Apu, of the Inca
Asset Skills: Culture, Leadership
Scent of the Divine: Llama wool, thin mountain air; the whistling whir of a sling
Apu Motif
By calling upon the cosmic energies flowing through huacas, ceyce lines, mountains, their follower’s sacrifices, and the stars themselves, the Apu fuel their prodigious powers.
The Apu and their Scions summon fire to warm mortal followers or turn it upon their foes. Lightning heralds much-needed rain for crops or is woven into clothing. Earth is summoned to reduce opposing strongholds to dust or drawn into the Apu’s very being to make them hard as stone. The Apu feel the energies flowing through every stone, tree, mountain vista, and star, changing and being changed by the Apu in an endless cycle of birth, death, and renewal.
Apu Signature Purview: Pachakutic
Pachakutic Innate Power
You may sense huacas, or sacred sites, within (Legend) miles. These sites include Touchstones, sacred spaces of another pantheon or shrines to other Scions or Gods, but also a general awareness situational Sanctums and an understanding of the conditions necessary to generate those Sanctums. You may also sense the flow of energies through the earth and sky, allowing you to perfectly determine the weather. When in the presence of the sacred and making an appropriate sacrifice (Hero p. 188; this Purview grants you intuitive knowledge of what an appropriate sacrifice entails), you may benefit from minor sacrifices once per short-term Deed rather than onc per story arc. This innate power will not reveal gates or axes mundi.
Apu, of the Inca
Ambition vs. Duty
This ambition gave the Apu and their Scions the ability to establish the largest empire South America has ever seen. The downside of this relentless will to power is the self-destructive ambition it breeds and the attendant revolution to follow.
PRINCIPAL MEMBERS
CHASCA
CHASCA
GODDESS OF DAWN, TWILIGHT, AND VENUS
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Aliases: The Disheveled One
Callings: Guardian, Liminal, Lover, Shepherd
Purviews: Beauty, Passion, Sky, Stars
CONIRAYA
CONIRAYA
GOD OF FERTILITY AND TRICKERY
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Aliases: Cuniraya Viracocha
Callings: Creator, Lover, Trickster
Purviews: Deception, Fertility, Moon, Passion, Magic
ILLAPA
ILLAPA
GOD OF THUNDER
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Aliases: Apu Illapu, Ilyap’a, Katoylla
Callings: Guardian, Judge, Warrior
Purviews: Epic Dexterity, Epic Strength, Sky, War, Water
INTI
INTI
GOD OF THE SUN, AND RULER OF THE APU
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Aliases: Apu Inti, Churi Inti, Inti Huaoqui
Callings: Judge, Leader, Warrior
Purviews: Epic Strength, Fertility, Fire, Order, Sun, War
KUYCHI
KUYCHI
THE RAINBOW
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Aliases: Coichi, Cuichu, K’uycha, K’uychi, K’uyuchiy ,
Callings: Guardian, Liminal, Sage, Psychopomp
Purviews: Fortune, Order, Sky, Water
MAMA COCHA
MAMA COCHA
GODDESS OF THE SEA
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Aliases: Mother of Doves, Mama Qucha, Sea Mother, Urxayhuachac
Callings: Guardian, Leader, Liminal, Shepherd
Purviews: Beasts (Aquatic Creatures), Health, Journeys (Water), Water
MAMA KILLA
MAMA KILLA
GODDESS OF THE MOON
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Aliases: Mother Moon, Mama Quilla
Callings: Guardian, Healer, Lover, Shepherd
Purviews: Beauty, Epic Stamina, Fertility, Health, Moon
PACHACAMAC
PACHACAMAC
COASTAL CREATOR GOD
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Aliases: Pacha Kamaq, Pachakamaq
Callings: Creator, Judge, Warrior
Purviews: Beast (All), Earth, Epic Strength, Order, War
PACHAMAMA
PACHAMAMA
GODDESS OF NATURE
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Aliases: Mother Earth, Mama Pacha, Mama Sara (Corn
Mother),Queen Pachamama
Callings: Creator, Judge, Warrior
Purviews: Beast (Serpents), Earth, Fertility, Epic Stamina, War, Wild, Magic
SUPAY
SUPAY
GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD
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Aliases: Diablo
Callings: Judge, Leader, Trickster
Purviews: Darkness, Death, Deception, Earth, Prosperity
VICHAMA
VICHAMA
GOD OF DEATH
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Aliases: Villama
Callings: Creator, Healer, Judge, Shepherd
Purviews: Death, Epic Stamina, Epic Strength, Health, Journeys
TITANS
AMARU
AMARU
Purview: Earth
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Virtues: Dominance, Fecundity
GIANTS
GIANTS
Purview: Epic Strength
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Virtues: Dominance, Rapacity
PISHTACO
PISHTACO
Purview: Death
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Virtues: Rapacity, Submission
THE SERPENT AND THE MOUNTAIN LION
THE SERPENT AND THE MOUNTAIN LION
Purview: Darkness
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Virtues: Rapacity, Submission
WAKON
WAKON
Purview: Deception
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Virtues: Dominance, Rapacity
HINENUITEP
HINE-NUI-TE-P
THE GREAT WOMAN OF NIGHT
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Aliases: Hine-au-tauria, Hine-ti-tama, Tikikapakapa, Red of the Sky, Teeth of Obsidian, Woman of Darkness
Callings: Adversary, Liminal, Sage
Purviews: Darkness, Death, Earth, Fertility, Passion (Revenge), Stars, Water
MAHUIKA
MAHUIKA
THEY WHO BURN
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Aliases: Mafuiʻe, Mahu-ika, Mahuike
Callings: Guardian, Primeval, Sage
Purviews: Epic Strength, Epic Stamina, Fire, Passion (Devotion), Sky, Stars
PAPAT UANUKU
PAPAT UANUKU
THE GRIEVING WIFE
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Aliases: The Eternal Mother, The Sighing Mist, Papa
Callings: Lover, Primeval, Sage
Purviews: Epic Stamina, Earth, Fertility, Health, Passion (Devotion, Love), Prosperity, Water
PRIMORDIALS
VIRACOCHA
VIRACOCHA
PRIMORDIAL OF CREATION AND CIVILIZATION
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Aliases: Atun Viracocha (“Great Creator”), Illya (“Light”), Tici (“The Beginning of Things”), Viracocha Achayachachic (“Lord, Instructor of the World”)
Callings: Creator, Sage, Warrior
Purviews: Deception, Earth, Fire, Journeys, Moon, Order, Sky, Sun, Water