really understand it. Uta is a blind that sees more than any sighted, that is capable of feeling things of great importance, the unsaid things. She is the only Concubine who is on the verge of understanding the ways of the Creature, who had unconsciously bound her mission, her dream of going on the Surface to the rhythms of this world, the rhythms of the Creature.

While comparing this to our world, one can imagine a man that heard the voice of the planet and felt its breathing. Now he is able to see himself in the sequence of the history which encounters millions of years, inside the space amounted to the whole Solar system, not just a tow or a country. From this moment on the dramatis personae of his world are the galaxies, not human beings. Uta understood the scale if her world and that it is only an interval. She feels that this world and its values are inferior. We already know its purpose, it's the dream of the Godsend, the dream that bears a whole new world.

So, Uta sands still. She feels something she isn't capable to understand — the knowledge's been hidden from her. As any other Concubine she doesn't understand what is Lymph, where does it come from is and how all of this is connected to her existence in this strange realm. She observes closely and listens carefully trying to get a hint of it. This has become her primary goal. She lays in her bark gazing at the "moon" — the eye of Abyss, the eye of the Creature, whose glance she once felt. The Creature has its eye on the events of a different scale. Uta the Goddess isn't divine to It, just an occasional creation, a dream to be forgotten. Uta understands it well.

### Sacrifice

In our game to Devour and to Create (selflessly, devotedly, self-destructively) are the basic actions to animate the world. This resulted in two cults, two warring churches, the structural basis of the world. It is similar to any other kind of creation (either a world, or a child), this is what gives the purpose to the Godsend who is pregnant with the new world.

Each Concubine has inclination for one or another. This will affect the new world, that the Hero and The Godsend are about to create, the source of tension in this world.

The choice between Ava and Uta – is the first out of many. Each of the two goddesses is a head of her cult. Uta's origin is selflessness and devotion. To the Hero who paints his way with his own blood her beliefs equal Creation or the act of creation. But not to Uta. Her point is the devotion itself. If Sister (another goddess, who joins both origins) thinks of it as of sacrifice and inclination to suicide, Uta understands it as self-forgetful intense search for the elusive knowledge.

### Character

Uta is a creator. If she comes on the Surface, the Godsend will create a Meditative world, where the energy will come from the accidental touch with something wonderful and subtle, ready to vanish in any minute.

Uta is a string, a weaver. Between her and the Creature exists a cord strained to its limit. Each part of her existence follows her gaze to the origin of this cord.

Uta is blind, oblivious to everything around her. Her eyes seem unfocused which helps her to make a contact to the sought-for. When she lays in her cradle, her gaze is directed towards the Abyss, the moon peering into her cave (which isn't actually the moon, but a majour source of light, "the eye of the Creature"; lots of then are drifting in the void surrounding the locations). When she comes to the shore, she gaze diverts to the unclear glow on the other side. While talking to the Hero, she doesn't really see him, her replies are irrelevant and absent-minded. While looking at him, actually looks though.