When it comes to Montezuma II, most people's first impression is that the introduction of Spanish invaders into Tenochtitlan led to the demise of the Aztec Empire, as a sign of the fall of the empire, which also made Monezuma brand as a mediocre and incompetent monarch of the dead country.
There are many reasons for the explanation of "luring the wolf into the house" in the history of the earth, including the mythological prophecy, that is, the return of the god Quetzalcoatl, the exorcism of the left hummingbird and the god Tlaloc who worship the living sacrifice, and the military strength of the Spaniards is not something they can stop, Cortés's talent is not something that Monji can deal with, and finally there is Monji's misjudgment that as long as he gives a large amount of money, he can stop the appetite of the invaders.
The introduction of Meng Er in the history of the moon into the Spaniards is in the hope of letting foreign ideas impact local thoughts, so as to reduce the purpose of living sacrifices, and it seems that Meng Er of Earth history also has the idea of reducing living sacrifices.
No matter what side of "history" it is, in the end, Monji became a puppet of the Spaniards, which eventually caused the dissatisfaction of the Aztecs and ended up being stoned to death.
It is said that when he was hit on the head by a stone, the Spaniards wanted to help Meng Er**, but he refused, probably because he wanted to relieve himself, and the wound on his head was also burned into his soul, and no matter how he was reborn, he couldn't get rid of it.
Thinking of this, maybe the scar on Iscali's head is going to hurt again, this is his memory before his death, but in the rebirth of Hearsay, he forgot the memory of his life, leaving only endless anger at the pan-human history, the name Iscali, is the eighteenth month of the Aztec calendar, and the last month, also known as the month of rebirth, here symbolizes the rebirth of Monji, and may also mean that this is the last reincarnation of the Persona Zone.
In 27 In the first part, you can see his disgust with pan-human history, and even made a cruel act of killing sailors, which led to a great decline in everyone's impression of him, originally because of his appearance, he was not pleasing because of his appearance, but in fact, he hated the "invader", hated the hypocrisy of pan-human history that keeps saying respect for life but is still depriving life, he can kill hostages so mercilessly, but also because of his own reversal as an avenger, he liked children very much before his death, But the Spaniards sent a little boy to win his trust and spy on him.
Therefore, the Smoke Mirror chose him as a sacrifice for the resurrection of Ort, because he didn't care about the destruction of pan-human history at all, but I don't know if it was the negligence of the Smoke Mirror, or the gap he deliberately created, that is, to rebuild Mexico City, summon the city spirit of Tenochtitlan of pan-human history, and make him the king of this new city.
Personally, I tend to prefer the latter, and it is mentioned in the plot that the body dedicated to Ort must be intact, but Iscali was born with scars and is destined to be mutilated, to say that the servants who are dissatisfied with the history of pan-humanity will go to the revenge realm next door to grab a handful, and the smoke mirror still chooses Meng Er, and it is called a test for him.
For the smoke mirrors, Iscali's results don't matter, it's just a backup option.
No matter how much he resents pan-human history, but he himself comes from pan-human history, Mon Er as the king of the dead country, which contains his weakness, but may also contain his benevolence, in Mexico City under the management of Iscali, the civilization of the city is developing very rapidly, even Kukulkan can't help but wear local clothes, go to the local shopping, and this also corresponds to the life of Mon Er, during his reign, the Aztec Empire was actually very prosperous, commerce was very developed, and urban planning was very perfect, It wasn't easy for the Spaniards to attack Tenochtitlan at the time, and if you watch Tlalocle's dialogue, she would be very proud to give you an introduction to the city, and a lot of it was due to Monji.
Oselotl was able to rapidly develop important human qualities, and many of them may have benefited from this. Iskari also began to regard these originally savage creatures as his own people, and unwittingly rebelled against the smoke mirror and the gods he believed in.
For example, when the Flower War finally killed the Dinosaur King, he went back to the Smoke Mirror and said that he had smashed the Dinosaur King's head, and after the Dinosaur King was resurrected, he said that Iscali only broke his limbs outside of his head.
He was angry and smashed the Dinosaur King, in fact, he knew that his own smoke mirror didn't want to protect his city, so he sprinkled his qi on another smoke mirror.
When he went to the ninth floor with the smoke mirror to resurrect the ort, he deliberately did not take the quautemok with him, probably thinking that if the follow-up ort was resurrected, there would be trustworthy people to defend the city, and the quautemok did not live up to his arrangement.
In the end, he deliberately released water when he fought with the Chaldeans, and used this to ask the smoke mirror not to resurrect ort, not to destroy Mictlan, and the end was also directly shot by the smoke mirror, this kind of behavior of surrendering to the enemy is the same as Meng Er before his death, the design of this bridge section can be regarded as confirming that his fate is such a repeated reincarnation, but this time he questioned God, obviously he saw the smoke mirror shoot and kill his sister who questioned him, but he still opened his mouth.
In the depths of his heart, he was really happy to see the prosperity of Mexico City in the Hearsay Zone, but he was also sad because he did not understand the language of Othello, and he was not of the same race as them, and he wished that he could witness them as a king, and the pain of the scar would disappear when he thought of it.
But what he didn't know was that Oselotl welcomed him very well, and they gradually learned the human language, and Kwautmok referred to him as "the Great Father" when he introduced the man who named him.
He exited with the same fate in the new round of rebirth, but it also allows us to realize that his cowardice is actually for the sake of others, not his own selfish desires. Perhaps we can get to know such a tragic character from more angles, and I personally think that Iscali's design is very good.