It's May of 1519, five years after the witnessing of eight bad omens, including those seen by the emperor Montezuma himself, and news has just come of strangers with pale skin and beards, many of whom ride strange beasts much larger than the biggest deer. There's speculation that the reincarnated Quetzalcoatl himself leads these men, and that he has come home to either bring peace or to destroy everything. And, there are whispers that they are aligning themselves with those rebels who worship Quetzalcoatl in Cholula.