Religion (Maztica Supplement)
Maztican Pantheon[edit]
Across Maztica, nine gods are honored as active forces in their lives. While each of the nine nations chooses a single god as their patron deity, pyramid temples dedicated to each can be found in any major city.
Qotal[edit]
Titles: The Feathered Dragon, the Silent Councilor, the Plumed Father
Alignment: Lawful Good
Domains: Life, Protection, Pluma
Portfolio: Creation, freedom, pluma
Qotal takes the form of a great golden dragon feathered in many dazzling colors. His worship typically takes the form of cereal offerings, glorifying his gift of maize by displaying its excess, and it is common for one to gain favor by freeing his favored animals from captivity, namely butterflies, ravens, and couatl. His chosen people are the Payit, who at his height dominated the continent, but in his shame were pushed back to the eastern coast.
Zaltec[edit]
Titles: The Bloody Hand, the Bringer of War, the Eater of Hearts
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Domains: Death, War, Hishna
Portfolio: War, violence, hishna
Zaltec takes the form of an opulent king with the maw of a jaguar and the fangs of a serpent. He demands ritual human sacrifices from his priests, which resulted in the creation of the maca, a weapon of war designed to take prisoners. His Nexalan Empire dominated Maztica with his gift of hishna following Qotal's disappearance and the weakening of Payit up until the time of New Amn. His chosen people are the people of Jagre Nexal and New Nexal, who he guided to the Valley of Nexala when they were still nomadic warriors from southern Anchôromé.
Azul[edit]
Titles: Blue Twin Azul, the Giver of Rain, the Taker of Breath
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Grave, Tempest
Portfolio: Rain, water
Azul takes the form of a spotless, well-fed child in a clean cotton robe. He is an unreliable god, demanding great sacrifice for the possibility of receiving his gift of rain. In the most dire of situations, this sacrifice may even have to be the drowning one's own child. He is also worshiped by all manner of water monsters, particularly chac and tlalocoatl. His chosen people are the people of Huacli, who beseech him at all times.
Tezca[edit]
Titles: Crimson Twin Azul, the Ruler of Sun, Lord of the Desert
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Domains: Light, Trickery
Portfolio: The sun, fire
Tezca takes the form of a man with skin like fire and hair like smoke. He is a cruel god, demanding a human heart each sunset to keep from stopping the sun from rising each day. The great desert of Southern Maztica bears his name as a representation of its unbearable heat. His chosen people are the people of Kultaka, who still use his gift of fire as his symbol.
Plutoq[edit]
Titles: Youngest Son, the Mountain-Shaper, the Final Hope
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Domains: Forge, Nature
Portfolio: Mountains, stone, clay
Plutoq takes the form of a 50-foot tall earthen pillar with two large jade eyes and a set of obsidian teeth. He is rarely worshiped, and his worship is not as fervent as other gods except in times of famine when prayers to Watil failed, taking the form of smashing and burying pottery and jewelry on bare soil. His chosen people are those of the Pasocada Basin, who sought his protection traversing the Borderlands.
Kiltzi[edit]
Titles: Eldest Daughter, the Nourisher, Weaver of Life
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Domains: Life, Peace
Portfolio: Love, fertility
Kiltzi takes the form of a beautiful, full-bodied, pregnant woman clothed in her own hair. She is an easy goddess to please, demanding only that marriages, births, and all acts in between be done in her name, with only the occasional sacrifice of seeds for fortune in such affairs. Her chosen people are the people of Lopango, though the tlincalli still escape her grasp.
Watil[edit]
Titles: Fruit-Mother, the Guardian of Life, the Sacred Prisoner
Alignment: Neutral Good
Domains: Nature, Protection
Portfolio: Plants, agriculture
Watil takes the form of a great tree with branches of all kinds. While her power over plants makes her one of Maztica's more powerful deities, she is inherently at the whim of Azul, whose rain allows her plants to flourish. She gives her gifts freely, requiring no sacrifices, and her priests are primarily jungle hermits who leave their seclusion to bless fruiting plants at the beginning of the growing and harvesting seasons. Her chosen people are the people of Pezelac, though the arid shrublands bring worship of Azul near the same level.
Nula[edit]
Titles: Beast-Mother, the Wild Guardian,
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Domains: Nature, War
Portfolio: Animals, leatherworking
Nula takes the form of a shifting figure with features from all kinds of beasts and monstrosities. She is the patron deity of hunters, anglers, and ranchers, of which the development of the latter has greatly increased her influence over the continent, and the only sacrifice she demands is that the bones of her slain are returned to the earth. Her chosen people are the people of the Borderlands, who retained pastoral methods from their former overlords of New Waterdeep.
Eha[edit]
Titles: Queen of the Breath, the Wind Sprite,
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Domains: Tempest, Life
Portfolio: Wind, air
Eha takes the form of a cloud of white smoke with a vaguely feminine figure. While she is the quickest Maztican deity to anger, her fury is much less destructive than the likes of Azul or Tezca. Her worship is primarily practiced by parents, who thank her for giving their child breath by leaving food on their doorstep on windy nights. Her chosen people are the people of Kolan, who trust in her while sailing.
Creator Gods[edit]
Maztica was created by a pair of gods, Kukul and Maztica. Following Maztica's murder at the hands of Zaltec, Kukul banished himself, causing both creator gods to be absent from modern Maztican affairs, though a very small number of people still worship them as sages and scholars rather than as priests.
Kukul[edit]
Titles: The God Father, Star King of Knowledge
Alignment: Neutral
Domains: Knowledge, Twilight
Portfolio: Creation, knowledge, stars
Kukul took the form of a great golden man with uncountable hands that stretched outward like a mountain and caused the stars to rotate above Toril, though this image has been lost in the wake of his disappearance following his wife Maztica's death at the hands of Zaltec. The severing of his fingers to create mankind is a cornerstone of Maztican legend. Scholars of Kukul watch the stars in order to glean fragments of his all-knowing memory.
Maztica[edit]
Titles: The God Mother, the True World
Alignment: Neutral
Domains: Life, Nature
Portfolio: Ground, life
Maztica is the prime god of the continent that bears her name, it was her that shaped it from the primordial sea as Abeir-Toril's first continent and populated it with all manner of beasts, and it was she and her husband Kukul who created the rest of Maztica's gods. When Zaltec's hishna ravaged the land, it was Maztica who helped Qotal create pluma to bring peace, though this enraged Zaltec into matricide. Sages of Maztica are some of her continent's only druids, and believe that she was the overgod of their continent, though it is contentious wether her throne is now held by the most worshiped of her children or by Faerûn's Ao.
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Lesser Gods[edit]
The lesser gods of Maztica are typically powerful spirits who can enact their will like a god, or are aspects of greater gods. No lesser god is worshiped throughout all of Maztica, though a region may have many lesser gods who are worshiped as much as a true god.
Micat[edit]
Aspect of Zaltec's venom
Calor[edit]
Aspect of Azul's octal (alcoholic drink)
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