＄03-00-13-04-4-1 [soundStopAll] [enableFullScreen] [charaSet A 1098252900 1 Tepeu] [charaDepth A 2] [charaSet B 98001000 1 Mash] [charaDepth B 2] [charaSet C 1098254800 1 "Nemo Marine"] [charaDepth C 3] [charaSet D 1098257500 1 Rasputin] [charaSet E 4018001 1 Quetzalcoatl] [sceneSet F 169701 1] [charaScale F 1.2] [charaFadein F 0.1 50,-200] [fowardEffect bit_talk_glitter] [cueSe SE_21 21_ade588 0] [seVolume 21_ade588 1.0 0.4] [scene 169701] [charaMove F -50,-200 5.5] [fadein black 1.0] [wait fade] [wt 2.0] [fowardEffectStop bit_talk_glitter] [wt 0.5] [charaFadeout F 1.0] [seStop 21_ade588 2.0] [wt 2.5] [bgm BGM_EVENT_77 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 1] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Tepeu Chaldea really does impressive work! I can't believe it! My dilapidated old house looks absolutely pristine! [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 22] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash I think you may be giving us a little too much credit, but I do feel satisfied with our job here. [k] [charaFace B 13] ＠Mash But Senpai and I really can't take all the credit. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 2] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Nemo Marine Cleaning's totally my thing! I can even make an oil-splattered engine room shine like a mirror! [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 10] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] ＠Rasputin And kitchen cleanup is one of my greatest talents as well. Cleanliness leads to living prudently. [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 26] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash It's true! We could never have finished this quickly without you two! [k] [messageOff] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk off] [charaFace C 0] [charaFadeinFSL C 0.1 0] [charaFace D 2] [charaFadeinFSR D 0.1 2] [wt 0.7] ？1：I always knew you were a hard worker, Marine! [charaTalk on] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 2] ？2：I didn't know you carried a cleaning mask, Father. [charaTalk on] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 10] ？！ [wt 1.2] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Tepeu Well, I can't possibly thank you enough. [k] ＠Tepeu I've wanted to try cleaning every corner of this place before, but there's only so far these arms can reach. [k] ＠Tepeu So I'm afraid my cleaning sweeps here have always been somewhat lackluster, since Chichén Itzá is quite literally built on the back of ancient ruins. [k] [charaFace A 3] ＠Tepeu Most deinos don't mind since they're nature lovers to begin with, but dirt and dust accumulating in corners has always irked me. [k] [charaFace A 0] ＠Tepeu I even thought about moving into a less civilized environment just so I wouldn't have to worry about keeping it clean. [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 6] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash Is that why you were living in that cave so far away from the city? [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Tepeu Oh, no, I had other reasons for that. I primarily wanted to get away from the nature-loving deinos. [k] ＠Tepeu But never mind that now.[sr]I was hoping you and [%1] could tell me more about Proper Human History. [k] ＠Tepeu I believe you said there was a city called Chichén Itzá in your world too, yes? [k] ＠Tepeu What was it like? What sort of civilization did it belong to? [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [bgmStop BGM_EVENT_77 1.0] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 13] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash Well, I'm far from an expert on the subject, but I'd be glad to tell you what I know. [k] [bgm BGM_EVENT_156 0.1] ＠Mash In Proper Human History, Chichén Itzá was a Mayan city located on the Yucatán Peninsula of modern-day Mexico. [k] ＠Mash The Maya civilization lasted from around 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1697. [k] ＠Mash The era from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 250 is known as the Preclassic period... From A.D. 250 to A.D. 900 is known as the Classic period... [k] ＠Mash And finally, the period from A.D. 900 to the late seventeenth century as the Postclassic period. [k] ＠Mash Each of these periods is said to have experienced their own decline and subsequent rise to prosperity. [k] ＠Mash As for Chichén Itzá, it was built by the Itzá people, Mayan for “water sorcerers,” in the Postclassic period. [k] ＠Mash The Itzá are thought to be either outsiders to the Maya civilization, or the descendants of Mayans who managed to escape the fall of their central hub. [k] ＠Mash But wherever they came from, when they arrived in the peninsula with its abundance of natural wells, or “cenotes,” they named it “Chichén Itzá,” or “the mouth of the well of the water sorcerers.” [k] ＠Mash The Itzá people also worshipped a god of wind and water they called “Kukulcan.” [k] ＠Mash ...This same god is known as Quetzalcoatl in Aztec mythology, which came later. [k] ？