Tzitl Yakal

Tzitl Yakal, the Silent Architect, was a Mesoamerican vampire and assassin of the Ashen House who lived 862 years, from 2283 BCE to her sealing beneath Maxopaic in 1421 BCE. She made three childer and met one slayer she could neither kill nor shake.

Full Name

Tzitl Yakal

Alias / Codename

The Silent Architect

Status

Sealed

Date of Birth

2283 BCE

No abilities have been documented yet.

Powers

Danger Sense – Blade's Whisper

Also: Super Strength.

Weaknesses

Fire
Direct sunlight

No power identity content has been documented yet.

Percentile Profile

Each axis shows Tzitl Yakal's roster percentile (0–100) for that stat, against the dashed roster-average baseline.

61Overall

Power ProfileRoster Average

Overview

Overall Rating 61

Click any point on the radar to inspect that stat in full.

Strength42th

Speed88th

Agility66th

Durability66th

Intelligence24th

Combat76th

Power79th

Stamina48th

Statistical Analysis

Each bar shows how many standard deviations above or below the roster mean this stat sits. Click a bar for the full breakdown.

Tzitl Yakal — Strength statistical analysis

Strength score: 49/100.

Roster rank: 289 of 500 — 42th percentile.

Percentile tier: Average (shared with 147 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Strength: 7–97, average 51.7.

Difference from roster average: -2.7.

Statistical spread: 0.2 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 17.2).

Tzitl Yakal's own average across all 8 stats is 60; Strength sits 11 points below that baseline.

Tzitl Yakal — Speed statistical analysis

Speed score: 73/100.

Roster rank: 60 of 500 — 88th percentile.

Percentile tier: Strong (shared with 105 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Speed: 6–100, average 53.2.

Difference from roster average: +19.8.

Statistical spread: 1.1 standard deviations above the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 18.1).

Tzitl Yakal's own average across all 8 stats is 60; Speed sits 13 points above that baseline — their largest internal gap of any stat.

Tzitl Yakal — Agility statistical analysis

Agility score: 61/100.

Roster rank: 171 of 500 — 66th percentile.

Percentile tier: Average (shared with 144 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Agility: 6–97, average 52.8.

Difference from roster average: +8.2.

Statistical spread: 0.5 standard deviations above the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 17.1).

Tzitl Yakal's own average across all 8 stats is 60; Agility sits 1 point above that baseline.

Tzitl Yakal — Durability statistical analysis

Durability score: 60/100.

Roster rank: 169 of 500 — 66th percentile.

Percentile tier: Average (shared with 143 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Durability: 8–94, average 52.1.

Difference from roster average: +7.9.

Statistical spread: 0.5 standard deviations above the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 16.8).

Tzitl Yakal's own average across all 8 stats is 60; Durability sits 0 points above that baseline.

Tzitl Yakal — Intelligence statistical analysis

Intelligence score: 50/100.

Roster rank: 378 of 500 — 24th percentile.

Percentile tier: Below Average (shared with 100 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Intelligence: 7–100, average 58.8.

Difference from roster average: -8.8.

Statistical spread: 0.6 standard deviations below the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 13.9).

Tzitl Yakal's own average across all 8 stats is 60; Intelligence sits 10 points below that baseline.

Tzitl Yakal — Combat statistical analysis

Combat score: 64/100.

Roster rank: 121 of 500 — 76th percentile.

Percentile tier: Strong (shared with 101 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Combat: 7–100, average 49.6.

Difference from roster average: +14.4.

Statistical spread: 0.7 standard deviations above the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 20.1).

Tzitl Yakal's own average across all 8 stats is 60; Combat sits 4 points above that baseline.

Tzitl Yakal — Power statistical analysis

Power score: 68/100.

Roster rank: 105 of 500 — 79th percentile.

Percentile tier: Strong (shared with 107 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Power: 5–100, average 45.5.

Difference from roster average: +22.5.

Statistical spread: 0.9 standard deviations above the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 26.3).

Tzitl Yakal's own average across all 8 stats is 60; Power sits 8 points above that baseline.

Tzitl Yakal — Stamina statistical analysis

Stamina score: 55/100.

Roster rank: 259 of 500 — 48th percentile.

Percentile tier: Average (shared with 144 other characters in the roster).

Roster range for Stamina: 7–97, average 54.5.

Difference from roster average: +0.5.

Statistical spread: 0 standard deviations above the roster mean (roster standard deviation: 17.4).

Tzitl Yakal's own average across all 8 stats is 60; Stamina sits 5 points below that baseline.

No Equipment has been linked to this character yet.

