Alternative history roleplay where:
*vikings succeeded in establishing a colony in Northern America, taught everyone ironworking.
*Something went really-really wrong in The Old World
*Native Americans continued to flourish for centuries after Cortes should've turned up to enslave them
*Aztec empire has finally figured out ships and are off to colonize The Old World.

(unfinished)

Father Ateixco (exiled)
Mother Moyolehuani
Younger sisters Nenetl and Iconel
+ extended family

[family life, military]
When Matlal was 25 he fell in love with Itotia - the daughter of a neighboring household.
[father got caught aiding the escape of a to-be divine sacrifice. He'd tried to rescue the guy because he'd known him from military treks to apache indian territories]
Matlal's association to this terrible event was mitigated by the man not having been in the city when it happened. Essentially he returned to Tenochtitlan from a military trek and found his father already exiled, the house closed down and family living amidst commoners. As Matlal was stripped of his title along with the rest of his father's immediative relatives his engagement to Itotia was immediately called off.
In his desperation he turned to a friend of his, a fellow nobleman Totoca, for help. As they had known each-other for a long time and served in the military together Totoca was willing to take him in and provide the leverage Matlal needed to argue his case.
Through his connections Totoca managed to get Matlal picked as the leader of a small exploration and settling operation eastwards, which - being a very honorable task - would've helped his family regain some of the status that they had lost.

The voyage has two ships at its disposal - The Árþúsund Fálka, gained from their Vinland viking benefactors and The Tlahuizlampa – Light from East – which they took over from some aztec-apache pirates who'd tried to rob them.