Avatar Rare Earth Explainers This is a story about sport, told through the lens of one of the most brutal. To clarify - chances are major players wouldn't be sacrificed for losing a match, at least not normally, research is still iffy on when and how the ritual took place around sporting events. More often than not it would likely just be slaves taken from the forest and who would die either way - preplanned sacrifices. But for the sake of this story, we've fast-forwarded to the collapse of the cities and imagined things a bit more dire, with needs a bit greater than the norm. Historical poetic license, if you will.