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Egypt may refer to the region of northeastern Africa dominated by the Nile River, the ancient civilization of that region, or the modern nation-state of the same name. Major cities include Cairo and Alexandria.

Ancient Egypt may also be referred to as Kemet or the Black Land.

Mummy: The Curse[]

Long before the dynasties of Ancient Egypt, the Nameless Empire rose to power due to the teachings of the Shan'iatu. The religion of the Nameless Empire included the worship of the 42 Judges of Duat, the god Azar, and a believe in the five-fold soul. Its capital, the City of Pillars, was the home of the empire's influential Guilds. It was here that the Rite of Return was invented to transform the living into Arisen.[1]

The First Sothic Turn occurred in 2371 BCE, during the reign of the Pharaoh Unas. The return of so many Arisen to a world they barely recognized resulted in chaos, and over the next century the Old Kingdom was split apart by factionalism and severe drought.[2] Most Arisen left the region during this time, but left behind powerful artifacts, vessels, and more than a few Shuanksen.[3]

Last Dynasty International was founded in Egypt in 1805.[4]

Vampire: The Requiem[]

Clan Mekhet traces its origins to Ancient Egypt, and continue to use the five-fold model of the soul to explain their Kindred nature. According to one version of their origins, the Followers of Seth transformed themselves into vampires to more effectively resist the pharaoh Akhenaten and his desire to institute worship of the sun god Aten, some time in the 1340s BCE.[5]

The Great Covenant was an alliance of Egyptian vampires formed in 1279 BCE. It was eventually destroyed by the Camarilla after Rome's conquest of Egypt, circa 47 BCE.[6]

Werewolf: The Forsaken[]

During the Middle Kingdom period, at the end of the Twelfth Dynasty (circa 1800 BCE), Bone Shadows served as priests of Wepwawet and other wolf-aspected gods. They also clashed with the Sobeki, priests of the crocodile god Sobek who had been corrupted by their contact with Crocodile, a dead Pangaean.[7] The Predator Kings were also attracted to Crocodile's presence and made an alliance with the Sobeki.[8] As the sun gods were an important part of the Egyptian religion, Helions were also active in the Middle Kingdom. [9]

The Iron Masters' predecessors in the era were known as Watchers Beyond the Flame.[10]

Mage: The Awakening[]

The Abyssal entity known as the Prince of 100,000 Leaves was first summoned into the Fallen World by Ancient Egyptian priests.[11]

Mages in ancient Egypt were called Weret-Hekau.[12] Conquest by foreign empires, first Persian in 343 BCE and later Greek in 331 BCE, introduced the Weret-Hekau to magical traditions of other cultures and vice-versa, helping to foster the early forms of global Awakened culture.[13] The Weret-Hekau equated the five Watchtowers with the five-fold soul.[14] Under the pharaohs, powerful mages took the title of "haty" or "nomarch," and many were direct rulers of their communities as well as sorcerers. Persian conquest brought an end to this system, and stripped the aristocracy of many of their privileges.[3]

Legend has it that the Tremere encountered the vampire-mage called the Theban in Egypt around 50 BCE, setting them on the road to becoming Reapers.[15][16]

Promethean: The Created[]

The Osirian Lineage of Created also originated in Ancient Egypt and take their name from the Egyptian god. According to the modern creation myth, Osiris (or possibly his "son" Horus) was the first Promethean of the lineage, and Isis was the demiurge who revived his corpse. [17]

Osirans were called Weret-Wesir during the period of Egypt's Middle Kingdom, and were honored as emissaries of Osiris returned from Duat. They could move openly and interact with mortals without hiding their inhuman nature, but the range of Roles available to them was limited by tradition and custom. The Tammuz, called "Temi-Nebu," might share that honor if they arose from high-status corpses, but more often they were regarded as mistakes, sinners escaped from Ammut or unclean spirits possessing an improperly buried corpse.[18] During this time period, Prometheans could access the Underworld directly through the Labyrinth of Hawara, completing the anastasis milestone without actually dying.[19]

Geist: The Sin-Eaters[]

During the Middle Kingdom period, Bound often worked in the extensive funerary industry: building tombs, embalming bodies, performing the rites necessary to send the dead onward. Groups of Bound called aakebi believed Duat to be the most important of the Dead Dominions, though they understood it was only one of the places a ghost might go after death.[20]

Beast: The Primordial[]

While Crocodile continued to influence the area around Atef-Pehu, there were more Beasts in the Nile Valley than anywhere else on Earth. Begotten of the Middle Kingdom did not divide themselves into Families as modern Beasts do. Some identified the Dark Mother with Ammut, the destroyer of unclean souls, while others equated Her with Nut, the goddess of the night sky.[21]

There were no Heroes in the Middle Kingdom, as the Primordial Dream was not yet too crowded to interpret. This duty fell to Oracles, who retained more of their own humanity as they passed the wisdom of the Dream on to leaders and scholars. However, by the Middle Kingdom period, the density of human settlement was already beginning to interfere with the clarity of the Dream, leading Oracles to see Beasts as mere monsters rather than a part of the astral ecosystem.[22]

Other[]

Some of earliest records of the Purified date back to Ancient Egypt, where a ritual similar to the funeral rite was used to achieve immortality.[23]

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