Old Core of Chu'ulel

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Old Core of Chu'ulel is a point of interest located in Ochkanatlan, Natlan.

Interactables[]

Ancient Bulletin[]

This interactable is located on the ground next to an opening on Winding Ancient Road.

Ancient Bulletin: "By the order of the Guardian of the Sacred FlameYajaw K'ahk', and the most benevolent and glorious Holy SovereignTi'sakhuun, His MajestyKalomte Och-Kan, the cursed land is hereby sealed off, effective immediately. All members of the alliance are strictly prohibited from entering."

Ancient Bulletin: "Those who enter without authorization will be officially recognized as enemies of the alliance. This is the joint declaration of (...) Nanatzcayan, Meztli, Huitztlan, and Teteocan."

Ancient Bulletin[]

This interactable is located on a signboard to the right of a gate of Buried Underground Ruins.

Ancient Bulletin: "...Compatriots, family, brothers and sisters who have dedicated themselves to the alliance's inexorable triumph..."

Ancient Bulletin: "...The most benevolent... has allocated a batch of new mechanisms from (...) to support transportation, (...) and underwater salvage..."

Ancient Bulletin: "...Forward! Forward! Move forward at all costs... For the glorious future of the alliance, for our freedom and glory, for a homeland free from the evil dragons's oppression..."

Vaguely-Readable Writings: "...Without permission... it is forbidden to operate the control lever... Accidental falls... have already caused the deaths of three workers..."

Ancient Bulletin[]

This interactable is located on top of a crate inside a structure on the west side of Buried Underground Ruins.

Ancient Bulletin: "Glory forever unto to the Guardian of the Sacred FlameYajaw K'ahk', the Great PeacemakerQ'atal Tzij the most benevolent Holy SovereignTi'sakhuun Och-Kan."

Ancient Bulletin: "Given the slow overall progress of the drainage works in this area, minor adjustments are being made to the rotation system to ensure the alliance's inexorable triumph."

Ancient Bulletin: "Workers will be divided into three teams, each team working sixteen hours, rotating every two days. Teams with exceptional performance will receive extra grain provisions."

Ancient Bulletin: "The triumphant victory of draining the accumulated water is close at hand. Once the ditches are completed, the water pump can operate normally. Push a little harder!"

Artisan's Memo (I)[]

This interactable is located in a circular structure at the top of the waterfall in Buried Underground Ruins.

Artisan's Memo (I): "...There's a small trail behind a stone wall to the north that leads to the top of the waterfall. It can be used as a storage area..."

Artisan's Memo (I): "...I left a few marks, just in case I forget the way later..."

Artisan's Memo (I): "...Sayani's injuries took a turn for the worse. The humidity's to blame... I told her to rest, but she laughed it off... saying it would slow the squad down, resulting in everyone missing out on extra provisions..."

Artisan's Memo (I): "...Once night falls, I'll sneak up to her with a torch to cauterize her wound while the others aren't watching, or her limbs will rot, too..."

Artisan's Memo (II)[]

This interactable is located in a room to the right side of the waterfall in Buried Underground Ruins.

...Sayani died. Maybe today, maybe yesterday — I'm not sure. In this dim light, it's hard to tell the living from the dead... People are lying all over the place, splayed out on the ground like alpacas in their pen, and there's a foul stench in the air...

...No one had the strength to bury her, so we just threw her into a ditch...

...They're all cursing and swearing... But who exactly should they direct their hatred at? Even they can't say...

...Just like they said, everyone's working for themselves, for their brothers and sisters in the alliance, not for the evil dragons that once enslaved us... But it's not like they can curse themselves...

...Just have to do it... If we can't finish digging this ditch in the next five days, we'll lose our rations... And then we'll all die, just like the ones who were in charge of the pumps...

...What even lies down there, under the water? Who knows... Whatever it is, it's not going to save us.

Barely-Legible Bulletin[]

This interactable is located in the tower on the eastern side of Where the Ancient Race of Yore Ruled.

Barely-Legible Bulletin: "...May glory eternal be... Peacemaker... Most benevolent... Och-Kan..."

Barely-Legible Bulletin: ...Artisans Mahutzintl, Tlanalco, and... those responsible for the construction of the water pump... deliberately slowed down, causing delays... The benevolent... imposed no punishment... only suspended rations for three weeks...

