>>5356515South/Central Americas
>Welcome to the JUNGLE, the HUNGRY HUNGRY JUNGLEThe Americas (the central and southern bits of that hemisphere) of the pre-Crucible days contain quite a rich geography, of Vast mountains, jungles, rainforests, as well as the famed Amazon River... as well as a rich history of MesoAmerican empires...until western civilization (Europe and later America) bent those empires over a barrel and rammed it roughshod into the mud, converting the lands into Colonies (Goddammit Europe) and Banana Republics (Goddammit America) for their oppressor's imperialist agenda.
But even to this day with clear cutting techniques and modern technology, the harsh terrain and the dense jungle foliage makes it hard for Western civilization to expand their foothold in Latin America's dense Geography and to keep the peoples in check.
So when the Crucible came along, it bent modern day civilization over a barrel and rammed it roughshod into the mud and converted the lands back into the biomes of yore, with a meaty twist. Inspired by Mayan and Aztec mythos, the very earth itself became a ravenous beast that preyed upon the unfortunate. Biting insectoid amalgam swarms rule the canopies while Flayed jaguars and Blood-drunk Cougars prowl the Forest floor...all the while the Phantasmal Capybara silently intimidates all with a supernatural aura of menace.
So imagine the surprise of the Latinos when they wake up one day to find that modern civilization has been reduced into a meaty paste and the world before them has turned back into a meaty version of the world their ancestors inhabited, that the chains of western civilization had been suddenly and thoroughly cut by the alien god called the "Crucible".
>Ritual Sacrifices are back in Vogue:With the jackboot of western civilization removed from their necks and the Crucible having turned their land into a hostile hungry biome of ancestral myth, the Daughters of Latin America were free to do as they pleased, blessed with the powers granted them by the Crucible to traverse and to survive the harsh environment their ancestral lands had transformed into in the wake of the Crucible's landfall. There was just one problem they had to address. Hunger, the perennial problem of all life. And for the Latinos, they were lucky. By either sheer coincidence or by their ancestor's foresight, the ancient infrastructure of empires past provided them both safety from the hostile jungle and a means to stave off the hunger of the land and of the people, all it required as a malleable mindset, the will to re-enact a time-honored tradition, and a sacrifice to be put before the altar, be it amalgam...or Daughter.
