i have walked this world for ages and seen many empires rise and fall and this is my story that I've choose to share with but in order to tell you my story i have to go back to before the beginning.
Long before the universe started spinning into existence, long before time had even started ticking.
There was an endless darkness with only creatures.
The first one was order. He was rigid and stiff and the other one was chaos. She is dark, chaotic and unpredictable, but she was ravishing.
The two were always fighting and when their punches collided, an explosion that followed generated enough force to send the two entities flying in opposite directions, knocking them unconscious from the power of the blast.
When the two entities awoke, the universe was spinning into creation. Nebulas were forming from debris and galaxies were just starting to spin into existence. Everything around them amazed them. Out of this fight, the god of creation was brought into existence.
He would come to be known as Ptah. When Ptah opened his eyes for the first time, he saw life spring up all around him, but with creation came destruction, and the name of destruction is Ptah's twin sister Apophis, the goddess of destruction, each are equal opposites.
Ptah went around exploring the universe, creating planets out of the dust and their caretakers, the planetary titans, who were free to govern their planet however they liked.
One of these Titans is called Terra. She is green and blue. She wasn't the biggest, but she also wasn't the smallest. The largest Titans were Jupiter and Pluto, but she wanted to do something special. She wanted to create life, and with Ptah's guidance, that's what she did.
The first thing they created was the primordials. They were the first generation of gods. They represented the fundamental forces on this planet.
The first and the oldest was Bennu. He was a pyramid that could change forms into a giant red and golden heron. He was the personification of life and rebirth.
Next was Uranus. He was a man as tall as a mountain, with eyes blue as the sky and a flowing beard like the clouds. He was the personification of the sky.
His sister came next. Her name is Gaia. She had green skin with vines growing on her. She had brown hair, and she stood to about Uranus's shoulder. She was the personification of the earth. Uranus and Gaia married and ruled over the world.
Next came the twins Nyx and Erebus, the personification of night and darkness. Nyx wears a black dress that she would use to bring the beauty of the night. She has black hair with matching eyes. Her husband, Erebus, is the personification of darkness, he would help his wife bring the night and hide things under the cover of darkness. Together they had many children.
With life growing, there had to be death and that is when Thanatos, the personification of death, was born.
The world was divided into two, the world of the living and the underworld, and it was filled with demons of every kind, some as small as grass and some as big as trees and they would fight with the primordials and anything that would live.
Along with his other brothers and sisters, Hypnos, the personification of sleep just to name a few.
Thanatos is the very embodiment of death. He has pale white skin with black hair and matching eyes but he was the nicest of all the primordials but make no mistake, he would fight with demons the most with the help of his brother, he wears a black robe to hide his face but if you could look into his eyes, they were a warm golden glow, it made you feel like coming into an embrace of a caring brother.
It was Thanatos's job to take the souls of the dead to the underworld where those who lived a good life would go to a place of pure peace but would put those that did evil deeds in life into the care of Tartarus, the personification of force he was the strongest next to Uranus, he had a horn growing out of his forehead and would kill any demon that came into his domain.
Bennu rose from the ocean as a pyramid. On his crown was a lotus. When it bloomed, it gave birth to Ra. He had the body of a child with a head of a falcon. He was the father of the Egyptian gods and became the first pharaoh and ruled over Egypt. When Ra got old enough, Bennu gave Ra a boat and two companions, two human size tilapia fish named Abtu and Anet; one was red and the other one was a golden fish, but one had blue eyes and the other one had red eyes. The red fish would physically defend the boat with the gods accompanying Ra, after her brother Abtu loudly alerted them to the arrival and threat of Apophis.
Uranus and Gaia gave birth to the Cyclopes, the one eye giants and the Hecatonchires, a being with fifty-heads and fifty arms. Uranus was disgusted by their appearance and threw them into Tartarous, a deep abyss that is used as a dwelling of torment and suffering for the wicked were punished.
Uranus and Gaia had another set of children, twelve titans; Oceanus being the oldest and the strongest of the titans and his eleven other titan brothers and sisters with the youngest named Cronus, the Titan of time, Uranus became a cruel ruler fearing that his sons would overthrow him, so he threw them into Tartarus.
