#NatlanChineseStudy

Children are always easy to understand, so overall, this quest was easy… except for two parts: 1- everything Ajaw says and 2- the legend told by the children.

1- Ajaw

吾 wú: old way of referring to oneself. Ajaw always uses it to say “I, me”
仆从 púcóng: footman, retainer, henchman, lackey. That’s how Ajaw refers to Kinich.
劣 lié: inferior. That’s how Ajaw refers to us, we are Kinich’s “inferior friends”.
窥见 kuījiàn: get a glimpse of
英姿 yīngzī: heroic bearing (of course, refers to Ajaw)
供奉 gòngfèng: to worship, make offerings to, pay tribute to (Ajaw)
伟岸 wěi’àn: imposing, outstanding, gigantic in stature (refers to Ajaw)
嵌 qiàn: to inlay, embed, set
汝等 rǔděng: you people (refers to us)
献上 xiànshàng: to offer respectfully, to present (to Ajaw)
朝拜 cháobài: to worship, to make customary deferences to (Ajaw)
跟班 gēnbān: attendant, servant: that’s how Paimon refers to Ajaw: “Kinich’s servant”.
乃 nǎi: to be
无上 wúshàng: supreme: that’s how Ajaw refers to himself: the supreme dragon.
烈焰 lièyàn: raging flames
至高 zhìgāo: paramount, supremacy
领主 lǐngzhǔ: feudal lord, suzerain, overlord
三拜九叩 sānbài jiǔkòu: 3 bowings and 9 kowtows.
仁慈 réncí: benevolent, charitable

That’s just some Ajaw blabla, I guess he’ll always use the same vocab, so if I learn these words, it will get easier and easier to understand him. The part about kissing his cute pixel foot was pretty funny.

He describes himself as the Supreme Lord of the Nation of the Raging Flames or something like that. I wonder what it’s supposed to be. Maybe we’ll learn more in the future.

Also, I start liking Ajaw quite a bit.

He said that he agreed (应许 yīngxǔ) to respond to his attendant’s (Kinich) plea (祈求 qíqiú: to pray for, ask for favours, plead for) and was investigating the Abyss incident in the region.

爬虫: páchóng: reptile. That’s how Ajaw refers to the Yumkasaur.
侵蚀: qīnshí: to corrode
后裔 hòuyì: descendant
低等: dīděng: inferior: refers to the Yumkasaur.
了断: liǎoduàn: to do away with oneself
蚁 yǐ: ant. Refers to Paimon. Ajaw calls her the “small white flying ant”.

Ajaw says that the mother Yumkasaur has been corroded by the Abyss and attacked the tribe as well as her children before throwing herself from a cliff. He thinks that there’s an Abyss magician nearby and we must be careful if we meet a foreigner.

2- The Turnfire Legend (I looked at the wiki for English names)

回火 huíhuǒ: “Turnfire”.

All Ancient Names originate from a legend. The Ancient Name “Malipo” (马力卜 mǎlìbó) originates from the legend of the Turnfire.

According to the legend, the Turnfire appeared during the period of the Grand Alliance (联盟 liánméng: alliance, union, coalition), and it was used by tyrant (暴君 bàojūn) Och-Kan (奥奇坎 àoqíkǎn) to rule over Natlan and suppress (镇压 zhènyā) people who were against him.

People set on fire would feel a burning pain (灼痛 zhuótòng) in their back, but they would not die immediately, and they cannot look back. If they do, they will be burnt to ashes (烧成灰 shāo chéng huī).

Someone stepped forward bravely (挺身而出 tǐngshēn’érchū), and that’s Yupanqui (尤潘基 yóupānjī), from the Scions of the Canopy.

Yupanqui, Och-Kan and the first Pyro Archon Xbalanque (希巴拉克 xībālākè) were friends. Yupanqui was an ordnance (军械 jūnxiè) officer during the Grand Alliance.
He disapproved of Och-Kan’s cruel regime, stole the Turnfire and threw it at the tyrant’s army. They all burnt to ashes. But upon leaving the city, he heard Och-Kan call him and unexpectedly (鬼使神差 guǐshǐshénchāi: unexpected happenings, doings of ghosts and gods) turned back. All he could see was a burning city and the flames reflected in his eyes pierced through his pupils (瞳孔 tóngkǒng) and consumed him.
The fire that consumed him burnt for 100 days and created a hole in the ley lines and entered the Night Kingdom were it stills burns to this day.

This fire illuminates the path to be reborn, but the dead have to accept its burning flames in order to be purify and return to life.

What follows is very easy, so that’s it for the first chapter study. That’s a lot of lore! I wonder if there’s a book… I haven’t collected many books yet, I’ll need to work on that!