History Literature / ElConquistador

* OurGodsAreDifferent

* {{Ninja}}: Sort of: The Aztec warriors are cunning, fast and decieving. They take down an entire castle before being even being noticed.
* RockBeatsLaser: The Aztec "primitive" ''macanas'' with Obsidian edges cut through the best Toledan steel swords. But this was actually historically accurated.

* WoodenShipsandIronMen: All the crew gathered by Quetza travelled all over the world.

!!Tropes

* HumanSacrifice: Hell, [[CaptainObvious we are talking about Aztecs]], aren't we? But ''also'' the execution of heretics of the Inquisition and the Crucifixion are seen as this.

* ImAHumanitarian: The Aztec people, when they go to the sacrifices. Tepec doesn't approve this, also.

He visited Spain and sees the "barbarians", dirty and smelly, very eager to sacrifice people in the pire to his dead god, and finds out that they believe him to be a Chinese or Japanese ambassador, a position that he takes advantage of (China is believed in the novel to have the vastest army in the world). One Japanese girl notices the lie, but being a sex slave freed by him, she became the great love of his life. Here he finds Christopher Colombus, and recognizes him as an equal, and lives a series of adventures prior to his return to Tenochtitlán.

* GodIsEvil: at least, some of them. But Tepec thinks that the children must be guarded and protected from the Gods.
* HumanSacrifice: hell,[[CaptainObvious we are talking about aztecs]], aren't we? But ''also'' the heretics executions of the Inquisition and the Crucifixion are seen as this.
* ImAHumanitarian: the Aztec people, when they go to the sacrifices. Tepec doesn't approve this, also.

* TrainingFromHell: In the Calmecac, the funny aztec HighSchool.

* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: Averted. The depiction of the Aztec empire is quite accurate.

* TheObiWan: Tepec. He saves Quetza of being sacrificed in the Temple, and he is a wise and intellectual teacher, a sage whom achieved his position in the Elders Council by his own sapience, not by his age or connections. He is a tutor of the GoldenAge, as he misses the Toltec wisdom over the Aztec warmongery.

* {{Badass}}: every Aztec character, at a certain point, but specially the nobles. Hell, you have to be a really good badass to survive the Calmécac.
** BadassNative: same as the later.

'''''El Conquistador''''' ([[ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino ''The Conqueror'', in Spanish]]) is a novel from the awarded Argentinian writer Creator/FedericoAndahazi, an inversion of the common topic of the Discovery of America. Here, a brave and bold Aztec explorer wants to discover the lands beyond the seas, in an attempt to find the mythic city of Aztlán to redeem his people, whom he sees as living in an overly brutal and rigid society. Off course, he stumbles his way to Europe in the Middle Ages.

* OurGodsAreGreater: every civilization in the novel thinks like that.

'''''El Conquistador''''' ([[ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino ''The Conqueror'', in spanish]]) is a novel from the awarded Argentinian writer Creator/FedericoAndahazi, an inversion of the common topic of the Discovery of America. Here, a brave and bold Aztec explorer wants to discover the lands beyond the seas, in an attempt to find the mythic city of Aztlán to redempt his people, whom he sees as an overly brutal and rigid society. Off course, he stumbles with Europe in the Middle Ages.
He visited Spain and sees the "barbarians", dirty and smelly, very eager to sacrifice people in the pire to his dead god, and finds out that they believe him being a Chinese or Japanese ambassador, a position that he takes advantage from (China is believed in the novel to have the vastest army in the world). One Japanese girl notices the lie, but being a sex slave freed by him, she became the great love of his life. Here he finds Christopher Colombus, and recognizes him as an equal, and lives a series of adventures prior to his return to Tenochtitlán.

'''''El Conquistador''''' ([[ElNinoIsSpanishForTheNino ''The Conqueror'', in spanish]]) is a novel from the awarded Argentinian writer Creator/FedericoAndahazi, an inversion of the common topic of the Discovery of America. Here, a brave and bold Aztec explorer wants to discover the lands beyond the seas, in an attempt to find the mythic city of Aztlán to redempt his people, whom he sees as an overly brutal and rigid society. Off course, he stumbles with Europe in the middle.
He visited Spain and sees the "barbarians", dirty and smelly, very eager to sacrifice people in the pire to his dead god, and finds out that they believe him being a Chinese or Japanese ambassador, a position that he takes advantage from (China is believed in the novel to have the vastest army in the world). One Japanese girl notices the lie, but being a sex slave freed by him, she became the grat love of his life. Here he finds Christopher Colombus, and recognizes him as an equal, and lives a series of adventures prior to his return to Tenochtitlán.

* ValuesDissonance: played with. Quetza is an Aztec, and altough very progressive for his society, he shares many of their values, and contrasts them against the European ones.

* TheObiWan: Tepec. He saves Quetza of being sacrificed in the Temple.

* Mayincatec: Cautiously averted. Andahazi is well known by his thorough investigation prior to the confection of a novel. The main characters are clearly Aztec people, even from Tenochtitlán

* Badass: every character, at a certain point. Hell, you have to be a really good badass to survive the Calmécac.

'''El Conquistador''' is a novel from the awarded Argentinian writer Creator/FedericoAndahazi, an inversion of the common topic of the Discovery of America. Here, a brave and bold Aztec explorer wants to discover the lands beyond the seas, in an attempt to find the mythic city of Aztlán to redempt his people, whom he sees as an overly brutal and rigid society. Off course, he stumbles with Europe in the middle.