Post by nephew heru on Jan 3, 2013 18:21:22 GMT -5
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RANK. E. AGE. 4400+, twenty-five in current incarnation. DOB. December 25 ETHNICITY. Egyptian OCCUPATION. Management consulting; nonprofit. RESIDENCE. Un-warded apartment in SOHO. | [atrb=width,100] |
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[li]Osiris's posthumous son with Isis. On the run with mother from eternal enemy Set. Ends up becoming first dozen or so pharaohs, until he kills 1/10 of Egypt in a flood.
[/li][li]Humbles out into a wise God, grows a falcon-head, and chills with cat sister while Alexander and Ptolemy invade. Disguises self in Alexandria. Librarian of the Great Library and burns along with it.
[/li][li]Migrates to German area, gets slaved as a Roman Gladiator, and lives lives of hedonism before meeting former lover, Hathor. They live off of sinful means of getting coin and sleep with one another a lot.
[/li][li]Returns to Arab Egypt, caravans to Spain, and lives peacefully and scholastically while Spain ejects the Islamic faith from its communities. Becomes sailor, sails to New World with Columbus, meets Thoth among the Aztecs.
[/li][li]Chills with Thoth until Cortes invasion. The two gods migrate to Texas and fight for America in the Mexican-American War. Builds libraries and schools in the South, through the Civil War. Returns to Egypt during Industrial Revolution.
[/li][li]Sees his pantheon as nearly forgotten mortals, rejoins community until he leaves in 1960 to NYC as a egyptologist. Dies an unfortunate death due to heroin overdose.
[/li][li]Born as determined Nephew, seemingly equipped with skills to become a pharaoh in new world. Founds nonprofit that teaches entrepreneurial skills to teens in the city. fin.
PRE-GREEK EGYPT
+++ Primitive folks had been settling in his lands long before he was born out of mythic tales of the superior religious figures. This is no surprise, really. He’s the most important third generation deity of the Egyptian pantheon, the sky-god of kings, Horus. His earliest, purest memories were his mother, Isis, on the run from a crazed madman, killer of his father. Set hadn’t let up that chase for decades. Both Isis and Horus maintained their shape, physically distracted in their flight. In this purest form, he was stuck as a muted youth who lacked fatherly advice and got into hoodrat shit with his friends. One specific friend, Thoth, became something like an Aristotle to him, while Bast, his feline sister, comforted him in his saddest days. He was very much the baby of the pantheon ‘til the very end of the predynastic period. That’s when he decided to become king.
+++ In death, Horus took on the body of a man named Narmer. A warrior-king, Narmer unified sleeper Egypt and brought about a fierce rule, changing his name to Menes. Ruling as pharaoh were his finest years, since the entire nation of Egypt worshipped both him in his corporeal and spiritual form. He was quite possibly one of the strongest deities on the face of the planet at that time. He could’ve beaten all of Olympus in arm-wrestling matches. One day, however, Horus as Merenre, a goofier incarnation, was tricked by his subjects and assassinated. At once, he possessed his past incarnation’s sister, took up the throne, and killed about 1/10 of his country by releasing the Nile on them. This was generally considered a bad move, and he kind of stepped down after that. No more pharaohs for him.
+++ Living depowered was a challenge. He still faced threats from Set, his father’s killer, and all the other deities that wished him dead. He kept his friends close and reverted to his childlike form, now with the head of a falcon. This was when Horus was whole, in humility and power. All worshipped him as the God of the Sky. His sister took on the mantle of the sun god. Together they looked down on Egypt with pity, for they knew what was to come.
PTOLEMIAC EGYPT
+++ They wanted them to endure and cast off the invasion of Alexander. The people should’ve prayed to the Gods more but instead they were smug. Still, there was a point where Horus even believed that the battle was futile. The child of the sky figured that he wouldn’t even do a better job in the conflict. One of his most memorable incarnations at this time was a priestess who self-immolated to stop the rape of her fellow clergy. That actually worked, which brought a little more strength in his cult. She obviously prayed to Horus in her passing. Kill two birds with one stone, yknow?
