These goddesses of the sky are intrinsically woven into the very fabric of the dead sun of Inferno. They are creatures of unfathomed but seemingly illimitable appetite, feeding on sacrifice, fear and pain. Unlike Nepharites, the Tzitzimime have no higher order to bow before, nor a role to play within the Illusion or Inferno, other than sheer unbridled terror. In times when man was first cast from the Illusion the tradition began of sacrifice of hearts and blood to the sun for the sheer belief that at night the sun would be pulled into the underworld by the female Cihuateteo, those servants of the ravenous Tzitzimime. And there, the Tzitzimime would do battle with the sun, and only their sacrifice nourished the return. Then there was chibil kin (the biting of the sun), eclipses, a terrifying situation for man, as the Tzitzimime would become visible during these times and descend on their spider strands to the earth and consume humanity. Only sacrifice, bloodletting, and raucous noise were their only defense against the attacks. The Tzitzimime have the powers of goddesses, and each resides within realms constructed within the Dead Sun itself, massive web tunnels of filament, littered with the remains of humankind and other less-recognizable races devoured. Stripped bodies, dried husks cocooned, but else wise bereft of movement or any life. Here darkness remains supreme, the dark matter of the Dead Sun consuming all illumination, soaking away any light source into the very walls of these chambers. At the heart of the labyrinth of funnel webs the Tzitzimime sit, tapped into their lairs by means of the myriad limbs delicate on the weaves that radiate from their lair centers. They weave massive webs trailing from the dead sun to the ground of Gehenna (q.v. Maps of Hell - by Matthew Boroson), entrapping those foolish enough to fly or walk into them. Once caught, the Tzitzimime descend head first along these lines and drag their prey up. Beyond their roles as objects of terror, the Tzitzimime have a less known appearance in the lands of Illusion and Metropolis, but never in Inferno itself. Standing at crossroads at night, they appear as beautiful young woman, who seek out men who have something to lose through illicit and adulterous affairs. They appear only to these men, so tempered by their morality, ethics, or domination through relationship. To a bachelor the women appear foul, rotting and diseased hags whom only the truly desperate would touch, and in a way that is what the Tzitzimime bring out, the innate desperation of man sexually restrained. Their only reason for such attacks is purely for eating. The Ttitzimitl will then lure her prey back to a secluded area, and scramble into the night sky, with a meal paralyzed in terror. game-mastering hints: The Tzitzimime are nothing to be used lightly, their ability to kill unfettered by the Illusion, and while their less-known form as seducer may appear weak, they retain all the aggression and magical potency that they house within their lairs. Their appetite is voracious and the male race their preferred morsel. When the sun turns black however, and they descend all humankind is fair game. While the Tzitzimime do not live or work together, neither do they wage war in a battle of hierarchy. plot points: Sangreal intends to bring Inferno over Mexico City and when the sacrifice is completed en masse by the superstitious residents as they witness the Tzitzimime trail down from the sky, he intends to bathe in the harnessed energy of the mass sacrifice and become a rival to a Death Angel, and take dominance of the country of Mexico. Either way, the Tzitzimime would feast aplenty.