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mede.
d
warm
sun
now
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upon
the
f
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pole, givihg'hfc
to
the
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.
and-run tactics,
uskg
the mobilitypto-
vided by his hones
to.firr
hails
ofum
at the
humanoids
and
then
flee
cha
steppes.
As
time
went
,by,
more
md
Wrc
Ethcngcur
tled
,&om
the
h u d s
to
join Baka. Copyins many of
the
hum--
oc
oids' ways,
Baka
forged h i
f r n
intoin
army and prepared
to
free
themppca.
Before
Baka
could
strike
t
drive
.the
o
hated
monsters
from
&e
steppes,
the
back in
the
days of
the
Blackmoor c 'ilization.
In
those ancient
Our
lay
at
the
north
pokof
.nd
the
b d
of
Bkck-
?
r
h.onJy 'humanoid .mcldrd
At
first
the
two
h u m 4
er;buc like dlaf,thrirldnd,
planet icJelf.'Thep l a d w f i e d
on
iwaxis
ptd
a
pohu
ice
cap
began
*
form where
,
Blackmoor
once
stood.
This
@mc
calami-
ty
had repercussions
that
affected
nof
only
the
-Id,
but
the planar
&ions
around
it.
Stmnge etheric entities,
n&
Yno7itcasspiriw.weredrawn into thefab-
f
ric
o
the,world.
Same
of these entities
merged with the
ntw
landscape.
Othess
roamed around. Meking
a
pcopk
to
interact with. The. pcoplc they found
were
the
'Ethengnrs,
a
'me
of ,,yellow-
skinned, huntei-gatherer humans
that
had existed
on
the fringwof
h e
Blaek-
moor
civilization;it is from t h i time
dnt
rnslave the Ethmgars.
the
Rise of
Baka:
Under
cered
them.
lcnrning
quickly
h m
the
humanoids. Baka
h m m e n
,an
raidr against ,any
humanoids
ifaolida
enough
to
venture away
from&
rsPir
~ p w p
At
first
they
tricd.hnd.cn
attacks
l
tolit&,&cct. Bakadunswitchcdtohit;
steppcs.,lei8thunm&dmawar.&kLI
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edr?aabd.
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fdfowkiir.xil,bansr.
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v u
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6th-
Swnlud.
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foo
r o ~ l k ~ o n : t ~ . h u m n n O
,
i
b >
s ~ ~
d
Hlstow
of
tne Steppes
Feigning a meeting to trade animals,
Baka lured Akkila-Khan into a trap. As
the Khans met to exchange formalities,
the Ethengars swept across the grasslands
and showered the humanoid forces with
m w .
Almost surrounded, the human-
o s
oids broke and
fled,
losing many of their
numbers before they reached the shelter
of the Broken Lands.
The
steppes were
free at last. Under
Baka, the Ethengars had changed from
simple planters and herders into a highly
mobile military force that lived
off
the
land. Their whole existence
was
geared
to
warfare
and the well-being of their horses.
The
Firs
Khan: For thrce years Baka led
the Ethengnrs
against
humanoid
scrag.
glen. Following the disappearance of
M a - K h a n (see GAZlO, The
Oms
of
I’Ixir),
the
war
was
over. Baka declared
himself to be Khan of the Ethengm. He
decreed that the athengars
would
always
wander the steppes, dedaring that.
“An
enemy
who
is
always
on
the
mow
is
an
enemy who
is
hard to destroy.” He divided
the Ethmgars into
tribes
and gave
to
each
of them a part
of
the steppes where they
could graze their horses and yaks.
The Ethengars honed their fighting
arts
on
each other. Often the best grass-
lands lay in a neighboring tribe’s territo-
ry,
a situation that led to many
a
clash
between tribes.
No
one minded.
The shamans decreed that chis
was
the
way
of
the steppes and it would keep the
Ethengw strong. There were those who
wanted to be stronger than others, and
as
Baka gmv old, the younger tribal Khans
looked at his grasslands and longed to
possess them. They plotted together and
then poisoned Baka Khan. The Great
Khan was taken to the World Mountain
for burial and the Khans met to choose a
new
Great Khan. Unable to agree, the
Khans fell
to
fighting
cach
other.
The
Uk
OfSucCasion:
A
long and bit-
ter struggle raged over the steppes
as
tribe
viciously attacked tribe. The war lasted
for almost two decades. When
it
finally
petered
out.
the tribes hardly existed at
all.
Many tribes had been ruthlessly cxter-
minated by their neighbors; the surviving
tribes had lost
so
many warriors and ani-
m l
that they consisted of little more
as
than
a
few hundred people and animals.
The Ethengm had learned the ways of
the humanoids
far
too well.
With more grazing land now available
to the survivors than they could ever use,
there
was
no
need for
war.
Families, sick of the
war,
drifted away
from the tribes and followed their horses
wherever they led them. When they
encountered other family clans, they still
fought, but only
on
a
small
scale.
The victors gained the choicest grass.
lands, and the losers simply moved else.
where.
This
is
a pattern that recurs again in
Ethengar history. The family clans wan-
der the steppes slowly growing in size.
As
population pressures increase, clan fights
clan.
Clans
that have a blood relationship
group themselves into tribes under
a
Khan,
and
then the tribes turn to fight-
ing each other.
Occnsionally a strong, charismatic
Iead-
er
arises
to unite
all
the
tribes
and
Iead
them to
war
against neighboring states. a
situation that the Ethengm’ neighbors
have come to fear. The
rise
of a Great
Khan is indeed a sign that the Ethengara
M
a danger to all around them. Usually
rhc
death of a Great Khan results in wide-
spread bloodshed
on
the steppes
as
the
Khans engage in
yet
another War of Suc-
cession. This reduces the population pres-
sure
and dissipates the Ethengars’ urge to
pour out of the steppes.
A
new
Great Khan is now in power
on
the steppes. He
is
a Khan who is touched
4
need to came out
a
lasting empire, a
Khan who
has
the power and the will to
do
so.
Soon
the world will come to fear the
name of Moglai Khan, the Golden Khan,
Khan of Khans.
as
told by Kaunchi
“The Golden Khan is the greatest Khan
to ever live
upon
the Sea
of
G m . He is a
bogda, a man touched by heaven.
This
is
clear from the story
of
his
life.
“He was born the
son
of Huptai Khan,
lord of the Murkiu, but
his
birthright
was
taken away from him at the age
of
12.
It
was then that his father died and the clans
of the Murkiu refused to recognize one
so
young
as
their Khan.
“His uncle Atikai even tried to make
our great Khan into a slave, but Moghi
Khan escaped and fled into the
Sea
of
Grw.
“There he lived the life
of
a fugitive
with only his horse for company.
“For six years Moglai Khan wandered
the Sea of G r m living
off
what he could
catch with
his
bow
and horse.
In
that time
hc carefully avoided the warriors
of
his
uncle, until he
left
the Sea of Grass to
travel among the Outsiders. There
Mag.
Iai
Khan studied their ways, living
fmt
among the dwvves of Rockhome, and
then journeying to
Ylmum,
Thyatis,
m
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