Aztec Eternals

"Praise the Lord God Huitziloppo! He controls light, thunder and fire, giving harvests, fertility and victory!...You must believe in my God, He is supreme, supreme and omnipotent!...I, your god's servant, the Songbird Priest, to You sacrifice the three animals of wolf, deer, and fish, and pray for your vision and divine power to come to you! ... Bow down, kowtow again! Bow three times, and sing praises!

When the first ray of morning light rises from the wasteland in the east, illuminating the narrow seashore of thousands of miles; when Feather Pengguali bursts into tears and stands on the wall of the village to pray... In Leijin Town, thousands of miles away in the north, the singing bird The chief priest is wearing a complicated black and red sacrificial robe and a one-meter-high feather crown. He is standing on the eight-meter-high small pyramid temple, worshiping the rising sun devoutly.

At the feet of the chief priest of the song bird, in front of the rare pyramid temple in the northern continent, the endless tribes of Leijin Town knelt on the ground, pressing their foreheads tightly against the soil. Each tribesman has the bird pattern of the main god engraved on his forehead. They spoke different tribal languages ​​and wore various tattoos, but they all prayed to the main god of the sun.

"Ah! Praise the sun god, he is the brightest, roundest, largest and most powerful god!..."

"Praise the Great God of Plants and Plants! He spreads stone fertilizer on the fields, making the fields harvest abundant and growing endless sweet potatoes!..."

"Praise the Great God of Fire and Stone! He uses strange divine fire to turn stone into useful bronze!"

"Praise the great god of the sea! He gives you a ship that has never been seen before, allowing countless fish to jump into the fishing net!"

"Blessed by the strongest God of War! He lets the hunters pick up big bows, the warriors lift bronze spears, and the shamans summon thunder to kill all the hostile tribes!"

Amidst the chaotic shouts, many northern tribes knelt down devoutly, and all their simple faces were full of awe for the powerful gods. In the eyes of these tribes, although the great god "Go Carrot" has various faces, he is a truly powerful tribal god that surpasses all others!

This powerful god is extremely generous. Not only can he give enough food, useful metal tools, and large boats for fishing, but he can also bring big bows and arrows, bronze weapons and armor, and the most terrifying thunder. !

These unheard of or even unimaginable divine powers are gradually changing the lives of the northern tribes and quickly conquering the hearts of the tribes in Leijin Town... causing eight thousand tribesmen to worship in front of the temple and pray devoutly for the blessing and protection of the Lord God. !

Yes, there are currently 8,000 northern tribes who have converted to the main god in Leijin Town of the Kingdom. It is the strongest and most stable stronghold of the Kingdom in the entire northern continent!

Half of these tribes who have converted to the main god come from the former Yorem tribe. They have converted for more than three years. Their beliefs have long been solidified and they are willing to fight for the god. As for the remaining half, they come from various sources and have been converted for anywhere from three years to a few months. Among them, there are the Mayo people who have the same origin as the Yoremu tribe, the Tara people and the Makuvi people who have defected from the wilderness frontier, the Yaqui people who have the same origin as the large Yome tribe, and many other ethnic groups. A mixed mountain miscellany.

The reason why these small tribes with dozens or hundreds of people came to seek refuge from hundreds of miles away was because of the prosperous bronze trade in Leijin Town, which made them famous day by day. Tribes large and small within more than a thousand miles have heard from the passing trading tribes that a rich and powerful "Leijin" tribe has arisen on the southwest coast!

This large tribe has endless food, hundreds of armored warriors, a large number of hard and sharp bronze weapons, and a steady stream of large ships carrying goods from the sea! And such a powerful tribe is extremely generous and is willing to absorb all the small tribes that seek refuge... And the price you have to pay for joining the tribe is to devoutly convert to the sun god and be willing to work according to orders. From then on, you will have enough to eat, and you don't have to be afraid. Hungry and cold northern gods!

Well fed and clothed, able to survive divine disasters, and protected by powerful force! ...These three precious conditions are simply irresistible temptations for the various hunting tribes in the northern continent, especially the small tribes struggling to survive!

At the border of this mountainous wilderness, you can hunt birds and animals in the summer, and collect fruits, vegetables, and grains in the autumn. These are good seasons of mildness and vitality. Most tribes, large and small, can make do with each other, and some can reproduce more. Heirs. But once winter comes when the temperature drops sharply, and spring comes when there is no harvest, it will be a terrible day when coldness and death spread. It is a time when the population of countless tribes plummets, and the old people leave the tribe and go to the mountains alone! The smaller the number of small hunting tribes, the less resistant they are to famine and cold waves, and may even become prey targets for larger tribes looking for food rations...

