Jixixit Qoxtok
Tlazopilli
Ak’b’al Mountainheart
Description
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 121 lb.
Ethnicity: Native American
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Long wild black
Clothing: Black or white and red primitive
Comportment/Cadence: Threatening
Distinctions: Unkempt and wild
Supernatural Qualities: Fabulously beautiful like a nature goddess manifest; as if one instinctively realizes even gazing upon her is a mortal sin, her beauty soon passes from the sight and memory of most
Accoutrements: Moderate jewelry
Traits: Appearance 7 (arcadian); Arcane 3
"Slay them. Slay them all!"
History
Date of Birth: August 2nd, 762
Home: Tula, Tula Valley, Anahuac (Toltec Empire)
Family: Xoma and Cozahtia (parents), Sacdira (older brother), Itotia (older sister)
First Death: External Supernatural Trigger (Jixixit served with great faith in the high temples of the Toltec capital, but while an acolyte therein, she discovered that one of the high priests had become corrupt and abused his position, and she dared expose him to the other priests; for her temerity, she was sentenced to be sacrificed to Tezcatlipoca, the Jaguar God, but at the moment of her appointed death, he intervened and spirited her away from the grim altar), 787
Mentor: Tezcatlipoca
The Test: Trial by Knowledge (the great spirit told her he spared her because of her fearless will and intent to do right even at the cost of her own life, and he desired her as his avatar and judge of other mortals; to that end, he breathed the Spell of Life into her mortal frame, slaying her with a single swipe of his razor claw; as she perished for the first time, her soul passed to heaven, granting terrifying and enlightening visions of Tlalocan, which the Maya would call Xibalba, the paradisaical Far Shore known to all worthy Tlazopilli, and those visions opened her eyes to the terrors and wonders of the supernatural universe; she also understood she would not dally in Tlalocan, but rather serve as a psychopomp, guiding the souls of the Flayed Lands to safety among their fellow dead until they could Transcend, and thereby would she also recharge her own soul and return to life over and over)
Comrades: Carmina Castigo, Gagriel Zeru, Genoveva Sabancaya, Qari Tuta Kapural, Penélope Leoz-Gaos, Julieta Leoz-Gaos, Seb-ur-Ubaid, Ehecatl Yohualli
Key Event #1: Awe & Wonder (when she regained her first life as Tlazopilli, many more years than she thought she experienced had passed; she returned to Tula, forgotten by the inhabitants, but still dwelled in the city's outskirts like a mysterious witch or devil, observing the living while communing with spirits and ghosts of all stripes)
Key Event #2: Awe & Wonder (occasionally, she ventured forth to punish a heinous criminal, but mostly she kept to herself and developed her arts and relationships)
Key Event #3: Awe & Wonder (the rise and fall of the Toltec passed before her eyes, which she judged as increasingly decadent and greedy; she chose to neither help nor hinder the increasing number of "barbarians"—Chicimecas—that raided and eventually came to settle in the great Tula Valley)
Key Event #4: Awe & Wonder (in fact, after the Toltecs had entirely assimilated with the Chichimecas, both demographically and culturally, she emerged from the fringes of civilization and appeared to the new priest class as Jaguar, guiding the development of their religious and spiritual beliefs, and as a consequence, key aspects of the emergent Tepecatl and Aztec cultures)
Key Event #5: War (the Balam heard of a "false" Jaguar and hunted her down and confronted her; she tried to convince them of the truth of her role and being, but they proved too hard-headed and stubborn; so began a long cat-and-mouse game of her distracting the werejaguars and escaping their wrath, which did not alway succeed—sometimes they caught and killed her, but of course she always returned from Tlalocan!)
