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[b]Name/Titles:[/b] Mikazliqui, Vova Eztli, The First Vampire, The Pariah King, The Blood God (Reborn), Cannibal of Souls
[b]Gender:[/b] Male
[b]Patronage:[/b] Blood, Medicine, War, Sacrifice, Outcasts, Bastards, Betrayers, Usurpers, Parasites, Orphans
[b]Parentage:[/b] Makezanquil, deity; Raluca Eztli, mortal woman
[b]Pantheon/Affiliation:[/b] Deity, former Demigod
[b]Appearance:[/b] Mikazliqui's most common form is that of [url=http://safebooru.org//images/1113/36b1e42ba669fbecf1244ed7b19de44b53cfe037.jpg]a great and glorious deity[/url] that bears a striking resemblance to [url=http://safebooru.org//images/160/3c41df6ad80c73390ce0c7449f9c3fd04bee702b.jpg]his father[/url], though he sometimes resumes the [url=http://safebooru.org//images/975/a106e31f9d5f226e158f79b7e1bcda11583b32bb.png]form[/url] he held before his ascension. When need be, had can take on a [url=http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/059/7/7/instruments_of_darkness___camazotz_by_abc142-d4ra728.jpg]terrifyingly monstrous form[/url]. On occasion, he can also take the shape of various mistrusted or reviled creatures, such as bats, crows, snakes, wolves, rats, scorpions or leeches.

[b]Centres of Worship/Places of Power:[/b] Vaslonya, the mortal kingdom which he ruled over as a mere demigod remembers Vova Eztli as a hero-king, and the nation is home to a considerable population of his vampiric descendants. Ruchask, the kingdom's capital, boasts an enormous statue of him in the city square and numerous public works bearing his name. Tichlatotan, a city erected in worship of his father many centuries ago by a warrior tribe is a place of great importance to Mikazliqui, as it is where he rose to godhood. Even though the city now rests in ruins, many of his brood call the city home, and so it is his de-facto "center" of worship. Nearly no chapels or altars are built in his name, as most worship of him is done in private, though he draws power from places such as hospitals, asylums, prisons and orphanages.

[b]Servants, Prominent Followers and Worship Base:[/b] Despite inheriting the aspect of war from his father, Mikazliqui is barely recognized by warriors, as the gruesome slaughter which he is patron of fell out of favor ages ago. Though few doctors (aside from back-alley types) directly pay him tribute, every patient to die on the operating table or by any other medical mishap is a "sacrifice" in his name, whether intentional or otherwise. More often, pariahs on the outskirts of society pray to him for protection and guidance, as do orphans, for whom he is known to be a guardian. Some more vicious tribes far from the "civilized" world hold Mikazliqui highly, as do the "monsters" (witches, werewolves and so on) that lurk within mortal society. The foremost of these being vampires, all of whom are his direct descendants from his days of mortality. Mikazliqui's cthonic servants are Shades, ethereal beings native to Malebazus that he dominates through force of will.

[b]Psychology:[/b] Mikazliqui is notable among the other gods for his peculiarly cold nature. While the others make great shows of passion, in contrast he is outwardly reserved and contemplative. He takes great care to carefully calculate his actions, and so he seems to do everything at a very calm, deliberate pace. Even so, the other gods know better than to think his demeanor indicates a peaceful nature. He takes the utmost pleasure in dominating and debasing those that he feels have wronged him, and he can hold a grudge for aeons. His father's bloodlust also runs through him, and so he takes quiet, sadistic pleasure in chaos and destruction. Ever the schemer, he is constantly embroiled in various plots to numerous, seemingly unconnected ends, with his actions and intentions oftentimes complete mysteries to mortals and gods alike. This is accompanied by a considerable amount of paranoia, and little tolerance for fools. Mikazliqui's ambition and willpower are second to none, in both his overall person and in achieving his inscrutable goals. He has no qualms over deceiving or exploiting others, and holds little regard for the feelings of his peers. However, there are lines he will not cross. Mikazliqui is fiercely protective of those that he holds patronage over, and the meddling of other gods in affairs related to them is the surest way to send him into a quiet, malicious rage. His choice of partner in matters of intimacy is considered unusual, even among other gods, as he has strange and specific tastes.

[b]History:[/b] Makezanquil, the great god of bloody conquest and endless warfare, a being both greatly loved and feared by the numerous barbarian tribes that ruled Lymaeus millennia ago. His bloodthirst was nothing less than titanic, as warriors slain on the battlefield in his name were not enough for him, and he demanded mortals be sacrificed in his name as well. Few tribes complied with this demand, but the few that did were showered with his favor in battle. Enormous stone temples were erected in his name, atop which men, women and children were slaughtered in droves, and cities grew around the bases of the great altars. Rivers ran red with blood, mountains were built from bones and Makezanquil could not be happier.