+++ In the reign of Ptolemy I, Bast and Horus disguised themselves as citizens of this new Egypt in Alexandria. It was here that they witnessed the unexpected. Their powers were slowly returning. The conquerors totally involved themselves in the lives of the Egyptians, building large temples for the cults and revering past pharaohs as Gods. For their love, some gods gave the Ptolemy gifts, especially in their heart, Alexandria. Bast and Horus rejected this and lived simple lives while engulfing themselves in the literature of the world. They acted as librarians of the Great Library and burned in its demise.
+++ With the death of Cleopatra and Rome’s great empire emerging, Horus ditched his homeland and ventured as far as his followers went. He followed a caravan family to an early Germanic area that was caught in the crossfire of a Roman campaign. They were taken in as slaves, Horus as well. Delayed prayers from his homeland kept him stronger than the average man. Because of this, they made him a gladiator.
ROME
+++ Horus took on several roles in his Roman times: gladiator, merchant, even courtesan. The God was detached from both his holy land and family members. That all changed when he met Hathor as a slave. He rescued her, using all his funds in that incarnation, and they lived as beggars. Using some wit, the two deities became very influential in the underworld of Antioch. They enjoyed their life and renewed their lust for one another. Then, they died and did it all over again. In retrospect, Horus both regrets and misses this era the most.
ARAB EGYPT and UMAYYAD-IMPERIAL SPAIN
+++ Hathor and Horus returned to a broken Egypt. A new religion and empire had emerged. Their cults were largely forgotten. This was a new age, the middle age. His people lived common lives as Islam was the religion to follow now. Most of their subjects associated themselves with the religion to survive in harsh, economic times. Horus thought it was all very selfish and rewarded those who kept the faith with luck in their endeavors. That mattered very little in the long run. Not knowing their fortune, they didn’t spread the cults openly. Who would? The pantheon managed to live as enlightened humans but that bored Horus incredibly.
+++ Horus crossed the western desert, something he never did before. That absolutely blew. However, he eventually made his way to the most westward nation he knew, Spain. Still conquered by the Muslims, he made his living as a merchant who taught the townspeople the interest folklores of the Egyptians. In Valencia, he survived for a few centuries. Horus never gave up his will to learn, so he spent plenty of time reading sacred texts from all sorts of religions. He hoped to meet them all someday. The main one of the time was a little hard to talk with. These monotheistic dudes swore they were all that existed. Plus, Horus’d have to be VIP to get a few words in with the big guy anyway.
+++ Nearly millennia later, Horus witnessed the growth of a new empire in the new nation that he loved. As a sailor named Mariano, Horus became quite useful to the Spaniards. His navigational skills was one of the reasons New York City is even a thing. Mariano sailed with Christopher Columbus, a bipolar nincompoop tbh, who made a drastic mistake. Mariano simply went with it, didn’t say a word, and wished to see what played out. A couple decades later, he was kicking it big time with the Aztecs, and was surprised to see none other than his main man, Thoth.
THE NEW WORLD
+++Thoth explained how the central Americas were basically a pet project of his since the times of the Romans. He allowed them to form their own Gods, many of which he was intimate with. Thoth disguised himself to the bloody Aztecs and invited Horus into his secret cult. They lived quite well until a fella by the name of Cortes showed up. Horus explained to Thoth that that specific incidence was more or less his fault. Basically, the sky god of Egypt will eternally owe the scholarly Ibis.
+++ Thoth and Horus traveled North, slowly, eventually witnessing the Mexican-American War. They joined on the side of the Americans, curious about these people, and may have turned the tide. Delayed strength from cults around the world still affected them. Their deific powers were reduced but present. Thus began their time in the New World. Horus and Thoth’s most important achievement was in that of learning and literacy. They spent decades setting up libraries and schools, ditching the towns, and doing the same elsewhere. They read voraciously and consoled each other intimately for being far away from their homeland.
+++ At the peak of the industrial revolution, Horus returned to Egypt out of necessity. He reacquainted with old friends who disliked his departure but welcomed him. The God of Kings now sat at the bottom of the Egyptian pantheon, hoping to earn his keep.
NEW YORK CITY
+++ In 1960, Horus arrived in New York as an amateur Egyptologist who conveyed any interesting discoveries to the interested Americans. He died in 1986 through a heroin overdose. It was a dark period in his life, totally depowered and missing his Egyptian queen, Hathor.
+++ Nephew Heru was born that same year, a child of worshiping immigrants. His parents kept the pantheon alive in their apartment building, while working construction for the government and cashing in on the organic trend. His mother was such a trickster. She did whatever she could in a world of dubious retail for him. Nephew had a close affinity to this mortal, because she reminded him of Isis.
+++ Nephew was quite successful while his classmates were anxious and afraid. A's came easy to him, and college even easier. Success in life was all preparation which was something Egyptians knew well. He graduated NYU, alumnus of Mu, and skipped business school to start up a nonprofit with his waker roommate. Funding it by helping mom-and-pop shops with their businesses, Nephew created Wadjet which teaches children in NYC how to be entrepreneurs. The nonprofit isn't ridiculously famous but a few big names from universities have volunteered and cosigned heavily.
+++ All in all, Horus is in a good place right now. Power in these lands is empathy and financial prowess. He wants the good clothes, the good food, and the good women. Horus strives reclaim his days as Pharaoh of the New World.
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- PHOTOMANCY. The sole trait that passes through all of his incarnations. The Egyptian God of Kingship can manipulate electromagnetic radiation in photon-sized packets. Without the worship of a whole nation supporting him, the power is much more limited compared to his earliest years. He's lost the ability to formulate light blasts and create photokinetic constructs. However, Nephew can become a human-sized flashlight, cloak a room-sized area in pure darkness, or solely camouflage himself like a chameleon.
- SONOMANCY. A talent restricted to the deity since Ptolemaic days. Instead of modifying soundwaves to the sense (hushing, intensifying, etc.), Horus's new husk can concentrate and bend soundwaves to his will. Therefore, instead of deafening screams, Nephew can dash quickly using waves as propulsion force. By expanding soundwaves, he can kamehameha you with invisible force and expand waves in metal to cause pistols, cutlery, etc. to explode.
- LEVITATION. A power he lost in the fifth dynasty when he stopped reincarnating into pharaohs. Somehow coming to America blessed him with the ability to both levitate himself, other beings, and objects. The skill is much like lifting and causes a strain on his mental muscles. Since he's not soaking in tons of sacrificial mojo on a daily basis, flying for more than twenty minutes will give him a headache and levitating heavier things will either give him a migrane or knock him unconscious.
- ARTIFACT II (EYE OF HORUS). An emerald pendant, which is more or less his goddamn eye, that holds the spirit of Wadjet, the personification of his goddamn eye. When focusing on the amulet, he can enhance one of his senses at a time. And, ALL of the senses, not just the five normal ones. Balance, pain, thermoception, kinesthetic sense, and chronoception as well. Basically, if he wished, he could focus and know the time on the milisecond or make that white chocolate, macadamian nut cookie taste even more like sex to the point of orgasm.
- FOLLOWERS II (WADJET). The board of the entrepreneurial nonprofit are his special little children. He opened their eyes, so to speak. Some are empowered with talents to protect him. A couple are simple, smart, and middle-aged. Those happen to run the whole freak-show as secretary-general and deputy, so they aren't useless baggage per-say. In opening their eyes, he acquired their collective praise. As he leads them through the NYC's backstage, they pray to the Egyptian pantheon, mostly himself. Nephew prays with them but he's getting the real benefits. They don't really know that he's the falcon-head they worship. That's kind of uncool for a cult leader, tbh.
- WEALTH I. Nephew is comfortable and relatively successful for his age. He's raking in mid-to-upper middle class earnings in his early twenties. If he bragged, people would shut their lips. Since he lives in New York City, he's spending most of that on just living alone. Management consulting keeps him living pretty, but he wants the suite at the top of the biggest hotel. Something a pharaoh deserves. Time to time, he dips his hand into Wadjet's funds. But he's not an absolute cock, those are for the children foremost.
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