(This brittle sheet of papyrus is fragmentary at best, with many words and sentences scratched out in a firm hand.) \n\nThe void, bursting with stars beyond counting. \n\nThe voices, each deeper than the sea and greater than the dome of the sky.  \n\nThe visions. The <i>visions</i>. They grant me no rest. \n\n-Imhotep, Vizier of the Gods

What Came Before

The First Revelation

In exchange for sleep, I seek wisdom from the gods. \n\nThough I sit at Sutekh’s feet night after night, I cannot make sense of the visions that plague me. Even the infinite wisdom of the divine is no comfort. I glimpse boiling red seas, the earth heaving and plants crumbling to ash. I awake in agony. \n\nNo one else seems to hear or see. The city is silent in the cold morning light. Do I flirt with enlightenment, or madness? \n\n-Imhotep, Vizier of the Gods

What Comes After

The Second Revelation

At last, my vision clears. \n\nSutekh calls, as he has done so often before, and I answer. There is no choice. There is no other path. All paths are one, and it has been laid out before me. \n\nWith stone and blood, with gold and azoth, with the greatest beacon this land has ever seen… we shall forestall the end. The Ennead will be our crowning glory, and our salvation from doom. \n\n-Imhotep, Vizier of the Gods

What Must Be Done

The Third Revelation

The sandswept and sunscorched desert in the West, and the last known home of the Ancients

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