1：Quetzalcoatl... [messageOff] [cueSe SE_22 22_ad1177] [bgm BGM_EVENT_156 0.7 0.2] [fadeout white 0.7] [wait fade] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [charaTalk E] [charaFace E 1] [charaFadein E 0.1 1] [scene 34000] [cameraFilter gray] [wt 0.4] [bgm BGM_EVENT_156 0.7 0.5] [fadein white 0.7] [wait fade] [wt 1.5] [bgm BGM_EVENT_156 0.7 0.2] [fadeout white 0.7] [wait fade] [charaFadeout E 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 13] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] [cameraFilter normal] [scene 169701] [wt 0.4] [bgm BGM_EVENT_156 0.7 1.0] [fadein white 0.7] [wait fade] [wt 0.7] ？2：You mean Mayan mythology and Aztec mythology are different? [charaFace B 13] ＠Mash Many of their myths are similar thanks to their shared origin in Latin America, but yes, at their heart, they're fundamentally different religions. [k] ＠Mash Put kind of crassly, the Mayan civilization was sort of like the rough draft for the more polished Aztec civilization. [k] ？！ [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Tepeu Kukulcan. So they existed in Proper Human History as well... Yes, of course they did. [k] ＠Tepeu And yet, Proper Human History's Mayan civilization still fell? Even when they had their god protecting them? [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 8] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash Well...yes. [k] ＠Mash When the Mayan civilization declined, the gods disappeared as well, and all of Latin America entered its Age of Humanity. [k] [charaFace B 0] ＠Mash Mayan civilization is thought to have been created by the Mayan people, but in truth, it was the creation of many different tribes and hamlets. [k] ＠Mash Their descendants broke into several different ethnicities, like the “Tzotzil” and “K'iche'.” [k] ＠Mash The name “Maya” is now believed to have come many years later, from the city-state of Mayapán. [k] ＠Mash During the Classic period, Mayan civilization was composed of around sixty to seventy city-states. [k] ＠Mash Even after their civilization's first collapse, the Mayans went on to create numerous cultures and histories during the Postclassic period. [k] ＠Mash They are even believed to have been physically stronger and more mentally advanced than the average person at the time. [k] ＠Mash City-states like Copán, Tikal, Calakmul, and Palenque flourished thanks to a prolonged period of continuous competition and cooperation. [k] ＠Mash These cultures had advanced written language and astronomical practices, and built incredible structures like the Pirámide de La Danta, a pyramid in the Mayan city of El Mirador. [k] ＠Mash By using the observatory, El Caracol, which meticulously tracked the stars' movements, they created two calendars, and efficiently managed the lives of their people. [k] ＠Mash Although the Mayans never had a single unifying dynasty, the kings of their various city-states did forge alliances. [k] [charaFace B 4] ＠Mash Still...technological progress isn't a matter of man power alone. [k] ＠Mash It's also greatly affected by their environment[line 2]the kind of crops they can grow, the ore they can mine, and the climate they live in. [k] ＠Mash The harsh climate of Mesoamerica helped to form a vibrant mythology. It also made the Mayan people very strong... [k] ＠Mash ...but prevented them from making much progress when it came to hand tools, like weapons. [k] ＠Mash After the center of culture gradually shifted from the Yucatán Peninsula to the Central Mexican Plateau... [k] ＠Mash ...the same thing happened with the Aztec civilization, which flourished in the Postclassic period. [k] ＠Mash Their arms consisted primarily of wooden weapons like spears, bows, and macana[line 2]swords made of wood, with shards of obsidian embedded in their edges. [k] ＠Mash They never developed guns, nor did they have mounted cavalry. [k] ＠Mash So there's a strong argument to be made that the people of Mesoamerica lagged behind European nations in matters of warfare. [k] ＠Mash And then... [k] [charaFace B 7] ＠Mash ...the successor to Mayan civilization, the flourishing Aztec kingdom, collapsed in the mid-sixteenth century. [k] ＠Mash It did not collapse because of strife with bordering kingdoms. They were overrun by foreign conquerors who came from across the sea.