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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 8h

Create an original piece of game content for #KOKOTÖNA, the #MÖRKBORG compatible #TTRPG inspired by precolonial Mesoamerica A creature? A full scenario? A poem? A rolltable? A drawing? A character class? You decide what "game content" means! ENTER HERE ▶️ itch.io/jam/kokotona... ◀️

What ALWAYS was HERE - The first jam for KOKOTÖNA

Gritty artpunk text flanked at each side by a snake monster grinning

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 13/10/2026

HEY! You'd like to add these #dice to your collection, don't you? Of course you would, you little #dicegoblin They could be yours for FREE! All you need is enter "What ALWAYS was here" #KOKOTÖNA 's first jam itch.io/jam/kokotona... Win best overall & they're yours! #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG #RPGLatAm

Gemstone mahogany obsidian mesoamerican themed dice

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 09/10/2026

So many pages full of stokens! So close to being released alongside the VTT asset pack! #KOKOTÖNA #MÖRKBORG #RPGLatAm

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 05/10/2026

Feature creep is so real, there's a mobile layout now and dark mode and toggles and squad generation and optional toggles and things and stuff

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 03/10/2026

So close to being 10 times greater than the beast of Revelation

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 01/10/2026

>"They should (... "make a game" ...) that takes place in mexico..." O boi time to peddle my wares! >"... in the 70s" Awww I don't suppose that's the 1470s, right?

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 23/09/2026

Also shoutouts to my wife @yggdrasil-life.shop who animated a clip lasting less than 2 seconds in the video /genunine

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 21/09/2026

None of you are fucking ready for #KOKOTÖNA 's launch trailer! ... oh and the launch of the game too I guess #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG #RPGLatAm

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 16/09/2026

Evolution of the #KOKOTÖNA blurb: 1. Private Flay-Test 2. Unedited manuscript 3. Back cover #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG #RPGLatAm

KOKO◈TÖNA–Private Flay-Test v0.1a
INTRODUCTION
Seven lands. Seven tribes. Seven thousand years of borrowed time.
The Teotekah empire is a corpse draped in gold, its carcass cracked by the weight of divine bargains. From the jungles of Mikohuayan to Zektlan’s frozen wastes, the continent itself is a scar—The gods’ flesh, stolen and reshaped into mountains, rivers, and the trembling hearts of men. Their mercy is but a noose: Fight. Sacrifice. Entertain. Each moonrise, a throat is slit to keep the world from crumbling. Each season, Flower Wars bloom crimson, captives fed to the earth to slow Naktokatl’s vengeance.
But the threads fray. Metzteotl’s light wanes, his whispers drowned by the clatter of jade and blood-obsidian blades. The diviners mutter of the east, where Ayekoatemikti’s heir twists in his mate’s womb, a serpent coiled to strike. The temples chant, the pyramids weep, and the tribes march on—damned, desperate, glorious. For what is an empire but a lie turned truth by blood?
You are thieves. You are prayers. You are the last discordant hum before the ancient loom snaps.
You are flesh-bearers.

Seven Lands. Seven Tribes. Seven THOUSAND YEARS OF BORROWED TIME.

The Teotekah Empire is a corpse draped in gold, its carcass cracked by the weight of divine bargains. From the jungles of Mikohuayan to Zektlan's frozen wastes, the continent itself is a scar—The gods' flesh, formed into mountains, rivers, and stolen and reshaped into the trembling hearts of men.
The divinities' mercy is but a noose: Fight. Sacrifice. Entertain. Each moonrise, a throat is slit to keep the world from crumbling. Each season, Flower Wars bloom crimson, captives fed to the earth to slow Naktokatl's vengeance.
But the threads fray. Metzteotl's light wanes, his whispers drowned by the clatter of jade and blood-obsidian blades. The diviners mutter of the east, where the heirs of Ayekoatemikti twist inside HIS MATE'S womb, a brood of serpents coiled to strike. The temples chant, the pyramids weep, and the tribes march on—damned, desperate, glorious. For what is an empire but a lie turned truth by blood?
You are thieves. You are prayers. You are the last discordant hum before the ancient loom snaps.
You are flesh-bearers.

