Amauta

*"You think your fancy Technology will protect you? How Quaint..."*

-  Amauta, Distracting a Legionnaire from his incoming "mascot".
### Tactical Analysis

**Priest of the Sun:** Elders within the Inkarri Theocracy, the Amautas hold a very special place on their communities, but this doesn't make them any less participant on the conflict, however prefering to stay away from the heat of battle.

**Warrior Priest:** Adapting to the changing times, Amautas have adopted Sniper Rifles as their weapon of choice, letting fire at oncoming enemies from a distance, a particularly convenient way to dispose of enemies who have been affected by volcanic traps.

**Royal Emblem:** Amautas have another trick under their grasp. Raising sacred snakes and training them to do their bidding, these snakes have been trained to keep away intruders, something they are particularly effective at due to their venomous bite, they are, however, particularly fragile.

**Higher Order:** Particularly Revered Amautas are also the most familiar with the secrets of the Inkarri, making them all but immune to the effects of the Volcanic effects they propagate so much.

### Background

**Of the Kingdoms Found on Higher Peru:**

In this land, which, after the Spaniards had subjugated the peoples of the Inca, was the Conqueror Don Diego de Ribadavia, impoverished Hidalgo seeking fortunes on the New World, following unexplored trail after the rumours of the ancient Dorado city located on this territory.

His host, numbering 20 and countless naturals eventually reached the Temple known to us now as that of the Snake, where the high priest, man known as Amauta in the locality, gave them a warm welcome.

Ribadavia, recounting wonders of his finding in this heathen land, claiming to finally have found the mythical city, made quick work of God and proclaimed the Edict among themselves, saying that on the harsh reception of the word of God and the blasphemy spouted by the infidels located on the entrance to the Temple, he had no option to resort to arms, battling heroic conflict against the locals that, alas, was quickly routed and forced to turn back and return to the Imperial City of Cuzco.

Through the claims of the High Priest of the temple commanding the very land where he stood to do his bidding and the use of trained fiends to cast fear upon the populace was that word reached to his most Sacred Order and a most proficient expedition in the way of arms was assembled under the leadership of Brother Joseph to make quick vanquishing of this most clear signal of the presence of our sworn enemy on this New World.´

In the Year of our Lord 1536 the expedition, Numbering 50 armoured on our finest Talon Steel equipment our expedition set out to aforementioned Temple. Having reached the Temple and confirmed the rumours about which were created was that our expedition began the assault and the fighting and the war against the infidels. Though brave in their disposition, the violent irruption of a moat of molten fire surrounding the lands of the Temple made horrible work of various of our fallen comrades, as the local Guard, skilled in the way of the bow in ways only our Rogues would dare to match, had we confirmed the rumours of the abilities of these people on these obscure crafts. The Priests of the Temple, known as Amautas, were particularly fervent and skilled on the way of commanding the peoples defending the unholy place.

To our surprise, the trained fiends so much commented on, were but snakes, venomous ones, charmed by ways unknown to us by the locals to do their bidding, released and casting havoc amongst our disciplined band.

By the tenacity of the local defenders, and our own holy warriors, was that after an hour of intense fighting a ceasefire was called upon, not by us, but by one of the eldest of the community. To our surprise, he had a grasp, if tenuous, of the language of the Spanish and tried to explain that their intention was not to cause harm to our peoples and, what’s more, had neither interests nor relations to the fate of the Tawantinsuyu. Said he that their polity was independent, as well as much more ancient, left to be alone in their position as a sacred city. Said he that he knew who we were and heard of our arrival on the continent, for he had a network great and vast and extensive throughout the continent to safeguard the sanctity of this place, from anyone who’d dare to threaten it.

After making clarifications through a parliament with the locals was revealed that our cause was one and the same, that they too had heard of this Cult of the Scorpion that had also tried to grab their sacred relic once and again and that, while they wouldn’t let us know the nature of this relic, for the knowledge was too dangerous and forbidden to any outsiders, they’d let us set a small outpost on the sacred city, granted that we in turn secured the sanctity and integrity of this place.

Having erased the location of this Temple from maps and cast the rumours about is as yet another false lead of the indigenous people, playing with the greed of Conquistadors to send them to their demise was that we upheld the sanctity of our pact...

*-Fray Joseph de Alcantar, the Magical Conquest of the Americas. Vol. III*