Aztec Eternals

March is the cold ice age, and the North Pacific north of 50 degrees north latitude is still a world of crystal white, bitter cold and death. The extreme northern route connecting North America to Northeast Asia, the coldest and shortest coastal route in this era, also departs from Whale Harbor at 49 degrees north latitude and finally arrives at the Kamchatka Peninsula at more than 50 degrees north latitude.

The first half of this extreme northern route is along the coast of Alaska in North America, with the warm Alaska Current, reaching as far north as the Sacred Blood Bay Port at 60 degrees north latitude. The second half is the Aleutian Islands with strong winds and waves, and the Kamchatka Peninsula where the cold Thousand Islands Current flows, which is actually even more cold and difficult!

Thousands of miles of ice dominates the North Pacific, and the Alaska Warm Current can only flow under the ice. Nine hundred miles north from the starting point of Whale Harbor (N48, W124) to the northern tip of what would become Vancouver Island is the Kingdom's second port on the far north route, Kambei Fish Harbor (N50, W127).

"God bless you! The ice outside the port has melted. In another half month, fishing boats can go into the sea to fish... The number of people in the port has increased again. When planting potatoes this year, we still need to plant more varieties! Well, It’s very snowy this winter, and it’s very difficult for the Herzk tribe on the other side. When navigation is possible, we will bring some fish to the other side to appease the small tribes who are struggling to survive, and bring them back to replenish the population... "

Priest Chief Fish stood by the port, looking at the narrow strait in the east and the faint mountains on the other side. Standing beside him were not only two kingdom warriors holding axes, four Slaus fishermen with fishing hooks, and three Hertzk hunters wearing wooden beast hats. Whether they are Slaus people or Herzk people, they are generally one head taller than the warriors of the kingdom, and their stature is also larger.

This winter the ice is very thick and cold waves are extremely frequent. There is a Hertzik tribe of more than 30 people who fled on the thick ice to Vancouver Island. In the end, they were lucky enough to be absorbed by the Shenbei Fish Port and chose to convert to the main god.

There were actually about a hundred people in this tribe, but after one winter, only about thirty were left. Extreme cold and heavy snow, lack of food and fuel, it is difficult to fish due to ice, and the tribe has no food reserves... These small fishing and hunting tribes in the far north continent have such limited ability to withstand cold disasters. And further east in the vast inland depths, there are countless scattered small tribes like this, emerging and dying in the cold winter like epiphyllum.

"Well... there are already three hundred and forty people in the port, and a large potato field has been developed. We are closest to the whale port. When the freeze thaws in April, we still have to send a long ship south to bring a load of pickled whale meat. Then go to the surrounding tribes to recruit people!…"

After more than two years of development, Shenbei Fish Port already has more than 300 people, and the speed of development is not very fast. The characteristics of this port are that it is on a safe island and there are large potato fields planted there, so it can also be called "Potato Port".

Compared to the ambitious and rapid expansion of the priests of the kingdom on the west coast, the priests of the far north coast are much more simple and unpretentious. What they are thinking about is how to hoard food, how to save fuel, and how to let the tribes in the port survive the winter... In this desolate and gray extreme northern continent, the issue of survival is always the first priority! And the cost of raising a tribe is really high, far from being compared with the warm and fertile west coast.

The ice sea reflects the vast sky, and the floating ice shines white. Going north from Kamei Fish Port, you have to travel a full 1,400 miles before you can reach the next kingdom port, Divine Eagle Wing Port (N55, W131). The scale of this port is obviously much larger than that of "Tudou Port", and rows of low-slung shacks have been built. On the frozen shore, two long boats were moored, while hundreds of tribesmen spread out on the ice, guarding their own fishing holes and engaging in ice fishing in a competition of patience and luck.

"Ah! God bless you! The fish took the bait and jumped up! Wow! It's a big white fish!..."

“I caught one too!…”

"I caught three!..."

"Shhh! Keep your voice down... The priest didn't catch any pineapples, and his expression is very ugly... When it's over, each of us will give one to the priest!..."

"No, you can't give it directly to the priest. The priest may not be happy... let's give it to the priest's wife!"

"Ah? Why would the priest be unhappy if we gave him fish?..."

"What do you, a Qingit fishman, know? The priest's wife is the daughter of the chief of our Qinxi'an Yingdao tribe! She told us that the priest is thin-skinned and restrains himself even on the straw bed. He is not serious..."

"Ah! Keep your voice down and tell me carefully...I...I'll give you a fish!..."

"Hoo! Hoo!... There is nothing theological about ice fishing... It all depends on luck!... All my luck has been used to protect the tribe... The Lord God bless me!..."

The pineapple priest, wrapped in thick fur, squatted beside the cut-out opening in the ice, waiting patiently and helplessly. Next to him was Qinyan, Qinxi's wife, who was tall and strong. She looked at her husband who couldn't catch a fish with a smile on her face, and she was whittling a fishing harpoon in her hand. She is the daughter of the chief of the Eagle Island tribe, and she also has a natural influence on the more than 300 Qinxian people in the port. And she was also very satisfied with her husband, especially compared with Zuvallo, another captain who married her aunt, who disappeared as soon as her aunt was pregnant with the child...

