Translation of the Plaque of Tochtepec

As is written on the Plaque of Tochtepec Huitzilopochtli's battalion of the army of the 7th Sun made landfall on the eve of the Feast of Coyolxauhqui. The next morning they marched west and at Quetzalcoatl's zenith they encountered the forces of Ulric 'the arrogant' (translation?). Quite foolishly but typical for the race of man, they sent an emissary intent on suing for peace. It is believed that Huitzilopochtli sent back two meager blow darts a symbol which represented the utter contempt he held for Ulric.

Battle was joined soon after with the Xiuhcoatl or 'skinks' skirmishing ahead of the main army. This tactic is a well-known one for the armies of the lizardmen and woe betide any who ignore these diminutive creatures for the jungle poisons they employ on their blow darts and javelins can fell the mightiest of beasts.

The plaque describes Huitzilopochtli's army as having foreknowledge that the battle was unwinnable, that they would have to fight with brawn and cunning alone and without the guidance or blessings of the heavens to escape but that a greater victory was on the horizon should they survive. This would go someway to explaining death of their priest Cinteotl early in the engagement and how it did not affect them. His spirit sits at the right hand of the old ones and is at peace.

The knights on the right flank took the bait and charged the skinks that had been harassing them. While the loss of those brave warriors was mourned later, it was a strategic necessity for it allowed the tepoztopilli or 'cold one' riders to flank charge the knights and gain the advantage. Ultimately these cowards as Huitzilopochtli would describe them later were run down and slaughtered, their scalps shorn from their heads right then and there. However, they allowed a single man to escape, the army's priest. Seeing this supposed man of courage and faith flee from combat across the field of battle driven mad by fear would give the army of the 7th Sun the respite they needed.

Just moments before Ulric the arrogant's craven wizard would cast the cataclysmic spell of Tezcatlipoca or as men in the Empire know it 'the Purple Sun of Xereus'. The plaque speaks of this monumentally destructive energy employed by Ulric's forces that annihilated an entire flank of the lizardmen and would have seen them all routed had it not been for the prescience of their mage-seers and the foreknowledge of the effect the fleeing priest would have on Ulric's army. It was at this point that had the humans pressed their advantage they would have surely won the day. But instead they were paralysed by fear and sent running themselves. The chaos that ensued and the time it took to restore order in the ranks allowed Huitzilopochtli and his remaining forces to withdraw.

So ends the Plaque of Tochtepec