Tzunki (WAR Lore)
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Those Lizardmen spawned under the influence of Tzunki exhibit a powerful affinity with water, and their scaly hides are often tinged with a sea-green hue. According to the tales of the boastful Norse, some of their kind have faced Lizardmen in battle that sported gills and webbed appendages and could remain under water for many hours. Norse tales claim that a large force of such creatures attacked a long ship as it traveled south along the eastern coast of Lustria, exploring a stretch of shore beyond the Mangrove Coast. The Norsemen claim the attackers were defeated, but that the longboat was crippled when it struck an underwater obstruction, its crew forced to make for the mainland. The remainder of the account is a drunken tale of misadventure involving undead pirates, large flightless birds and deadly jungle-dwelling warrior women - not a word of which most scholars believe.
Although little credibility is lent to this account, one reference to an army believed to constitute a Sacred Host of Tzunki has been uncovered in an inscription upon the base of the so-called Monument of the Moon. This vast monolith stands 50 miles out to sea and some 250 miles south-east of the abandoned settlement of Dalmark Town. This inscription makes reference to a battle between Lizardmen from Tlaxtlan and an army of northmen in the service of Chaos, around the year 1300. Though scant details of the battle are given, it does appear that it was the culmination of a series of skirmishes that had seen the servants of the Ruinous Powers attempt to penetrate the mouth of the river Amaxon, before being repulsed and harried from one estuary island to the next by a Lizardmen army capable of launching its attacks from the water. The final battle occurred upon the shores of the Island of Sacrifices, for the foul horde was surrounded, its long ships holed, and it had nowhere else to turn. The inscription states that the invaders' bones were strewn about the shores of the islands three feet deep in places, to act as a chilling reminder to any who would attempt to invade the realms of the Lizardman.