Barely-Legible Bulletin: "...The stone key that activates the water pump mechanism... is kept at... no one is allowed to use it without permission... until other artisans are assigned..."

Holy Sovereign's Notes (I)[]

This interactable is located in the west room on Chu'ulel Mechanism's Heart.

...The Cuauhtli Scouts that were dispatched have returned. According to our preliminary investigation, there are ruins that extend to a considerable depth beneath the city... completely submerged... If what (...) said is true, deep within the ruins, there should still be...

...If Ixquieh were still alive, perhaps she could have created something to quickly drain away the water...

...We must find a way to drain the water away. Otherwise, we cannot continue...

Holy Sovereign's Notes (II)[]

This interactable is located in the west room on Chu'ulel Mechanism's Heart.

...Laborers were requisitioned from each tribe, one from every ten households, in the name of waterworks construction...

...Aside from the First Speaker of the Flower-Feather Clan's refusal to recruit laborers, no other tribes objected...

...Storming out unauthorized not only constitutes a blatant abuse of power, but demonstrates utter disregard for our oaths of alliance...

...Whatever the cost, the accumulated water must be drained away before winter arrives...

...According to the supervisor's report, the laborers are highly motivated...

...There have been a few instances of slacking off, but progress has not been affected...

...Any slacking is a betrayal of the alliance and those found guilty must be...

...The total number of people in the city exceeds... No potential threat can be ignored. We cannot afford to risk the lives of the tens of thousands he saved...

...If Uenuku had not left the alliance due to (...), and if the Oceanids who once followed him had not gone too, exploring this place would be much easier...

...Human laborers are too inefficient and lacking in strength...

...It is precisely because of this that they are powerless against the transcendent...

...And that is why all that is beyond human comprehension must be eradicated...

...The burning sensation that flows beneath my skin still lingers. Blood was let as usual, yet (...) has still not been alleviated...

...While I am still clear-headed, I must remember to order (...), have him reward hardworking laborers with extra grain rations...

Holy Sovereign's Notes (III)[]

This interactable is located in the west room on Chu'ulel Mechanism's Heart.

...Evidently, as mentioned by (...), this statue is a construct from an older era. From its appearance, it seems that the dragon craftsmen never managed to complete its lower half. Perhaps they were interrupted by some kind of unexpected emergency...

...The Secret Source Automata have shown no hostility... It may be assumed that there must be at least one control center; otherwise, they would not be able to operate independently...

...With some slight modifications to the Phlogiston Engravings, we may be able to...

...According to the supervisor, the laborers' spirits remain high... Apparently, they cheered with great fervor during inspections...

...The report makes mention of superstitious rumors... Clearly a lack of understanding regarding Phlogiston Engravings... Dismiss most of the laborers and keep only a small team... to avoid...

Holy Sovereign's Notes (IV)[]

This interactable is located in the west room on Chu'ulel Mechanism's Heart.

Holy Sovereign's Notes (IV): "...The secret... necessary sacrifices... anything it takes..."

Holy Sovereign's Notes (IV): (Most of the rest of the content has been burned and is illegible.)

Holy Sovereign's Notes (V)[]

This interactable is located in the west room on Chu'ulel Mechanism's Heart.

...She called me the fated Sovereign, speaking gently by my bedside of this so-called glory, the glory of vicious beasts. It was... nauseating...

...Her words were exactly the same as those of (...) ...Xbalanque, now he was someone who never appeared in any prophecy. Not even those ignorant, savage beasts foresaw his existence...

...In other words, he was a true "human," a Sovereign who belongs solely to "humanity"...

...And for that reason, he alone is the one that all should follow... No one but him deserves to be called a "god"...

...

...Without holding anything back, she showed me all there was to know about that ancient empire. That ladder that climbed up to the firmament, those weapons converted from (...), those cannons that could tear (...) to pieces, those (...) that fell from the three moons, the research about (...) and wishes...

...It sent chills down my spine... We must not give them any chance to regain their former glory, or humanity will be powerless to stand against them...

...Efforts to seek reconciliation are futile, unless they submit fully to humanity's chains, for otherwise...

...The memories she possesses... the energies by which the Source Mechanisms may be controlled... can still be harnessed by humans...

...Whilst ensuring that she does not perish before her energy has been fully depleted, we must find a way to completely strip her of her authority...

