Rahotep's Revenge
Signs have begun to lead towards the rise and revenge of Rahotep. All but a few have forgotten 'who' Rahotep was and is...centuries have passed, but his vengance, hatred, and desire for ultimate power has not.
As adventures, your goal will be to become powerful enough to challenge Rahotep...if you dare.
Challenge I have stated, for it will take total team work and dedication to defeat him. One small mistake could, and probably will, cost you your life and the lives of those you love.
Can you succeed? Do you even want to try?
But before you can begin to challenge the one that even Dragons and demons would fear, you must first gain the power and understanding of your abilities...WHO IS RAHOTEP?
Some centuries ago there lived a man called Rahotep. He was a Priest and Mage, a devotee of evil, and a worshipper of Set from his youth. By his early 30’s Rahotep was a Chief Priest, a force in the ranks of those who served the ass-headed one of chaotic evil.
Through scheming and treachery, he did away with those above him and became the Grand High Priest of Set in his 40's, taking the name Sethu Neterankh. Skilled and unscrupulous, he used his abilities to become a Vizier of Lower Khemit soon thereafter. His ambition was unsatisfied, of course, and he had certain dark Vows to fulfill.
Rahotep, now Sethu Neterankh, planned to make the malign deity Set the principal god of the whole of the kingdom. This plotting included more than that, for to assure the matter, he meant to
assassinate Pharaoh and take the crown for himself. Fortunately for the ruler and all the people, this machination was discovered before Rahotep had his apparatus in place. The disloyal military were beaten
in a pitched battle, their leaders executed, and the followers of Set throughout Khemit proscribed. All temples of the dark deity were destroyed, and no mention of his name was permitted. Yet Rahotep and a small band of his faithful servants and followers escaped, and his power was such that not even the mighty magic wielded by the wizards and ecclesiastics of Khemit could bring them to bay. Finally, the Uchatu, Pharaoh’s secret police, managed to do so - however,
through the employment of several who, like Rahotep, were Mage-Priests, the kheri-heb. Although they managed to locate and immobilize their foe, the kheri-heb were unable actually to destroy
Rahotep and those his great magic protected. He was contained, unable to strike back, yet his power prevented his enemies from physically taking and slaying the outlaw band. For weeks a magical struggle ensued, the kheri-heb pressing in, the malign servant of Set resisting.
Yet no single mortal, even with such power as he possessed, could last for long against the combined forces arrayed against him. Rahotep sought guidance from his master, gathered his energies, built an “eternal house,” and then shut himself and his followers into that tomb. Before the kheri-heb assailants could bring death to those within, they took their own lives. Yet this was by no means the conclusion of the matter.
All concerned knew that the act was one of defiance. The hand of Set was there to protect the tomb from violation. Rahotep would be kept therein for a long time, but in the distant future he would have a second chance. Nothing that his opponents could do would prevent this. The burial place that Rahotep selected was in a Necropolis, so that place was abandoned as a site for new internment and immediately a special Temple of Osiris, the greatest opponent of Set, was erected at the mouth of the gorge in which the tome lay. The temple’s ecclesiastics would guard the area, use their magic to keep the vile Rahotep bound in his prison, and thus there would be no opportunity for him to come forth again.
Time was on the side of Evil, of course. Memory is short. Over the years the urgency faded. Wild tribesmen and grave robbers from the desert slipped into the place now called the Gorge of Osiris, and even the Temple of Osiris fell into evil hands, leaving Rahotep unwatched as he worked a plot to escape the tomb.
