D&D 5E Post Apocalyptic Aegyptus?

[Quartz]

Furthermore, while this was 200 years before the Third Intermediate Period (following the end of the 20th Dynasty), that period also coincided with the latter portion of the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Greek Dark Ages, and formed the 400 year gap between the New Kingdom and the Late Period.

How much of that was due to the introduction of iron weapons?

 

[Yaarel]

@Zardnaar

I cant really think of an Ancient Egyptian "apocalyptic" tradition.

Maybe the closest is the despair if chaos is winning?

This would be the lore of first and second Intermediary Periods. Moreorless this is biblical-style plagues, plus foreign invasions, and famines that force mothers to eat their babies to prevent the babies from suffering. It is dark stuff, but is somewhat what an Egyptian apocalypse might look like.

 

[Yaarel]

Yeah, while Dark Sun is more Mesopotamian-inspired, it’s clearly the closest setting concept to this.

Reflavour as needed using Plane Shift: Amonkhet and you’re good to go.

You might even want to reach into Mythic Odysseys of Theros for inspiration as in real life, it’s likely some of the Sea Peoples were the Greeks - see the link between Achaeans (Homer), Ahhiyawa (Hittite), and Ekwesh (Egyptian).

The Late Bronze Age Collapse was not just in Egypt; it was a collapse of several major empires along the Mediterranean and within the Middle-East, so if you’re drawing on that for an after the end set in Egypt, you could consider Iron Age Greece for inspiration of a neighbouring kingdom.

Egypt feels like Africa to me. The religion, the art, the customs, are more like neighboring nations in NE Africa. Ancient Egypt distinguishes from Ancient Iraq. Both cultures are ancient, and it is debatable whose urban civilization was "first".

 

[Marandahir]

Egypt feels like Africa to me. The religion, the art, the customs, are more like neighboring nations in NE Africa. Ancient Egypt distinguishes from Ancient Iraq. Both cultures are ancient, and it is debatable whose urban civilization was "first".

Egypt IS part of Africa.

But it's also culturally part of the Afro-Semitic world, which was not, is not, and has never been limited to just Mesopotamia and the Levant. It's actually quite likely that Proto-Afro-Semitic originated in Africa and only later encountered Sumerian to form the complex Babylonian and Akkadian belief systems. It really doesn't matter whether Egypt is MORE Africa or MORE Semitic - it's both and there are many different ways of cutting the pie.

I'm not saying blend it all together and treat Egypt and Babylon as interchangeable. I'm saying that Dark Sun is not drawing on just one point of influence.

 

[Voadam]

Not sure if the Nile is poisoned or requires water purification for the remnants of Aegyptus.

Ideas?

I think I would go with the Nile is the reason there are remnants of Aegyptus. It is so central to the agriculture and food supply of Ancient Egypt that if it turned poisoned I would expect Aegyptus to mostly be undead filled ruins with maybesome Earthdawn styled Kaerns where survivor cities could keep a remnant alive.

 

[Yaarel]

Egypt IS part of Africa.

But it's also culturally part of the Afro-Semitic world, which was not, is not, and has never been limited to just Mesopotamia and the Levant. It's actually quite likely that Proto-Afro-Semitic originated in Africa and only later encountered Sumerian to form the complex Babylonian and Akkadian belief systems. It really doesn't matter whether Egypt is MORE Africa or MORE Semitic - it's both and there are many different ways of cutting the pie.

I'm not saying blend it all together and treat Egypt and Babylon as interchangeable. I'm saying that Dark Sun is not drawing on just one point of influence.

Most Afroasiatic languages are African, spaning most of North Africa. Today this originally prehistoric language group is spoken by extremely diverse ethnicities from Haiti to Iran, as well as diaspora everywhere on the planet.

Egypt is very much Africa, culturally.

Because modern Egyptians are Arabic speakers and majority Muslim, and indeed is one of the leading cultural centers of the Arab world, it is easy for the Western world to generalize Egypt as a "Mideastern" nation, a term that is itself literally Euro-centric.

It is worth mentioning that even the ancient Aramaic speakers of Mesopotamia, are fundamentally influenced by the language and cultures of Sumerian speaking ethnic groups, which is a Nonafroasiatic language.

Meanwhile, when seeking to understand the ancient Egyptian ethnic groups and their cultures, one must compare the African neighboring ethnicities, especially to understand religious concepts and customs, as well as the language and secular customs.

Egypt is unlike Mesopotamia.