The Crimson Eagle – Eagle Warriors
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:The_Crimson_Eagle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_warrior
https://aeromexico.com
Kathleen Wilder has discovered how to find El Yollotl. After defeating Night Terrors, your wizard procures a map to the Corazon Cave but Zolo Stone Heart has beat you there. Zolo convinces The Crimson Eagle that you are there to steal El Yollotl and the two team up to battle your wizard. After you defeat the Eagle and Zolo you bring the stone to Kathleen Wilder who promises that you will be the central character in her new book.
Eagle warriors or eagle knights (Classical Nahuatl: cuāuhtli (singular) or cuāuhmeh (plural)) were a special class of infantry soldier in the Aztec army, one of the two leading military special forces orders in Aztec society, the other being the Jaguar warriors. They were a type of Aztec warrior called a cuāuhocēlōtl. The word cuāuhocēlōtl derives from the eagle warrior cuāuhtli and the jaguar warrior ocēlōtl. These military orders were made up of the bravest soldiers of noble birth and those who had taken the greatest number of prisoners in battle. Of all of the Aztec warriors, they were the most feared. Eagle warriors, along with the jaguar warriors, were the only such classes which did not restrict access solely to the nobility, as commoners or, in Nahuatl, “mācēhualli” were occasionally admitted for special merit.
The life of Aztec warriors was one of constant battle, and the primary purpose for this continual warfare was to take prisoners to be sacrificed to their gods. As the Aztec Empire expanded, however, the expansion of the empire in size and power became increasingly important.
In current culture, the eagle warrior is a representation of the Aztec culture, and therefore the Mexican tradition. Some companies use the eagle warrior as a symbol that denotes strength, aggressiveness, competitiveness, and remembrance of the ancient cultures of Mexico. AeroMexico’s logo, for instance, shows a cuāuhtli.
The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references, I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages.
The Crimson Eagle image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
Eagle warrior statue image is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is used under the CC BY-SA 2.0 creative commons license
Eagle warrior image from the Florentine Codex is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is in the public domain.
AeroMexico logo is courtesy PRNewsFoto and is copyright AeroMexico
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