Latin American Opponents, Flayed Ones

[Governor General]

The 1st team of opponents, Xipe Totec Lord of the Flayed Ones. Xipe Totec was a god in the Aztec Pantheon. He represented death and re-birth ,weather and metallurgy. He was worshipped by sacificing a person, flaying the skin from them, then the priest would wear the skin and dance in a ritualized fashion while gesculating with the deceased's thigh bones. I patterned this group (loosely) on the Lycoan model from EoTD. The group uses non gunpowder weapons to facilitate live capture for future sacrifice, even the archers use a paralytic agent on thier arrows. The figures are from a variety of manufacturers. The Flayed ones are plastic prepainted repainted Heroscape figs. The machete fellows are Foundry figs from thier Maximillian's Adventure in Mexico line. The archer's are unkown as is the priest they came from a scratch and dent box from a now defunct hobby store.

[Governor General]

Here's a closeup of Xipe Totec and his priest. The priest is painted to reflect traditional illustrations. I view the Xipe Totecs as physical extrusions of Horrors from Beyond . The victims are captured alive for sacrifice at a specific place and time that allows other Flayed Ones to enter our dimension.

[commissarmoody]

Pretty cool