This tale sweeps you up and drops you back 3500 years into the past, straight onto the banks of the Nile, at the dawn of the Egyptian New Kingdom. The Empire has only been liberated from a hundred year old occupation. The scars left by the war are still healing and yet, threats loom on the horizon again. Some powerful artifacts have been stolen and the king entrusts you with their recovery. Suddenly finding yourself out of your depth and all out of options, you have no choice but to agree to the dangerous mission. You don’t know what awaits you on this journey but you know one thing for sure: if you don’t catch the enemies of the empire, you will risk more than your own life.
Take your fate into your own hands, solve mysteries, meet new friends, fall in love, learn about magic, monsters, spirits, gods, and have fun in the ancient Egyptian Kingdom in this historical fantasy novel.
The story is a work of fiction and is not historically accurate.
• Choose from 4 different origin characters, each with unique stories and choices that will follow you through the rest of the game:
- a priest in over their head with a caring and loyal mentor
- a noble very much in over their head with a problematic family
- the captain of the Theban Guard, who is way too tired for this
- a thief from the slums of Thebes, desperate for survival
• Play as male, female or non-binary; gay, straight or bi.
• Build friendships, rivalries, or find love with a young prince, a mysterious spymaster, a brooding spirit, an elite warrior… or even the pharaoh himself.
• Explore Egypt through a series of adventures with a ragtag team of characters
• Solve mysteries, climb the Great Pyramid of Giza, deal with the sparks of revolution, and help secure the kingdom’s future
Warnings: The story will contain heavy and dark themes, excessive swearing, and mental health problems, so it is recommended for mature audiences only. The whole list of triggering content can be found in the beginning of the demo.
I will update the list of triggering content as the story goes on. In the future, I will also add optional sexual content that you will be able to turn on or off at your own discretion, but currently there is no sexual content present. When it becomes relevant, I will create another demo and post it in the Adult category.
Currently, the demo includes:
- Chapter 1 completed
- The first scene of chapter 2
Changelog:
Summary
11/10/24
- chapter 1 finished
- 11k plus
- fixed some previous errors in code
- new link
04/10/24
- 13k words added
- typo/grammar fixes
- list of triggers updated
27/09/24
- plus 22k words (edit: made a mistake before that said 16k. that’s not correct)
- added skeleton of captain of the guard route
- added map to codex
- fixed bugs
- fixed grammar/typos
20/09/24
- plus 18k words
- the entire priest origin is playable
- added Codex to Stats page
- added achievements to priest route
- updated trigger warnings
- added more to Relationships tab on Stats
- fixed some bugs
- grammar/typo fixes
13/09/24
- plus 28k words
- a big chunk of the priest origin (some choices missing)
- typo/grammar fixes
06/09/24
- about an extra 17k words
- every choice is available on the noble origin
- edited some parts of the chapter 2 scene for the noble character
- fixed grammar mistakes and typos
- edited some scenes in the beginning where you and your sister wander around the slums
- added achievements to the noble origin
30/08/24
- about an extra 25k words
- almost everything on the noble origin is playable
- added the noble to the first scene of Chapter 2
- added tone indicators to the romantic choices
- more NPC descriptions in the Relationships tab on Stats screen
- fixed typos, incorrect pronouns, and small coding errors
23/08/24:
- about an extra 25k words
- you can now play as the child of the vizier
- most of the choices are greyed out and tagged as “coming soon”, but you can read through chapter 1 following a single thread of choices
- the first scene of chapter 2 is playable by a thief character
- fixed some coding errors, typos, incorrect pronouns, weird line breaks, weird choices appearing twice
- added options for thief when you try to figure out who Qenna is for a female Qenna that I forgot to add earlier
- added some RO descriptions in the stats
Word count (with code): around 216 000 words
Word count (without code): 198 000 words
One average playthrough on every origin is around 20 000 words.
Last update: 11. Oct. 2024.