Mendoza

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Mendoza sailed the seas with the great Spanish explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, from whom he learned the skills of navigation. On one trip during a storm, he saw a sinking ship with a man and his infant son (Esteban); he dived in and rescued the baby before the ship went down. Mendoza saw that the child had a medallion, and he took the central piece.
He took the boy to Barcelona, and Esteban didn't know that it was Mendoza who saved him. Mendoza returned to Barcelona one day and offered to take Esteban to search for the Cities of Gold, because he thought he had a link with them.
Mendoza is very clever and cunning; he tends to talk his way out of situations. Even when everyone thinks he is no longer needed, a situation arises and he uses his cunning to take control. He is brave and will go to any lengths to rescue his friends from trouble.
He kidnapped Zia from the Queen of Spain, because she could read the Quipu and he believed that she could lead the way to the cities of gold. Only Esteban trusts Mendoza for some reason. Zia, on the other hand, believes he is just after gold, which at first is right, but his character changes at the end and he starts to think of them rather than just as links to the Cities of Gold.