Deep in the marshes of the Illiak Wetlands live the Mou’Yyp.  This race of amphibians are savage, dim-witted, weak willed people and their technological peak is a sharpened rock. Yet many trespassers have underestimated their feral cunning and great numbers. In most cases those that wander into the glades are killed and eaten, although sometimes they may find themselves captured and forced to teach the Mou’yyp the mastery of fire. The primitive people greatly covet this art and while some have learned this basic need, the lack of opposable thumbs, short memory and their low level of intelligence reduces most to living in damp squalor. Those that can create fire are the leaders of the Mou’yyp kindreds. Unfortunately, to keep their status they never teach others and create it in secret, and usually that knowledge is lost when an upstart Mou’yyp murders the leader thinking the ability to make fire will be passed on.

The Mou’yyp generally don’t live long, but with the effective reproductions methods of mass aquatic egg laying there are never a shortage of Mou’yyp in the Illiak Wetlands.