Phoenix

Author's Notes

Just some general info for pronunciations and backgrounds on names. Its mostly me talking about lore to myself. (Will probably be updated as I go)

You can skip if you want, but there's an important bit at the very end.

Mokuxa - Sun Warrior City (since it's never given a name in the show)

Pronounced as Moe-KU-sha. The name comes from the Mixtec (MEES-tect) words for Death (Moku) and Eagle (Xa), the Mixtec civilization lived very near the famous Aztec Empire, who actually overthrew the Mixtec people. They called themselves the people of the rain, so I thought it would be funny to base the name from their language rather than the Aztec language. Over half a million people today (as of 2015 census at least) still speak Mixtecian. There are many variations to the language and inconsistencies in words, but I used information from the University of Oregon study of Meso-American cultures and info from Mixtec.org itself. Also, this language, like many Asian languages (did someone say fire nation), it is a tonal language, depending on voice tone and inflection to change the meanings of words. And yes I know the Sun Warrior Civilization was based on the Mayans but ya know, creative freedom I guess.

Boxito - Sun Warrior term of endearment

pronounced BOE-shee-toe, a Mayan term of endearment, used in the same way as we would use dear or beloved in English.

The show really explored the moon and ocean spirits and we saw more of them choosing to be mortal and what that meant, and I thought that thinking of the dragons in the same way as Tui and La (moon and ocean) would be interesting, this video has a lot of good theories and I'm operating off of most of them being true to the cannon of this fic.

Sun Warrior Clothing and Tattoos

So in doing some research on ancient Maya clothing, traditionally speaking, neither men nor women wore those gold shoulder armor pieces seen worn by the Sun Warriors, which really resembles the French gorget armor piece. It's something that is seen a lot in costumes (mostly by white people) of various Mezo-American cultures (which is its own fucking issue), but could mean two things, either these whities are really just that dumb, or to some extent Mezo-American warriors at some point while being massacred by the invading Spanish and French, picked up a few things including the gorget, but anyway for the purposes of this insignificant fanfic, I'm calling it a gorget just because it's more descriptive. Also, I know in the cannon of the show, none of the Sun Warriors have tattoos and instead are seen with face and body paint, but many Mezo-American cultures had a lot of cultural significance on tattoos so I incorporated them.

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So the storyline starts by following the Gaang for the last few episodes of the show then through some events (big stuff like the harmony restoration project) from the comics (which can be found here tinyurl.com/atlacomic you're welcome) but ya know, does other stuff, but anyway, so there are some scenes that are from the show but play out a little different because duh there's a new character involved, but other bits, like the ember island players, I'm not about to transcribe the whole episode, you can just watch the show its on Netflix, so yeah there are some skips over that cause like yeah incredible episode but wtf am I gonna do with that. 

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