SkekAyuk

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SkekAyuk is of the Skeksi race, and is 'the Gourmand at the castle's court.

Like all the Skeksis, skekAyuk wears an elaborate costume. A large handkerchief is tucked in skekAyuk's sleeve to dab his mouth.

SkekAyuk, and a host of slaves, create complex meals for the Skeksis - including of Roast Nebrie (a Skeksi favorite). Yet in spite of all this, the Skeksis' spiritual disjointment makes them leave each banquet still raging with hunger. In contrast, skekAyuk's alter ego, the Mystic cook urAmaj, prepares very simple and very satisfying meals by hand.

"Nor did the feasts prepared by skekAyuk the Gourmand and his teams of harassed slaves satisfy any appetite for long. Hot spices, sweet liquors, cream-rich sauces, were his delight; and he boasted he had a different menu for every feast."

- The World of the Dark Crystal

Pre-production notes for the film call for "the Gourmet" to have "a jowly, sweaty head with bushy eyebrows, and to be continuously involved with burping, spraying food and saliva as he talks, stuffing food into his cheeks, and lifting his head to swallow, like a pelican."

Jim Henson described that many of the Skeksis were based on one of the 7 deadly sins. AkekAyuk represents gluttony.