Key Event #6: War (she refused to flee Anahuac or even the valley, even as she realized Tecatlipoca had left her to fend for herself, to explain herself and somehow persuade his skin-changer children of her true nature)
Key Event #7: War (the struggles with the Balam and their allies helped her learn a great deal more about the supernatural world beyond spirits and forced her to harness and develop more magical energy, but it also caused her to miss out a great deal on the developing civilizations she watched, and their constant flux entirely threw her awry whenever she had peace from the Balam)
Key Event #8: War (by the time she finally convinced the elder Balam to not only lay off but treat her as ally, the Spanish conquistadores had arrived to Mexico, and their invasion proved disastrous not only to the Nahuatl people themselves but their supernatural guides and protectors like Jixixit, as the desperate mortal humans pushed back against or outright ignored all calls from her and others like her)
Key Event #9: Treachery (though the Spanish invasion was bad enough, truly it was the betrayal of the Mixtecs [and after she shared jewel-crafting skills with their artisans!] and other peoples allying with Cortés that was the worst, and they also cued the Spanish into how best to hit Jixixit and her allies; behind Cortés were the Kindred, and she encountered vampires for the first time, and unaware of their powers, fell easily to their shadowy and corrupt blood magic)
Key Event #10: Personal Tragedy (as implacable as the foreign supernatural foes were, combined with the betrayal of her own people, what really devastated Jixixit was the Third Maelstrom; after falling to the Lasombra vampires, she hurried out of Tlalocan to aid the Flayed Lands' ghosts recover and perhaps even fight back against the Damned, but the Maelstrom nearly Withered her, even as it obliterated so many ghosts, suffering them Oblivion even after their unjust deaths)
Key Event #11: Personal Tragedy (she avoided the Withering but it left her entirely disoriented as if she had been, and she wandered lost through the Tempest for uncounted years, not finding her way or memories back until well into the 20th-century; her first task among the living again was to recover her Balam allies, and she was horrified to learn how few remained)
Transition: Defeat (though the conquistadores' descendants now held her traditional land, she swore to restore the once-ways of the Nahuatl peoples, and gathered a handful of supernatural allies around herself, aligned also to the burgeoning Dominion of the God-House with other Tlazopilli out of Cholula; specifically, for her own self-improvement, she began to analyze in careful depth the meta-anatomical nature of their vile enemies, which meant the abduction, vivisection, and finally sacrifice to the gods of many a vampire and their semi-mortal ghoul servants)
Magical Artifacts
Jewel of Yum Cimil
Appearance: A single flawless diamond set in gold and worn as an amulet.
Origin: Creation
Effects: Ward against death magic; immune to full Withering.
Activation: Simply wear it.
Talisman of Ix Chel
Appearance: A hand-flower of intricate gold filigree worn on her left hand.
Origin: Creation
Effects: Store additional Eztli.
Activation: Simply wear it.
Talisman of Yumil Kaxob
Appearance: A slender tiara of silver set with rubies and emeralds.
Origin: Creation
Effects: Significantly improve Appearance.
Activation: Simply wear it.
Significant Others
Names: Carmina Castigo, Genoveva Sabancaya, Penélope Leoz-Gaos, Julieta Leoz-Gaos, Ehecatl Yohualli, 2009
Nature: Companionship
Carmina
Genoveva
Penélope
Julieta
Ehecatl
Weakness
Contraconquista
She's taking it back. She's taking it all back. She might die trying. But she'll be back to take it back. Might as well go home now, colonial gringo scum. You can't win.
Likelihood of Corruption
Low.
Despite her vengeful ways, she's driven to purify her land of corruption and wickedness.
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"See these eyes so green,
I can stare for a thousand years,
Colder than the moon,
It's been so long!
Feel my love enraged,
It's just the fear of loosing you,
Don't you know my name,
You've been so long!
And I've been putting out the fire
with gasoline!
See these eyes so red,
Red like jungle burning bright,
Those who feel me near,
Pull the blinds and change their minds,
It's been so long!
Still this pulsing night,
A plague I call a heartbeat,
Just be still with me,
Ya wouldn't believe what I've been through,
You've been so long!
Well it's been so long!
And I've been putting out the fire with gasoline!
putting out the fire
with gasoline!
See these tears so blue,
An ageless heart that can never mend,
These tears can never dry,
A judgement made can never bend."
- David Bowie, "Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)"