Tlatelolco, 1473. For twenty days before and after its war with twin city Tenochtitlan, the largest market on the lake keeps opening at dawn.

• All characters are adults.
• Sex cuts away at the door; desire, tension and aftermath stay on the page.
• Violence may be graphic where earned.
• Never instructional detail for weapons, drug synthesis, or intrusion methods.
• No slurs written out. Bigotry shows through behaviour and consequence.
• War, civic conquest, battlefield death and injury, food insecurity and survivor guilt.
• Human sacrifice shown as state ritual, killing, grief and cleanup, without exotic spectacle.
• Debt-slavery, threatened sale, coercive contracts, blackmail and institutional corruption.
• A dead spouse, a fatal wound-fever and the handling of bodies are discussed or shown.

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.