skygiants

I was about to set up an impassioned protest that there's only one horse and it's a big plot point that Our Hero came up with the wild idea of trying to domesticate him, but then I remembered the evil empire actually has tons of horses, it's just that our hero's horse, the Divine Lord of Horses, keeps being like "YO GET OVER HERE" and those horses immediately ditch their owners and go galloping off to follow the hero's horse instead.

Yeah, "peaceful hunter-gatherers vs. evil city-dwellers" is not a new notion for sure, but the direct line of "CULTIVATING PLANTS AND ANIMALS WILL LEAD YOU INTO A VICIOUS CYCLE OF CONQUEST" is pretty clearly drawn in this one! We've already gotten the reveal that the god/priestess of the city fled the city long ago to start a new, benignly agriculture-less civilization...

Anyway we spent a lot of time trying to puzzle out the maths around "we need more people to cultivate our farms! ... so we'll spend ten years and divert thousands of people into building a giant pulley to get us down the Big Cliff of Doom so we can subsequently capture more people to cultivate our farms!" But my favorite Improbable Technological Advancement is the scene where they enter a building with stained windows. 😂