It is said that of the twin children of bereaved Qudma, Uznu hewed more closely to the lineage of “Grandfather Beyond.” Surviving sources consistently describe Uznu as “towering” and “inhuman” and despite occasionally being described with male pronouns, and having sired known offspring, Uznu preferred to be called “it” and reacted violently to any other appellations.

As the second link in a chain, along with its sister Zigaa, that allowed alien and distant Sukhallu to communicate to the world of matter from the Beyond, Uznu was from birth expected to fulfill the role of interlocutor. It apparently resented this, despite being responsible for several inventions such as specialized lenses that made it possible for matter beings to look upon its mother Qudma without danger. While Zigaa toiled as he public face of her mother and grandfather, even as both she and Qudma became more alien with time, Uznu refused to do so, being relegated to the role of inventor or bruiser.

Since the revelation of Sukhallu and the Beyond, many in the matter world had formed cults or societies dedicated to the worship of the denizens thereof, and it was here that Uznu was most prominent. It bestowed favors and gifts in exchange for tribute, claimed to both send and deliver messages directly to Sukhallu, and sired dozens if not hundreds of offspring with those who thought such was a path to the godhood they imagined Sukhallu and the Beyond possessed. The vast majority of those who claim descent from the Beyond do so via Uznu’s line, even today.

Despite this, it was ever jealous of its sister Zigaa, who remained revered and respected in ways that Uznu could only through fear, lies, and manipulation. It is not known what, exactly, drove it to murder her, but it is suspected that a communication from Qudma or Sukhallu arrived, one that criticized Uznu and its works. Rather than see it released, Uznu somehow managed to slay its immortal sister.

This was the key break in communication from Sukhallu, the First of the Beyond. With devastated Qudma no longer able to speak to or be heard by beings of matter, she walled herself up in her apartments to live in immortal sorrow. Sukhallu, too, seems to have cut communication with its unruly “grandchild” over this act, and the cults that had previously kowtowed to Uznu turned away from it to the veneration and worship of its progeny instead.

Accounts vary as to Uznu’s fate. Some accounts hold that it was executed in retaliation, or that it had been mortally wounded by some machination of Zigaa and lived out its dwindling days in agony. Vokar of Lish holds that Uznu sought to join its mother in her burial chamber and, rebuffed, constructed one of its own and remains there entombed. Ob of Reshif prefers the explanation that Uznu was killed by the same, now lost, method used to murder its sister, and dissolved to empty foam in the same way.