Cihuacoatl

The Cihuacoatl is the second most powerful leadership position in the Amec Trade Protectorate.

Description / Specifications

A Cihuacoatl is the Tlatoani's prime adviser and, in his role as arch-bishop, considered supreme judge. On the Tlatoani's death he acts as Emperor until the new Tlatoani is elected by the Tlatocan.

A Cihuacoatl is an elected vice-emperor, an ordained arch-bishop of the faith. The post's prime responsibilities are overseeing diplomatic relations with the Imperium and maintaining alliances with neighboring worlds.

History and background

The current Cihuacoatl, Iquehuac, Huahuantli, is an elderly man unbowed by age, with an immense curiosity which has given him an almost encyclopaedic knowledge on a wide variety of subjects. He speaks seven languages and can read and write a further fve. He is a strong supporter of the current Tlatoani and is believed to be his closest friend

References and contributors

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Jae Campbell. "Library Data: Bolivar." Signal-GK 11 (1995): 74. via HIWG
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 74.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science