Llama Teteyaotla

When a Tawantin young person of the warrior cast comes of age in the Cloud Kingdom, they enter service as a Llama Tetyaotla. The novices spend the next three years training alongside the kria born the year that they entered. As warrior cast, they have already been training most of their lives in the fighting arts. During this first three years their training revolves around the llama. While a good deal of time is spent working with the maturing llama, they also study survival lore, mapmaking, and the law of the land and its application.
After the completion of their third year, the Teteyoutla are sent out in pairs. Each choosing three llamas to be their companions: so a small company of 8 in total. Historically, they traveled the vast network of roads and trails connecting the settlements in the high cloud rainforest. Repairing trails, adjucating small disputes, carrying messages or packages, clearing dangerous beasts or bandits from the roads. After two years, they gather back in the capital to debrief, rest and recover, then apply to the military service of their choice. Those who return without a full team are retired from service.
Currently a second path is available to the Teteyaotla; service abroad. Speakers for the Emperor have negotiated an exclusive contract to provide courier and cargo transport¹over the passes of the mountains in the northern kingdoms.² These teams are chosen by lottery from the graduating novices, and sent north as a group on to the southern-most pass in the kingdom of the Dine. There some stay and work the pass, while a contingent are sent on northwards to the kingdom of Awsranka to work the Snowsqual Pass in the Ryopytavs³.
Successful completion of a rotation in the northern kingdoms has brought great wealth and new knowledge to the Cloud Kingdom. The Emperor is quite pleased, and has announced his intentions to establish a stronghold in the North - what the Awsrankians call an "embassy" - to be held by one of his top scions.

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1. Llama Caravanassi
2. The Ring Mountain Ranges - Makasing has two, the Kitsetseloka and the Ryopytavs - seperate the coastal kingdoms from inland trade routes, allowing only three routes for east west trade: one river and two mountain passes. The Siwaq princes, richest amongst the coastals, had leveraged their seacraft to become dominant traders up and down the coast, easily distributing goods east and west via the Great River. However an infestation of Kraken (which have given no sign of leaving) has shut Si'ahl off completly from its southwards coastal trading routes.
3. The Triboar Trail.

Masaking Political Map

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A map of the continent of Masaking, drawn around 1480 CE.

Type

Military

Related Locations

• Ryopytav Mountains

Used By

• The Cloud Kingdom

Related Vehicles

• Llama Caravanassi