Tehenhauin
"A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject."
- – Winston Churchill
Tehenhauin is a Skink in the Warhammer World of Warhammer Fantasy Battle. He is the Prophet of Sotek, god of snakes and eternal enemy of the Horned Rat (Sotek also used to be an Old One, but that got retconned). Which basically makes him Aztec lizard Moses, not quite Raptor Jesus but close enough.
In case you hadn't noticed, his name is a pun on "ten in one." He replaced the far-funnier "Tuini-Huini" in the Lizardmen army.
Life[edit]
Tehenhauin was the eldest Skink Priest of the Temple-City of Chaqua. Chaqua was a bit unique in that it had a series of plaques, called the Prophecies of Sotek, that weren't found in any other temple-city. They predicted that Lustria would be invaded by rats that walked on two legs, but they would be stopped by a mysterious god named Sotek. Because they weren't found in any other temple-city (and because they made frightening predictions), they were by-and-large ignored.
However, one day, the spawning pools of their neighboring temple-city of Quetza started to churn out malformed Saurus and Skinks. Soon, whatever was plaguing Quetza came to Chaqua. The Mage-Priest of the city soon succumbed, leaving Tehenhauin in charge. Tehenhauin being the absolute skink chad, instead of playing defensively in his city while the rat-spawn is smearing shit on their wall, he decided to go on a crusade with the survivors and his trustworthy red crested skink to exterminate all rat-spawn and bringing Sotek into this world.
Since the skinks are the most susceptible to the plague, they were easily swayed to join this new trending cult that Tehenhauin started (The Cult of Sotek) and begin sacrificing these ratmen invaders by ripping out their spleens or whatever in the same fashion to Aztec sacrifice on top of their holy ziggurat whenever they can as to ensure their complete and utter destruction. The ratman, specifically of Clan Pestilens, weren't going to give up up so easily however. They instead stepped up their rituals and invasions, as both factions descended into gruesome warfare of diseases and sacrifice.
Unfortunately for the Slann, they viewed the prophecy of Sotek with disdain despite the heavenly forked tongue sign in the sky and forbade the cult from bringing those filthy rats into their city ziggurat for sacrifice (thus delaying the coming of Sotek by several centuries). This actually made the local skinks quite upset despite their genetically-coded loyalty and had started their own secret sacrifice ritual club behind their master's backs.
After countless sacrifices that would have made Khorne jealous, the coming of Sotek was finally near and Tehenhauin told everyone that when Sotek comes, he will swallow the Horned Rat whole and then digest him like some vore fetish victim for thousands of years. Tehenhauin ordered a trap at Gwakmol Crater which would prove effective and capture thousands and thousands of Skaven for sacrifice. As the Skinks cutting open the rat's stomach, it made the river Amaxon run soooo red that Khorne would wish he had those skinks collecting skulls for him. After that, Sotek appeared, but in the form of many snakes that are immune to any of the rat-spawn's plague and disease. The snakes spawn under the ground of Clan Pestilens stronghold and scared the ratmen to the point they scurried away with their tails between legs and were eventually pushed back to the Southland by Tehenhauin's forces. What's more was that those same snakes actually kept pursuing the rats on their rotting ships, somehow learning the secret arts of being stowaways!
Total War Warhammer II[edit]
On April 4th, he was confirmed as the Lizardman representative for The Prophet and The Warlock DLC for Total War: Warhammer II where he brings Red Crested Skinks, Ripperdactyls, Salamanders, Arc of Soteks and the Engine of the Gods for the Dinos to play with. He has a unique trait which lets him collect sacrifices as a currency to purchase Sotek related buffs, the most powerful allowing you to summon a manifestation of Sotek himself to beat the shit out of your enemies! which is sadly just a one timed spell where an ethereal winged snek swoop by and strike the enemy in a line. Pretty disappointing compare to Ikit's warpstone nuke that was featured in the same DLC. Reaching the maximum sacrifice however will also allow the player to have them and their AI allies to permanently declare war on all skaven and prevent them warm-blood-rat-spawn from initiate any kind of diplomacy to beg for a cheap peace treaty, thus making Tehenhauin a skink hitler, but mostly for skaven anyway since there's also another lizardmen character, a xenophobic magical amphibian to be exact, who wishes for not only the destruction of rat-spawn, but also the most of warmblood that are not part of the great plan.
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NOOOOOO Is Saturday mourning you ratshit!!! I've spent my last night plaque posting sotek!!! Ikit???IKIT???!!! *VERY LOUD DOOM-FLAYER BUZZ SOUND*
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This will learn you, Skaven scum!
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One of the most embarrassing and dumbest decisions anyone can possibly make. Doubly so when you don't have "Hates Skaven".
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REMOVE SKAVEN
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The Sotek never lies
| Characters of the Lizardmen Empire
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| Gods and revered entities: | Old Ones - Sotek | ||
| Slann: | Lord Kroak - Lord Mazdamundi | ||
| Kroxigors: | Nakai the Wanderer | ||
| Saurus: | Gor-Rok - Kroq-Gar - Chakax | ||
| Skinks: | Oxyotl - Tehenhauin - Tiktaq'to - Tetto'eko | ||