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Twilight Histories

Aztec Steel

Twilight Histories

Dark Lord Studios

Leisure, Science Fiction, History, Games, Fiction

4.8581 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2011

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

YOU are an adventurer in a strange alternate universe set in the New World in the 16th Century. The Aztecs met the Chinese early. By the time the Spanish arrived, the Aztecs were ready to meet them with cold hard steel.

Watch the famous ball game, witness human sacrifice… survive Aztec Steel. Enjoy…

Written and Produced by Jordan Harbour
Website: TwilightHistories.Com
Patreon: Bonus Show on Patreon (www.patreon.com/twilighthistories)
Music: Matthew Leigh Embleton (https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/matthew-leigh-embleton/294625177)

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0:00.0

You wake in a strange room.

0:07.0

Your clothes are foreign and the walls are covered in objects from a different world.

0:13.0

You don't know where or when you are, or if you're still dreaming.

0:18.0

There are footsteps in the hall. Jumping up, you race out of the room and into the streets.

0:23.6

You have just entered the Twilight Histories.

0:28.6

The Twilight Histories. In the year 1405, Zhonghi left China with one of the greatest fleets the world had ever seen.

0:56.9

His mission was to spread the word that China was the center of civilization,

1:03.9

a place between heaven and earth.

1:08.1

On his journey, he visited Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and even the coast of Africa.

1:15.6

Everywhere he went, he left stories of ships so large they could be cities unto themselves.

1:24.6

We recently discovered an alternate universe involving Zhonghi, a thread in time that is very

1:34.1

different from our own.

1:36.5

In this alternate universe, Zhang He sent a small detachment of ships across the Pacific to explore uncharted waters.

1:47.0

Sailing down the coast of North America, this detachment discovered something that would

1:54.0

not only change the history of China, but of the whole world.

1:59.0

Jung He's explorers discovered an advanced civilization, the Aztecs.

2:06.6

More importantly, they discovered gold.

2:11.6

The Aztecs, for their part, were equally fascinated by the Chinese weapons, steel, swords, armor, and terrifying

2:20.4

firesticks that could kill at a distance.

2:25.2

Junghees explorers hungrily traded with the Aztecs.

2:29.5

A year later, a flotilla of massive city-sized junks arrived in Central America, and thus began a

2:39.0

profitable trading relationship. But this relationship was not to last. With the Chinese traders

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