In doing so caused Gaia to be in a great deal of pain. She begged the Titans to free her children, the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires and overthrow her husband Uranus. But all the Titans feared Uranus, all except Cronus. He was the most ambitious and at night, his brothers Coeus, Crius, Hyperion and Lapetus, held Uranus down while Cronus castrated his father and dethroned him, but before Cronus could give the killing blow, Uranus placed a curse on Cronus that his children would in return do what his sons did to him then turned into a cloud and escaped from his sons.
Cronus took his sister Rhea as his wife and the first thing Cronus did was throw the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires back into Tartarous. In fear of the curse, Cronus ate his children right after their birth. But when Rhea gave birth to her last child named Zeus, she couldn't take it anymore as she had to watch her children being eaten. She tricked Cronus by giving him a rock the size of a baby wrapped in a baby blanket; without even thinking about it, he ate the rock and, in doing so, saved her youngest.
When Zeus was old enough, he disguised himself as a servant and gave Cronus a mixture of wine and mustard that made him vomit up his brothers and sisters. The gods of Greece went to war against the Titans, and the war was called the Titanomachy.
At first, the war wasn't going well for the Gods until Zeus went down to Tartarus to free the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires. As it turned out, the Cyclopes were master blacksmiths. They gave Zeus his Masterbolt, the Father of all lightning. When Zeus held it to the sky, lightning raced across the sky. They gave Poseidon his trident, with which he could control the power of the sea. Only the most ancient of monsters would dare disobey Poseidon and Hades; his helm of darkness, when Hades put it on, he could turn invisible. However, while the Cyclopes were master blacksmiths, the Hecatoncheires had pure strength on their side; they could throw fifty boulders the size of houses at their enemies. After ten long years with the help of the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires, the gods could defeat the Titans.
When the gods won the war, Zeus became king of the gods and became the god of the sky over Greece. While some of the Titans were thrown in Tartarous with the Hecatonchires as guards and condemned Atlas, the Titan of strength to hold up the skies for all eternity while the titans that helped the gods were spared from such a fate like prometheus and his brother Epimetheus the titans of foresight and hindsight.
In space, Apophis was growing stronger from all the chaos on Terra. The stronger she got, the bigger she got. She grew big enough that she started destroying planets by killing their titans and devouring their life force and the planet's mass. When she got to the sol system, she was three times stronger than her brother.
Ptah Ra and the other gods, along with the planet titans, band together, and after a long and hard battle, in which two of the youngest titans died in battle and their planets broke apart, they could defeat Apophis.
Ptah stripped Apophis of her power, making her a little stronger than Ra, and imprisoned her in Terra forever by creating a barrier, lines around Terra called ley lines and separating the world of the living and the land of the dead called the underworld and Ra was given the task of keeping Apophis imprisoned.
Every day, Ra would bring the sun to the mortal plane and every night would go into the underworld along with some of the other gods to help to keep Apophis imprisoned in the underworld.
When Ra was on the mortal plane, he made two gods Shu, the god of air and Tefnut, the lioness goddess of rain and many other gods.
Shu and Tefnut gave birth to Gabe, the god of the earth and his sister Nut, the goddess of the night sky. Gabe looked like the earth. He has brown earth like skin with green eyes. Nut's skin looked like the night sky with light blue eyes. Ra was proud of his grandchildren as they grew into their powers.
After many years, the gods made animals to populate their part of the world but Ra's favorite was the Ox, Lion and Falcon.
When the first life took its breath, the first death was as well and that created fear of death, which gave birth to demons of every kind and they slipped into the world of the living and terrorized its people.
When their children grew up, Shu and Tefnut went out to explore the world around them. After years of missing his children, Ra sent out his fastest messenger bird, a peregrine falcon, to find his children. After a couple of days, his children returned to him, and when they embraced each other, Ra cried tears of joy. The tears mixed with the ground, making the first generation of humans.
After celebrating his children's return, Ra gave the humans his greatest gift, the river Nile. Later that night, Ra had a vision that his grandchildren would give birth to a new generation of gods and they would overthrow him. So he forbade Gab and Nut to have children but of course, like grandchildren they disobeyed him and gave birth to Osiris and his brother, Set and his two sisters, Isis and Nephthys.
