* From Aztec mythology, [[Mictlan]] is the name of the land of the dead. In essence, an underworld of sorts. Mictlantecuhtli is the ruler or lord of [[Mictlan]]. We have two sorts of known entity that comprise the [[Mictlan]], the massive metallic construct which appears to be the central control node, and the [[Corpse-thing]]s, which are little more than drones. When severed from the controller the [[Corpse-thing]]s revert to standard harmless corpses. As for why the [[Soul Reader (Book)]] could read the soul of a dead person from the world destroyed by the [[Mictlan]], the most likely answer here is that the victim committed suicide, preventing the loss of their soul, or that the soul was being read from nearby, when it had been cast out by the [[Mictlan]].
* As for why the [[Soul Reader (Book)]] became warm, this raises an interesting prospect. The [[Soul Reader (Book)]] is a piece of technology, little more than a tool or machine. It wasn't made by [[The First World]] or the [[Brownshirt]]s, and isn't crystalline, suggesting the [[Gemstone Hegemony]] aren't responsible for it either. It also was not recognized by the [[Yngtak]], so who or what exactly made it, and why? Also, why make it communicate with souls, rather than the more traditional physical means of interrogation? The most logical answer here is that it was developed specifically to communicate with the souls of the dead. The [[Mictlan]] controller appears to also be a technological construct (although it may does contain organics within the core of its structure) which also explicitly interacts with the dead. One possibility here is that they are related in a sense, with the [[Soul Reader (Book)]] being a precursor device developed before the more advanced [[Mictlan]] controller was constructed. With a vast army of undead corpses, the [[Mictlan]] controller would have had a huge workforce available to build itself into the colossus it has now become, irrespective of its original size.
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