aztec mythology · smoking mirror · volatile temper · bloodthirsty · sorcery · jaguar limb · night sky · anti-christian · ancient deity · shadow ruler
Twilight swallowed the ancient temple ruins, dew clinging to leaves as distant insects hummed a lullaby for silent idols. The air grew thick with damp earth and decay. On sacred ground now scarred by ignorant feet, oblivion seemed to have claimed this faith. Yet nature remembers. A black shadow slithered through cracks in the crumbling staircase. Upon the altar, stripped of sacrifice and stained by time, a figure in tattered cloth sat enthroned among shattered glory. Only his eyes burned with sickly, luminous yellow, like facets of the North Star, guiding those...