![]() Izel heads to Ox Te’ Tuun to retrieve an artifact containing the map to the gates. An unexpected foe forces Izel to confront his destiny. ![]() Jaguar emissary Yaotl informs Izel of his task to close the five gates to the Underworld. Before he can drown again, Izel is rescued by a mystical panther which proclaims that the scrawny boy is a poor choice for humanity's apparent saviour. In his grief, Izel leaps into the well by the temple in an attempt at suicide (and reconciliation with Nelli), only to be touched by a mysterious Underworld creature moments before he can cross through the gate, an act which inadvertently restores him to life, changing his eye colour to blue. Nelli willingly insists on taking his place and is sacrificed in the city temple as a horrified Izel watches. In Uxmal, a young Aztec boy named Izel and his elder sister Nelli, both slaves to a fair man, learn of what has transpired in Dani Baán and Izel is to be sacrificed to Mictlantecuhtli by the city elders to protect Uxmal from meeting the same fate. In either case, the additional prize is the respective winner's human offerings, sentencing the loser to blood starvation. Should they fail, humanity will be destroyed. Should said champion manage before then, humanity will be spared. Suspect of his intensions due to the latter's manifest family ties in the Underworld, Tezcatlipoca informs Quetzalcoatl that he intends to destroy this era of humanity on the following equinox, but Quetzalcoatl coerces him into a wager: unable to directly work the Olmec obsidian gates himself as they are repellent to gods and mystic beings, he will choose the "lowest of the low" among humans to close them all instead before Tezcatlipoca's deadline. To that end, they entrust Quetzalcoatl to close the five gates to the Underworld situated in various locations around Mesoamerica, cutting Mictlantecuhtli off from further theft of their divine sustenance. Undergoing an extended period of "blood draught" and receiving fewer sacrifices of late, the four principal higher gods Huitzilopochtli, Xipe Totec, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl agree that Mictlantecuhtli's actions constitute drastic measures as his theft may lead to a war with Mictlantecuhtli for human offerings. Using an ancient dimensional gate built beneath it by the Olmecs, Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of the Underworld, attacks the city of Dani Baán, stealing its blood sacrifices from the gods and wiping out its populace. Sanchez & Octavio Solorio Zyanya's parents.Sofia Alexander as K'i'ik, Meque, and Nelli.Fayna Sanchez as The Healer/ Mictecacihuatl.Xanastaku (Kimberly Woods ): A young Totonac priestess who desires to redeem her dark past.Zyanya ( Carolina Ravassa ): A warrior Zapotec woman who lost her city, destroyed by the king of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli.K'in (Juan Arturo Maldonado ): An abrasive and sarcastic Maya teenager who plays Ulama ballgames and the twin brother of Yun.Yun (Patrick Pedrazza ): A good-humored and friendly Maya teenager who plays Ulama ballgames and the twin brother of K'in.Yaotl (Alejandro Vargas-Lugo ): A jaguar emissary of Tezcatlipoca who is harsh on Izel trying to fulfill his destiny.Izel (Olivia J Brown ): A young Aztec boy who immigrated to the Mayas along with his sister, whom he later lost to a blood sacrifice and begins to resent humanity for it.Quetzalcoatl chooses Izel, a slave who lost his sister to blood sacrifice.Ĭharacters The Champions Tezcatlipoca agrees to the bet, but sends his champion Yaotl along as an emissary so Quetzalcoatl doesn't cheat. So instead he makes a bet with Tezcatlipoca: he will find a human, "the lowest of the low", and crown him his champion so he will close the gates before the equinox, when Tezcatlipoca will kill off humanity. 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. The Mexican god of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli, has begun stealing blood sacrifices from the other gods, culminating in a Zapotec city being leveled. Alexander said that she hoped that fans of Western animation would "see the appeal of action-drama animation for adults." 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." Synopsis The series premiered on November 21, 2020. It is based on the mythologies of Mesoamerica, featuring deities of Aztec, Maya and Zapotec myth, while also making references to the Olmecs. Onyx Equinox is a Mexican-American adult animated streaming television series created by Sofia Alexander for Crunchyroll.
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