Whispers of the Machine Age
Chapter 3641

The Origins of the Ancient Fatu People

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"Fourth Epoch coffins usually had the holy emblems of the gods the deceased believed in carved onto their sides, praying that their souls would be protected by those gods after death. Do you see them? Those coffins bear the holy emblem of the Old God - Winter Maiden. In the middle of the Fourth Epoch, the Fatu People's faith was unexpectedly not the Snow Mountain or snakes, but this one."

As they drew closer to the deepest part of the tomb, discernible murals finally began to appear on the walls of the tomb passage.

The murals depicted a group of people arriving by ship from a distant land and encountering a terrifying monster on the sea surface. The monster dragged several large ships into the depths, but the survivors ultimately defeated it and reached an island that was clearly Fatumonst Island.

Sivie said:

"Could this be the story of the Fatu People migrating here? Didn't the Fatu People themselves say that they had been living here since, at the latest, the beginning of the Fifth Epoch? When the Seer Association moved to the location of its current headquarters at the end of the Fourth Epoch, it had already encountered the Fatu People. So it would be perfectly normal for them to have arrived in the middle of the Fourth Epoch."

It was a reasonable guess, but it also meant that before the migrating Fatu People established their faith in the Snow Mountain or snakes, they truly had been believers of the God of Winter. Combined with the fact that both Miss Eisberg and Claire said the decorations in this tomb were related to their own tribes, an interesting conclusion now lay before them.

The murals continued with the people who had migrated by ship settling on the island and quickly

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