Osiris was a strong, handsome man with light chocolate brown skin and black eyes. Osiris took over the land along the Nile, it was a lush and beautiful land. To the gods and the people of Egypt, it was a garden in the desert. As the years passed, Osiris fell in love with one of his sisters and one day took his sister, Isis, as his wife.
She is a loving and caring woman with black hair and brown eyes with flawless brown skin in a white dress. When Osiris became pharaoh, Isis also became the queen. She was like a mother to the people of Egypt. She loved everyone fairly and punished the guilty like a mother would her children.
Next is his brother, Set. He has red, almost brown fur-like skin with blood red eyes and a light brown tunic. He took over, ruling the land west of Egypt, which was a dry and barren desert.
Nephthys became Set's wife. She was very protective of friends and family. She would also protect the humans but to a lesser extent but even her weakest protection was stronger than her brothers or sister, Where isis was light Nephthys was her dark counterpart she was goddess of death, decay, and darkness but also a magician with great healing powers.
Set grew jealous of his brother and his lush kingdom, but the straw that broke the camel's back with Set was when his wife, Nephthys, had an affair with Osiris, where she disguised herself as Isis and gave birth to a jackal headed boy named Anubis but in fear of her husband, Nephthys abandon Anubis at the shore of the Nile, Where Isis found the baby Anubis among the reeds. The Goddess Isis saw the purity in the baby's eyes and took him and raised him as if he was one of her own.
After some time, humans started getting older and dying off, but their souls would roam the land of the living, causing chaos for the living mortals. Ra quickly realized that the humans, unlike the gods were mortal and needed a place to go when they died.
So, with the help of the other death gods, they went into the underworld, and after twelve long years, they conquered the underworld and defeated the demons, but they could not destroy them because humans would always fear something. In the land of Egypt, Ra called the underworld the land of Duat and he made twelve gates to pass through for the mortals' way to the afterlife.
The last gate was a set of golden scales called the scales of Ma'at. Where they would meet their end if they were wicked or go on to paradise and it was Anubis's job to weigh them fairly.
When people started dying in the desert, Anubis and Set started fighting over the souls. Set believed the people of the desert that he ruled over were his to command, both in life and in death. The two would fight for many years over this, sometimes the fights were verbal but sometimes they would get into fights. It didn't help that they both were stubborn. Anubis believed that mortals should go into the underworld and Set was as stubborn as his animal counterpart.
So Ra passed a law that wherever the humans lived were Osiris and Set's to command but once they died, they were under the command of Anubis or whoever was the ruler of the underworld. Set was not happy with that law but he would grudgingly obey it.
As the years passed by, Ra was getting older and couldn't keep up with his godly duties and the humans, so he decided to step down and focus on his sun boat and gave the title of pharaoh to his oldest great grandchild. Osiris became Ra's successor but for Set, the fire of hatred just kept growing.
At that same time, Ra also passed the role of ruler of the underworld to Anubis. The first thing Anubis did was give the warriors who died in battle or of old age an option to become a part of his amy for a thousand years or go on to the scales. Most soldiers agreed to become a part of is army and swore to protect him, his family and the underworld.
Ra made Set and Osiris reconcile, so Set threw a party at his desert Palace with Osiris and the other god's as guests. At the end of the feast, Set brought a beautiful golden sarcophagus inlaid with Emerald and offered it to anyone that could fit in it perfectly.
After everyone had tried it, Osiris, in good faith, tried it out. After getting in, Set's servants closed the lid trapping Osiris in the sarcophagus, while Set stopped the other gods from interfering. At the same time, his servants took the sarcophagus and threw it into the Nile and, with that, Set became the ruler of Egypt for the time being.
With the help of Ra, Isis was able to find the sarcophagus, but before Isis could do anything, Set smashed the body into forty-two pieces. After almost a year of looking, Isis was able to find all the pieces of Osiris and with the help of Anubis, they were able to mummify the body and raise the body from the dead. Isis and Osiris were able to have a child together but after their son named Horus was born, Osiris soul went into the underworld while his body was entombed and hidden from the mortals.
When Horus grew into a man, he challenged his uncle for the thrown and after almost a year of fighting, Horus had won and became pharaoh of the gods. After a love affair with a mortal, his descendants would begin ruling over the humans.
