 Both works had earned him recognition as a writer.Most experts agree the "Comentarios Reales" are a chronicle of the culture, economics, and politics of the Inca Empire, based on oral tradition as handed down to Garcilaso by relatives and other "amauta" (masters, wise ones) during his childhood and adolescence, as well as written sources, including the chronicle of Blas Valera.Garcilaso's commentaries have to be understood as representing a mixed worldview of the empire.