Status

Sealed

Archetype

Unclassified

Full Name

Tzitl Yakal

Alias / Codename

The Silent Architect

Status

Sealed

Date of Birth

2283 BCE

She first saw the woman at dusk in 1880 BCE, on the terrace above the drain at Cuchil, and the first thing she noticed was the cord. It was a long knotted thing, and the woman was walking it along a retaining wall with the grave attention of a person reading. Tzitl Yakal, assassin of the Ashen House, had been in that town for most of four centuries and nobody had ever measured her walls in front of her. She meant to learn who the woman was before killing her, which was a mistake, because the woman's wrist was a degree too warm and when she turned, the stake was already in the air. Tzitl was not where it landed. She never was. Over 862 years she had stopped thinking of that as skill. The Vampireverse, which prizes such things, called her the Silent Architect and left it there. She was born in Cuchil, in what is now Mexico, in the region later called Mesoamerica, in 2283 BCE. It was a temple town that was then little more than a ring of mud-brick houses around a platform. Her family carried salt and obsidian on their backs along the river path, and she learned to kill the way other children learn to haggle, because the families that moved salt had rivals and the rivals had to be dealt with quietly. She was good at it for a reason she could not explain: a pressure behind the eyes, a tightening at the hinge of the jaw, half a heartbeat before any blade or club came her way. The Ashen House later called this Blade's Whisper. To her it was a bad tooth that told the weather. It left her with headaches that could last a day, and it made crowded rooms unbearable, for the warning never stopped when there were forty people holding knives for the feast. She was turned in 2239 BCE, in the last centuries of the First Night and at forty-four, after a job went wrong at a river crossing and a steward's men left her in the reeds with a spear wound under the ribs. The one who found her fed from her and then, by design, did not finish. Tzitl never named that person. In the Ashen House it was not asked, and over the centuries she told the story of her making in four different ways so that none could be checked. What she took from the night was practical: a body that no longer tired as it should, a hunger on a fixed schedule, and a plain, unwelcome understanding of fire and noon. She had every reason to remain careful and she did. She rose in the House by being the one that things did not happen to. Her method gave her the alias. She did not stab people in doorways if a loosened scaffold would do the work, and she preferred a ladder, a rotted lashing or a wall left to settle. In the Bronze Vigil's records she is credited with more than a hundred deaths in Cuchil's valley that were thought at the time to be accidents. Her strength was far beyond a woman's of her size, and she used it mostly to adjust things at night, a beam here and a pin there. Twelve cells of hunters came for her across the centuries and she outlasted each, partly by sense and partly by outliving the ones who had been paid to search. Then came the woman with the cord, the only vampire slayer who ever made her feel her age. After the stake at the terrace in 1880 BCE, Tzitl's blade crossed the engineer's forearm in the same moment and skidded off it as off a fired pot, leaving a black smear and no cut. That was the end of the first meeting. Tzitl went out through the culvert with her ears ringing and spent the next three nights learning who Coli Pacotl was. She learned that the woman was an engineer first, that the highlands called her the Restless Lantern, and that she hummed. It was the humming that unsettled her most. The Silent Architect was not used to enemies who were cheerful. She made a vampire of her own in 1851 BCE, when she turned a river-cult knife named Tzian Ahzoli in a night she later remembered as ill-judged. She was not fond of the arrangement. A childe was an obligation, a thing that could be seen and followed, and she found that she missed being unaccompanied. She made two more across the centuries, Jia Ren in 1604 BCE and Kupali Ahkuic in 1511 BCE, each time telling herself it would be the last. Tzian was destroyed by a slayer in 1819 BCE. Jia Ren fell in 1578 BCE, and Kupali, the worst of them, was sealed away in 1445 BCE. She outlived all three, which was typical. The rivalry with Coli Pacotl never produced a result. In 1868 BCE the engineer walked into a burning grain store at Cuchil, her arms glowing, and Tzitl, who feared fire above anything the world held, retreated through the back wall rather than test it. It was the nearest she came to losing. In 1863 BCE a trader mentioned in passing that the woman had died of a lung fever on a causeway, and Tzitl was surprised to find she was annoyed, as one is by a debtor's death. She had no vendetta left to settle, and Tzitl Yakal did not take up new ones for sport. She had Cuchil, and the terrace, and four hundred and forty-two years of nights still ahead of her. They ended in 1421 BCE, not at Cuchil but under Maxopaic, where people who had learned her weaknesses over a long time walled her into a chamber and sealed it with her inside. There was no fire for her to fear there and no light to burn her. There was only the stone. By then she had stopped caring who had built it. Cuchil's terrace wall stood for a long time. The story among the potters in the valley was that on certain nights a tall woman could be seen running her thumb along its joints, one after another, as if checking them for faults.

Full Name

Tzitl Yakal

Alias / Codename

The Silent Architect

Status

Sealed

Date of Birth

2283 BCE

Nemeses

1

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Nemesis

Coli Pacotl

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Powers

Danger Sense – Blade's Whisper

Also: Super Strength.

Weaknesses

Fire
Direct sunlight

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Percentile Profile

Overall Rating 61

Statistical Analysis

Nemeses

Coli Pacotl

Tzitl Yakal

Powers & Abilities

Tzitl Yakal — Strength (49 / 100)

Tzitl Yakal — Speed (73 / 100)

Tzitl Yakal — Agility (61 / 100)

Tzitl Yakal — Durability (60 / 100)

Tzitl Yakal — Intelligence (50 / 100)

Tzitl Yakal — Combat (64 / 100)

Tzitl Yakal — Power (68 / 100)

Tzitl Yakal — Stamina (55 / 100)

Percentile Profile

Overall Rating 61

Tzitl Yakal — Strength roster comparison

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Tzitl Yakal — Intelligence roster comparison

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Tzitl Yakal — Stamina roster comparison

Statistical Analysis

Tzitl Yakal — Strength statistical analysis

Tzitl Yakal — Speed statistical analysis

Tzitl Yakal — Agility statistical analysis

Tzitl Yakal — Durability statistical analysis

Tzitl Yakal — Intelligence statistical analysis

Tzitl Yakal — Combat statistical analysis

Tzitl Yakal — Power statistical analysis

Tzitl Yakal — Stamina statistical analysis

Nemeses

Coli Pacotl