KOKOTÖNA
Seven Lands, Seven Tribes, Seven THOUSAND YEARS of borrowed time.

The Teotekah Empire is a corpse draped in gold, its carcass cracked by the weight of divine bargains. The scarred lands demand blood, this ancestral covenant the strangling mercy of Naktokatl and Metzteotl. The diviners mutter of the east, where the brood of Ayekoatemikti coils inside HIS MATE. Yet the damned flesh-bearers march on—a last discordant hum, echoing before the ancient loom finally snaps.

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 16/09/2026

Ordered the proof copy for #KOKOTÖNA, hopefully it will arrive soon enough and be perfect, goodness gracious I'm so fucking nervous

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 13/09/2026

I think that's enough for today, my brain hurts (there's like 170 bookmarks all in all, carefully nested and organized, and I'm still not done!)

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 11/09/2026

I made the cover for the Freshly-Flayed edition too good and now I have to change one of the corebook illustrations in #KOKOTÖNA

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 10/09/2026

algún día dejaré de tener pendientes de KOKOTONA? probablemente no, creo que siempre estaré trabajando con este mundo de una u otra manera

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

9. Friend or foe? Put both illustrations face to face and it looks like the reason Skelly Yen picked up arms, to fight this thing But books don’t bend that way, so when the book it's closed, they are actually back to back, and when actively read, side to side Allies then? Maybe...

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

8. Another thematic reason why it was chosen for the back cover was the bestiary section, as it starts with a human imperial enforcer (jaguar knight) and ends with a tzitzimimeh void gazer Front cover = human, back cover = tzitzimimeh. It's like George, it Lucases

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

7. Only the upper half is visible because it’s coming out of a portal shaped like a mesoamerican glyph of the night sky, the Yohualli glyph spilling & dissolving into the background. But are they casting this ritual to enter the world? or are they being summoned here?

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

6. The bat wings are meant to be pure shadow magicks pouring from the bracelet, not actual body parts. That’s why the actual fingers of the creature are slotted into bigger finger bones that act as the wing structure

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

5. Human hands are nailed on as pauldrons on their shoulders, their wrists bound with a dark thread linked to a human heart necklace. That’s pulled straight from classic tzitzimimeh imagery

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

4. That metallic element also carries the covenant sigil of Naktokatl, connecting it to the glyph on Yenelhi's necklace They are both inspired by different depictions of the nahui ollin

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

3. The yohualli (night) glyph is present through the whole design: glowing red scarification on the arms and "eyes", the shape the veil with the blood around the metallic element forms, the magicks bleeding from the portal, etc.

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

2. It's also designed to echo MÖRK BORG's angelic/alien race, the Pale Ones overall look and presence. The bald head, the unsettling not-quite-human face, and the sense of something ancient and otherworldly bleeding into our reality

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

1. The Tzitzimimeh are Nahua female star gods/demons/spirits, though this one in particular looks more "male" than more traditional depictions This is to add unto the female warrior on the front cover, complementing the game's message of not being "historically accurate"

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/09/2026

🧵 "Star-spawned judges, silent and skeletal" That is how #KOKOTÖNA, my #MÖRKBORG compatible #TTRPG inspired by precolonial Mesoamerica, describes the Tzitzimimeh, one of which was chosen to adorn its back cover Let's explore the "why" and the design choices in this thread!

