Oh Sutekh, master of chaos, storms, disorder,\nKeeper of those who dwell away from the Nile,\nForsake not your people, far from Hapi’s embrace\nLay bare your heart, a feather, at Osiris’ trial.\n\nDo the offerings of our great hearths displease you?\nWe keep all rites and rituals that gods compel.\nWould you forsake your supplicants’ appeasements?\nIn this, the Land of Reeds, wherein your people dwell?\n\nCorruption deepens, the Earth herself is wrathful \nLands split asunder, and the winds and waters roil.\nAbandon not those whom you once held as faithful.\nRaise up our host here in this time of blood and toil!\n\nLord Sutekh, grant us your wisdom, strength, and guile\nThat we may drive the insolent foe from these our lands.\nGrant us the power of your scepter and your vision\nThat we may better carry out your sacred plans.\n

A plea for the return of lost divinity

Hymn to Absent Gods

And our Lord spake: “Behold, I am Sutekh, master of the primordial, shaper of storms, and he who has conquered death. As the waters of the Nile drew life out of the desert sands, so I have drawn you from your world of death, to life eternal.”\n\n“I raised this place from the waters of Nun, from the nothingness of what came before, and have brought you here to raise a great city. From the red sands of the desert, our greatness shall spill forth to cover these lands like a garden of reeds. Those who follow shall bring forth multitudes, and hold themselves inheritors of all this power and glory.”\n\n“But those who disobey, they shall be cursed with wanderlust. Into the desert, I commend their kin, to scrape out a living from the dust. There, they shall know despair. For their pride I curse them to deathless life, for in their hubris they have turned their back on true divinity. And their punishment shall be unending!”

Arrival on Brimstone

Testament of the First Peoples

Take heed and bear witness to the fury of the gods of the Nile. \n\nAll plagues and anarchy. All savagery at the hands of the corrupted foe. All these great tests wrought upon the faithful have paled by comparison, to this: the revolt of the House of Geb, and the rise of Apophis, Dragon of the Abyss. For deep beneath the western mountains of Bhaku, the waters of Nun boiled over, and from their depths they birthed a great evil.\n\nMighty Sutekh, Lord of Chaos and Creation, Bringer of Order out of Disorder, has fallen. And in his absence, Chaos itself now reigns. Out of the void he has birthed creatures of earth and air, and spirits of fire made flesh. In his anger, the primordial lord of the desert sands has unleashed this wrath upon the great city, scouring her halls of life and wealth all the trappings of civilization. And in the red desert, he has conveyed his serpents of the sands, who burrow beneath the land to devour any who dare seek refuge among the dunes. \n\nGods of mercy, abandon not your children, far from the home of their ancestors. Who answered your call to unknown reaches to build your Land of Reeds. Spare us the trials of these grotesque spirits called forth from the infinite darkness of Duat, that we may escape yawning oblivion in the crocodile maw of Ammit, Eater of Souls. \n

The return to disorder

The Doom of Eternity

Fire engulfed the endless sky,\nAs hate corrupted the land.\nThe gods have gone, our dream destroyed,\nGreat sage, please outstretch your hand.

Sung to many different tunes

Brimstone Nursery Rhyme

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

Prayers and Portents Chapter - NWGuide Database of Lore

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