The Mistery of Belicena Villca allowed to leave the prisons and their gloomy ghettos to participate in the " conquest ". Faced with this reality , the judgment of the Gods suggested to act with extreme caution at all stages of the operation . How would they go to America ? The Gods had planned it , they would soon find out .
Lito de Tharsis and one of the Noyos , named Roque , met in Turdes with Ricardo de Tharsis and the remaining Men of Stone of the family of Valentina . They all agreed that the prophecy of the Lord of Venus had been fulfilled and that the longed-for time to leave was near : to Lito de Tharsis would correspond the High Honor of transporting the Wise Sword to the site arranged by the Gods . But not all could leave ; Ricardo de Tharsis was old to undertake such a journey , and in a similar situation were two other Knights and two Ladies ; a younger Lady , however , might accompany them but only to some settlement , because it would be difficult for her to be allowed to integrate a military expedition . And apart from the three Noyos , also two Dominican friars , who officiated as inquisitors together with Ricardo de Tharsis , were able to go . If everything went well , the travelers would send for those who stayed ; otherwise , they would join the Strategy of the German branch of the family .
The travel problem , as I said , was easily solved thanks to the providence of the Gods , for a young German explorer , at the service of the Welser House , was a distant relative of the Lords of Tharsis . Nikolaus Federmann , indeed , boasted the lineage of the Austrian Lords of Tharsis by his maternal line and was then in America . The King Carlos I of Spain , and Emperor Carlos V of Germany , contracted a debt of 150,000 ducats with the Welser House of Augsburg signing , as a sort of royal guarantee , a capitulation in Burgos by which this Bank was authorized to establish and exploit a region of America . Such a region was the one comprised by the current territory of Venezuela , from Cabo de la Vela to Maracapana , and the Company was imposed the obligation to found two cities and three fortresses , in those which a Governor or Adelantado could be appointed with royal consent . In the year 1527 Juan Ampúes founded the city of La Vela de Santa Ana de Coro , where Ambrosius Alfinger settled in 1528 , the first appointed Governor by the Welsers , who led Nikolaus Federmann as lieutenant . In 1530 , after that meeting of Lito de Tharsis with the Men of Stone to decide the trip to America , they discover through news from the Vrunaldian branch , the existence of that relative , and they contact him through the slow correspondence that the Dominicans maintained with the missionary friars . In any case , it was endeavored not to risk information in this way and that is why the letters only referred to the need to hold a personal interview with the explorer " for vital reasons that would then be clarified ". Something difficult to materialize in those days due to the fact that Federmann attended a very dangerous exploration into the heart of the Venezuelan jungle in search of the gold from the Indians .
Anyway , the Lords of Tharsis moved to the port of Seville and began to prepare their own expedition , discounting the help of Federmann . In this case fortune smiled upon the Lords of Tarsis in 1532 , although not so to Ambrosius Alfinger , to whom an arrow with curare sent to better life . Because it was the Governor ' s death that brought Nikolaus Federmann to Europe , with the purpose of claiming for himself that position that he had justly won . The Welsers , however , gave the position to Georg von Speyer , a man of prestige who had notable influences and powerful friends , appointing in compensation Federmann Lieutenant General of the Governor . And it was in 1533 , while the German was busy equipping the fleet of the Welsers , that all got together in Seville .
Nikolaus Federmann was not an Initiate nor did he have knowledge of magic or esotericism , but he carried in his veins the Blood of Tharsis . Right away he understood that the mysterious cause that brought his relatives to America had to be supported and agreed at all points to carry out the plan that they proposed ; a secret instinct told him that he was not mistaken , that something superior to gold , for which he was willing to die , guided these adventurers : he could perceive it in the air when he was in their presence ; and as if that was not enough , they also paid with gold : with good Spanish gold ,
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