Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Azteca – Otomi Far Spike

Otomi Far Spike – The Otomi, an indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region.
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Otomi_Far_Spike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otomi

Zenzen Seven Star needs you to find an atlatl for the war challenge. Otomi Far Spike will carve an atlatl for you if you can gather the necessary tools and material. You need to find a piece of petrified wood and recover his tools from the Gold Frills.

The Otomi are an indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit a discontinuous territory in central Mexico. They are linguistically related to the rest of the Otomanguean-speaking peoples, whose ancestors have occupied the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt for several thousand years. Currently, the Otomi inhabit a fragmented territory ranging from northern Guanajuato, to eastern Michoacán and southeastern Tlaxcala. However, most of them are concentrated in the states of Hidalgo, Mexico and Querétaro. According to the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples of Mexico, the Otomi ethnic group totaled 667,038 people in the Mexican Republic in 2015, making them the fifth largest indigenous people in the country.

Like most of the native names used to refer to the indigenous peoples of Mexico, the term Otomi is not native to the people to which it refers. Otomi is a term of Nahuatl origin that derives from otómitl, a word that in the language of the ancient Mexica means “one who walks with arrows”, although authors such as Wigberto Jimenez Moreno have translated it as “bird arrowman”.

The Otomi were blacksmiths and traded valuable metal items with other indigenous confederations, including the Aztec Triple Alliance. Their metal crafts included ornaments and weaponry, although metal weaponry was not as useful as obsidian weaponry (obsidian being sharper than a modern-day razor, abundant, and light in weight).

The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.

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