Sotek (WAR Lore)
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Sotek is the pre-eminent Lizardman deity, and has been since their millennia-spanning war against the noisome Skaven that ended in the year 100. Sotek is very much the Lizardmen god of vengeance, a deity that embodies the race's righteous anger against those invaders that would intrude upon their realms. Sotek is cruel, with a thirst for sacrifice, to whom the Lizardmen make daily tribute in the form of blood offerings. Sotek is particularly fond of rodent flesh, and so the sacrifice of captured Skaven is seen as the highest honour adherents can pay their god.
One question troubles those few scholars with any knowledge of Lizardmen deities. Only the Mage-Priests of Chaqua knew of Sotek, and even they did not venerate him, but merely waited the allotted time of his coming. When Sotek's manifestation was realized, it was the Skinks who first acknowledged him as a god, for the Mage-Priests took some time to contemplate the issue. This confusing state of affairs leads some scholars to question the nature of Sotek. Is the Serpent God an Old One? If so, why was he not worshiped, or even acknowledged for so many millennia? Some believe that this later addition to the Lizardmen pantheon of gods is something else entirely, perhaps some manifestation of the Lizardmen's anger and resentment at the actions of those that would invade and plunder their realm.