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 04/09/2026

About a year ago I revealed what I the #KOKOTÖNA cover, and while the its design remains similar, the changes that happened between preview and retail are quite neat! One of these days, I'll share the back cover alongside the reasons behind some of the design choices there #MÖRKBORG #RPGLatAm

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 03/09/2026

no pues chido tu pinche soporte, gracias por verificar mi cuenta 3 SEMANAS DESPUÉS DE HABERLO SOLICITADO ESTUVE HORAS FRENTE A LA COMPUTADORA MANDANDO DMS A COMO 300 WEYES LPM

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 31/08/2026

While writing #KOKOTÖNA, I became so paranoid a #MÖRKBORG scandal was inevitable, I created an open source legally distinct backup TTRPG system "just in case"... KNYGHTS & THORNS AKA K&T (see what I did there?) Never let them tell you anxiety makes you less productive, less efficient maybe tho...

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 12/08/2026

What can I say? I've got that "that's not fair" autism thing going on

MY SOUL: JUSTICE (YELLOW)
"Despite the cruelty I endured, I never let myself be corrupted."

JUSTICE 67%
PERSEVERANCE 61%
KINDNESS 44%
DETERMINATION 43%
BRAVERY 38%
INTEGRITY 35%
PATIENCE 25%

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 09/08/2026

mom said it's my turn with the bsky #ttrpg discourse All of these are from the same source, KOKOTÖNA my game AKA I'm an elightened centrist

Transform Teotlan as you see fit, reveal or conceal its awful truths at your whim. But this power must serve the tale you weave alongside your flesh-bearers. Their trust is the real power behind your myth, so treat it with respect, and never forget that at the end of the day, we're all just playing pretend. It falls to you, Great Mythmaker, to ﬁnd the joy in this chronicle of suffering.

You require no special permission nor bloodline to add unto the myth. Do not treat this book as a relic too sacred for you to touch, but do treat its themes and people with the courtesy and respect they deserve.

DO NOT MAKE IT “AUTHENTIC”, make it another bloody thread in Teotlan’s unraveling web. Flay the module & stitch it back together with stolen flesh. Neither the gods nor your players care where the offering came from—only what is given.

A quick reminder: Don’t be weird about it. This isn’t a spiritually pure and uncorrupted paradise. The Empire sucks, the priestdom sucks, and the gods suck worst of all. Most Imperial citizens are just trying to survive an 8000-year-old covenant—doom in Teotlan is old, known, and bargained for. So keep it grim, just a tiny bit nobler: everyone is broken, desperate and doing what they must, because life goes on. —El Chupalabras

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 09/08/2026

Now this, for real is the ABSOLUTE ULTIMATE LAST FINAL PAGE of #KOKOTÖNA! Sure, I still need to put together the back and front covers (and the spine for the physical release) and the text inside might still need tweaks and such, but it's DONE! IT'S ALL DONE!

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 08/08/2026

To escape the harrowing bloom of a Flower War, only two paths exist, the glory of the champion or the deserter's shame As opposite to each other as light it from shadow, yet both leading towards the same practical end... survival #KOKOTÖNA #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG #RPGLatAm #SelfPromoSaturday

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 07/08/2026

Tzitzimimeh are the Empire's second most common inhuman ancestry, cold, quiet, and mostly ignored But those detached from corporeal existence stay horrors, using eclipses to cross the veil between worlds and judge the hearts of flesh-bearers #KOKOTÖNA #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG #RPGLatAm

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 06/08/2026

In the night it comes, tye hideous laugh-like hooting. But it's better than the silence that precedes their feasts of cracked bones and torn flesh #KOKOTÖNA #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG #RPGLatAm

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 05/08/2026

Originally from Tekuatepek, the history of the omizatl intertwines with Teotlan almost as much as the Teotekah themselves Both the prized mount of nobles and the hardy companion of laborers, these exoskeletal deer can be found mostly anywhere in the Empire #KOKOTÖNA #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG #RPGLatAm

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BUY KOKOTÖNA 🫀| EC 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster @elchupalabras.itch.io · 04/08/2026

Our last set of #KOKOTÖNA foes, the threats that aren't localized to one region of Teotlan, but are common all throughout These dangerous, if mundane, flesh-bearers believe the imminent Imperial collapse to be a perfect, violent opportunity to carve power & gain wealth #MÖRKBORG #TTRPG #RPGLatAm

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