October 2024 Mexica tier request (Patreon)

Sources for each characters are listed below.

Chiaroscuro, Kanem-Bornu Empire, 1830

Hermann Goedsche, Bodyguard of the Sheikh of Bornu, 1823

Quilted horse armor from Sahel region, 19th century, British Museum

Bornu quilted horse armor and body armor, late 19th century, The Liverpool Museum

Photo of a Bornu mounted warriors in a quilted lifidi armor, Niger, 1920s

Aleksandr Yakovlev, Dessins et Peintures d’Afrique, 1927

Robin Law, The Horse in West African History: The Role of the Horse in the Societies of Pre-Colonial Africa, Africa: Jornal of the International African Institute Vol. 52, No. 1 (1982)

Patricio Renardo, Purepecha, 1479

Fray Jeronimo de Alcala, Relacion de Michoacan, 1539-1541

Ian Heath, Armies of the 16th Century: The armies of the Aztec and Inca Empire, other native peoples of the Americas, and the Conquistadores 1450-1608, 1999

Daniel Parada, Tarascan Postclassic Clothing 1300-1530, 2022