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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RingXero" data-source="post: 1087731" data-attributes="member: 109">The page I linked wasn't the greatest and lacked the new information that was on the program and some other sites.Basically, hard evidence for deboning and skinning has been found, soft evidence for canibalism exists, but hard evidence for  drinking blood exists, but the drinking of blood was most likely limited to 'draining' their own fallen great warriors to 'share the power'.  The massive killings were restricted and only done on certain occasions to stop the rain.  Yep, to stop it.  See, they lived on basically a flood plain area, that was only really a flood plain when El Nino rolled around, so to stop it they would throw 20-50 people off of a nearby small cliff.  It is now assumed that the Moche were 'flooded' out, a period of heavy amounts of rain followed up by even more rain destroyed any hopes of growing food for multiple seasons.  They were pyramid builders, and had two main pyramid structures, one dedicated to the sun/day and the other to the moon/night.The Moche were also considerd master pottery makers.  and their artwork/craftmanship is still in high demand.  This is what I thought was the most interesting bit for a campaign.  Putting in great artwork done by a civilization halfway around the world that is in high demand by all nobles and rich merchants, and the PCs finding out that this civilization(much later on in their careers) is an extremely evil society, and all those great works of art or masterwork equipment is created at a great cost to human life.and as a personal aside, a thesis was ruined by my family.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  well, lets say postponed.  My cousin's wife had her thesis on the tracking of the incan people via certain genetic markers, when the time came to run a baseline sample of non-incan DNA she chose her husband(my cousin) well you guessed it, turns out the family (grandmothers side) are rather direct decendants of the incan people.  ok so maybe it's not as funny as I thought it was when I started typing it.  oh well... it's funnier if you know her... yeah that's it.anyway,RX</blockquote>

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