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Eankke
The origins of the bloodthirsty war god of postbellum raiders, warband slavers and marauders is shrouded in mystery. Some scholars claim the name derives from Ang-ke, "red river", and cite the legend of a warrior king who was said to have found a sword buried in the grass steppe, having followed a trail of blood from a limping and injured sheep straying from a nomad shepherd's flock. Others claim that the word is a corruption of "Yangji", 洋疾 in the runes of Old Sioloc and Ancient Khimaire, well-known from the tales of the insane moneyer-prophet Ialle Ergusen; a land of chimerical beasts born of lion, goat and dragon. In those myths, the name Yangji in ancient bone oracle runes is attributed with the meaning: "goat-headed (beast) men from across the water, bringers of the (plague) swift sickness (injury)". Yet another explanation attests that the word Eankke is an adaptation of the tribal utterance for coward, turncoat or slave; and that the barbaric ravagers of the Dead Land are the last remnants of those who were once a loyal legion of enslaved warriors, turning renegade only after they were betrayed and abandoned in battle.
