The sun shone brightly, illuminating the simple large tent. The samurai stood solemnly guarding the abode of the king. The messenger came from afar and bowed down to report. The king held the Divine Staff and stood up tall.
"Thousands of Mistec Warriors have appeared in the Little Willow Fort?"
Xiulote unfolded the map, searching in the basin south of Water Valley City. The first thing that caught his eyes was the small city of Tlaxcala, 80 miles south, the captured city of Itzocan, the Blade Road City.
In Navajo, itz is the abbreviation of itztli, meaning "flint and small knife," while ocan is the transformation of ohtli, referring to "path, road." Combined, it means "Path of Flint," Blade Road City. As the name suggests, the terrain here consists of surrounding mountains, a basin, with undulating hills and rocky mountains.
