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** For those wondering, he's just ordering the last survivors of a band of brigands who hoped to fool Mixtli's party by pretending to be fellow travellers to eat the heads of their fellows, who Blood Glutton ambushed whilst they were waiting in ambush and decapitated them all without alerting the "bait" bandits.
* [[Big Bad]]: Lord Joy for the "childhood arc," {{spoiler|Chimali}} during the "traveler arc," and Cortez (duh) for the "conquest arc."
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Intentionally invoked by Blood Glutton during a bandit attack. Also, averted by Narvarez and his troops, who at first seemed like this to the Mexica but, thanks to the [[Foregone Conclusion]], couldn't be. Also averted during Mixtli's "war" experience. He catches the Mixteca's biggest war hero by hiding behind a bush and cutting off the Mixteca's feet--a rather ignoble ending to a military career.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Plenty of random Nahuatl and Spanish is thrown around, although the Nahuatl is at least fairly easy to infer through context.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: On the one hand, we have the Mexica people, who have levied massive tributes from the surrounding villages, performed human sacrifices almost daily, and have made Mixtli's life a living hell on more than one occasion. On the other, we have Cortez and his troops, who have committed multiple acts of unprovoked slaughter, abused the ''hell'' out of Montecuzoma's hospitality, and show zero tolerance for any of the Mexica religious rites.
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** Basically the entire point of the sequel.
* [[Romantic False Lead]]: [[Brother-Sister Incest|Tzitzi.]]
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Every single Mexicatl from the nobility must be this, even commoners who provide outstanding services to the empire can earn a noble rank. {{spoiler|Mixtli}} eventually becomes one.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: And how! Practically everything except Mixtli himself has some basis in Mexica history. (Yes, even Jadestone Doll's..."dalliances.") Not to mention every bit of Nahuatl, Mexica culture, warfare, government...heck, it would probably be easier to list everything that ''isn't.''
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Plenty of them, in both Nahuatl and Spanish.
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** {{spoiler|Also Chimali, to Mixtli's personal life.}}
* [[The Hero Dies]]: Goes hand-in-hand with the [[Foregone Conclusion]].
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Montecuzoma, although this was [[Truth in Television]]. Also, any of the nations that chose to ally with Cortez.
* [[Tsundere]]: Beu Ribe.
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