Posts

Showing posts with the label Ancient Egypt

The Kingdom That Forgot The Sun

Image
Summary Long ago, in a land where the sky was said to bleed gold at the break of dawn, the Kingdom of Ithralis made a deal with a dying god. In return for immortality, they gave the Sun away. Now the world is forever trapped under a twilight sky. No one grows old. No one dies. No one ever truly comes alive. Centuries turn into millennia. Love decays into memory. Children never start. The stars grow weary of the sight. At the heart of the silent kingdom is King Vaelor the Undying. He was the first to be offered immortality. He was the first to realize the true cost. But the Sun was not taken from the world. It was imprisoned. And the gods do not forget. This is the tale of a kingdom that was given immortality. It was given something worse. Chapter I : When the Sun Went Silent - The Last Dawn Image -  King Vaelor overlooks Ithralis under a dying red sun as a robed woman kneels beside an hourglass and skulls in ritual. But there was a time when the dawn came like a promise. The priest...

The Scribe And The Serpent Tomb

Image
Summary Thebes, the opulent heart of Egypt under Pharaoh Horemheb, harbors a secret older than the gods themselves.  Kepu , a nineteen-year-old scribe consumed by curiosity, finds his master, the High Scribe Menefre, dead, clutching a fragment pointing to the forbidden   Tomb of the Serpent King . Driven by the fear of an ancient curse and the thirst for forbidden knowledge, Kepu uncovers a terrifying scroll marked with the emblem of Apep, the lord of chaos. The scroll warns of   Setekh-Serqet , a half-divine war priest whose ambition sought to shatter the divine order. Unable to trust the entrenched power of the priests or the Pharaoh's guard, Kepu seeks out   Anai , a mysterious, outlawed woman rumored to walk with desert spirits. Anai, whose mother died searching for the same cursed tomb, reluctantly agrees to guide him. Their journey takes them into the black, ash-stained desert, a kingdom of silence and old magic, where they finally locate the ruins marking the ...