Lord Mictlan was the God of War and the leader of all the Dark Gods. Cruel, power-hungry and sadistic, he wished to sacrifice Maya, his wife's demigod child to gain ultimate power and constantly sent out his gods to capture her. He did not care for his allies and sacrificed them to gain power remorselessly.
He was finally defeated by Maya in the final battle.
History[]
Backstory[]
Mictlan was once a European knight who came to Mesoamerica with the conquistadors, a role he shared with his two brothers. As punishment for their crimes in life, the three of them were made into chthonic deities sentenced to rule over various infernal realms. While his brothers Xibalba and El Chamuco were made rulers of the Land of the Forgotten and the Cursed, respectively, Mictlan was given charge over the Underworld: a burning, volcanic wasteland inhabited by various dark gods who would serve him as his minions. At some point during Mictlan's reign, he caught the eye of Lady Micte, a power-hungry death goddess who wanted the most powerful god to be her husband. She saw the God of War as a good fit, and the two were wed.
However, Micte soon grew repulsed by her husband's savage behaviour and power-lust, fearing that he would eventually turn on her. To avoid this, she had a brief affair with the mortal King of the Teca's, a human civilization, and later gave birth to the King's daughter, a demigod girl named Maya. The half-human child of Death would be the one thing capable of harming Mictlan and would increase his power exponentially if sacrificed. Micte later grew to love her daughter, but she couldn't hide her from Mictlan. Mictlan was prepared to sacrifice Maya while she was 'ripe', but Micte persuaded him to wait until she was stronger, at fifteen years old, under the pretense that it would make her husband stronger as a result. Mictlan sadistically agreed, sending Maya to be raised by her human father and his wife, believing it would cause the Teca's more pain if they grew attached to her.
Maya wasn't the only demigod Mictlan encountered in his court. Some years earlier, his own general Camazotz, the God of Bats, had a child named Zatz with a mortal woman named Zyanya from the Puma Barbarian tribe. Zatz's mother was killed by monsters, and Zatz was brought before Mictlan. Camazotz convinced Mictlan to spare the boy, but the God of War took one of Zatz's eyes, leaving him with an eyepatch for the rest of his life. Zatz, gaining the title Prince of Bats, remained in the Underworld with his father, eventually becoming Mictlan's emissary and a soldier in his army of gods.
Chapter One: Quinceañera[]
At last, Maya's quinceañera came. Mictlan sent Zatz to retrieve the Princess, informing her of her true parentage as a result. Zatz was fought off by Maya's father and brothers, who declared war on the Underworld gods. Zatz returned to his master and told him this, and Mictlan went to intercept them.
On a march to the Divine Gate, the entrance to the Underworld, the Tecas encountered Mictlan, who slaughtered them easily by making them turn on each other (as God of War, Mictlan cam instigate aggression and conflict). Only Maya's father was spared, and the weapons of Maya's brothers were returned to her by a regretful Zatz.
Chapter Seven: The Divine Gate[]
While in the Underworld, Maya and her friends met up with Zatz and presented themselves before Mictlan (who was being entertained by Xtabay), where Maya challenged him to single combat. Mictlan laughed at them, threatening to punish the Three's respective homes for this, and used his powers to make them turn on Maya. Though she was able to break them out of the trance, Mictlan bested them all with ease and strapped Maya to the sacrificial table, preparing to kill her. Micte, arriving, saw this and discreetly gave one of Mictlan's own swords to Chimi, which she used to impale into the War God's back. Micte freed Maya, who sent Mictlan into the pits of lava below his temple. The warriors escaped with Micte and destroyed the Divine Gate, though they lost Picchu and Mictlan began to fix the portal.
Chapter Nine: The Sun and the Moon[]
With all the heroes regrouped at Teca, Mictlan prepared for the final battle between them. Bringing the repaired Divine Gate to them, Mictlan and his god army began to engage with them. Saddened that his wife had defected, Mictlan attempted to coax her back to him, but to no avail. After battling Maya and Zatz, Mictlan summoned forth an army of skeletal conquistadors, most likely the remains of the ones he served with in life.
After aid from the neighbouring kingdoms began to turn the tide of the battle, Mictlan killed and devoured the hearts of Cabrakan, Cipactli, Hura, Can, Bone, Chivo, and Xtabay to increase his power. It turned out to be so much that his body exploded into a circular pool of gold liquid. Though it seemed like the end of Mictlan, his conquistador army marched to the pool and began to bow before its frothing contents. Eventually, Mictlan emerged from it in his final form: a colossal flying serpent, with a fire-breathing head on each end. In this form, Mictlan was completely animalistic, lacking any human traits he had left, though his desire for Maya and his enemies' destruction remained. Maya then managed to kill Mictlan in this form, but not before dying herself and being unable to prevent him from killing Zatz, Lady Micte and many of her allies.
Physical Description[]
Personality[]
Mictlan is a cruel god who has no sympathy or pity for humans and is also particularly feared by the gods. He does not hesitate to hurt babies, having taken Zatz's left eye and was initially going to sacrifice a newborn Maya if his wife had failed to make him believe that doing so 15 years later would make him even stronger.
Mictlan's most characteristic personality trait is his insatiable thirst for power. To achieve these ends, he did not hesitate to betray and tear out the hearts of his own kind and his allies in order to gain ultimate power.
Mictlan also didn't truly love his wife Lady Micte, he didn't care about her personal happiness at all. He forced her to abandon her biological daughter, never interact with her and had zero qualms with killing her later on.
Skills and Abilities[]
Relationships[]
Appearances in the series[]
- Chapter One: Quinceañera (First appearance)
- Chapter Two: The Prophecy
- Chapter Three: The Rooster (Mentioned)
- Chapter Four: The Skull
- Chapter Six: Maya and the Three (Cameo)
- Chapter Seven: The Divine Gate
- Chapter Eight: The Bat and the Owl
- Chapter Nine: The Sun and the Moon (Last appearance)
Trivia[]
- His brother may be Xibalba as during the wedding of him and Lady Micte. Xibalba was on his side of the marriage which must mean they are brothers or family members as a whole.
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