Quechua/Inca influence in Dawntrail lore

[Fenral]

Unfortunately, my own knowledge in descending order is Aztec -> Maya -> Inca, and even then I need sources at hand to help with recall.

I know we're probably too far south for that, but since we're potentially dealing with a kitchen sink situation, is there a possibility of discovering a doomsday calendar as well? It'd be a good way to establish a possible second Endsinger-tier threat without needing to start laying any specific groundwork.

I'd say I want a Legends of the Hidden Temple reference, but we already got one of those back in Shadowbringers.

I needed to search, but then a lot came flooding back.

[Cleretic]

I know we're probably too far south for that, but since we're potentially dealing with a kitchen sink situation, is there a possibility of discovering a doomsday calendar as well? It'd be a good way to establish a possible second Endsinger-tier threat without needing to start laying any specific groundwork.

I feel like 'doomsday calendar' has run its course out in several ways. Like, not only have we gone past the 'long-standing impending apocalypse' part of the setting (both of them!), but by the time Dawntrail launches we'll be twelve years out from the point the Mayan long count calendar ending anyway, so that subject's kinda run cold.

Also, the notion of the 'doomsday calendar' was already pretty off-base as a concept; it's not that the Mayans actually thought the world was going to end at that point, that was just... where their calendar drew the line and restarted. It was hardly the first time it happened for them, or sign of anything of great note. It'd be like looking at our calendar and assuming we thought the world would end after December 31st. I almost want to call it offensively wrong, but I don't want to speak for a demographic that I'm not even 100% sure exists, I don't know where the descendants of Mayans are or how they feel about the whole thing!

[Fenral]

Also, the notion of the 'doomsday calendar' was already pretty off-base as a concept; it's not that the Mayans actually thought the world was going to end at that point, that was just... where their calendar drew the line and restarted. It was hardly the first time it happened for them, or sign of anything of great note. It'd be like looking at our calendar and assuming we thought the world would end after December 31st. I almost want to call it offensively wrong, but I don't want to speak for a demographic that I'm not even 100% sure exists, I don't know where the descendants of Mayans are or how they feel about the whole thing!

Okay, sorry. I mean, yeah. I know that already. It's very common knowledge at this point. Perhaps I should have included a gigantic footnote, but it felt kind of unnecessary when we're also talking about El Dorado, and that was basically made up by the conquistadores.


And besides, recognizing that the people you've just subjugated have an accurate calendar going out 500 years in advance and then pausing at the realization that it just stops (for very ordinary and practical reasons, as it happens) isn't really a "dur hur ignorant savages" moment, at least by my reckoning.