Fire & Water

Question: Concerning Chac Uayab Xoc: He does have the Devourer, but is forbidden to use Fire boons? That does not sound right.

Well... shit. Okay, let me explain how that happened.

Chac Uayab Xoc definitely always seemed like a Titan Avatar to me; he's large, he's angry, he eats everybody he can get away with, and he directly battles them sometimes (particularly Chaac and Itzamna, thanks to the idea of conflict between sea and sky at the horizon line).

Since the Great Demon Shark is... well, he's a great demon shark, and moreover he was believed to have control over the coasts and waters as well as all life inside them, the Drowned Road seemed like the obvious place to put him. And, among the other nastinesses he occasionally perpetrates, one of his stories involves him causing particularly spectacular sunsets by setting the sky on fire when he's fighting the gods, so Fire seemed obvious at well.

But, alas, what I forgot was that I was writing to try to fit the original Scion line's rules, and their Titanrealms have hard and fast exclusions for purviews in different Titanrealms. I statted Chac Uayab Xoc and then added the Drowned Road Titan template to him, and failed to notice that in the original books, Avatars of the Drowned Road are forbidden to have Fire.

Obviously, this is a problem. There are a few possibilities here, and the first is just to ignore that rule from the RAW and say that the Great Demon Shark can have whatever purviews he damn well pleases, because who's going to argue with those teeth? If you prefer the RAW models, however, you could also maybe decide that he has Sun instead of Fire, since the fire theoretically involved here is expressed as the sunset. And, of course, you could also just drop him in Legend and treat him as a very antagonistic god instead of a Titan Avatar, thus avoiding the entire Titan template problem altogether.

Jeez. The supplement's out for less than twelve hours and it's already full of goofs. I'm quitting.