Starry, Starry Night

Question: I remember someone on the Scion forums mentioning Citlalicue. Who is that?

Citlalicue ("skirt of stars") is an Aztec goddess most associated with the night sky, Milky Way and other celestial business. According to a variant creation myth, she gave birth to sixteen hundred gods with her husband Citlalonac and dropped them carelessly to earth. When they complained to her that they had no one to serve them as befitted their divinity, she instructed them to go to the Underworld and ask Mictlantecuhtli for the bones of humanity to be their servants, an alternative take on how Quetzalcoatl eventually ended up down there desperately playing trumpets and running around in circles.

This is the only myth that Citlalicue and Citlalonac appear in, and they're largely absent from art and pottery of the Aztecs, too, suggesting that there isn't much more to tell about them. Their sole story comes from the firsthand accounts of good old Father Olmos, a Franciscan priest who spent considerable time trying to learn the local language and talk to the natives after the Spanish conquest, and we've never found any definite depiction of the two gods outside of his account.

The general scholarly consensus is that Citlalonac and Citlalicue are probably alternate forms of Tonacatecuhtli and Tonacacihuatl or Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, who are themselves the split halves of the Aztec Creation Titan Ometeotl. Considering their cosmic appearance as creator gods and general lack of personality, that's a theory that makes a lot of sense for Scion, too. Even if you don't want to lump them in with the Lord of Duality, they're most likely Titans, old, fussy and unrelated to the other gods, and possible antagonists or parts of the setting for your intrepid Aztlanti Scions to come up against.