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| - Between the years -1399 and 100 IC, a massive Skaven force under the leadership of Clan Pestilens attacked Lustria. Granted the immunity to the jungle plagues that spread through the jungles, in addition to the power to create new ones by their dark god, the Horned Rat, the Skaven began to lay waste to the land, killing countless Lizardmen, and reducing the Temple-Cities to rubble. As they rampaged, a breed of Skinks with red crests rose to prominence with Tehenhauin at the front, who spread the prophecy of Sotek, who quickly became popular particularly amongst the Skinks, the most vulnerable to the Skaven plagues. Sacrificing throngs of Skaven to Sotek, Tehenhuain rallied his forces around the statement that the Serpent God would consume the Rat God, and expel the horrible foe from their
- Sotek was a High Master of Kolinahr during the Vulcan Reformation. Born as Khoteth, he was trained in mind-powers by the High Master Zakal, a feared and powerful mind-lord, becoming like a son to him. However, Khoteth turned against his master and followed Surak's teachings of peace and logic, adopting the name Sotek. He imprisoned his former master, and his initiates curbed Zakal's immense powers. As Zakal neared death from lunglock fever, Sotek came to honor a promise he had made to his old mentor, to preserve his katra in the Hall of Ancient Thought, knowing that Zakal was too vain to allow himself to taste true death.
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| - Between the years -1399 and 100 IC, a massive Skaven force under the leadership of Clan Pestilens attacked Lustria. Granted the immunity to the jungle plagues that spread through the jungles, in addition to the power to create new ones by their dark god, the Horned Rat, the Skaven began to lay waste to the land, killing countless Lizardmen, and reducing the Temple-Cities to rubble. As they rampaged, a breed of Skinks with red crests rose to prominence with Tehenhauin at the front, who spread the prophecy of Sotek, who quickly became popular particularly amongst the Skinks, the most vulnerable to the Skaven plagues. Sacrificing throngs of Skaven to Sotek, Tehenhuain rallied his forces around the statement that the Serpent God would consume the Rat God, and expel the horrible foe from their homeland. Once satisfied with the blood he drank, Sotek emerged in force, with a sudden infestation of serpents emerging in the Skaven lairs. Proving themselves completely immune to the Ratmen's plagues, they eventually forced the rats into the open, where they could be challenged. After a long campaign, the Skaven were forced to retreat, and were left with no other choice but to completely evacuate Lustria. As the Clan fled to the ocean, they were pursued by their reptillian enemies, and on Fuming Serpent Island, they confronted Pestilens main horde. Supposedly Sotek himself appeared with a sea of slithering snakes. Eventually the Skaven forces were destroyed, but the Clan survived by escaping on their rotting ships to the Southlands. However, it is said that Sotek dove into the ocean after them, and pursued them back to the tunnels, where he now remains. Such is the legend of Sotek, and his rise to godhood. Initially the Slann were reluctant to acknowledge him, but with the miraculous victory over the Skaven, coupled with the immense popularity he had with the Skinks, temples were eventually built to the Serpent God's honor. Worship of Sotek would soon begin to equal, if not eclipse, that of the Old Ones.
- Sotek was a High Master of Kolinahr during the Vulcan Reformation. Born as Khoteth, he was trained in mind-powers by the High Master Zakal, a feared and powerful mind-lord, becoming like a son to him. However, Khoteth turned against his master and followed Surak's teachings of peace and logic, adopting the name Sotek. He imprisoned his former master, and his initiates curbed Zakal's immense powers. As Zakal neared death from lunglock fever, Sotek came to honor a promise he had made to his old mentor, to preserve his katra in the Hall of Ancient Thought, knowing that Zakal was too vain to allow himself to taste true death. Around two thousand years later, in the Earth year 2271, Sotek's katra was carried within the body of the High Master T'Sai, who had gone with Spock and Dr. Keridwen Llewellyn in pursuit of Sekar, a renegade Kolinahru who carried Zakal's katra within himself and planned to bring the mind-rules to the Romulans. Encountering Zakal's commandeered Romulan Bird-of-Prey, T'Sai - injured by a telepathic attack from Zakal - transferred Sotek's katra to Dr. Llewellyn, giving her the ancient mind's immense powers and, because of her esper-blindness, allowing her to transport onto the ship without Zakal's knowledge. Setting the Bird-of-Prey to self-destruct and holding Zakal's attention long enough to prevent him from stopping it, Sotek and Dr. Llewellyn sacrificed themselves willingly to stop the evil mind-lord. Though Sotek's katra was lost, his sacrifice ensured that the mind-rules would not get into the hands of the Romulans and be used against Vulcan. (TOS - The Lost Years novel: The Lost Years)
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