#ignore the static chess board lmaoooo

[nexility-sims]

𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞 (1885-2040).

an ode to my hands-down favorite characters, the heart and soul of my story, and worldbuilding ! did being The Worst™️ skip two generations, or have i just ignored beatriz's children? questions that doing a part v would answer ... anyway, citing my sources: my story description, this scene, the bible & trainspotting (1996), nahuatl, that generations statue post alyssa did, and the road to el dorado concept art.

TRANSCRIPT:

[VO] Once, political struggles in Uspana proved the monarchy is only as permanent as the People choose to make it.

[VO] The Reyes family, however, is forever.

[VO] As a clan, they laid claim to the black jaguar for its rarity and symbolism of the traits they value most: vigilance, valor, ferocity.

[VO] They tell the story of a man called the Hunter who, in the face of danger embodied these traits and made Uspana’s ancestors into the People.

[VO] They would call him a king. They also called him a people-eater.

[VO] He became, or perhaps always was, a carnivore—one who feeds on the flesh of enemies and builds power atop the bones. So, too, was Canarís.

[VO] Their descendants saw the figure of their chosen beast in the epithet and made it their own as well.

[VO] Not every Reyes is born a people-eater.

[VO] Nor is every people-eater born a Reyes.

[VO] They are one of a kind, even within the House of Tecuani.

[VO] These are the ones who—in a game of life or death, power or destruction—choose life for themselves.

[VO] They choose power like breathing air.

[VO] They play the game well and only occasionally overplay their hand.

[VO] The House of Tecuani is like any ancient dynasty: it rests upon a past both tumultuous and romantic. Its story is one of family and tradition, of relations and blood, of a place where time is a circle.

[VO] The family has carried the Crown for centuries with an understanding people-eaters know as a matter of instinct: we must be beloved, or we must be brutal, and it is better to be both.

[VO] “History is not past,” those who belong to the family like to say.

[VO] It lives with them, and its ghosts whisper to their heirs:

[VO] Choose life. Choose power.