“We ruled the endless sands, where no drop of water ever fell. We shall rule the farthest ocean, where no spit of land is in sight. We shall rule… all…” - Sebekh-Rei the Accursed
High Priest Sebekh-Rei, also known as Sebekh-Rei the Accursed, is a Skeletal High Priest for Empire of Dust.
Biography
About
No one knows why, in life, the High Priest Sebekh-Rei as cast out of Nehkesharr, or what he did that caused Shobik to place on him a terrible curse. But that curse has stayed with Sebekh-Rei even in undeath, and it has caused him to taste more than his fair share of bitter defeat over the long centuries.
Exiled by powerful magic, Sebekh-Rei can never return home. The closer he comes to Nehkesharr, the weaker he grows, until the magic animating his form begins to fade, and only his own mighty will holds his bones and papery flesh together. It is said that when he died, his vital organs were scattered across the known world in thrice warded caskets, all save his heart, which still lies in the Dead City. And so Sebekh-Rei has spent the afterlife campaigning far from the city, where his mastery of the arts of necromancy at least allow him some little chance to prove his worthiness in the eyes of the pharaohs. Time and again, he has sought to raise the bone-hulks and take an army across the Infant Sea, but each time his plans have been thwarted by the fleets of the Salamanders and the Twilight Kin. Sebekh-Rei had almost given up hope of anything but mediocrity.
And yet, when the Nexus erupted from beneath the Halpi Mountains, Sebek-Rei saw the balance of power shift before his very eyes. The slave-fleets departed the Mouth of Leith. The Salamanders scattered, too concerned, it seemed, with matters elsewhere. It semed almost too good to be true, but Sebekh-Rei was not one to pass up an opportunity – not when glory for the Mighty Dead awaited. And thus he began the great rites, and the bone-hulks rose from the ocean beds, unfurling once more their tattered sails. His warriors clattered spears against shields in salute.
The lands across the sea would soon pay fealty to the Ahmunites. The empire would be great once more.
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Sebekh-Rai Art
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Sebekh-Rai 3rd Edition Stats
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