Characters and histories from past Ages
Bastet is the Egyptian goddess of the home, domesticity, women’s secrets, cats, fertility and childbirth. She protected the home from evil spirits and disease, especially diseases associated with women and children. She played a role in the afterlife, supplying perfumes and ointments to Anubis for the embalming process. The fascinating Read more…
Horus is one of the most significant and revered gods in Egyptian mythology, often depicted as a falcon or a man with a falcon’s head. Horus embodies divine authority and the balance of order. Horus is the son of Osiris, the god of the afterlife, and Isis, the goddess of Read more…
Faedre was seven when she first killed a man. She was born in Tanchico, to a house that would have been considered nobility before the Seanchan occupation. Instead the only thing she inherited from her mother was the status of a slave, albeit one with the position to serve in Read more…
Born in Arafel, Ignis faced the dangers all Borderlanders faced, and it was expected of him to at the very least learn how to fight. His father, a Captain of the Guard, taught him the sword starting at a young age. Like most Arafellins, he eventually switched to using two Read more…
Kira was born to a Tairin father and Cairheinin woman. Her mother died in childbirth and her father raised her the best he could by himself. Her father was a gleeman, and she took to music and story-telling naturally. Noticing this, her father trained her to be a gleewoman one Read more…
Rudābeh was born to affluence, a princess of Cabul, and daughter to Mehrāb and Sindoḵt. She was a great granddaughter of Aži Dahāka, the most feared of Ahriman’s dread lieutenants, and her family’s reputation was ever blighted by the connection. Indeed, their territory came as a result of Aži Dahāka’s Read more…
Ra embodied the power of the sun but was also thought to be the sun itself, envisioned as the great god riding in his barge across the heavens throughout the day and descending into the underworld at sunset. As he made his way through the darkness beneath the earth, he Read more…
Shu was born from the primordial waters of the chaotic void that existed before creation, and was brought into existence by Ra. He is often depicted as the first creation, embodying the breath or life force that emerged from the god’s mouth. His twin sister and consort, Tefnut, the goddess Read more…
Ged is one of the oldest deities in the Egyptian pantheon, representing the Earth and playing a central role in the creation myths, the fertility of the land, and the structure of kingship. As the god of the Earth, Ged is deeply tied to both life and death, providing life Read more…
Seshat was the Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge, writing, and measurement. While less prominent than other major goddesses like Isis or Hathor, Seshat played an essential role in ancient Egyptian society, particularly in matters related to record-keeping, architecture, mathematics, and the management of time. She was the divine scribe and Read more…