With his ever-growing job, Anubis stepped down from the ruler of the underworld and gave it to Osiris. Anubis was able to focus on guadithe sacred altar and the scales of Ma'at, but even with Ra's law in place, he still fought with Set over the souls that died in the desert.
After many hundreds of years, Anubis got the chance to take a break and let one of his trusted lieutenants guard the scales and weigh the souls. so he decided to go see his friend Hades. After seeing his friend, Anubis went to explore the land of Greece when he bumped into the Greek Titan of justice named Themis. She wore a white dress with brown hair. He carried a sword in one hand and a set of scales in the other with a golden blindfold over her eyes.
Anubis bumped into her, and they went tumbling to the ground. When he got up, he also helped her up. He noticed that he had accidentally knocked the blindfold off and looked into her eyes. They were blue sapphire. Just by looking into her eyes, he fell in love with her and spent the next three months with her, but the call from Egypt forced him to go back.
Eight months later, Themis gave birth to a baby boy with blue eyes and black hair, small pointy wolf like ears, with pointy claw-like nails but she didn't care about that. All it did was remind her of his father, Anubis, but Themis knew she couldn't keep her beloved child because the other gods, like Hera, would scorn him and mock him if not flat out try to kill him, after trying to find Anubis and failing, she was forced to abandon the child in the desert; it was one of the hardest decisions she has ever made.
The child would have died in the desert at that time if a giant of a man wasn't walking through that part of the desert and hadn't found the child and brought him to his tribe.
The man took him in as his family and named him netjeru- ka but in the traditions of his tribe, they believe true names show how much trust you have in the person. So they called him little jackal. Everyone accepted him in their tribe and even the man's children accepted him into their family but they treated him more like a family friend.
Everyone except the man's wife, hated the child.
Three years later
In the desert outside Egypt, two armies converged on one another.
On one side was the army of the dead. Black monstrous creatures with claws that could rip through men like air, they have a jackal for a head with teeth gritting white with saliva ready to bite down on anything in their path and silver bracelets and necklaces wearing brown loincloths. Armed with golden Khopesh. Half of the army was on horseback and the other half had bow and arrows. This was the army of Anubis, made up of all the former soldiers who died of old age or in battle. When they became a part of his army, Anubis transformed them into jackals like him.
On the other side was Set's army, which was made up of different tribes that lived in the desert. but these were no ordinary men. They were an ancient race of giants that stood seven to eight feet tall. Their smallest was only seven foot one, some men's skin was made up of white marble but a couple were made of black marble. They were foot soldiers with mostly clubs and spears, and they were wearing camel hides for loincloths. This was the army of Set, made up of the tribes of the desert.
When the two armies clashed, the battle lasted for seven days and seven nights, neither gaining or losing any ground. It wasn't until the gods themselves intervened.
First was Anubis
He is a grayish black skin man with a jackal for a head. He has pointy ears with purple clothes, his eyes are dark gray, his headdress is black with gold and purple stripes, he wears a gold necklace with a symbol of an ankh in the middle. Which is like a cross but with a teardrop loop on the top. He wears a blue shoulder pad necklace but he is shirtless. On his upper and lower arms are bands with a gold and amethyst pattern. His hands have black claws, and a Khopesh is in his left hand, which is a curved sword with a silver blade, a black spine and a gold fuller going down the middle. He has a gold belt around his hips with a black tunic going down the middle and stopping just above his knees. On the front was a gold and purple triangle pattern going down about an inch on both sides, with purple stripes going all the way down. On his legs is a tan tunic with brown trimming, dog-like legs, and black claws.
On the other side is Set.
He has the head of a donkey with red eyes, a gold necklace with a tan shirt and a matching tunic with a brown outline. His body looks mostly human but has dark red, almost brown fur like skin. On his arms are golden bracelets, he had a light brown tunic with golden toeless boots, and in his right hand, he carries a golden spear with him.
When the gods clashed, they kicked up a powerful sand storm. Set made the first move to attack Anubis with his golden spear. Set was fast enough to cut Anubis's chest, but Anubis was able to move out of the way before it did any more damage. "You dare take what rightfully belongs to me, my bastard son!" Set yelled,
"You know the law made by Ra, step-father," Anubis replied, slowly healing the cut. "Those who live in the desert around Egypt are yours to command but once they die, they fall under my care. You've been withholding the souls that rightfully belong to me."Anubis replied. Set tried slashing Anubis again, this time aiming for his shoulder, but Anubis blocked the spear with his Khopesh, slashed Set's arm, and, in a swift move, broke the staff.
