Chicxulub Peninsula

The Wetlands' **Chicxulub Peninsula** was once the heart of the Itzamna culture, and then later a major center of power for the dread empire of Mictlan.

## Inhabitants

The Chicxulub Peninsula was once home to the Itzamna, a thriving Human culture occupying a number of grand city-states. The Itzamna were conquered by Mictlan and their culture was largely destroyed, replaced with the blood and horror of Mictlan and its bloody Abyssal rites. Since the fall of Mictlan, these city-states have long-since fallen into ruin and are today inhabited primarily by the Undead remnants of their former inhabitants, and the stray Demons they foolishly unleashed upon the world. Some maintain small populations of living Humans, thralls and cultists of the foul and depraved Demons that rule there.

Dinosaurs are known to inhabit the peninsula, and since the fall of Mictlan their revived fossils have also been known to roam and prey upon the living.

## Geography

The geography of the Chicxulub Peninsula consists primarily of coastal marshland which gives way to dense jungle and tropical rainforest as one moves further inland. The landscape is dotted with the relics and ruins of both Mictlan, and the conquered Itzamna before them.

### **Ahalgana**

The city of **Ahalgana**, today a stinking and disease-ridden ruin overrun by Demons and pestilent zombies, has long been 'ruled' over by a terrible Demon known as K'an-Came.

### **Ahalmez**

Once an Itzamnan city-state and later a city of Mictlan, the broken and dust-covered ruins of **Ahalmez** are today home to frenzied Demons and deranged cultists.

### **Ahalpuh**

Once an Itzamnan city-state and later a city of Mictlan, the stinking and disease-ridden ruins of **Ahalpuh** are today home to foul oozes and diseased zombies.

### **Ahaltocob**

Once an Itzamnan city-state and later a city of Mictlan, the broken and dust-covered ruins of **Ahaltocob** are today home to frenzied Demons and deranged cultists.

### **Chamiabac**

Once an Itzamnan city-state and later a city of Mictlan, the spooky and ominous ruins of **Chamiabac** are today home to lurking Babau and skeletons.

### **Chamiaholom**

Once an Itzamnan city-state and later a city of Mictlan, the spooky and ominous ruins of **Chamiaholom** are today home to lurking Babau and skeletons.

### **Chen Ku**

**Chen Ku** was once a city-state of the Itzamna, and later a city of Mictlan. The city is known to contain some manner of pit leading all the way to Metnal in the Underdark. Since the degeneracy the city has been a center of worship and power for Xoxouhqui, a terrible Hezrou.

### **The Road of Bones**

An ancient road running between Chamiabac and Chamiaholom, the **Road of Bones**, whatever it was originally made from, was 'paved' over by the conquering Mictlanese with the bones of their victims. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the skeletal remains of Mictlanese patrols still stalk this grisly road.

### **The Mucous Road**

An ancient Itzamnan road, the ooze-infested **Mucous Road** still connects the ruins of Ahalgana and Ahalpuh.

### **The Unswept Road**

**The Unswept Road** is an ancient Itzamnan road which ran between the city-states of Ahalmez and Ahaltocob. Like the cities themselves, the road has survived more-or-less intact into modern times.

### **W'rkncacnter**

A lone stone ziggurat of unknown origin, **W'rkncacnter** was ancient even during the time of the Itzamna. A place of horror and dread, even the Mictlanese avoided this pyramid, which stands some 44 feet tall and descends and unknown depth into the earth.

### **Xibalba**

**Xibalba** was once the grandest of all the city-states of Itzamna, and later one of the three greatest cities in all of Mictlan. Since at least the period of the Fall the city has been dominated by a terrible Fiend known as Hun-Came, the One Death.