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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hafrogman" data-source="post: 2916050" data-attributes="member: 8858">Khepra's background.  Still waiting on diety information, but for now I just stole a god from Egypt.[sblock=background]Khepra's mother was a serving girl at the temple of Aten in Khatar; his father, unknown.  He was raised by the priests, but trained with the temple guards.  When he was of age, he dedicated his life to his god and joined the temple guards.  He was sixteen when he first killed a man, a bandit who tried to steal from the temple and then fought when cornered.  He died with Khepra's halberd in his back.When he was seventeen, the high priest called Khepra to his chambers.  He told the young guard of a man in town preaching heresy against the church, a vile man, trying to sway the people with terror and human sacrifice.  No orders were given, High Priest Tepan simply described the man and his crimes to Khepra.  However, when that man was found dead outside of town with a note decrying infidels, an understanding was forged.  Mostly, Khepra served as just another guard.  But when special duties were required of him, Tepan would describe the criminals, heretics, black sorcerers, and those people would turn up dead sooner or later, usually sooner.  The work was never discussed again, and Khepra kept it to himself, he served for Aten, not his own personal glory.This continued for a few years, but Tepan was old, and Aten eventually called him home.  The new high priest was a very different man.  Khepra did not like him, but his oaths to Aten kept him in service.  He served as a guard alone, until the day when he overheard the new High Priest.  He spoke of his disbelief in Aten, and how he held the position for his personal gain alone.  Scandalized, Khepra fled the temple and his old life.  Vowing to continue to serve Aten through his own actions, he became a wanderer.  He journeyed far to the north, doing Aten's will as he journeyed, but ever wondering what had transpired at his home.  Perhaps the time has come to journey south once more. . .[/sblock]</blockquote>

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