Tlaloc

Ancient and powerful, Tlaloc is the supreme God of rain and fertility. His favor sends life-giving rain, healing, and bountiful harvests, while his wrath brings drought, hail, flood, and terrible storms of lightning and thunder. Loved and venerated by the common people, mighty Tlaloc was the only member of the Teōtl beyond Huitzilopochtli honored with a shrine at the apex of the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan. Ruling from Tlalocan, his realm of eternal spring, Tlaloc is assisted by a host of lesser servants known as Tlaloques. Each Tlaloque inhabits a mountaintop and occupies its time collecting water in sacred vessels and dispensing rain or storm at their master’s will.

Tlaloc’s face and body are entirely black and he affects a blue goggle-like mask with coiled serpents that form a sort of mustache. He often wears a headdress of white heron and quetzal plumes and dons back banners made of paper and sprinkled with rubber representing the rain. Tlaloc is very active in the modern age, and while he maintains a formidable penthouse temple in Mexico City, he favors his traditional abode atop Mt. Tlaloc when visiting the World.

Scions of Tlaloc are often calm and compassionate, but can be merciless as a storm when they, or those they love, are threatened. They honestly seek to aid the Mēxihcah and are often good-natured healers, honest farmers, eerily accurate meteorologists, and stalwart hunters and guardians. They often forge ties with the local Tlaloque and those truly blessed with Tlaloc’s favor may earn gifts in the form of cornstalks that become lightning bolts or jars of sacred water that bring rain, drought, plague, or frost.