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[[File:Mayan-Artwork.jpg|200px|thumb|Pocket art for the 2002 CD version of the piece]]
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'''The Man on the Hill''' ([[Mutli]] : ములువి వినికి ; ''Mulwi Winik'') is a {{wp|Theatre|theatre piece}} conceived, written, and composed by [[Living Idols|living idol]] [[Chu]]. The story is that of a [[Mutul]]ese ''Golden Boy'', [[Hun Ha]], who works in [[K'alak Muul]] as an investment banker. Extremely controversial in the Divine Kingdom, the play is infamous for evoking either love or hatred in the critics, with little in-between, because of its transgressive qualities as a modern re-interpretation of the Mutulese theatre' traditional structure.
The '''Red Sails Wars''' was a conflict that opposed the [[Mutul]]eses, through their [[Twelve Great Enterprises]], and the [[Aztapamatlan|Aztapamatlan Empire]] and which began as a confrontation for the control of the Malaio sub-continent and Kayatman Sea, two regions where the expanding entities collided, but expanded to include military actions in modern day [[Kayahallpa]] leading it to be often referred to as a {{wp|World war}}. It saw the participations of men from the [[Mutul]] and [[Zacapican]], but also from their dominions, protectorates, and allies of [[Pulacan]], [[Kayahallpa|Kayan states]], {{wp|Mapuche|Mapuche tribes}}, [[Tsurushima|Kakita Shogunate]], [[Pulau Keramat]], [[Ankat]], [[Onekawa-Nukanoa|Maori Iwis]], [[Zanzali|Mazanzi city-states]], and so on.


==Plot==
The war would end on a decisive Mutulese victory with the Aztapamatlan Empire being unable to gain a foothold in either the Kayatman Sea nor in Kayahallpa. While it retained control over its trans-Oorupaqi trade, Aztapamatlan lost all possibility of expansion eastward and westward while the [[Mutulese Global System]] was allowed to grow further in all directions. The only course of action left to the Nahuas was to resume previously discarded operations to expand into the Malaio hinterlands which would result in another, land-based, front during the [[Ozeros War]] but they would never recover the ability to be a major threat to the Mutuleses interests in the Ozeros Sea.
Set in [[K'alak Muul]], during the period of {{wp|Liberalism|liberalisation}} known by the [[Mutul]] during the 80s, ''The Man on the Hill'' follow the life of [[Hun Ha]], a ''Golden Boy'' employed by an unnamed investment bank. The piece goes through his everyday life, from his recreational life among the bugeoning upper middle class, to his forays into murder by night. The piece maintain a high level of ambiguity through mistaken identity and contradictions : Characters are consistently introduced and re-introduced as people other than themselves, and people argue over the identities of others they can see in restaurants or at parties. Hun Ha himself is consistently mistaken as someone else by other characters, to the point that some Producers have purposefully organized their plays in such a way to imply that Hun Ha does not actually exist and is merely the archetype of the Golden Boy, a mindset shared by many of the characters who believe to be the only Hun Ha.
 
''The Man on the Hill'' follow the traditional structure of Mutulese' theatre piece : each act present the same scene, each time with a different twist going from a subtle change to a complete reversal of the theme. Act one present Hun Ha night out in town with some of his colleagues and conclude with him murdering one of them, Ja Jun, out of jealousy and then answering his victim's phone. It's his girlfriend, Mo Yt'e, who's coming to pick him up to continue the night with some of their other friends. The second act is almost a repeat of the first, but this time Hun Ha, successfuly pretending to be Ja Jun, spend the night with his Mo Yt'e and her friends. Huna Ha keep mistaking Mo Yt'e various friends as her and confess his murder, but is either not heard or understood. Leaving early, he discuss with a homeless in the street before murdering him. As the piece continue, Hun Ha sanity deteriorates and it become increasingly less clear to the public and himself what's real or not, and who is who. His murders become increasingly sadistic and complex, progressing from simple stabbings to drawn-out sequences of rape, torture, mutilation, cannibalism, and necrophilia. Nonetheless, no matter how many time he return to Ja Jun' appartment to carry his crimes, Hun Ha always find the place clean and the passing janitor even tell him that the room is currently unoccupied. It is unclear whether it's the building' owner who cleaned up the room and covered up the protagonist' crimes, if it wasn't Ja Jun' room and Hun Ha got it wrong, or if he never committed any crime in the first place.
 
The piece end as it began, with Hun Ha and his colleagues at a new club on a Friday night, engaging in banal conversation. In this final act, there is no murder nor police shootout or any visible sign of madness except the exit sign on the stage being replace by a fake one saying "this is not an exit".

Latest revision as of 13:37, 1 April 2023

War of the Red Sails
Date1650 - 1660
Location
Vespanian Ocean
Karaihe Sea
Kayatman Sea
Kayahallpa
Result Mutulese victory
Belligerents
 Aztapamatlan  Mutul

The Red Sails Wars was a conflict that opposed the Mutuleses, through their Twelve Great Enterprises, and the Aztapamatlan Empire and which began as a confrontation for the control of the Malaio sub-continent and Kayatman Sea, two regions where the expanding entities collided, but expanded to include military actions in modern day Kayahallpa leading it to be often referred to as a World war. It saw the participations of men from the Mutul and Zacapican, but also from their dominions, protectorates, and allies of Pulacan, Kayan states, Mapuche tribes, Kakita Shogunate, Pulau Keramat, Ankat, Maori Iwis, Mazanzi city-states, and so on.

The war would end on a decisive Mutulese victory with the Aztapamatlan Empire being unable to gain a foothold in either the Kayatman Sea nor in Kayahallpa. While it retained control over its trans-Oorupaqi trade, Aztapamatlan lost all possibility of expansion eastward and westward while the Mutulese Global System was allowed to grow further in all directions. The only course of action left to the Nahuas was to resume previously discarded operations to expand into the Malaio hinterlands which would result in another, land-based, front during the Ozeros War but they would never recover the ability to be a major threat to the Mutuleses interests in the Ozeros Sea.

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