The birth of God's and Pantheon's are a bit different than what you'd expect.
When the Original God's were born from the chaos, there existed some barriers, some stop signs around the world.
These barriers did not hold the God's, mind you, a God could freely baypass the barrier that bounded him there. These barriers did something else entirely.
When a God walked outside from the barrier, at first, only their divinity would start to feel weird, like it was warning them from something.
But as more as you walked, everywhere around you would start to cover with a thick gray fog, your divinity would slowly lock itself so you would not be able to use it. And finally, a foreign pressure would start to slow you down, testing if you can go outside from the barrier.
No God has been able to bypass those barriers. They simply do not have what it takes.
That's what has been keeping every pantheon, every different myth from interracting with each other, these barriers. That's why when one part of the world has a different belief from the other, no one is aware of it.
And there will be no passing from those barriers...
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But four God's were different from the others. They knew what lay behind those barriers, and why should they actuall dive into these barriers head on.
They were the main four Gods of the Aztec mythology. They were not fearless, nor they were stupid, there was actually a very sensible answer to the question "How could they know what layed behind those barriers?".
Well, let's go back to the very start for our answer, shall we?
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There was only silence at the start.
"..."
Then, a figure appeared on the middle of nothing.
"..."
It's body was made of always fighting two forces, the light and the dark, the good and the bad, the female and the male.
"..."
This figure's name was Ometeotl, and it was the first Aztec God that came to life, excluding Cipactly, the abomination that lives under the Primodial Ocean.
After a moment of nothing, the first Aztec God, Ometeotl, suddenly turned into a ball of light and divided into four. The four little lights turned into different colors from their original, from golden yellow and dark purple to white, blue, red and purple.
The four little light balls started to grew bigger and bigger until they took the shape of adult humans.
The purple ball
turned into a male teen with purple hair that reached his eyes with some common black strikes on it. He wore a skirt like purple cloth with patterns of Jaguars on it, along with many different colored feathers. His face was painted with black lines that made him look a little menacing.
The red light ball extended and
turned into a bald boy with fire like tattoes on him. He wore a toga like red and golden robe and his eyes shined like they had fire burning within them.
The Blue ball extended and
turned into a teen with a spiky whip and a shield on his hands. The man wore a skirt like cloth that was blue and green, and wore a lion shaped hat with spiky leafs coming out of it.
And the last ball, which was white,
turned into a man on his early twenties with a hair that reached his waist and had the colors of green, red and white all over. He wore a long loincloth that reached his knees, and had accesories made out of feathers on his shoulders.
After the transformation of the four light balls, everything was silent for a minute...
...
Until one of them realised what was going on.
"Wha- what's going on?!" The bald God suddenly exclaimed and frantically looked around. After seeing literally nothing, he started to panic. Atleast the God with the whip and the shield was good hearted enough to go and help him calm down.
"Dude, don't panic, you're hyperventing! Take deep breaths, alright? Come on, do it with me, inhale... exhale... inhale... exhale..." The man repeated the exercises he learned on medical school to calm down the man, but he couldn't help to take notice of his completely hairless head and his fire like tattoes.
After the man noticibally calmed down, he patted him on shoulder and and asked him that was bothering him since he saw the man.
"So, why do you wear a toga?" He not so humbly asked the man. After hearing the words of the man who had a
whip and a shield on his hands a minute ago, and was nearly naked to the full, he couldn't help but to shout.
"What the fuck are you talking about?! Where am I?! Who are you guys?!"
"Wow, chill out man, no need to shout. You're in London right now, and I'm Arthur, nice to meet you." The newly named "Arthur" hold out an hand to him, while he just stared with his mouth open. After a moment, he slapped the hand and pointed at their surroundings.
"Does it look like we're in fucking London right now?!"
After hearing the words of the bald man, the other three looked at the pointed direction, amd saw
nothing.
All three of the man had different reactions. The man named "Arthur" had a face like he understood why he nearly had a panic attack, and his eyes showed fear.
The other two...
The man with the long hair looked analytically at their surroundings and looked like he was already farmulating an idea on his mind about where they were.
The last guy with the purple hair... He was literally
shaking from excitement. It was like his whole dreams just came true at a glance at the void.
After all of them realised what type of situation they were in, the long haired man calmly spoke.
"Alright, there's no need to panic. If we calmly think through things, we might get an answer about what happened to u-"
"Hell yeah! I really transmigrated! What do you say now Josh?!" The purple haired man cut the white haired one's speech and yelled at the sky, showing both of his middle fingers while doing it. After this, he started to make a little victory dance.
The other three just
stared at the guy lost in his own world. Even if how much they wanted to leave the guy on his own fantasy, he seemed like he knew what was going on here, and they had no better choice...
