From the introduction: Over a hundred years ago in the Year of Maidens (1361 DR), Cordell set off on his fateful journey and found what he and his Golden Legion believed to be a whole new world. To the inhabitants, he did not discover a new world, but rather what they would define as the True World. With a vibrant and too often bloody history of their own, the Mazticans were the center of their own universe. Some scholars believe that this isolation was a main factor in Maztica’s relatively easy conquest.