King Gortez – Hernán Cortés
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Gortez, known as the “Gold Monkey,” is a legendary Monquistador and the current King of Monquista. The son of a stonemason from a poor and backward corner of Monquista, Gortez led the conquest of Skull Island. He is hailed as being greatly influential to the Monquistan empire and their wealth and influence.
Drawn to the Isle of Doom by rumors of vast treasures, Gortez journeyed there with his legion of elite Monquistadors. Initially triumphant, Gortez and his legion collected much gold from the jungle. However, over the months, Gortez decided to build himself a kingdom, and ruled from his Temple of the Gold Monkey.
It wasn’t until intervention from the Pirate that he was removed from his position of power and taken to Zenda, where he was to be executed by the Crown. However, the Pirate freed Gortez, and he soon became the general of the Opposition. In the Monquistan civil war, he fought valiantly but was overwhelmed by the enemy forces. Once Napoleguin was freed from Fort Elena, the tide of the war was turned and Gortez seized his place as the King of Monquista, marrying Queen Eleanor.
After your wizard defeats the Doom Moon alongside the League of Exemplary Personages from Lemuria, Dasein and the Governors of Novus are at a standoff. The Cabal summons the leaders of the Spiral powers to rein in the overreaching ambitions of the power-hungry governors. King Gortez stands with his fellow leaders, Red Rosa, Princess Pesca, and Queen Vicorgia.
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Born in Medellín, Spain, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue adventure and riches in the New World. He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba, where he received an encomienda (the right to the labor of certain subjects). For a short time, he served as alcalde (magistrate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, which he partly funded. His enmity with the governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, resulted in the recall of the expedition at the last moment, an order which Cortés ignored.
Arriving on the continent, Cortés executed a successful strategy of allying with some indigenous people against others. He also used a native woman, Doña Marina, as an interpreter. She later gave birth to his first son. When the governor of Cuba sent emissaries to arrest Cortés, he fought them and won, using the extra troops as reinforcements. Cortés wrote letters directly to the king asking to be acknowledged for his successes instead of being punished for mutiny. After he overthrew the Aztec Empire, Cortés was awarded the title of marqués del Valle de Oaxaca, while the more prestigious title of viceroy was given to a high-ranking nobleman, Antonio de Mendoza. In 1541 Cortés returned to Spain, where he died six years later of natural causes.
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