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The Aztec god of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli, has began stealing blood sacrifices from the other gods, culminating in a Zapotec city being leveled. To these ends, Quetzalcoatl decides to close the gates to the underworld, but can't due to said gates being made of obsidian, which is toxic against the gods. So instead he makes a bet with Tezcatlipoca: he will find a human, "the lowest of the low", and crown them his champion so they will close the gates before the equinox, when Tezcatlipoca will kill off humanity. Tezcatlipoca agrees to the bet, but sends the god Yaotl so Quetzalcoatl doesn't cheat.
Quetzalcoatl chooses Izel, a servant who lost his sister to blood sacrifice.
Onyx Equinox[1] is an American animated web series created by Sofia Alexander for Crunchyroll. It is based on the mythologies of Mesoamerica, featuring deities of Aztec, Zapotec and Mayan myth.
The series premiered on November 21, 2020.[2] Alexander said that she hoped that fans of Western animation would "see the appeal of action-drama animation for adults."[3] While Alexander was initially nervous about pitching the show due to the lack of "stories about Mesoamerica," a Crunchyroll executive, Marisa Balkus, loved the pitch, and the show became "the first original series to be produced entirely out of Crunchyroll Studios."[4]
Reference: Onyx Equinox - Wikipedia
The Aztec god of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli, has began stealing blood sacrifices from the other gods, culminating in a Zapotec city being leveled. To these ends, Quetzalcoatl decides to close the gates to the underworld, but can't due to said gates being made of obsidian, which is toxic against the gods. So instead he makes a bet with Tezcatlipoca: he will find a human, "the lowest of the low", and crown them his champion so they will close the gates before the equinox, when Tezcatlipoca will kill off humanity. Tezcatlipoca agrees to the bet, but sends the god Yaotl so Quetzalcoatl doesn't cheat.
Quetzalcoatl chooses Izel, a servant who lost his sister to blood sacrifice.
Onyx Equinox[1] is an American animated web series created by Sofia Alexander for Crunchyroll. It is based on the mythologies of Mesoamerica, featuring deities of Aztec, Zapotec and Mayan myth.
The series premiered on November 21, 2020.[2] Alexander said that she hoped that fans of Western animation would "see the appeal of action-drama animation for adults."[3] While Alexander was initially nervous about pitching the show due to the lack of "stories about Mesoamerica," a Crunchyroll executive, Marisa Balkus, loved the pitch, and the show became "the first original series to be produced entirely out of Crunchyroll Studios."[4]
Reference: Onyx Equinox - Wikipedia