Yes, among the many ports on the far north route, the Eagle Wings Port, which has continuously been married to the Eagle Island Tribe and has received support from the coastal tribes, is probably the far north port with the largest number of people! There are more than 600 people in this large port, which is almost twice the number of Potato Port. The population consists of more than 100 people from the kingdom, more than 300 Qinxi people, and about 200 Qinjit people. In front of the main god's shrine here, there are also two tribal totem poles. One is the eagle totem worshiped by Qinxi people, and the other is the fish totem worshiped by Qinjit people, so it can also be called "Osprey Port".

The two totem poles correspond to each other, like the inheritance and symbols of the North, and also correspond to the creatures in the water and the sky. And when the white eagle flew hundreds of miles north, it came to a zigzag bay with shining gold and stone. It was the kingdom's port on Douglas Rich Island, Shenjinxi Port (N58, W134).

The current size of Shenjinxi Port is similar to that of "Tudou Port", with a capacity of about 300 people. The biggest feature of this port is undoubtedly the Juneau Gold Mine, which is the richest in North America and has astonishing reserves. This is a "gold rush port" sitting on a gold mining belt that can drive all the kingdoms of the Old World crazy!

However, a warm bonfire was lit in the temple, and the thousands of kilograms of gold sand on the altar shone brightly. Priest Jinzhan was wrapped in thick fur and sitting cross-legged in front of the altar, holding a stone carving knife in his hand. He was listless and carving the emblem of the Lord God on the golden amulet. Beside him, gold talismans weighing a kilogram were piled into a small pile, at least hundreds of them, thrown around like useless stones...

"Lord God! It's so annoying!... There are obviously so many gold mines here, and there is divinity predicted by His Majesty himself!... However, the chief priest of Chimel, who is in charge of the second fleet, did not leave a long ship for me! No matter what Whether it is the Condor Wing Port in the south or the Divine Blood Bay Port in the north, both have received supplementary support from longships..."

"Ah! Could it be that my port with its gold mines has to be ranked last in the entire Northern Route? Could it be that my marigold, a descendant of a great noble, is not as good as those civilian priests?... No, at least it’s better than the Changyu in Tudou Port, right? …Ah! I’m so angry!”

"boom!…"

With an angry look on his face, the Jinzhan Priest raised his hand and threw the one-pound gold talisman as a Frisbee and threw it out of the door of the small temple. And when I looked carefully, I saw that there were more than ten or twenty gold charms thrown in the snow outside the door, and no one picked them up, not even the groundhog! …

In fact, the Marigold Priest's estimate was pretty good. Among the ports on the far north route, Jinxi Port sits on a large gold mine. The land is very barren and the fishery resources are only average. In the opinion of Chimel, the chief priest of the second support fleet, this place is "very unsuitable for farming", and the kingdom's supply of longships is very limited, so naturally it was not arranged here.

Therefore, there is only one long boat and dozens of canoes parked beside the frozen harbor of Jinxi Port. And then traveling more than a thousand miles northwest, when we arrived at the Kingdom's Divine Blood Bay Port (N60, W145), we found three longships frozen!

Chief Priest Chimel attached great importance to the Port of Divine Blood Bay and allocated two longships, leaving more than 150 kingdom headquarters here. With the addition of these kingdom powers, the Divine Blood Bay tribe has rapidly expanded to about 500 people. With many warriors, it can still hold the place and continue to absorb the surrounding tribesmen...

As the successor to the Far North Route, Chimel's reason for making such arrangements was based on development potential and solid base. This port at the intersection of "Blood Bay" and "Blood River" not only has the best fishery resources among the ports in the Far North, but also has the most convenient waterway transportation. It is connected to the vast hinterland of the Far North continent. It has great geographical advantages!

The more fish people there are, the more tribes can be supported and the larger kingdom ports can be supported. Convenient transportation means that there are many connected tribes, which can be easily absorbed and converted! In fact, not far to the west of the Xuewan tribe are the magnificent Tianshen Ancestral Peak and the Changwan tribes at the foot of the mountain beside Changwan. And because the extremely tall Mountain God Zufeng Mountains block the cold wave coming from the north, there is almost a rare warm and fertile land on the entire Alaska coast, and it is the place with the highest tribal density. In fact, Zuvalo had a similar plan, which was to move the captured deer hunters to the Sacred Blood Bay Port in two ships...

"The Lord God witnesses! The Divine Blood Bay Port is the most critical waist and abdomen on the extreme northern route. It is our 'Tiger Yao Port'!..."

Last summer and autumn, after the chief priest Chimel left these words of encouragement to the strong tailed leopard priest, he continued to sail westward with seven long ships to send warmth, no, support to Zuvalo thousands of miles away... As for In the current early spring ice age, the position of the chief priest of Chimel...

"Ahem! Sukeichiro, how long will it take for these two strange four-legged beasts to give birth?..."

"Ah! Master officiant, please don't come close, please don't come close! Horses have bad tempers when they are pregnant and will kick you!... They are almost ten months pregnant... In one or two months, they will give birth to ponies!... "

Note: The Easter Egg Chapter is the overall map of the Far North Route.