"Can you please stop dancing?!" The bald guy yelled at the dancing man. It seemed like he realised that he was not alone and scratched the back of his head with a little grin on his face.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that you guys were here for a second." He shamelessly admitted. While the warrior like man and the bald guy had their mouths open at the guy, the long haired one just spoke without even a little hesitation.
"No offense taken. Now, you seem like you know what's going on, can you please explain for the rest of us?" He asked with a little smile. After seeing that the other three were clueless, the purple haired guy made an 'oh' sound and chuckled. Then he opened his arms and looked at the sky.
"Then sit and listen, my uncultured friends! Because Max is going to enlighten you!"
"Just get on with it!"
"Alright, alright. Party pooper." The purple haired man grumbled a little, but he quickly turned normal and started explaining.
"Alright, what happened to the four of us is actually very simple. All of us have just transmigrated into another universe!"
"..." "..." "..."
"What?" 'Arthur' smartly asked the question on their minds.
The purple headed man just smiled at them and continued explaining.
"I do not know if any of you have ever readen transmigration novels, but it basically goes like this. A guy dies, and then wakes up on another dude's body." Then the guy smiled very happily. "And it seems like my plan has worked!"
The other three just looked at each other relucantly. At last, 'Arthur' asked the inevitable question.
"Your plan?"
The purple guy just nodded. "Yeah, my plan. I threw myself infront of a truck to get transmigrated!"
After this revelation, even the long haired man's mouth was a little bit hanging.
Then the bald guy just put his hands over his eyes and swept.
"Great, we have a fucking lunatic with us."
"Hey, it worked didn't it?!"
"And what if it didn't, you idiot?!"
While the two of them bickered and 'Arthur' listened, the long haired man started to think about what the purple haired guy talked about.
"Do these 'transmigration novels' have something common in them? Like something that can help us?" The long haired man asked the purple one, which the latter nodded.
"Yeah, and they're called 'golden finger's! Usually when a guy transmigrates he has something to start him off or atleast show his current
status!"
Just after saying the word 'status', a 2D blue panel appeared infront of him.
Name: | Tezcatlipoca (Smoking Mirror) |
Race: | Main God (Aztecian) |
Aliases: | The Black Tezcatlipoca, The God of the North |
Domains: | Night (Lvl Max), Obsidian (Lvl Max), Sorcery (Lvl Max), Conflict (Lvl Max), Jaguars (Lvl Max) |
"Wow... Wait, I'm a GOD?! Heck yeah!" After seeing his ascendance to divinity, now named 'Tezcatlipoca' started to do a little victory dance.
What he did not know was that the other three could see his panel, and was a s shocked as him.
"W-What?
Status!" The bald guy suddenly exclaimed.
Name: | Xipe Totec (Our Lord the Flayed One) |
Race: | Main God (Aztecian) |
Aliases: | The Red Tezcatlipoca, The God of the East |
Domains: | Fire (Lvl Max), Agriculture (Lvl Max), Plague (Lvl Max) |
Faith: | 0 |
"Wow, I wonder which domains I have.
Status!" 'Arthur' muttered to himself
Name: | Huitzilopochtli (Hummingbird of the South) |
Race: | Main God (Aztecian) |
Aliases: | The Blue Tezcatlipoca, The God of the South |
Domains: | War (Lvl Max), Human Sacrifice (Lvl Max) |
Faith: | 0 |
"H-Human sacrifice! Why do
I have something like that?!" Not 'Arthur' cried over the unfairness of his domain.
"Hmm,
Status."
Name: | Quetzalcoatl (Feathered Serpent) |
Race: | Main God (Aztecian) |
Aliases: | The White Tezcatlipoca, The God of the West |
Domains: | Wind (Lvl Max), Knowledge (Lvl Max), Wisdom (Lvl Max), Creativity (Lvl Max) |
Faith: | 0 |
"Not bad. Not bad at all" The white haired man, now named Quetzalcoatl smirked a little. It seemed like he was most pleased with what he got.
"Haha! It seems like I'm the strongest out of you all, I have the most domains!" Tezcatlipoca decleared with his eyes closed and had a fist over his chest. At this Xipe Totec's eye started to twitch.
"Just because you have the most domains doesn't mean that you're the strongest, you idiot!"
"Yes it does! I can even make Jaguars! Jaguars dude, how cool is that?!"
And to prove his point, Tezcatlipoca created a black jaguar at the middle of them.
"See! Can you do t-"
"
SPLASH!"
All four looked down and saw that the Jaguar fell down by the gravity, right into an Ocean...
"How did we not saw that before?..." Huitzilopochtli thought out loud.
"Jaguar, no!" Tezcatlipoca cried and flew over to the black jaguar.
