Name: Xipe Totec
AKA: N/A
God of maize and of seeds growing in the earth, Xipe Totec represents death transforming into new life. Like all the Atzlnti, he requires at least some blood to do his work, but he also needs a human or animal skin. Indeed, many of his most powerful arts rely upon wearing the skin of a sacrificial victim. Once he wears this gruesome garment over his own golden flesh, Xipe Totec is able to make gold out of nothing, to bring seeds to fruition in the ground, to command disease and health, to turn the seasons and to drive any titanspawn-or even Titan-from his way. In addition, he is able to take on the mortal attributes and skills of the specific being whose skin he wears. When laced into the skin, as a woman might be laced into a corset, he is able to become that person fully and completely.
In modern times, Xipe Totec likes being an actor and a musician. He likes being on stage and performing for people, though his acts are usually shocking to the audience and bloody, as he prefers to show the process of life, death and rebirth of which he is the God. He's also labored as a gardener, a landscape architect, a farmer and a rancher. People remember him as a loner who tends to keep to himself for long stretches in wintertime, while becoming gregarious and open in the spring, summer and autumn. Usually, he throws a huge party in mid-tolate March. One of his guests goes missing from this party for a time-at least until Xipe Totec can get comfortable in his new skin. He's got a million of them. Xipe Totec's children are equally interested in natural cycles of death and rebirth. They work with DNA and longevity treatments in laboratories, write poetry and novels designed to bring them a kind of immortality, engage in sexual acts specifically to bring forth as many children as possible and seed riotous gardens designed to produce as many hybrid plants as possible. They also chew their fingernails and bite their cuticles, and engage in deep psychoanalysis and past life regression therapy, looking to find out who they really are. They take on new roles and discard them easily, often becoming the spies and informants of the pantheon, but are never really quite comfortable in their own skins.
Associated Powers: Epic Stamina, Death, Fertility, Guardian, Health, Itztli
Abilities: Craft, Fortitude, Integrity, Larceny, Medicine, Survival
Rivals: Quetzalcotl; Anubis, Shango, Sif, Susano-o, Zeus
