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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dazzlerdal" data-source="post: 7537223" data-attributes="member: 6695391">Been working on the Cult of Set, trying to make it a bit more interesting than just an evil cult in mulhorand.<a href="https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/home/organisations/the-cult-of-set/" target="_blank">https://alternaterealmsblog.wordpress.com/home/organisations/the-cult-of-set/</a>I've got the cult established when Set was exiled in 1048 DR. It was mostly made up of his followers and family who went underground to escape persecution.Set retreated to the Tower of Set with a few select individuals and set his plans in motion from there.His first act was to poison the first Pharaoh of Mulhorand (not the Divine Pharaoh Horus-Re but his human counterpart). The priests resurrected the Pharaoh using what they though was the Staff of Ra, but it actually turned out to be the Alabaster Staff and it made the Pharaoh undead and the priests were forced to destroy him.Then Set vanishes and slowly the cult of set falls apart. They achieve some minor successes in slaying incarnations of the gods but otherwise support dwindles and they fade into obscurity.A priest known as Aap Nura traces Sets life and discovers a cache of his belongings including some pages from the fabled Book of the Serpent (Sets spellbound and diary). Using these notes Aap Nura pens the Hate of the Cobra (which will become the basis for the bible of the cult) and undergoes a ritual to become the incarnation Anraset.Anraset works with wizards in Shamulrand to instigate a rebellion, while at the same time declaring a pretender to the throne in Semphar (having infiltrated the Masters of the Temple).Thays rebellion succeeded but Anraset and the cult of Set were wiped out in mulhorand over the next few years as the Pharaoh Thothibistep II declared an inquisition to root out the traitors.The Cult of Set declined to nothingness until a minor merchant, led by visions of grandeur, tried to navigate a caravan route through the Raisin Desert. He was captured by the last few surviving Setites but escaped into the catacombs beneath the Tower. He discovered a hidden cache belonging to Set and was forced to undergo a ritual to become the incarnation Seti.Seti has revitalised the cult using his caravan business to fund it and to move people, information, and equipment between newly established cells.The cult of Set is almost ready to kill and replace the Pharaoh while Seti begins his quest to follow the portal network known as the Trail of Serpents Tears and retrace the footsteps of Set and find his lost knowledge and ultimate fate.That's the story, I've expanded and woven together the histories of major npcs in what is hopefully a more coherent way, I've repurposed a few magic items and created a new one - the book of the Serpent- which Seti hopes will allow him to become a god</blockquote>

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