This historical romance is a telling of the fall of the Aztec Empire. The epic begins on the eve of the dedication ceremony of the monumental Aztec Sun Stone, on which occasion the heroic Tlaxcaltec warrior Tlahuicole fights his fatal gladitorial combat against insurmountable odds, imposed upon him for his defiance of the Aztec priests and their blood-thirsty gods, and ends with the fall of Tenochtitlan, the ancient capital of the Aztecs, at the hands of a coalition of Spanish and allied native forces led by Hernán Cortés. - Summary by Brian Fullen
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
A Captive Warrior
12:24 - Chapter 2
Remember that Thou Art a Toltec!
12:24 - Chapter 3
In the Market-place of Tenochtitlan
12:20 - Chapter 4
Tlahuicol's Last Battle
11:51 - Chapter 5
Huetzin's Miraculous Escape
12:56 - Chapter 6
Two Slaves of Iztapalapan
10:41 - Chapter 7
Loyalty Outweighs Gold and Freedom
12:08 - Chapter 8
Trapping a King's Courier
12:23 - Chapter 9
Who are the White Conquerors?
13:38 - Chapter 10
The Sign of the God of the Four Winds
14:20 - Chapter 11
How the Tlascalans Fought
11:52 - Chapter 12
A Son of the House of Titcala
13:44 - Chapter 13
How Peace was Brought About
13:15 - Chapter 14
A Challenge and Its Result
11:23 - Chapter 15
Marching on Cholula
12:32 - Chapter 16
A Sacrifice of Children and What It Portended
11:26 - Chapter 17
Punishment of the Conspirators
12:04 - Chapter 18
First Glimpse of the Mexican Valley
12:36 - Chapter 19
Montezuma Welcomes the Conquerors to Tenochtitlan
14:18 - Chapter 20
Huetzin in the Power of the Chief Priest
11:57 - Chapter 21
A Superstitious King
13:19 - Chapter 22
Sandoval Plights his Troth
12:34 - Chapter 23
In the Passages Beneath the Temple
12:13 - Chapter 24
Montezuma is Made Prisoner
11:27 - Chapter 25
Cortes Captures and Enlists the Army of his Rival
12:20 - Chapter 26
Tiata's Brave Death and Sandoval's Grief
11:34 - Chapter 27
The Conquerors are Besieged in Their Quarters
12:22 - Chapter 28
A Battle in Mid-air
11:35 - Chapter 29
The Glorious Triumph of Tlalco
12:00 - Chapter 30
Montezuma's Successor Defies the Conquerors
13:05 - Chapter 31
The Retreat from Tenochtitlan
12:47 - Chapter 32
A Night of Fighting, Despair, and Death
12:11 - Chapter 33
Marina is Lost and Saved
12:48 - Chapter 34
Sorrow Turned into Joy, and Darkness into Light
10:40 - Chapter 35
The Desperate Battle of Otampan
12:09 - Chapter 36
Victory Snatched from Defeat
11:05 - Chapter 37
Once More in the Mexican Valley
13:04 - Chapter 38
Launching the First American Warships
12:18 - Chapter 39
Alderete's Fatal Error
13:35 - Chapter 40
Final Overthrow of the Aztec Gods
12:52