(OOC: Yes you will hear the word 'Heart' alot and the metaphor going along with it tossed around here. Tossed around ideas within Shogun's adjacent thread "WI: Hernan Cortes and his men are Massacred by the Aztecs" are being formed into reality here. Now to kick things off, my favorite group of natives who are the most out of place within the heart of Mexico!)
Tzintzuntzan, Iréchecua Tzintzuntzáni
1520
"Caconzi. I bring news from the east, from the lands of the Sons of Huitzilopochtli...."
Caconzi Tangaxuan II yawned slightly as he sat upon his throne, this here was the heart of the mighty lands of the
Purépecha! Nobles and Slave-Servents mingled amongst each other, some enjoying the music and prose of a flower poet in one corner of his throneroom while others enjoyed meals of fruits or cooked fish brought to them. Outside of this simple throneroom, the heart of the Purépechan lands was a buzz, as its namesake the 'Land of the Hummingbirds' Tangaxuan knew that on the shores of Lake Pátzcuaro his city was a in constant flapping of life! From the lowest of fisherman on the lake itself to the merchants like the man before him who brought goods from the north or minerals from the hills to the artisians who threaded together the beautiful feathers into headdresses for his ceremonies. The metalsmiths in the city delt blows to hot metals, crafting them into wodnerous likings that caught the eye of many a man and woman.
If Tangaxuan remembered correctly this man was the son of a jaguar or something, definitly a merchant to the Valley of the Mexica by the way he styled his hair with feathers of the eagle. Sitting up Tangaxuan looked down to the man as he knelt, eyes cast downward. "Very well. Tell me what news you bring from the....
Mexica Tenochca"
Though of course as descendent of the fire god Curicaueri, not only did Tangaxuan have a passion for life, but a fiery passion to rip the heart out of the Mexica! Recently under the reign of his predescessor Zuangua, they had sent military expeditions to break through the line of fortifications that divided their lands and were beaten back! The Mexica had long been the ones to make offensives into his lands, perhaps it was abotu time to do differently and devourer the Mexica's heart, the Valley and Tenochtitlan....
"My lord..." the merchant began "Plague has begun to grip their lands, many are dieing but that is not all! Strange ones! Pale skinned men from the east! The lands around the Valley of the Mexica are rife with rumor that it is sicons of Quetzalcoatl returned....and the Tlaxcallans walk with him on Tenochtitlan!"
This was interesting, Tangaxuan let the man continue with everything that he had seen and heard, for a full minute afterwards the Caconzi contemplated these words and dismissed the man, granting him a gift of fine gold metal work for this information. He would have to consult his army leaders and spymasters in the Mexica's lands, but if he thought was true then perhaps the Heart of the Aztec Empire WOULD be his sooner then he thought....
(The Tarascan Civilization by Diego Rivera)
