Hero Spotlight: Amenadresh the Steward
The sandshrouded land of Nehekhara is a realm within which no living creature can exist peacefully for long. Countless treasures lay within the sunbleached monuments and ancient vaults. Treasures which are guarded, even now, by the servants of Nehekhara s sleeping kings. First among those servants are the Liche Priests; ancient sorcerers who, through centuries of study have managed to bind their souls to their bodies, trapping themselves within timewizened flesh for all eternity. It is the Liche Priests who prepare the bodies of Nehekharan royalty when their souls pass into the realms beyond, and it is these same Priests who awaken the Tomb Kings from their slumber when danger threatens their lands. Of Amenadresh himself little is known. Translations from what few Nehekharan artifacts have been studied suggest he was once a prominent power in the Mortuary Cult of Khemri, and that his brother, Yu, 39
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