"They lived under my command. Their afterlife should be as well." Set said, kicking Anubis back some feet.
"They have to walk the path of the afterlife, you know that step-father, return what rightfully belongs to me!" Anubis yelled back as he got back on his feet .
Anubis ran over to Set, getting his Khopesh ready to cut Set's chest, if not more, but Set was stronger and faster than Anubis. Set used the spear, stabbed Anubis in the side, and elbowed Anubis's Khopesh out of his hands. Set swiftly kicked Anubis's right leg out from under him, making it look like he was bowing before him. With a smile on Set's face, he leaned over with his spea pointing at Anubis's chest, ready to give the killing blow and whispered into Anubis's ear, "Maybe that wife of yours will put up more of a fight or how about that lovely daughter of yours."
Anubis was enraged by that statement and called upon his magic "Power of Duat!" Anubis yelled, then jumped up and punched Set squarely in the face. He reached his hand out and one of his soldiers threw Anubis Khopesh into his hand. Anubis spun around in a swift motion cut Set's chest and his right eye. It would heal but would leave a scar. In the same motion, Anubis side kicked Set in the face, sending him to the ground. Anubis stood over set with rage in his eyes. "No one and I mean no-one, hurts my family. Any last words,step-father." Anubis said with his Khopesh at Set's throat.
"I curse you and all the gods of Egypt. No god will ever again bear an offspring until the one born from death destroys one evil one at the end of days. I swear this." Set said as his eyes glowed red, sealing the curse. Anubis was about to give the killing blow when Set turned to sand and blew away but as he did golden orbs of light flew up the air and landed into the hands of Anubis soldiers then they both disappered into a pillar of sand going into the underworld where those souls could start their journey.
"Coward!" Anubis yelled into the ai and started walking away as Set's army started retreating.
"Sir, sir," one of his lieutenants named Wepwawet called out, running up to Anubis. He was Anubis's brother in all but blood and was one of the first soldiers to join Anubis's army. He is Anubis's closest friend but when humans see him in the land of Duat, they sometimes confuse him for Anubis due to them looking alike but Wepwawet is a little smaller than Anubis. He only came up to Anubis's shoulder, standing about ten feet tall, with Anubis standing about twelve feet tall. Wepwawet has light gray, almost white fur. He is the god of hunting and is Anubis's best scout. He is known as the opener of ways; he helps protect Ra on his nightly travels down the river of night. He would also go with the pharaohs when they go hunting, helped in the Opening of the mouth ceremony and help guide the souls into the land of Duat.
"Yes, what is it?" Anubis asked, waling up to Wepwawet.
"A solder from Set's army is asking for you," Wepwawet replied.
"What does he want?" Anubis asked, walking beside Wepwawet.
"He won't say but he is almost ready to start his journey," Wepwawet replied.
"Sometimes I hate this job," Anubis said under his breath.
Wepwawet heard his friend and put a hand on his shoulder. "I know you do, my friend but someone has to do it."
Anubis couldn't say anything to that reply, so he just kept walking till he got close to a group of his soldiers hovering over the smallest giant. His soldiers parted and Anubis kneeled next to the giant. "What can I do for you?" Anubis asked.
"Pl-please L- look after my son." the giant said, barely holding on to the thread of life.
Anubis was shocked, to say the least. Sometimes, people would try to bribe him or threaten him to get a better chance at the scales, and he would scoff at them, then pull out their hearts to weigh them. Ten times out of ten, they would fail and Amit would eat their hearts but this giant was asking him to look after his son. "No one has ever asked me to do that before. I- I will do what I can." Anubis replied, then asked, "Which one do you want me to look after?" he asked softly.
"Promise me you'll look after my smallest." The giant said with his last breath.
"Wepwawet," Anubis said. "Find the child while I take this giant to Duat and start him on his path," Anubis ordered as he took the soldier's soul to the underworld. Wepwawet spent the next week in the desert looking for the child but could never find him.