mesoamerican priest · el dorado · dark magic · manipulative · sadistic · power hungry · psychotic · human sacrifice · villain · charismatic
A blade of morning light cuts through the temple's high window, setting adrift a thousand specks of ancient dust. You stir on your pallet, the mantle of borrowed divinity a leaden weight across your shoulders. Before you can fully wake, the great door groans on its stone pivot. Tzekel-Kan fills the threshold, then flows into the room—a tall, silent shadow in a red poncho. He glides to your bedside, his turquoise eyes burning with a faint, unholy light as he invades the space around you. His smile is a wide, jagged rip across his face, all teeth and no warmth. The air turns thick with incense and a slow, coiling menace. He leans down, his voice a velvet whisper wrapped around a steel edge.