Holy Sovereign's Notes (VI)[]

This interactable is located in the west room on Chu'ulel Mechanism's Heart.

...We must no longer allow the various tribes to overstep their bounds and claim kingship, as they did before. There is no benefit in having too many rulers; it will lead only to endless internal strife, just as it did with the barbarians of the northern sea and the desert realms...

...Let there be but one ruler here, one sovereign, one god. Any dispersal of authority is an opportunity for humanity's enemies. Any possibility of revolt must be eliminated...

...If the history I read from her memories was true and accurate beyond any shadow of doubt, humanity could surely advance, even where those wicked beasts stumbled and fell... So long as we maintain our caution, this power can smash anything that would dare stand in the way of humanity seizing its own destiny...

...Before that, all offerings to (...) must be ceased... This is the sole variable involved. The souls of traitors must not be afforded the chance to entice the living — the dead should stay peacefully dead...

...That way, I shall not put his name to shame... Humans, only humans, those he saved, shall become the rulers of all. They will not bow to the Night, nor must they submit to the Flame...

Nameless Artisan's Memo[]

This interactable is located on a desk in a structure on the southeastern side of Where the Ancient Race of Yore Ruled.

The deeper we dug, the stronger that indescribable, nauseating stench became. Perhaps it was due to the pervasive dampness and fungi, for those pale molds and indescribably strange mineral deposits all seemed to emit a toxic odor, but that was not the only source of unease here. To begin with, (...) felt that there was something "unlucky" about this place, but even she did not offer up any explanations even more far-fetched than that at the time. But as the work progressed, a craftsman from (...) suddenly lost his wits — screaming, laughing, crying, and all the while babbling incoherently about how he had seen an almost impossibly large, hideous, and swollen black silhouette in the watery depths; and of how it had shrieked a terrifying, profane song, commanding him to kneel down before the "Master." The supervisor took him away, but a sense of unease had already begun to spread among the workers. The surging foam and swirling of the foul water could be explained as regular elemental phenomena, but those intermittent sounds and whispers... even I could not find any reasonable explanation for those.

From behind those ancient walls — or perhaps from beneath them, though I could not say for sure — I could hear a sound, unmistakably clear yet at the same time faint, furtive, and muffled, as if something was scurrying through the walls. The laborers whispered among themselves, trembling with an incoherent, almost crazed terror as they mumbled obscurely of an unimaginable, profane curse that lurked beneath the water's depths. What we had been doing, they said, had awakened "it" from countless eons of slumber. No one would leave this ruin alive, and even if they did, they could never tell anyone about it — for listeners would just dismiss such claims as the ramblings of lunatics.

I could not find a rational explanation for this loathsome, frightful terror; for by all accounts, those damp, fungus-covered walls that supported the vaulted ceiling should have been built from solid rock, and the echoes they produced when tapped confirmed this. Yet those terrifying rustling sounds continued to reverberate through the dead of night, jarring me into the confusion of half-wakefulness from what was uneasy sleep to begin with.

Our supervisor reassured us that she herself had not heard anything unusual, attributing our hallucinations to lack of rest. She even applied for extra grain rations for us, out of sympathy for our plight. Yet the fear that had spread among the laborers was so intense that...

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Trivia[]

For the Tzotzil and Tzeltal Maya, Ch’ulel means "essence" or "soul". It is the inner, individual soul which has thirteen parts and is centered in the heart.

Other Languages[]

Language	Official Name	Literal Meaning
English	Old Core of Chu'ulel	—
Chinese (Simplified)	旧日的统律之心
Chinese (Traditional)	舊日的統律之心
Japanese	昔日の統律の心 Sekijitsu no Touritsu no Kokoro‍^[!]^[!]Assumed reading
Korean	옛 통솔의 심장 Yet Tongsorui Simjang
Spanish	Antiguo Corazón de Chu'ulel
French	Ancien Cœur de Chu'ulel	Old Core of Chu'ulel
Russian	Древнее Ядро Чуулел Drevneye Yadro Chuulel
Thai	Old Core of Chu'ulel	—
Vietnamese	Lõi Chu'ulel Ngày Cũ
German	Altes Herz von Chu’ulel
Indonesian	Old Core of Chu'ulel	—
Portuguese	Antigo Núcleo de Chu'ulel
Turkish	Eski Chu'ulel'in Çekirdeği
Italian	Vecchio Cuore di Chu'ulel