Editing Azcala (section)

=='''Tiers of Azcala'''==

 

===(1) '''Tzin Tlalocan'''===
The seat of the gods.  A paradise of lush and desolate places, where the lucky come to find their places of solitude and excitement.  This realm is a incredibly beautiful realm.  It has nearly every environment.  There are vast numbers of cities, villages and hamlets, in one size or another.  In the center of the vasty realm is the Tower of the Sun, where Tonacat rules.

[[File:4p Tlalocan1.jpg]][[File:1s_sigil_Azcala2.jpg]] [[File:22_Tonacat1.jpg]] [[File:27 Cihuacoa1.jpg]]

===(2) '''Tesola'''===
This vast realm is almost entirely cultivated and inhabited.  Farms, cities, fortifications, villages, dells, waterways and seas.  The capital od Azcala rests on a great island in the middle of a massive lake on this plain, Tenochilan, the Great Center.  The rulers of of Tesola are Cipactonal and Oxomoco.  Both are mighty sorcerers, controllers of the Calender, and producers of plenty.  They are not blood relations of the members of the Azcala royal family. Many in Azcala consider them the first man and woman, apart from the gods.  They bore a son named Piltzintecuhtli, who married a maiden, daughter of Xochiquetzal 

*While the people of Tesola are not specifically pacifists but they are exempt from the involuntary bloody alters common in other realms of Azcala.  Residents join military groups and clans.   Warrior bands like the Yellow Eyes are popular with the Tesoli.  The Clans of the Eagle and the Clan of Corn gain many recruits here.

A great producer of food for the many shadows of Azcala.  
*''Home of the Corn Clan''.  The Corn Clan are a gathering of farmers and cooks. It rises to the respectability of the other clans but is often overlooked for it lack of military ability.  Many members of the military quartermasters and logistical branch are members of the Corn Clan.

[[File:32s Tesola1a.jpg]][[File:Tenochilan1.jpg]][[File:Oxomoco.jpg]][[File:Cipactonal.jpg]]

===(3)'''Umillan-Zlapa'''=== 
A vast series of islands and archipelagos.  Its main ruler is Quetzal.  (This will be a main person in this realm).  This realm is a place of learning and education, a cultured place where denizens of all the other realms spend time gaining skills and education.  

It is a heavily populated realm with a series shadowpaths leading in and out of Azcala.  Traveling from Umillan to realms inside Azcala is trickier but not impossible.  This is one of the only places open to shadows beyond Azcala

 [[File:17 Quetzal.jpg]][[File:8p Umillan-Zlapa.jpg]] [[File:30s Umillan-Zlapa.jpg]]

===(4)'''Ahshaza'''===
A vast continent with one massive central lakes with many islands.   Like a submerged mountain range.  Forests fil this realm and nearly every growing thing yields fruit to feed the living, and fertilize the growing. The central lake is ruled by Naytalaz- a great lake creature of great age.  Many small nations and kingdoms fill this vast plain. 

[[File:14s Ahshaza-3.jpg]]

===(5) '''Untola'''===
This is the breadbasket of Azcala.  It is a realm of vast growth.  Every thing that grows in the realm grows here someplace. This realm has several large settlements but it has a huge number of tiny villages, hamlets and strongholds. 

* Chicomecoatl, goddess of agriculture
* Centeotl, god of the maize associated with the Tianquiztli (Pleiades)
* Xilonen, goddess of tender maize

[[File:33p Untola.jpg]]

===''(6)'''''Zictla'''===
The Realm of the Ravaged. Ruled by Zictalas and his wife/sister Zentalas and Senior warrior Xozla, a brother of Zictalas & Zentalas, and his sister/wife Cihalas.   Cihalas, a sister, responsible for medical care, especially childbirth and Attended by motherly women, yet still seen as a death goddess.  Snakes are Cihalas' symbol.  Acoza-Son of Zictala&Zentalas, Warrior, associated with Pumas. Acolna-A younger son associated with the squirrel. Aztalios and Untara, brother and sister, are the children of Xozla and Cihalas. Untara is a rebel of the house of Zictla and hates everyone in it, especially her brother Aztalios.

This realm is a craggy mountainous realm of blacked and desolate lands.  Volcanoes, rivers of lava, fast growing forests that frequently burn leaving charred remains and a smoky haze over the whole tier. 

[[File:24 Acolna.jpg]] [[File:29 Untara-1.jpg]] [[File:18 Aztalios.jpg]] [[File:35 Acoza.jpg]]

[[File:12s Zictla 3.jpg]] [[File:9p Zictala.jpg]] [[File:16 Zictalas.jpg]] [[File:7 Zentalas.jpg]]

[[File:Xozla.jpg]][[File:Cihalas.jpg]]

===(7)'''Zunala'''===

[[File:34p Zunala.jpg]] [[File:AT-Avaxala-Alvah.jpg]][[File:29 Untara-1.jpg]] [[File:D-Xolotl1.jpg]]

This was a warrior realm.  The people born and raised here filled the majority of the armies of Azcala.   They are a blood soaked people who love death sports and bloody warfare.  They heal extremely fast compared to other races and are nearly immune to diseases. They are able to survive in incredible heats but do poorly in snows and cold weather.  Its ruler, Xolotl, brother of Quetzel, was a canine war god of extraordinary cruelty who favors sickness and monsters.

