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                                                Posted: Wed, 18/01/2023 18:35                                                (1 Year ago)
                                            

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𝓐 𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 𝓓𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓭
By Catherine_Elysandre
2000 BCE
In the middle of the Sonoran Desert, there was a great mesa. It had always been there, as long as anyone could remember, but there was definitely something odd about it. It loomed on the horizon, the backdrop for the most fertile oasis in the Sonoran.

100 CE
Five miles away, the Hopi tribe established a (fictional) settlement-city near this Sonoran Oasis they call Hospoa, or Roadrunner. The Great Mesa became entwined in their culture, and the treacherous pilgrimage to the top of the mesa was a rite of passage.

1294 CE
An Azteci traveler from the south called Citlalee (pronounced see-tah-lee, meaning star) mysteriously arrives in the Hospoa Region. It is at this point that the Hospoans become increasingly isolated from the rest of the Native Americans in the region, even gaining a reputation for strange rituals and happenings.

1521 CE
Tenochtitlan (pronounced teh-nok-tee-tlan), capital of the Aztec Empire, fell to the military forces of Hernando Cortez and Smallpox. Tales of a legendary treasure hidden in a secret city of gold spread like wildfire.

1585 CE
On the other side of the continent, another strange occurrence was happening. When the British first colonized America, one of the first settlements was Roanoke. This site would eventually become home to a lost city that ended up mysteriously disappearing into thin air. Speculation was rampant within the British Empire, but an observant sailor, Willy Thomasy, recognized a lake that shimmered even when there was no sun. He claimed that there had never been a lake there before, and was dismissed as a madman.

1749 CE
Benjamin Franklin discovered the principle behind the lightning rod in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. But he accidentally discovered something more. Christian Missionaries also discover that lightning strikes the top of the Great Mesa nearly every thunderstorm.

1858 CE
Abraham Lincoln gives his speech about “A House Divided” after stumbling upon a centuries old secret. He fills the speech with hidden meaning, that only those who know what he does can understand. A group of pioneers on the Oregon Trail report hearing “a joyous singing” coming from the Rocky Mountains as they cross during a blizzard (fictional, though there exists records similar).

1872 CE
Yellowstone National Park is established as the nation's and the world’s first National Park. Boasting geothermal deposits that could either save humanity or end the world, scientists have very little knowledge of the Tectonic Plate boundary the park sits on.

1873 CE
The Ghost Dance Movement became widespread throughout Native American Culture in the late 1800s as a direct reaction to the Trail of Tears and other cruel massacres. Native Americans believed that through song, dance, meditation, and other spiritual practice, they could believe in the present, and celebrate rather than mourn the loss of their ancestors to the cruelty of American Settlers. Many cultures even believed that such extreme devotion to this practice would make them impervious to bullets. It was said that a young girl, Fala, was shot seventeen times, and lived (fictional, though there exists records similar).

1938 CE
The Great Dust Bowl sweeps the Great Plains during the depression. A small town called Canyon Falls (fictional) appears to have been erased from existence by the harsh winds. A climatologist in the area reports that even the foundations of these supposed buildings are nowhere to be found.

1976 CE
Ice Fishers set out from the small town of Qalupalik, in Northern Alaska (fictional). They are snowed out of the town for four years by the largest blizzard the area has seen in decades. When they finally are able to return, they expect the worst, as the town has been cut off from the world for years. There is no trace of Qalupalik left, as if the snow had fallen on an empty plain.

2001 CE
A group of scientists compile records of the Hospoa Oasis Civilization, and wonder why the history of such a major group of Native Americans in the Southwest were never found before. They triangulate the coordinates using missionary accounts, an ancient sixteenth century map drafted by one of Cortez’s men and Pueblo and Hopi records. Excavation of the site reveals… absolutely nothing. Inquiries are made, and no one from any reservation identifies as Hospoa. This causes intense confusion.

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So what do all of these events have in common?
The answer is terribly simple, and infinitely complex: Y’tilaer

Science says that there are four great forces: the gravitational force (gravity), the electromagnetic force (electricity and magnetism), the strong force and the weak force (what keeps atoms and subatomic particles bonded together).

Nature (and Avatar: The Last Airbender) says there are four great forces: fire, water, earth and air.

Both are true. But there is also a fifth force.

Y’tilaer.

Y’tilaer connects life and death; flora, fauna, and fungi; biotic and abiotic; environment and creatures. It is the singular force that flows through us all. In rare moments and places, it manifests itself, showing humanity that we can exert a limited control over this force. It has been suggested that there exists a realm parallel to our own in which Y’tilaer reigns supreme.

No one knows what Y’tilaer is. Very few have even heard its name. But it appears scrawled in the margins of Benjamin Franklin’s notes, scribbled on the sixteenth century map, scratched onto a rock in Canyon Falls, carved into the Great Mesa, painted on the cliff in Qalupalik.

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2023 CE
You have been called to Alexei Madrigal Hyde’s castle manor, perched atop the ski slopes of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. You have no idea who Hyde is, but those of you who are intelligent have found his name everywhere. A.M. Hyde is often listed as a consultant on the bills passed in Washington DC, a signature in major real estate deals in Beverly Hills, tied to Wall Street transactions in NYC, and all over technological transactions in Silicon Valley.

You have never met this person. You have no idea what this is about. But you cannot resist the mystery, and an all expenses paid trip to one of the hottest tourist destinations in America. Plus, the idea of staying in one of the few real American Castles…

Stuff we know, but you characters don’t: