Aside from Planar Adventures and Book of the Damned, are there any other products that describe Xibalba? Ideally from an adventure. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Aside from Planar Adventures and Book of the Damned, are there any other products that describe Xibalba? Ideally from an adventure. Thanks in advance for any help.
Soldier-1st, I don’t have a good answer for you but couldn’t leave your question unanswered. I did a search of my own resources because you made me curious but no luck. The PathfinderWiki footnotes are an important resource for me for finding original source material with more detail. Many times those footnotes have led to my purchasing product. Thankfully I have those two resources (I recommend them if you don’t have them, however neither has more than about a page on Xibalba). I worry that the PathfinderWiki editors might delete older sources but I don’t know that as fact.
In any event, the good news is there are plenty of real world resources for Xibalba given by google. I hope Paizo does have another product with more detail but I suspect not.| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I have Planar Adventures, and a buddy has BotD, but yeah, not much substance in there.
The last Agents of Edgewatch adventure is supposed to have information on sahkils, so potentially it will also include information on Xibalba.
You might know this,but Xibalba (or at least the name) is taken from Maya cosmology. You could research that to fill in details til Paizo publishes more about it.
I did, and in fact one of the reasons I asked was because I’m currently interested in the differences between the Lacandon subset of Mayan mythology and the more general set, which reminded me that Xibalba is a plane in Pathfinder, which made me curious about Paizo’s take on it. And so here we are.
The closest thing to the classic Maya conception of Xibalba would be the underground areas of Xibalba, reminiscent of the gloomy, fog-shrouded caverns of the Mayan mythos. Several of the Sahkil tormentors are even taken straight out of the mythology, those being Zipacna, Chamiaholom, and Xiquiripat. The above ground section, with the large pyramid, blighted city and forest, and the four menacing biomes surrounding it doesn't seem to take too much from it's inspiration.