The assassination of Ötzi, set in the Ötztal Alps around 3255 BCE, marks a foundational moment in Protopia. The event is portrayed not as a random act of violence, but a calculated political murder orchestrated by Guntram, signifying the emergence of coercive power.
Chapter
Ötzi the Iceman
Circa Year
-3255
Place
Narrative Role in Harmonia’s Journey
This is the story’s first clear divergence from tribal balance toward organized, self-interested violence. It serves as a warning and an origin point — a shift from communal survival to individual ambition. It’s not just the death of a man, but the death of a way of being.
Outcome
Ötzi was left dead in the mountains and preserved in the ice, providing modern scientists a tresure trove of information and knowledge about the people of his time and place
Type of Event
Fictionalized real event