Quote Originally Posted by Parua View Post
The Lapis Canyon that is revered by the Whalaqee suggests that our first encounter with the New World will involve something akin to both the myth of El Dorado (and other legendary cities) and the historic mountain Potosi in what is now Bolivia which was said to be made entirely of silver and which became the dominant source of silver in the "old" world for decades when Spain created a mint there. The local animist beliefs about the mountain managed to persist through to the modern era, in spite of Spanish attempts at squashing it.
Happy to see them continuing their incorporation of mesoamerican and south american myth and history. They hinted at it by naming things after mesoamerican placenames Qitana Ravel vs. Quintana Roo, a state in Yucatan that is pronounced kin'tana in Spanish and spelled the same way in the Japanese version). They also mention cenotes! You aren't going to find many cenotes outside the Yucatan Peninsula at all because those are a mayan-identified, mayan-named geological structure.

Cenotes in the Yucutan were formed largely as a result of the Chicxulub asteroid impact, by the way! Cenotes are also a place in which among the oldest-known skeletons in the new world were found.

There were more references in fashion, food, boat design, to suggest that there's also references to the Inca.

I'm excited because these kinds of references hit at my yearslong study of the history of the Americas.