Dark Eras: Beneath the Skin

Dark Eras: Beneath the Skin is a setting for Demon: The Descent, taking place at the height of the Aztec Empire, under Ahuizotl's reign from 1486 to 1502.

Summary

Dark Eras: Beneath the Skin

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn’t me. I’m no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.

—Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

Ahuitzotl sits on the throne at the height of the Aztec Empire, overseeing his sorcerer-priests' sacrifices and the endless flower wars his jaguar and eagle warriors carry out in his name to keep the altars well-supplied with victims. The gears of the Aztec Empire turn smoothly and inexorably, but not everything is what it pretends to be. Skinchangers take the shapes of animals to run the wilds or bring down human prey, the Unchained cobble together identities from stolen lives, and stranger things still lurk in the deserts and jungles beyond the walls of Tenochtitlan.

Background

This setting was originally published in Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras.

Characters

Terminology

Atlocatl, Facility 995, First Sun People, huey tzompantli, Jaguar outcast, Lost Valley, Monkeys of the Wind Sun, mother maguey, obsidian catopsis, rain trees, Refit Chamber, self vines, skinchanger, smoking mirror jaguar, Teotihuacan Chamber, thoughtful scorpions, water people

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DTD/DTF: Demon Translation Toolkit Bundle	Demon: The Descent books	DTD: Dark Eras: Into the Cold