[bgmStop BGM_EVENT_156 2.0] [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 3] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Tepeu From across the sea? What do you mean? [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [bgm BGM_MAP_10 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 7] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash They were led by a Spanish conquistador named Hernán Cortés. [k] ＠Mash He landed on the shores of Central America with only a few trusted companions, and eventually conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. [k] ＠Mash The Aztec king at the time, Moctezuma II, died in the ensuing upheaval... [k] ＠Mash ...and in the end, Hernán Cortés and his fellow conquistadors destroyed the Aztecs. [k] ＠Mash From then on, the Aztec lands became Spanish territory dubbed “Nueva España,” meaning “New Spain,” which would later become “Mexico.” [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 4] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Nemo Marine I've heard of that. Less than five hundred Spaniards destroyed an Aztec kingdom of tens of thousands of people. [k] ＠Nemo Marine I remember an Aztec legend that went something like: [k] [charaFace C 3] ＠Nemo Marine “Though the good god Quetzalcoatl may have vanished after being defeated by the evil god Tezcatlipoca...” [k] ＠Nemo Marine “...one day, he will return from the northeastern lands, and restore the Aztecs to their former glory.” [k] [charaFace C 5] ＠Nemo Marine By that time, the Age of Gods had already ended, but that didn't stop people from believing. [k] ＠Nemo Marine At the time, Quetzalcoatl was believed to have white skin and a black beard. [k] ＠Nemo Marine So when Cortés appeared, matching that description... [k] ＠Nemo Marine ...Moctezuma II believed him to be the second coming of Quetzalcoatl, and welcomed him as a guest. [k] ？1：Really? A conqueror from a foreign country, as a guest? ？2：(I get the feeling there may have been more to the story than that...) ？！ [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 7] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] ＠Rasputin Good and evil. Creation and destruction. Sun and darkness. Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl. [k] ＠Rasputin But the Mayan and Aztec peoples didn't believe the relationship between the two gods to be quite so simple. [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 13] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash Right. I'll go into Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl's relationship more later. [k] [charaFace B 0] ＠Mash Cortés used the Aztec people's belief in the legend of Quetzalcoatl to his advantage. [k] ＠Mash He won the Aztec Empire's hostile neighboring tribes to his side, and with their help, conquered their capital, though he was outnumbered. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Tepeu “Aztec Empire”? Didn't you say it was a kingdom earlier? [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 13] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash Yes, I did. At this time, the Central Mexican Plateau was home to many different city-states. [k] ＠Mash In the case of the Aztecs, the two cities of Tlacopan and Tetzcoco had sworn an alliance and formed a powerful empire. [k] [charaFace B 4] ＠Mash They used that combined power to dominate the neighboring tribes. [k] ＠Mash It's said that, in the Aztec kingdom's capital city of Tenochtitlan... [k] ＠Mash ...over fifty people were sacrificed to the rain god Tlāloc and the tribal god Huītzilōpōchtli every day. [k] ＠Mash The Aztec people regularly waged war with neighboring city-states... [k] ＠Mash ...and used their overwhelming military force to capture a great many people for use as slaves and sacrifices. [k] ？1：So many sacrifices... They must not have been popular. ？2：I can only imagine how much those neighbors must have hated them... ？！ [charaFace B 0] ＠Mash Right. The Aztec Empire's success was built on countless bodies and all the resentment that created. [k] ＠Mash So Cortés wasn't solely responsible for their downfall. [k] ＠Mash Bad blood had been building between the Aztecs and their neighbors for many years by then. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 0] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] ＠Rasputin When it came to warfare on flat land, the Spaniards' guns and cavalry gave them an overwhelming advantage. The Aztec Empire simply did not have anything similar to use. [k] ＠Rasputin Neither guns nor horses were much help in the jungle, and the Aztecs had a tremendous advantage in terms of numbers. [k] ＠Rasputin And that is why probably Cortés's smartest decision was not to wage war with the neighboring tribes... [k] ＠Rasputin ...but instead to enlist them as allies against a common enemy in the Aztec Empire. [k] ＠Rasputin He then spread rumors that he was the second coming of Quetzalcoatl, and instead of being treated as an invader... [k] ＠Rasputin ...he openly paraded through Tenochtitlan's gates, took Moctezuma II prisoner, and occupied the Aztec capital. [k] ＠Rasputin In the end, the Aztec Empire was destroyed in the name of the Spaniards' greed and the