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Sacred Ballcourt [19x22]

🕑 Added 2026-02-20 19:05:05 +0000 UTC

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Warlock

🦆🆚🦀 has now moved to Mesoamerica as well

The Lonely Sand Person

Well, archaeological evidence indicates that the "losers got sacrificed" thing was not the standard, but rather a specific scenario that was blown out of proportion by Christian writers who were motivated to paint the native peoples as barbaric. In short, if they had some prisoners of war who were definitely going to get sacrificed one way or another, having them play ball was just a method of selection, akin to Rome putting prisoners in the gladiatorial arena.

The Lonely Sand Person

Meso-American figurines of ball players have some kind of padding or armor wrapped around their middle as well as their elbows and knees (and in fact the padding is kind of diagnostic for "this statue is a ball player") so one presumes they would always be striking it with a protected joint.

Cze and Peku

One day maybe! Everyone's quite busy these days. The Pandemic, unsurprisingly, gave us all a bit of spare time!

Mark Adams

If I was still running my campaign in Hearth this would've been right at home (along with the Couatl Interior and Exterior maps). (Y'all need to get Team Superhydra back together.)