Aztlan

To know a people, or even just a single person, you need to know their stories. Whether we tell them out loud, write them down or express them through art, our stories are the vessels through which we convey our thoughts, feelings and wishes to posterity. These are the sparks of our souls, what keeps us truly alive, what sets us apart from every other creature in the world.

When Europeans came to the lands of Central America, the Aztec people was broken by the secrets of steel and gunpowder. The great Empire was drowned, and its people became a minority in their own lands— a cruel fate they shared with neighboring kingdoms.

But even after the fall of the Aztec Empire, their stories live on and prosper in modern pop culture, and the creatures born from these stories still continue their existence, hidden behind the Veil that separates the Mundane from the Mythical. Under the siege of Monsters brought here by European colonizers and Entities from the old kingdoms, the bloody war rages on under the guise of gang fights, political plots and secret conspiracies.

Each and every Entity vying for control over the lands of Mexico has its own methods, reasons and ideals: some seek to avenge their fallen empire, some search for new sources of power, and some just want to consume everything on their path before moving on to the next victim. But in the end, they all aim for the same goal: conquering Mexico, eliminating all forms of opposition, and emerging as the sole victor of the eternal war for the people of Aztlan.

Aztlan is a Vision for Epigoni Essential (Abre numa nova janela) that casts you into the dusty shoes of unworthy scions of Deities, Legends, and Incarnations of Ideas in a Mexico where Myth is inextricably intertwined with reality.

Visions are settings that reimagine the stories we tell ourselves—whether pop culture or as old as civilization—into a cohesive world with a unique flavor. After the Mythical Italy of the 1990s and the London of the early 2000s, both featured in the core rulebook, we now present the Vision that explores a Central America with a MythPop twist, where ancient Aztec gods clash with emerging modernity, North American colonialism infiltrates folk culture, and despair is sublimated into sweet yet deadly drugs.

As Epigoni, you must navigate these uncertain coordinates, choosing to aid or oppose the factions at play in the world beyond the veil of Maya—but above all, you must survive.

What You’ll Find Inside

In this 54-page digital handbook, you’ll find everything you need to start your first adventure in the mythic Mesoamerica of Epigoni:

1. a brief but practical introduction to the World of Aztlan;

2. six new factions, from the Mesoamerican Aztlan Coalition of Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkàn to the deadly soldiers of Huitzilopochtli’s Hummingbirds;

3. 6 ready-to-play adventures and 12 adventure hooks that could truly shift the balance of power in Mexico;

4. 24 new Myth Entities, 5 Everwithers, and plenty of new relics to play with.

Aztlan requires Epigoni Essential to play. You can find the Epigoni Essential rulebook on itch.io (Abre numa nova janela) and DriveThruRPG (Abre numa nova janela) as a Pay-What-You-Want title.