#codexblack

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Huntress-Warrior Donají 🦌🏹🐆

Donají with the attributes of God of Hunt, Mixcoatl. This drawing is full of symbols related to Donají's past, present and future, as well as to Chicahualizteotl, but I won't go into much detail. It took much longer than usual!

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tlazōlteōtl what is wrong with her

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reflection

[a-real-chicxulub-vibe]

they're just so drawable!!

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15th vs 21st centuries Donají

No matter the era, Donají always getting in trouble with authorities.

This is an idea I had in my head for several years already. It's actually a redraw of a panel from Codex Black's chapter 7 (book 2), where she's forced to fight a group of Mexica warriors without her poncho.

You could say this is how Donají ended in jail.

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Codex Black Height Chart!

Not all characters are here yet, but I'll be adding them as the story progresses. Character ages represent their age by the last day of 1493 (or at time of death if applicable). For example, Itzcacalotl is 18 here, but still 17 in the comic, since his birthday is in December, while the story has developed between March and May so far.

Also, some character variations:

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Xolotl, god of twins, monsters, deformities, and the personification of the Evening Star (Afternoon Venus). Very quick doodle (?), speedpaint (?)

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Poyauhtecatl Ayauhcalli

My character, Ayauhtli, along her fellow shrine maidens in their daily lives at the ayauhcalli, "house of mist," a type of temple dedicated to the aquatic deities. This one is located in the Poyauhtecatl, better known as Mt. Tlaloc.

Here's the temple without characters:

Ayauhcalli temples were centers of purification, among other functions, including the famous ritual of the New Fire. The Poyauhtecatl was perhaps the most important natural sanctuary for Tlaloc, reason why it was also called "Tlalocan." Sources indicate that the mountain had two ayauhcalli temples, one at the summit, and another somewhere on its eastern slopes, but this one is a third fictional one on its western slopes.

Ayauhtli hasn't appeared in Codex Black yet, but curiously, she's the oldest character of the entire cast. I invented her even earlier than Donají or Itzcacalotl, although her first iteration didn't have any sort of backstory.