Wenkaie

a Mannish confederation of Orckish descendants who rebelled against the Nightdark Elves and joined the bands of the Valye, Halflings , Quarterlings , and the Silverwood Elves that led them against the Nightmare King, Eraumdjin of Outer Mornica and his enslaved Knights of the Order of the Blue Rose and maniacal Mages of the Circle of Black Thorns

the Valye were hoping to earn the right to be called the Valvandar and thus equals with the Elves, but the Sylvandar instead elevated the rebel Orcks of Valaesca , called Wenders by the Valye due to their nomadic "wandering" lifestyle and also their love of spiced "wine", by calling them "the Vankyrie", not quite High Elves but certainly part of the Vandar Clans of the High Fairie, proven by their remarkable valor and cunning in war, but obviously not to the degree of full "Vandar" as that would imply Alvarian lineage, "-dar" implying "d'Aur"

the Vankyrie were pseudo-Vandar, but that was closer than the jealous Valye ever got to recognition by the Elves

they were unique in that they were one of the few Vandaric peoples without the linguistic El element (*eayiou-L-vandar) in their name, indicating that like the lesser Fairies they were not enlightened and thus not spiritually "elevated" due to their martial nature and shamanic nature-based theology of earth and wind ancestor spirits

this is similar to how the Merfolk evolved from the ancient Mercuendi tribe, who themselves were formerly called the Melvene, older even than the Alvandar, tracing lineage not from the Vandar, but the Teleri-Nelyar

the Vankyrie would however fall out of favor with the Elven Courts and over time their named "degraded" into Wenkaie

the reason for this was their worship of the dark goddess Jhexa, Abyssal Celebrant of the Void, in the form of a mythic great ancestress and weather deity, Jaheskaiaryn, the Storm Queen, whom they held above all other great spirits

another contributing factor was the resurgence of the Orckish practice of dying the entire skin shades of green and using violet crystal ink to inscribe glittering ritual tattoos

in their former wandering Vandar they saw the dangerous potential for them to become a new Olgardar turned Ogre, or return to their Urhu-Kai roots as Orcks, or even a new form of the ancient Ithilvendi, those Moonsilver Elves who studied the black arts and summoned outer demons and became the Nightdark Elves, the Sverthelvar, themselves no longer members of the Vandar Clans due to their wickedness