King Clovis

King Klovës Zku, known by his name Saint Clovis, was a king who lived before reliably-recorded history, about 2000 years before 0.
He was King of a small poorly-attested river kingdom of ethnic Euluskans in the modern day Burning Hills. From what stories remain, tales tell that short, stout raiders riding wooden whales arrived, and demanded nine tithings (nine tenths) of every person's goods, or they would set the houses of the kingdom ablaze. People were terrified, but Clovis appeared on the mountain over the raiders, with his voice booming like thunder, warning them of their transgression. He told them to flee, to run, to hide, or they would not be spared. They were so terrified that they went back to their boats and left in terror. 
He was remembered by people of the area and later canonised as a saint, one of the oldest historical figures to have been canonised. He was made saint of words, of rhetoric, and speeches, for his command over language that made the raiders lee. His holy day was Ekalo 10th - the tenth day of the tenth month. His holy number was ten, for his people kept all ten tenths of their wealth. Some of his followers would tattoo one finger, to remind them of the one tenth they would retain were it not for his words, or they would keep trinkets or icons with ten things (e.g. a wheel with ten spokes, a set of ten candles, a knife with ten notches) and sometimes mark one of them.
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