Ainuk

‘This foolishness again. Hmph. Listen to me, Blodwen cannot be saved. Kosose saw it, did he not? A boy born with a green hand, who will spell the end of our people. My people’ he roared. ‘Please, my chief. They tell tales of healers in the warmer lands near the coast, down by the salty sea, who can cure anything. They could… they could save her. She doesn’t have to die. Perhaps you were wrong-’ he reasoned, but was cut off.‘Silence!’ Kavara bellowed. ‘Do not speak to me like that, boy. Did I not take you in, feed you from my plate, keep you from the rain beneath my own roof? Have you forgotten all that I have done for you? Yet still, you question my judgement. Shame on you.’ he put bluntly. Shaking, the younger man took a step forward and looked his chieftain in the eye, gripping the blade till his fingers were numb.‘I have tried, my chief, I have. But you have not listened to me once. She and I… you took us in together, did you not? You let our people burn, but not us. So why should she die and I live?’ he questioned.‘Boy, hold your tongue. My wife goes nowhere. When the boy is born, she will die, as the stars have said. And the boy will perish too, I will see to it myself. And thus, the Eja will live forever. No ruin will come to us.’ With this last statement, a glint of madness flickered in his eyes as he shuddered, wiping foaming spit from the corner of his mouth. The younger man was desperate, his words falling on deaf ears.- Ainuk confronts Chieftain Kavara.
Ainuk Dinembelay, also translated in modern texts as Enoch or Eynuk, was a tribesman and seer from Farwydd Basin during the late Bronze Age.
He was once part of a small conquered tribe that the Sunwalkers almost wiped out, save for himself and Blodwen, his best friend and like a younger sister to him. The chief of the Sunwalkers, Kavara, wished to marry Blodwen, but he and Ainuk knew of a prophecy issued by Kosose that their child would be the end of the Sunwalkers, and that Blodwen would die. Ainuk tried for months to beg Kavara to reconsider, and his final act was to try to fight him alone in a wild wheat meadow under an oak tree by starlight. This led Ainuk to be mercilessly beaten by the bare-handed chief, leaving him frail, broken, and slow, from the once-spry and tough young man he was. Ainuk was saved by Kosose, who informed him that Kavara had left the child of the now-dead Blodwen and Kavara up a mountain (possibly Mount Carm, near modern Carmogan) to die. This child was Meekadox Llawglas.
Ainuk saved the child and raised him as a son, and became leader of the Anoquit not long after. He became the elder shaman of the Anoq tribe around his fortieth winter. He suffered from Skullfire due to his partaking of eating brains as part of the Eja.
Ainuk sent Eoin Blackstone, Grace and Orson Eti, and his son Meeko on a quest to follow the writings of a meteor and several cryptic menhir inscriptions. This led eventually to a sky-crystal, which he wanted for himself to try to wipe out the Sunwalkers as revenge for Blodwen's death. The group did not let this happen. Though Ainuk managed to call down meteors, they were much stronger, and caused a huge impact and wide-ranging wildfires. Ainuk was killed by the quartet, and Meeko became new shaman, as the Anoquit went west to a greener land to settle...
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