Covenant with the Gods

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The Covenant with the Gods was a pact between the people of Nehekhara and their gods. [1a]

History

At the darkest point of the Great Migration, the seven tribes from the jungels of the east were dying in the desert and sought salvation by praying to the sun and sky. Ptra looked down and was moved by their plight, cracking a great boulder in their midst from which sweet cool water began to issue forth. As the people desperately drank, many cut their hands on the shards, offering the first blood sacrifices to the new gods. [1d]

Although the gods were first encountered near where the city of Mahrak had been built, it was at Khemri that the covenant had been agreed that created the Blessed Land. The people of Nehekhara would build temples and worship them and in return, the gods would provide a paradise for them to live in. [1a]

In addition, each noble house would give its firstborn child to a temple to become a priest or priestess - In Khemri, the firstborn was gifted to Ptra. When Settra created the Mortuary Cult, it risked breaking the covenant and so Settra took as his wife Hatsushepra of Lahmia, a priestess of Ptra instead. [1a]

After her husband Thutep's death, Nagash forbade Queen Neferem to join him, which caused outrage in the Hieretic Council of Mahrak and threatened the Covenant with the Gods. [1b] When later he enslaved her, body and soul, the Covenant was disrupted and the gods no longer provided power to their priests. [1c]

When he began the Siege of Mahrak in -1744 IC, he commanded her to cast down the magical wards of the city, but he was stunned when they held. [1d] Eventually realising that she was the Covenant made flesh, he ordered her to open the gates of the city, following behind with a horde of the dead. As she crossed the wards boundary, magical energies boiled all around her but could not destroy her and even the Spinxes fled before her. Finally a lightning bolt incinerated her, turning her into dust on the wind but also shattering both the covenant and the defensive wards. [1e]

Sources

  • 1: Rise of Nagash (anthology)
    • 1a: Second Sons, pg. 44-45
    • 1b: Chapter Twenty One: The Elixir of Life, pg. 242
    • 1c: Chapter Twenty Six: The City of the Gods, pg. 300-303
    • 1d: Chapter Twenty Eight: The City of the Gods, pg. 321-322
    • 1e: Chapter Thirty: The End of all Things, pg. 359-361
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