Talk:Keshik (Age of Empires II)/@comment-1054520-20191203143911/@comment-2003:DB:F709:7F32:356C:59B3:8C5:4B7C-20191220130519

Tatars was the original etonym of the later so called "mongolians" (so both these people atleast "overlap"); and the Keshik were basically the bodyguard of the Khan. Even though

a) the original Tatars(/their rulers/Khans) themselves started to claim, later on, in a blatant case of revisionist history (directly carried out by historians employed by the royal family), that they were "Mongols", a word not present before; old chinese sources have constantly referred to them as "Tatars", before, and even some time after. Tatars was the name given to them when they came in contact with the Persians, and the Europeans, also, kinew them as "Tatars" and "Tatars" alone (often calling them "Tartars" though, in referrence to the Tartaros (a form of hell in greek mythology; the words however are unrelated), where they allegedly came from).

b) the only peoples that would keep referring to themselves as "Tatars" later on where the tribes that originally got swept up in the hord through their military campaigns westwards, like many turk peoples, which are closer in line with the in game "Tatars". -- also, if you look at the timurids, that are reffered to (via special technology), also claimed to carry on the campaigns of the Mongols, and the Moghul-emperors of India root back to Temarlane/Timor/Timurids themselves (so in that sense this people already was in the game already; atleast their is a second, or third (counting turks) overlapping here with civs already in the game)

As many have claimed to carry on the legacy (maybe just to justify their claim to great power. Like roman rulers calling themselves "Caesar" after Gaius Julius of that same, "original" cognomen; Kaiser and Zar also root back to that very word), the "Kehisk" name carried on as well, often as a bodyguard, but not always. Wiki actually has an article on them.