Therefore, every year from November to April, small groups of tribes who cannot survive come to seek refuge in the peak of Leijin Town. After the Songbird Priest took the kingdom's warriors to screen them, most of them refused and held a blood oath conversion ceremony for these tribes on the spot!

Of course, although these safari tribes have all joined Leijin Town, they cannot be treated equally, and they still have obvious kinship and distance. Most of the tribal people are engaged in the most basic tribal labor, including farming and fishing, building temples and houses, mining and coal mining, and making bricks. Only a few devout and intelligent tribesmen can engage in higher-level technical labor, including making pottery, making wood and stone tools, burning bricks and opening kilns, smelting copper and tin materials, and smelting worthless gold and silver ores. .

As for the core bronze casting, it is only in the hands of dozens of the highest-status kingdom craftsmen and about a hundred local craftsmen apprentices. Most of these apprentices are under the age of twenty. They have experienced the faith test of the kingdom's priests. They were selected because they were pious enough and were given the opportunity to become bronze craftsmen and join the ruling group of Leijin Town!

Yes, in Leijin Town, the largest stronghold in the northern part of the kingdom, a three-tiered ruling order similar to that of Central American city-states has emerged! This hierarchical order was rapidly established due to the increase in productivity brought by the kingdom, and gradually replaced the traditional safari tribal communes where equal discussions were held.

In just three or four years, Leijin Town has been divided into priests and warrior leaders at the top, craftsmen and warriors at the middle level, and working tribesmen at the bottom. If the lower-level Burakumin want to be promoted, they have three ways.

The first type is those who are devout in faith, talented and intelligent, and can be selected by the kingdom's priests and promoted to priests or craftsman apprentices, relying on knowledge and technology to make a living. The second type is those who are outstanding in force and dare to fight and kill. With their excellent archery or fighting skills, they are valued by the warriors of the kingdom and trained into elite tribal warriors, taking the promotion path of military merit and knighthood. As for the very few third type, it is the special promotion situation in Northland. Among the newly settled safari tribes, some rare farming experts will be rewarded and promoted based on the kingdom's teachings that encourage farming. They will be used as outstanding agricultural guides in farming and become field leaders who manage the farming of dozens of tribesmen.

"Praise the Lord God! From the autumn of last year to the spring of this year, more than a thousand tribal people converted to the true faith and joined the kingdom's Leijin Town! The Lord God's faith is taking deep root in this vast northern continent! And with such a With the speed of development, in less than two years, I will be able to control a large tribe of ten thousand people and mobilize thousands of warriors... Coupled with the progress of the missionary work in the large Yomei tribe, the converted noble chiefs and tribesmen..."

"For the glory of the Lord God, wait two more years! As long as the time is ripe and you have the confidence to control the Yuemei tribe... you can decisively take action and convert this large tribe of ten thousand people in one fell swoop, and exile the Great Mountain Eagle Chief of the Yuemei tribe, completely Control the huge flint and coal mine belt in the north! And further north, there is the Opata Alliance that controls the Red Copper Mountain, and the birds that are entrenched in the mountains..."

On the small pyramid, the chief priest of the song bird who ruled Leijin Town excitedly stretched out his arms, embraced the rising sun in the east, and stared at the high and bright sky. However, his pious soul full of longing had already flown far away like a song sparrow to the large tribe of Youmei, more than five hundred miles away in the north!

The little North American song sparrow, with the blessing of the Lord God the Sun, and the support of the kingdom in the lake, gradually grew into an ambitious giant bird. The eyes of the "Singing Sparrow" are closely focused on the old "Big Mountain Eagle", patiently waiting for the opportunity to hunt and annex, and even look towards the red copper mountains further northeast, spying on the "mountain and forest birds" of tens of thousands of tribes.

However, the song sparrow at this moment did not expect that a cunning feathered serpent, whose old feathers had become a spirit, had broken free and escaped from the brutal fighting on the southern plateau. Through a series of coincidences, Lao Feather finally determined his goal and was about to rush to the tribal hunting ground in this northern continent to find a place where his clan could settle down...

Note: The Easter egg chapter is a map of the southwest North America.