neighboring tribes' fury. [k] [charaFace D 7] ＠Rasputin Though they arguably had the most powerful empire on Earth at the time, to say nothing of the flourishing capital, Tenochtitlan... [k] ＠Rasputin ...it still collapsed from within, unable even to fight a proper war. [k] ＠Rasputin If Moctezuma II hadn't believed in the legend of Quetzalcoatl's second coming, or if the Aztec Empire had been less receptive to outside cultures... [k] ＠Rasputin ...the history of Mesoamerica might have gone very differently. [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk C] [charaFace C 4] [charaFadein C 0.1 1] ＠Nemo Marine Yeah. That's why Moctezuma II was said to be the ruler who brought about the end of the Aztec Empire. [k] ＠Nemo Marine He was blamed for the error of welcoming a foreign invader as an Aztec god... [k] ＠Nemo Marine ...and in the end, it was his own people, the people of Tenochtitlan, not the Spaniards, who killed him. [k] ＠Nemo Marine The Spaniards actually let Emperor Moctezuma go free, but then the nobles and other people of Tenochtitlan stoned him to death. [k] [charaFadeout C 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 10] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] ＠Rasputin There are numerous theories as to why the Spaniards let him go... [k] ＠Rasputin ...but the most prevalent says that they wished to avoid being seen as having committed regicide themselves. [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 13] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] ＠Mash ...Anyway, that was a very abridged history of Proper Human History's Mesoamerica, but it's all I can tell you. [k] ＠Mash I hope it was helpful. [k] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Tepeu Oh yes, certainly. Those guns you mentioned...that is what the tools the ocelomeh use are called, yes? [k] ＠Tepeu So, there were conquerors from the outside world... Guns used to suppress the local tribes... Massacres... [k] ＠Tepeu That all sounds just like what has been happening in Mictlān as of late. [k] ＠Tepeu Which would make Daybit the Crypter our very own Hernán Cortés.[bgmStop BGM_MAP_10 2.0] [k] ？1：... [messageOff] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk B] [charaFace B 4] [charaFadein B 0.1 1] [wt 1.2] [charaFadeout B 0.1] [wt 0.1] [bgm BGM_MAP_41 0.5] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 0] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ？！ ＠Tepeu Oh, I'm not blaming you for that. It's... How can I put this...? [k] [charaFace A 3] ＠Tepeu I'm simply struck by the similarities is all. [k] ＠Tepeu We have our golden city, Chichén Itzá, and Kukulcan, the Teachings of the Sun. And Proper Human History had an altar city, also named Chichén Itzá, and a Kukulcan who was a god of wind and water. [k] ＠Tepeu We also have our subterranean world named Mictlān, and you have your underworld, also named Mictlān. [k] [charaFace A 0] ＠Tepeu As I told you back at the cornfield, we never had a concept of such a thing as a god. [k] ＠Tepeu We learned about that from Daybit the Crypter. [k] ＠Tepeu Our Teachings of the Sun, Kukulcan, only came to be called a god because of what we learned from him. [k] ＠Tepeu I feel as though this notion of gods fits much better now. [k] ＠Tepeu Not to say one is real and the other is false. [k] ＠Tepeu I'm merely saying that, thanks to new knowledge and perspectives... [k] ＠Tepeu ...what had simply existed till now has been replaced with something wholly new. [k] [charaCrossFade A 1098252940 6 0.3] ＠Tepeu It's all very exciting. Though there are still some parts I don't clearly understand.[wait charaCrossFade A] [k] [charaFaceFade A 0 0.3] ＠Tepeu I think I'd like to learn more about these gods of Proper Human History next... [k] ＠Tepeu That is, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl. It is rather late now, though. [k] ＠Tepeu Why don't we call it a night, and I'll show you to your beds. [k] [charaFadeout A 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaSet A 1098252900 1 Tepeu] [charaTalk D] [charaFace D 0] [charaFadein D 0.1 1] ＠Rasputin Let me ask you one thing first. [k] ＠Rasputin Tepeu, you deinos clearly don't belong here in Chichén Itzá. [k] ＠Rasputin If anything, your lifestyles here seem to be based on those of people from Proper Human History. [k] ＠Rasputin Who built this city? The being you call the King of Dinosaurs? [k] [charaFadeout D 0.1] [wt 0.1] [charaTalk A] [charaFace A 2] [charaFadein A 0.1 1] ＠Tepeu Oh no, the King of Dinosaurs only showed up quite recently, so he has nothing to do with Chichén Itzá. [k] [charaFace A 0] ＠Tepeu No, it was Kukulcan who built Chichén Itzá. [k] ＠Tepeu In fact, it's said that Kukulcan the sun god built this city to oversee all of Mictlān. [k] [messageOff] [wt 0.7] [fadeout black 2.0] [bgmStop BGM_MAP_41 2.0] [wait fade] [wt 0.5] [soundStopAll] [end]