They are also the arm of the priesthood.  People of other realms often fear the coming of the Arm of the Alters, who collect victims for sacrifice.  Nearly all the royalty and most the nobility raise their armies here.  Many of the royalty have cities and nations in Zunala that worship them individually.

====The Destruction of Zunala====
For reasons unknown to natives of Azcala, Zunala suffered a cataclysm.   The mountain range that surrounded the realm, enclosing the vast lands inside, suddenly erupted and flew a thousand feet in the air, crashing to the ground and leaving a ring of rubble around what became an inland sea when the protective ring was shattered.  The outer sea had flowed in to filled the wrinkles land creating many large islands.  The population once nearly a billion was drowned.  Survivors fled into the crumbled mountain ranges and settled in places where considerable soil remained.  

A deity called Desalri rose as a bringer of life to the survivors of Zunala.  She refused to meet other Azcalan deities and refused to take rulership of the realm since Xolotl disappeared in the disaster.

====Rise of the Sisters====
In time two sister deities rose to restore Zunala.  Its population after the '''''Destruction''''' was almost 20 million.  The bloody people of Zunala were dead and the Sisters worked to change Zunala's path.
====Personages of Importance to Zunala====




{| class="wikitable"
| 1  Ancient ruler of Zunala. 
*Grandson of Tonacat. Brother of Quetzal.
*Died in the destruction of Zunala 

[[File:D-Xolotl1.jpg|150px]]
| 2  Sister Deity Avaxala.

[[File:AT-Avaxala-Alvah.jpg|150px]]
| 3 Sister Diety Untara 

[[File:29 Untara-1.jpg|150px]]
|- 
| 4  The Crow Woman of Zunala.

[[File:Desri1.jpg|150px]]
| 5 Donovan of Arden. Discoverer of the Library of Xolotl in Zunala

[[File:Donovan1.jpg|150px]]
Arloxedra of Amber

| 6 [[File:Arloxedra4.jpg|150px]]
| 7  
| 8  
| 9
|- 
|}

===(8)'''Etepaq'''===

[[File:Tezcatlipoca.jpg]][[File:Sigil Etepaq.jpg]]

This dark realm is filled with billions of people living in complex medium technological realms.  A sword age with the internal combustion engine with cars, motorcycles, tractors and gunpowder.    They are realms with hot black suns and dark blue moons.  It is a land of dim electrical lights.  Imagine a technological world where they developed inefficiently, messily, and kind of stupidly.   

Its warrior king is Tezcatlipoca.  Not a member of the line of Tonacat, he is a difficult and dangerous warrior king without familial loyalty to Azcala.  He has no living children and his dead ones don't like him and wage a constant war against him.  

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<big>For more detailed information on the Tier of Etapaq see [[The Great Realm of Etapaq]]'''</big>
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====Warrior Societies====
Etepaq provides many warriors for the military might of Azcala and they make sure the rulers of Azcala know it.  However the warriors of Etepaq do not serve in the Puma, Eagle, Snake or Jaguar Clans.  They have something of an antipathetic relationship with the Warrior Clans despite being part of it.  They have their own Warrior Societies but hate them being called or compared to clans.

The military of Etapaq is well equipped with magical armor and weaponry and supported by combat mages and healers.  

*The Red Face Society
*Bladed Hand Society
*Etapaqaxilitios.  A cavalry wizardry order.    T 

====Sigil of Etapaq====
The Sigil of Etapaq is not a shadow of the Sigil of Azcala.  It was a High order, minor squiggle at the time of the creation of the squiggle of Azcala and was consumed by the forces of creation at the time.  It does not cast its own shadows.  


====='''''Serpent Stones'''''=====
A High Order item created by passage through the Sigil of Etepaq.  The stones are usually a mixture of turquoise and gold and are carved before a person walks the Sigil, empowering them. They may also be carved human bone embossed with gold or high woods with embedded silver.  They can hold a single spell of most forms of low or high order initiations of magic.  Spells cast from Serpent Stones work in shadows even were the magic of the spell or magic of shadow does not allow the original system of Low Magic or High Order Sorcery to function. A person may carry many of these items.
[[File:Serpent Stones.jpg]]

===(9) '''Mictlan'''===

[[File:31 Mictlan.jpg]]

The underworld.  Most people who died went to Mictlan.  Mictlan was ruled by a king, Mictlantecuhtli ("Lord of the Underworld")[2] and his wife, Mictecacihuatl ("Lady of the Underworld").  Other deities in Mictlan included Cihuacoatl (who commanded Mictlan spirits called Cihuateteo, as well as being the mother of Quezel and Xolotl), Acolmiztli, Chalmecacihuilt, Chalmecatl. 


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