Zeek browsed the tomes and scrolls of the royal library of Kemet with a focus unrivaled by the schors around him. While the rest of his party had set about finding supplies for the journey ahead, gathering information and things of that sort, he decided to spend some time getting to know the mythos of Kemet and what magics it may hold in the hopes of curing the blight that he’d seen on Lilliana. What he’d found, however, was something much more disturbing.

  Amidst the temples, pyramids, and royal opulence that Kemet had bestowed upon its people, hid a much darker truth: Kemet was a recovering nd of ruin. Among some of the sacred texts, he found the confirmation he was looking for: the story of the Silent Reign.

  These scrolls told a deliberately divergent version of the story depicted in the byrinth’s halls. The Bck King was painted as a tyrant that colluded with the enemy, the gods punished him through the other nobles, and the Shu-Ra were just crazed monsters that lured men to bolster their ranks.

  “This is a wholesale repainting of history,” Zeek mumbled to himself. “No wonder the people here avoided us, to them, he was a tyrant who cursed their entire country,” he thought. The descendants of these ancient royal contracts continued to harness the abilities gifted to their ancestors, Amon among them. The level of station amongst modern royalty was determined by the power and ability of the heirs in each generation, making Amon the predetermined prince of his branch in Kemet royalty. However, Amon seemed to have an affinity for fire, but the branch he was under was aligned with the god of lightning.

  Zeek stared in the distance as moments passed, thinking, “If his gifts match that of the Bck King, that would mean he was born of that line. How has this branch hidden for so long?”

  Zeek continued reading the texts, finding the retionship between the King and the Shu-Ra, his killing…but something else seemed to be missing from the walls of the byrinth. There was mention of an avatar of the gods; an amalgamation of all their powers vested in one being that walked these nds and, presumably, the byrinth itself. The texts stated that the gods combined their powers to free the nd using the fallen against the Shu-Ra, capturing them one by one. The power they used was called Heseb-kem, roughly transting to ‘bck thread’.

  JP-Haseo