The news of the New World and new shipping routes swept through Portugal and Castile like a storm at sea. The wealth and information from "the East" brought waves of stirrings to the entire Iberian Peninsula and even the Catholic World. The dawn of the New World has undoubtedly appeared!
Yet as the Iberian storm was blowing by, the same undercurrents were flowing within the nobility's hearts on the Mexican Plateau, twenty thousand miles away. The siege of Cloud Mountain City by the multitude of Southern Expedition camps had been ongoing for two years. The intense rainy season had just stopped, and the food in the siege camps had been nearly depleted.
