CAW: Oritah (Right Now)
The player is captured by the Aztec army (likely a jaguar warrior) and is held in captivity within Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztecs that was a series of Islets.
The player pays off the guards and they release him on good promises, however he still needs to speak with the King/Emporer for a release note, which means the player must learn the words to achieve this.
Any attempt to flee the city without proper knowledge of the language results in failure, where they decide to sacrifice you to Huitzilopochtli, a God whom helps the sun defeat the darkness in an ongoing war between light and darkness.
The player will have a companion, to be determined later, that will help in understanding and learning the language.
There will be in game resources such as books and scrolls to teach words to the player.
The player will have to complete tasks for npcs in order to learn more of the language, as well as culture as to what is safe and not safe, and will bring the player up to speed on life in the Aztec empire.
I am thinking that perhaps there is an npc of the same tribe as the player, to which is the companion to help learn the language. Not everything will be counted for in the game in terms of Aztec culture, but I will do my best to hint at them. For instance, every 52 years Aztecs destroyed their belongings and mourned out of fear that darkness won the eternal battle, and only when the Pleiades returned to the sky would they buy new things and rejoice in Light's victory. This is something which may be difficult to create resources for with my limited capabilities, but I believe is important to knowing Aztec culture, and so it will be mentioned often in the game. Celebrations and sacrifice will also be prominent in the game, but it's not going to be presented in a biased manner, so I hope. There will be priests in the game to help explain the origins of Aztec religion and creations. Such as the fact that all the gods had sacrificed themselves so that the sun would be victorious over darkness and the earth and humans could live on. The significance of the sacrifice being to embolden the armies of the Sun God. Also class and hierarchy's of society will be in the game, and will be hard to discover possibly, as Aztec upper class did not enjoy the company of strangers to the empire, until there was appropriate acculturation of the strangers. I intend on spending absolutely 0$ on this project, and will not be buying resources or contracting for the project as a result. I am getting a new apartment soon and my ability to invest in projects will be sharply retarded by this fact.
