Dominic Sandbrook

Exactly right.

So he's like that sort of Jorah Mormont or whatever in Game of Thrones, that sort of figure.

Yeah.

So John Hemmings says Chalkechima is the one man who might have united the empire against the Spaniards because he's the one man who's not entirely defined by the civil war because he had served Attawelp as father.

So in other words, what Chalkechima does now is very important.

Anando arrives in Chauja with his men.

They've done this mad journey.

They've climbed 16,000 feet up into the Andes.

They've been trudging through snow.

They're absolutely shattered.

There are only a few dozen of them, and Chalcochima has more than 30,000 men.

They arrive in Chauja, and there's this festival going on.

So there's people dancing and singing, and they sort of ignore the Spanish.

So the Spanish hang around a bit, and then finally Chalcochima arrives with his senior officers.

We have a description of him from the later chronicler, Theta de Leon, who says he was a muscular man with a broad back, a fierce expression, and a short, very thick neck.

So he looks like a rugby player, basically.

And Nando says to Chalcochima, you know, Atahualpa wants you to come with us to Cajamarca.

And Chalcochima says, no, no, what?

I'm not going with you.

I haven't had any orders to say I should go with you.