Francisco Pizarro and his small group of conquistadors stunned the king’s much larger force with guns and horses, neither of which they had seen before.
In the early 1500s, Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors conveyed it west across the Atlantic, where it ravaged native communities and contributed to the downfall of the Aztec, Mayan, and Inca empires.
Pizarro and his conquistadors had grown rich, and tales of their conquest and glory had reached Spain and was bringing new waves of Spaniards, hungry for gold and glory.
Izzi's book is given a new ending in which the conquistador passes the guardian, drinks the sap from the tree of life, and is subsequently killed by new life bursting from his body.
In a third storyline, we are presented with Izzi's unfinished book The Fountain, which tells the tale of a Spanish conquistador in the 16th century on an expedition to find the Tree of Life.
However, until the khipu code can be cracked, these stories remain elusive. Most of what we know about the ancient Incas is from the records of the conquistadors and archeological evidence.