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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D.Shaffer" data-source="post: 3301905" data-attributes="member: 8918">There are a bunch of problems with Mesoamerican gods when it comes to statting them out. We have very spotty records on them thanks to the Spanish conquest.  Many of the codexes detailing their religion and mthology were burned by the Spanish.  Other accounts were written down after this period, and it's entirely likely that things were exaggerated.The aztecs themselves were likely to subsume the gods of the people around them to fit into their mythology.  New gods would be incorporated as aspects of ones they already knew, or just merged together whole sale.  This led to a hodge podge of different deities, and lots of overlap and conflicting nature. Additionally, these aspects could have completely different natures.  To make things even more confusing, there's evidence that a lot of the stories attributed to the mythological beings are in fact stories of priests who took the names of those beings.  Priests would often take the names of the gods, and many times sacrificer were also considered to be aspects of the gods.Back to DND, it's been a while since I was really into Aztec mythology, but I remember the 2nd ed Deities and Demigods to be a bit closer to the 'real' versions then 1st eds. While Aztec mythology WAS rather brutal, I think 1st ed over did it with the evil alignments.</blockquote>