Full Name: Sahkmet Meshkene
Race: Human
True Age: n/a
Apparent Age: 27
Powers & Special Abilities: n/a
Bloodline (if Vampire): n/a
Empire (if applicable): Egyptian Empire
Title/Rank (if applicable): Pharoah (missing)
Acquiring the throne of Egypt in a
serpentine sort of way might make Sakhmet Meshkehne, in the eyes of a few
trusted people, an evil woman. While others -who see what she wants them to see-
a lucky one. Regardless of rumors and thoughts of peasants or not, she is the
kind of woman who will do what she thinks is best and right for not only
herself, but for her country, even if it means the death of a loved one… or two.
Sakhmet is a lithe woman, she may seem small and diminutive in body, but a look
into her cold brown eyes and her straight back and neck would tell you a
different story about her soul. She’s very self-assured, very bold, and
extremely self-confident. She has made herself this way, believing that all
these qualities will help in leading her kingdom and people to prosperity and
survival through the chaotic times that are so near coming. She will take
whatever move, twist or turn she deems is the right way to go for her people to
prosper while at the same time staying in the gods favor.
Sakhmet is daughter to the royal house’ architect. He has made the plans for
several of the temples, pyramids, and statues not only for the late
pharaoh but also for Sakhmet’s late husband. Thanks to this, Sakhmet knows most
and nearly all secret passages within most of the structures in her land and
uses them to her advantage. Her mother- once personal maid to the late queen- is
now her son’s personal nurse, while her youngest sister has enrolled into the
priesthood of the sun God. She sees very little of her sister, even on request
she can only see her for a limited time. Sakhmet is also younger sister to the
General of Egypt’s armies, a position that got her closer to the pharaoh and
helped her acquire her position as Pharaoh today. Even though unexpected, she
was not slow to embrace it once it came.
With the variety of
people in her family, and all living within the royal palace in Cairo –capital
of Egypt- she’s been around all types of people for
so long that she has learned many crafts and skills, like the importance of
stone and minerals from her father and her father’s co-workers; the knowledge
gained by astronomy from her sister and her father; the genuine art of war from
her brother; the serpentine ways politics from her mother, brother, and husband
- just a few of the skills she's picked up on in her life.
Overtime and since childhood, Sakhmet was trained to be a proper lady, an
attempt to bond the two sisters as much as possible. While her brother would
teach her how to handle weapons and fighting skills and the trusted around her
father would teach her how to tame the wild and control those you needed to
control. These two qualities have kept Sakhmet on the throne, and have raised
the Egyptian empire out of near suffocation after the first of the Marakai came.
At the arrival of the Marakai, the Nile was damaged and changed from what it
was. Once -a symbol of life for Egypt- would flood their lands, cleansing it of
bad soil and dead crop and leaving behind fertile soil for more grain and food
produce. Now, the Nile has sunken to such a degree
the flooding is minimal, and Egypt’s once great agriculture has greatly
diminished, along with the holy city of Abydos, now completely under water. For
a year, Sakhmet and her husband battled to keep their lands from the Marakai
while also controlling the food produce they had left so their people and armies
would not go hungry. It’s been a year since the coming, and now the food they
had so little of has nearly vanished. On top of recruiting for her armies,
keeping her lands from conquest, and killing down the rising riots from the
different provinces, Sakhmet has now to worry about feeding her people.
With the paranoia that has caught all rulers off guard, it’s hard to say whom
she can trust to trade with and whom she cannot trust. She has to divide her
armies to conquer more land and find a way to produce the needed food stuffs
to feed her people. The rumors that spread like wildfire are all hard to
believe, demons the size of trees running rampant and destroying all. Even after
seeing them with her own eyes -like the giant crocodiles that the Nile crocs
have become- all hard to believe, but just as real as her own flesh and bone.
Through all this, Sakhmet stands, trying to keep her people alive without having
to surrender her lands and its people to the Marakai.
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During her rule, Sakhmet encountered many hardships, but as a strong ruler, she
tried to make amends, sending messengers and emissaries to Rome, Constantinople,
and Europe, in hopes one could come to aid of her land in exchange for their
forces. But before any of the messengers could get far from even the very port
of Egypt, Sakhmet seemed to have disappeared for the palace, and another woman
who claimed to have been left in ruler ship remained. In reality, Sakhmet had
been threatened with her life for Egypt, not only her life but the life of her
people and her land. She had been thrown into a dungeon and left for dead,
mortal as she was, the new ‘ruler’ believed she would rot, or die of starvation.
Instead, with the vast knowledge she had acquired from her father about hidden
passages in the structures within Egypt, Sakhmet managed to escape unnoticed. No
one checked on her down deep in the dungeon, there was no need. The new vampire
‘ruler’ thought she would out like the mortal ruler. She
was wrong.
Escaping, Sakhmet feared going too far from her territory. Her brother had made
it out of the city alive on his way to Constantinople, but other than this she
had heard no word from him or her sister, Rashida. Sakhmet waited near Egypt,
going from farmland to farmland, working however she could, and waiting for
word…
It has been months now, and no word has come from either her sister or her
brother. Assuming the worst of fates has come to them, Sakhmet has set out to
look for others who can help take back her kingdom from the hands of the
Authurian vampires who not only removed her unceremoniously from the throne, but
also thought her dead.