Suddenly, Quetzalcoatl's eyes widened like he remembered something and shouted at Tezcatlipoca
"STOP! DON'T GO THERE!"
Tezcatlipoca turned and raised an eyebrow at Quetzalcoatl.
"But the jaguar is about to dro-" But before he could finish his sentence, he
felt the ocean under him shake for a second.
...
Then suddenly a
gigantic crocodile mouth rose up from the water and ate away the jaguar at one bite. Then returned under the Ocean like nothing happened.
"..." "..." "..." "..."
The four gods just stared at the point where the monstrosity came out for a minute...
Until Tezcatlipoca broke the silence.
"DID I JUST GET EATEN BY AN OVERGROWN CROCODILE?!"
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After finally calming down the manic God, Quetzalcoatl started to explain what was going on.
"-In the Aztec Mythology, the creation myth and the legend of the five suns are the most known ones. As far as I see, right now we're at the starting point of Aztec myths, the creation myth." Quetzalcoatl gestured to the wast nothingness over them.
"At the start, there was a god who was representing the always fighting two forces, like the yin and yang in Taoism. The light and the dark, the good and the bad, the female and the male, all of these were in the first god."
"Then what happened to...
them?" Huitzilopochtli asked with a little bit relucance.
Quetzalcoatl nodded at the question and pointed at them.
"It eventually could not stop it's own conflict, and divided into the four main Gods of the Aztec mythology. The feathered serpent of the west "Quetzalcoatl", the hummingbird of the south "Huitzilopochtli", the flayed God of the east "Xipe Totec", and the smoking mirror of the north "Tezcatlipoca"."
After the exclamation, there was silence, which Quetzalcoatl did not mind and continued to explain.
"After these four brother God's were born, they talked with each other, learned that all of them were the first Gods and started to make what their powers allowed. However, all of their creations fell into the Primodial Ocean under them, which the eldritch abomination Cipactli resided in. Cipactly ate everything that fell into the Ocean and made the efforts of the four brothers futile. At last, the four Gods made a plan to kill the Cipactly. The Tezcatlipoca would bait the eldritch abomination and fly away before it could catch up, and the other three would kill it with their powers. They managed to kill the Cipactly at the cost of Tezcatlipoca's leg-"
"What?!"
"-and used it's body to shape the earth, make mountains, plateaus and caves. However, the Cipactly was not fully dead, and had to be calmed down before it started to eat away their creations again. So the God's promised Cipactly continuous blood, which Cipactly happily agreed to. This is the creation myth and the reason many Mesoamerican tribes do human sacrifices to the Gods."
After another moment of silence, Xipe Totec spoke up.
"So basically you're telling me that, we're all made up from a messed up God, all of our creations are useless until we kill this overgrown lizard under our feet, even if we manage to kill it one of us will not be able to get away from it without any lasting injuries and after we manage all
that, we still have to give it food to keep it calm? Did I get it all right?"
"Yes, that's basically the oversimplified version." Quetzalcoatl confirmed him.
"What the fuck is wrong with Aztecs?!" Xipe Totec shouted at the non-present sky, cursing the whole Aztec mythology in his heart.
"I also don't want to lose my leg, you know? Don't we have any other choices?" Tezcatlipoca asked with a little worry on his face. It seemed like he really did not want to lose his leg, who would want something like that anyways?
"Well, I actually don't know any other ways, but I have an idea." Quetzalcoatl told them. At this, Tezcatlipoca's eyes shined and looked at him with hope.
This made Quetzalcoatl chuckle a little and shake his head.
"Don't get your hopes up, just as I said, it's just an idea. I was thinking that we might find something usefull in the 'store' that our status page has showed us"
After hearing the words of Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli opened up his status page and clicked on the store.
The store opened up and Huitzilopochtli saw that there three main options, the 'reccommandations', the 'search bar' and the 'achievements' options were present. However, after a second another page opened up infront of Huitzilopochtli.
"The 'Novice Packet of Huitzilopochtli'?" The Warrior God muttered while the other three was watching him. Finally, Huitzilopochtli clicked on the 'open' option.
Gained Mythical Creature Form: Giant Lion |
Gained Item: The Divine Spiked Club |
The Item "Divine Spiked Club" bowed down to the might of Huitzilopochtli and changed it's name to "Huitzilopochtli's Spiked Club". |
The Item "Huitzilopochtli's Spiked Club" gained the skills "Intimidating Aura", "Power of the Lion's Roar" and "Blood for the Mighty God" |
New panels appeared one after another, making Huitzilopochtli's eyes widen. He read through all the new notifications and felt his heart beat quickly. After finishing reading, he closed the panels and shouted.
