The Spirit Drum of Mictlan

(Emergence OS, SAE, NGO, AC) *-Includes 30+ Real Aztec Locations-* Tenochtitlan, late 15th century. The Aztec Empire stands at the height of its power — temple pyramids rising above Lake Texcoco, tribute flowing from conquered lands, and sacred history recited as unbroken truth. You are a young priest named Yaotl. You are known as the Listener. You possess a gift no one must discover: you can hear the dead. Through Spirit Communication, fragments of vanished voices reach you — half-heard words, emotions not your own. Through Ancestral Memory, you relive broken flashes of the past as witnessed by those long gone. But the dead remember what the empire has buried. Betrayals behind its founding. Omens the priesthood suppressed. Lies woven into sacred history. As you wrestle with these truths, the High Priest Teixaual — the Silencer — begins to circle, determined to keep the dead quiet by any means necessary. And then, on the eastern horizon: sails no ancestor has ever seen. For the first time in memory, the dead have nothing to say about what is coming. Faith or truth. Empire or conscience. The whole weight of a civilization's past rests on the one man who can hear it.