Mayan Sun Amulet
Mayan Sun Amulet - A magical amulet crafted by a Mayan wizard in the late 10th century, and given by him to a gargoyle clan in ChacIxChel, Guatemala, the Mayan Clan.
History
This golden amulet was shaped like the sun, and contained four precious stones, one of sapphire, one of obsidian, one of jade, and one of turquoise. It powered four magical pendants, which caused the gargoyles to wear them to remain awake in the daytime, without entering stone sleep. The Mayan wizard went to these extreme lengths to be sure the forest would be defended day and night. The four gargoyles who wear these pendants are given names (Zafiro/Zafira, Obsidiano/Obsidiana, Jade/Jada and Turqueso/Turquesa) and remain flesh as long as they wear them, but at a price. Unlike other gargoyles, the pendant wearers continue to age during the day, shortening their life span. The pendants also work on gargoyle beasts and will wake a sleeping gargoyle during midday if they are placed on him/her.
The clan kept the Mayan Sun Amulet safe for a thousand years, passing the pendants on from one group of four gargoyles in a rookery generation to the next. Then, in 1993, disaster struck. A band of looters came upon the step-pyramid where the clan lived during the daytime, slaughtered the entire clan in its stone sleep (except for Zafiro, Obsidiana, Jade, and Turquesa, who were away patrolling the rain forest), and stole the amulet. It eventually wound up in the possession of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which put it on display.
When Jackal and Hyena were hired by Preston Vogel to destroy the Mayan gargoyles, they learned about the Sun Amulet, and Jackal promptly sent Hyena to New York to destroy it; once the amulet was no more, the Mayan gargoyles would become subject to stone sleep, and he could destroy them in it. Before Hyena could destroy it, however, she was defeated by Broadway and Lexington, who had seen her break into the museum. Discovering that the amulet was magical (although not the exact nature of its magic), they decided to take it into their possession and guard it, so that it could not fall into the wrong hands; Broadway took it back with him to the clock tower, to watch over it. After the clock tower was destroyed by the Canmores, either Broadway or Elisa recovered it. Zafiro will later on come to New York to reclaim it - or it may be reclaimed by Jade and Turquesa, on their way home from Avalon. Whatever its fate, by 2198, it will be in the possession of the Mayan Clan once again.]
