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Ah-Puch is the Mayan god of death, darkness and destruction and the former ruler of Xib'alb'a. He is the main antagonist of The Storm Runner, the first book in the Storm Runner Trilogy.
Biography[]
Background[]
Ah-Puch once ruled the ninth lowest level of Xib'alb'a, the Mayan underworld, known as Mitnal. However, when the hero twins defeated some of his weaker lords, they went on to tell everyone that they defeated Ah-Puch himself. Humans loved them for it, then they saw the underworld as weak and stopped fearing the god of death. He decided to destroy the world a fourth time and remake new humans that will pay attention. He waged a war against the other Mayan gods, but lost and was sentenced to a lifetime imprisonment as a piece of folded paper from the Ceiba World Tree inside an owl figurine at the bottom of a volcano created by the god, Hurakan.
Storm Runner Trilogy[]
Many years later, Hurakan's son, Zane Obispo, comes across the owl and Ah-Puch manipulates him into freeing him. He first appears as a skeleton, but after drinking blood he becomes a rather handsome man. He agrees to save Brooks and return Rosie to life, only if Zane becomes his soldier and answers his call in three days, Zane reluctantly agreed and the boy is blown away.
Two days later he arrives at the party of Jordan and Bird, the hero twins. It turns out when Ah-Puch gave Zane a tattoo, he also gave him a tracking device for leading him to the twins. He summons the Yant'o Triad to subdue the twins and he reveals the truth, then he goes on to say that they used this lie to trick the gods into their pact to not have more demigod children. He leaves with the twins and tells Zane he will see him very soon.
When Zane is about to enter the Old World, he plunges his wrist in the water, both he and Ah-Puch feel the pain of the mark being eaten by carnivorous fish. After Zane kills Muwan, he encases Brooks and Quinn in hands of smoke and summons demon runners to defeat Zane. Soon after, Ixtab arrives and tries to kill him, only to be saved by Zane. He imprisons the godborn in a cage of smoke and watches as the others fight. He releases Zane, who throws his spear at the death god, only to teleport behind Zane at the last second. As he is about to crush his neck, the other gods arrive. He and Ixtab convince the gods to let Zane fight him. Zane takes him to the Empty where, in the form of a large snake with maggots inside of him, he says that a new race of gods threatens their powers and creates unbalance. If Hurakan is killed, the Empty will disappear as well, and when that happens, Ah-Puch will escape and head back to Xib'alb'a. He offers one more time to train him as he is going to die regardless of their potential battle, Zane declines and attacks him. He follows Zane to an endless abyss and, just before going over, is set on fire by Zane and he swears vengeance.
What Ah-Puch didn't know was that when he paralyzed Zane's body before heading into the Empty, Ixtab, who turned out to be a kind goddess, used Rosie in convincing the other gods to think that he died, and Hurakan was also just locked up in a prison. Without Ah-Puch, his pawns and groupies, including the Yant'o Triad, couldn't do anything but get rounded up.
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