https://web.archive.org/web/20050408073613/http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/9974/aztec.htmXiuhtecuhtli
Intermediate Power, "Oldest of the Gods", AKA Otontecuhtli or Huehueteotl
AoC: Fire, space-time, opposites
Al: N
WAL: Any
Symbol: Pine tree, pepper
Home P/L/R: Outlands/Hinterlands/Hueiuhcalli
Known Proxies: None
Xiuhtecuhtli is the oldest Aztec god, and amongst the most ancient in the Multiverse. In common with a number of ancient gods, he has in his portfolio abstract concepts of space, as well as an elemental aspect. He also represents the sun and the hearth, two vital sources of fire. He defends the people in the times between the centuries (actually 52 years each) when the gods can bob humanity and go back on their deals. He appears as an old man carrying a lighted brazier on his head.
"Hueuihcalli", the Old Home of Fire.
Xiuhtecuhtli's realm is far out into the Hinterlands, near as anyone can figure. As all the Aztec gods share aspects of one another, Xihtecuhtli's relations include the god of crossroads and Huehueteotl, another older fire god. Strangely enough, Xiuh also has many ties to the high-up of the Aztec pantheon, Ometeotl. Arriving in his realm for the first time, a visitor will find himself on a neatly paved road in the middle of a hot jungle. In fact, almost all of this god's realm is steamy jungle, inhabited by creatures of fire, and roads that lead nearly anywhere in the multiverse but mostly to the elemental plane of Fire. Xiuhtecuhtli is completely unnaproachable; a body's often sighted a huge ziggurat behind the trees, but they always get given the runaround, encountering more roads, or simply seeing the ziggurat vanish behind the tall trees. He has very few petitioners, and no proxies that anyone knows of.