Tezcatlipoca

Darkness, night, change through conflict, creation, deceit, vice, corruption, patron of rulers, sower of discord, bringer of hurricanes, and instructor of sorcerers. Tezcatlipoca is all of these and much more. He will raise a person to glory today and bring them low tomorrow. Tezcatlipoca haunts roads at night, granting sorcerers wishes and inspiring the weak to acts of theft, adultery, and depravity. All who confront him during these sojourns are promised anything they desire, if they can defeat him in battle and claim his heart. None have succeeded.

In the rare instances when Tezcatlipoca reveals himself, he appears to be a fully armed young warrior, painted entirely black, with a yellow face intersected with horizontal black stripes. He has replaced the foot he lost to Cipactli with an ominously smoking black obsidian mirror that matches a similar one he wears around his neck. A single glance into either of their night-black surfaces can reveal the future, a distant place, or even the darkest motivations of the human heart.

Tezcatlipoca’s Scions are sowers of discord, and granters of desires. They upset the balance and leave chaos, destruction, and ruined lives in their wake. They are not beyond noble deeds, but use far more oblique means to accomplish their ends. They are Jaguar Warriors, assassins, conmen, sorcerers, peddlers of secrets, fortune tellers, and all who walk in quiet places.