"Divine Club! Come to me!"
Suddenly, a light appeared in Huitzilopochtli's hand and started take the form of a club with spikes on it. After the light stopped transforming, Huitzilopochtli take a good look at the weapon on his hand. Then his eyes shined like he got a christmas present and he made the club dissapear.
"Mythical creature form!" Afte shouting these words, Huitzilopochtli turned into a blue light and started to expand...
and expand...
and continue to expand...
Finally, the expansion of the light stopped, and started to take shape. The shape of a
giant lion that was as big as four lions.
This was Huitzilopochtli's mythical creature form, the king of the forests. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the form was the weird paintings on it. There were paintings of Aztec styled lions, hearts and weapons on the giant lion.
After seeing the state of Huitzilopochtli, Xipe Totec brought up up his own status page and opened his Novice Packed.
Gained Mythical Creature Form: The Scorched Lizard |
Gained Item: The Divine Spear |
The Item "Divine Spear" bowed down to the might of Xipe Totec and changed it's name to "Xipe Totec's Spear". |
The Item "Xipe Totec's Spear" gained the skills "Scorch of the Fire", "The Burning Poison" and "Summon Scorched Lizards" |
Gained Faith: 1000 |
"A spear? Well, I would have prefered an axe, but it could've been worse." Xipe Totec shrugged and called down his spear.
The spear looked like it was
literally made from fire. It's colors wavered like it was fire itself, and produced an unexplainable warmth.
After taking a look at his new weapon, Xipe Totec made the spear dissapear by turning it into ashes and cinders.
"Then, Mythical Creature Form!"
After shouting out, the body of Xipe Totec lit on with fire and started to expand as much as the Huitzilopochtli's lion.
After the fire calmed down, in the place of Xipe Totec was standing
a lizard made from burning rocks and lava.
"My turn! My turn!" Tezcatlipoca jumped on his place and opened up his "Novice Packet"
Gained Mythical Creature Form: The Black Jaguar |
Gained Item: Divine Hunting Knife |
The Item "Divine Hunting Knife" bowed down to the might of Tezcatlipoca and changed it's name to "Tezcatlipoca's Hunting Knife" |
The Item "Tezcatlipoca's Hunting Knife" gained the skills "Call of the Jaguars", "The Silent Night" and "Defense of the Obsidian" |
Gained Faith: 1000 |
"Woo! I got a black Jaguar and a hunting knife!" Tezcatlipoca exclaimed. The hold out his hand to call his new weapon.
Black smoke got out of Tezcatlipoca's hand and formed a sharp knife made from obsidian. Tezcatlipoca took a few strikes with he knife and nodded at his weapon. After that, he made it dissappear with his divine power, which made the knife turn into smoke again and returned into Tezcatlipoca's body.
"Alright! Mythical Creature Form!" After shouting out, the body of Tezcatlipoca turned into a thick black smoke and started to expand as much as the two before him.
After the black smoke got into the correct size and shape, it started to thicken until you could make out a solid jaguar out of it. The
black jaguar had star like lights inside him, shining very faintly. It's green eyes were like two emeralds looking at your very soul.
At last, only Quetzalcoatl was left. He gave a little smile at the others like he knew his Mythical form would be much better than theirs.
He opened up the store page and clicked on his "Novice Packet"
Gained Mythical Creature Form: The Feathered Serpent |
Gained Item: Divine Macuahuitl |
The Item "Divine Macuahuitl" bowed down to the might of Quetzalcoatl and changed it's name to "Quetzalcoatl's Macuahuitl" |
The Item "Quetzalcoatl's Macuahuitl" gained the skills "Light as Feathers, Sharp as Winds", "Call of the Storms" and "Mind Zero Blows" |
Gained Faith: 1000 |
Quetzalcoatl raised his sole eyebrow with a little smirk, the summoned his Divine weapon.
Just like Huitzilopochtli's, his weapon also came to him with a ray of light. It was a Macuahuitl just like the system said, and it also had some paintings of a long feathered serpent. The weapon literally did not weight at all. But when you swinged it, you could feel the wind blowing on your face like it was 100kg's.
Quetzalcoatl just nodded and made his weapon dissapear with a ray of light, then showed a smug glance at his three companions who were watching him and calmly said:
"Mythical Creature Form."
At the voice of Quetzalcoatl, non existent dust suddenly appeared and started to swirl around him, completely blocking any outside eyes from looking.
For a moment, nothing happened.
But after that moment of nothing, an
enormous serpent with wings rose up from the dust. It towered over the three other beasts and looked down to them.
At the size of the Quetzalcoatl, the other three looked with fear and awe. Then, Quetzalcoatl slowly spoke.
"
Now, we have a chance of winning without any casualities..."