Yeeks are a fictional race of goblin-like humanoids found in many roguelike games, such as Moria, Angband and ZAngband. Yeeks are described as "Strange small humanoid[s]" and can come in different colours depending upon what tribe they belong to. The most common yeeks are blue or brown but clear and black yeeks exist. The yeeks are ruled by their king Boldor and his son Orfax. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... A race is a population of humans distinguished in some way from other humans. ... A goblin is an evil or mischievous creature of folklore, often described as a grotesquely disfigured or elf-like phantom. ... The term humanoid refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a human. ... The roguelikes are usually superficially two-dimensional dungeon crawling computer games, most with simple text or ASCII graphics and many with tiles which replace the rather limited character set with a wider array. ... Moria is an old roguelike computer game, based on a story from The Lord of the Rings. ... Angband screenshot Angband is a dungeon-crawling roguelike computer game derived from Umoria (the C for Unix port of a game called Moria). ... ZAngband is a freeware role-playing computer game. ... Viewed historically or developmentally, a tribe consists of a social formation existing before the development of, or outside of, states. ... In optics, transparency is the property of being transparent, or allowing light to pass. ... A monarch is a type of ruler or head of state, whose titles and ascent are often inherited, not earned, and who represents a larger monarchical system which has established rules and customs regarding succession, duties, and powers. ...

Yeeks are typically very easy monsters to defeat, in Moria at least. Folklore even holds that they are called "yeeks" because that is the sound they make if they are trod upon. Although black yeeks are unusually tough and master yeeks have some magic powers there are no yeeks that normally require more advanced tactics than a few strokes with one's weapon. In the case of clear yeeks, who are invisible, it is nearly always possible to win by striking randomly or, if one is a mage, by firing an area effect spell at a nearby wall. Note that in Angband and later games yeeks are resistant to acid. For the Nelly Furtado album, see Folklore (album). ... The sound of hitting a ball can be described as Whack. In rhetoric, linguistics and poetry, onomatopoeia is a figure of speech that employs a word, or occasionally, a grouping of words, that imitates, echoes, or suggests the object it is describing, such as bang, click, fizz, hush or buzz... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Magi. ...

The history of the yeeks:

• Moria. In Moria the yeeks are first introduced, and five kinds exist.
• Angband. In Angband the king of the yeeks, Boldor and Orfax are introduced.
• ZAngband. In ZAngband the kamikaze yeek is added. Later versions also include the possibility to play as a yeek.
• Hengband. In Hengband the president of the yeeks Noborta Kesyta is introduced.
• Gumband. In Gumband the queen of the yeeks Dalfax is introduced.
• ToME. In ToME you may play as a yeek. They are bad at everything except gaining levels quickly.