A warrior-king in Vaslonya, a region far from the epicenter of Makezanquil's worship, known as Kirill Eztli, had the fate of his kingdom resting on an upcoming battle. To ensure the heavens ruled in his favor, he offered his eldest daughter, Raluca, as a sacrifice to the blood god. However, before her blood could be spilled, Makezanquil appeared before the sacrifice, ravaged the young woman, and promptly vanished. This had been done out of spite toward his divine peers, who in their disgust of his habits and worshipers demanded that he never have children. Though King Eztli came to win his monumental battle, when it was learned that his daughter was pregnant, he cast her out of his court and onto the streets, as she was now unmarriageable and worthless to him.

Indeed, this child was disastrous to mortals and gods alike. In retaliation toward Makezanquil's daring move, they cursed his child in its infancy. The sun would scorch the demigod, and he would share his father's thirst for blood in a much more literal sense. The curse was laid on his blood, as was fitting, so all of those that would share in it would also bear this curse. Vova Eztli, as his mother named him, was a sickly child, as it was not until he was of schooling age that he discovered his dependence on blood. His youth was difficult as he and his mother lived in abject poverty and were social outcasts despite being of royal blood. Raluca died of illness when Vova was still quite young, and so he learned to fend for himself. With cunning and ruthlessness he survived in the streets of Ruchask, not only fending off scum and keeping himself fed, but also educating himself. His divine blood helped him greatly in this regard, as by seven he was the only person in his slum that could read, and by ten he had learned the fundamentals of black magic. He knew of why he had been subjected to such a harsh life, and intended to take his revenge on the royal family by taking the throne for himself.

By the time Vova was a man, he was a talented fighter with both fist and sword, a shrewd manipulator with fathomless charisma, a well-read scholar with a razor-sharp intellect, and a warlock of considerable power. As the old king grew feeble with age, he made his presence known to the noble court of Vaslonya. Through ruthless politicking, a few arranged assassinations, and a show of might in dark sorcery (namely, pulling off his own head in full view of the court, giving a speech, and then promptly reattaching it), he unseated the king's eldest son from the title of crown prince and inherited the throne of Vaslonya upon his grandfather's death. On the day of his coronation, Makezanquil appeared again before the Eztli family, and informed Vova of his true lineage, which his mother had kept secret from him. Vova smiled and shook his father's hand, vowing to make him proud, though in his heart Vova blamed the blood god for his and his mother's misfortune and plotted his revenge from that very moment.

Under his rulership, Vaslonya flourished. He reformed its corrupt government and restructured its outdated economy. He started great projects of public works, seeking to uplift the nation's many poor and eliminate the slums in the capital. An orphanage, practically unheard of in that era, was built in Ruchask to care for the endangered children of poverty and war. Though as the years passed and Vaslonya grew, Vova found that he was not growing old. He turned his sights inward, exploring the nature of his divine blood and the curse laid upon him. He experimented and found that any children he sired not only bore the same curse as he, but also shared in a small fraction of his power. He realized that these dark children of his, these Vampires, would be his avenue for revenge against the gods and his father. With black magic he altered himself and was even able to tamper with the curse. By feeding his cursed blood to humans, he could enthrall them into becoming Ghouls, a trade of power and immortality in exchange for their free will.

When he felt that Vaslonya could carry on without his guidance, he left the parliament in charge of governance and departed the nation with a large collection of human, ghoul and vampire followers. They journeyed to Tichlatotan, now a crumbling mass of stone ruins that had been the heart of Makezanquil's worship many years before. Through mass breeding and inbreeding, Vova amassed a considerable population of vampires in the ancient city, creating a perverse, cult-like community. It was then that he promised a tremendous sacrifice in his father's name, assuring that it would be unlike anything before seen. Makezanquil was overjoyed, and eagerly arrived on the planned day of the sacrifice. As was promised, the old braziers were lit anew and the city once again flowed with the blood of dozens of willing sacrifices. Those not being offered up reveled in food and wine, Makezanquil partaking most heartily. Once the blood god had become good and drunk, Vova made his move. Sinking his fangs into his father's thick neck, he drank up his divine ichor, using his unholy power to take the god's spirit into himself. Once he had drank enough, he ate his dying father's flesh, and when there was none left, devoured his very soul.

With this great infusion of power, Vova had transcended demigodhood and had become a true deity unto himself. He re-named himself Mikazliqui, meaning Accursed Blood in a long-forgotten tongue. His curse had been cured by his father's soul being assimilated by his own, but he gained his father's other attributes as well. He yearned for blood sacrifice, but such a thing had fallen out of favor in the last few centuries. To make up for it, he took patronage of the growing practice of medicine, which contributed enough gruesome deaths to satisfy him. Upon ascending to Hevas, the other gods were horrified by the brutality that had allowed Mikazliqui to join them. He is more reviled than his father ever was, not only for his casual cruelty but for his deceptive and calculating nature, which make him an unpredictable and fearsome threat. To avoid attracting needless attention to himself and his machinations, he spends the majority of his time in Malebazus, where he keeps a modest palace filled with his Shade servants and the souls of a few chosen followers that he has managed to pluck from the mortal world.

[b]Relationships:[/b] In his lengthy mortal life, Mikazliqui had innumerable lovers and children, as all vampires are descended from his bloodline. [More to be added as CSs are submitted]