Tlaloque, the Rain Dwarf

The myth

The tlaloque are Tláloc’s helpers, small rain beings who lived on the mountain peaks. The Historia de los mexicanos por sus pinturas describes them as “ministers of small body” who lived in a palace with Tláloc and Chalchiuhtlicue: they filled vessels with water stored in great containers and watered the earth. When they smashed the jars with sticks, the crash was thunder and the pieces were lightning. Each mountain had its tlaloque. In the worldview of many communities today, the rain’s “owners” still dwell in the hills.

Why it has this power

A Level 3 Common with 1000 ATK and 900 DEF: small in body, great in duty. Water, Moon and Fox make it a spirit of rainy nights and mischief. It is a material for the Rite of the Rain Jars, which calls Tláloc, and fused with a Thunder monster it forms The Tlaloque Break Their Jars.

Did you know

In some sources, the tlaloque were also identified with the very mountains surrounding the Valley of Mexico.

Connections

• Fuses into: + Thunder → The Tlaloque Break Their Jars
• In Cuauhtli, Lake Hunter's deck
• In Citlali, Priestess of the Stars's deck

Where to get it

• Campaign drop: Citlali, Priestess of the Stars (Valley of the Fifth Sun) — grade D: 14%
• Daily Offering: 0% per pack (Common 64% per card)
• Welcome Pack: 0.97% per pack (Common 70% per card)
• Traveler's Pack: 0.88% per pack · 5.2% in the themed pack (Common 64% per card)
• Bronze Reliquary: 0.86% per pack · 5.1% in the themed pack (Common 62% per card)
• Silver Reliquary: 0.67% per pack · 4% in the themed pack (Common 49% per card)
• Golden Reliquary: 0.46% per pack · 2.7% in the themed pack (Common 33% per card)
• Daily Showcase: Shows up on about 0.69% of days · 150 gold
• Craft with card dust: 40 dust
• Crossing of Myths: Can be offered as a reward during a crossing (the card stays in the crossing deck).

Sources

1. Seres que propician la lluvia. El carácter simbólico de enanos y jorobados en el México antiguo (Arqueología Mexicana) — Manuel A. Hermann Lejarazu
2. Tlaloc — World History Encyclopedia — Mark Cartwright
3. Naturaleza y funciones de Tláloc: los mitos (Arqueología Mexicana) — Guilhem Olivier