All jokes aside I feel very resistant to any theory that posits that Kul Elna was magically special or more than what it was because the fact that it is precisely what it was–a village of artisans for kings whose work dried up because the kings didn’t need them anymore, and were then forced into poverty and driven to rob the very tombs they built just to feed themselves, and as punishment for this crime were senselessly massacred for the benefit of the same monarchy that drove them there–feels very important. It feels like the lynchpin of the entire thing! Making them anything besides ordinary poor people seems to be taking something away from the impact.
You are a divinely-ordained king beloved by your people who is facing the end of the world and the wrath of a god because you treated a village of ordinary people as disposables and now an ordinary, scruffy village boy of no rank or notice is going to make you pay for it. They don’t need to be “special” or “sacred” or “important” to matter. They mattered to him.
(via millenniumfandom)
