Akhenaten H’Sheifa was always a mischievous boy. From a young age, he and his sister Neithotep cause all sorts of chaos for their mother and anyone else charged with their care. With little regards towards other people, Hena has done what ever he wanted since he was old enough to do things for himself. With his mother’s attentions turned mainly to his older brother, the boy grew used to getting out of trouble with a simple apology and an innocent smile. It was rare that he ever faced any real consequences for his actions, and even when he did, it had been nothing drastic enough for him to change his ways.Distracted by his own desires and with care for little else, Hena had hardly taken notice of the goings on in his own family, until suddenly his older brother was gone, and he became the sole heir of his father. Read More...

The ocean called to Akila more than the desert ever did. Born in Edwa, where crime was rampant, and the chance to escape was nearly nil, Akila fought every day to survive. She looked past sands and dunes of Egypt, towards the water that meant freedom and opportunity. A chance to be more than just a desert rat. She took her chance, her opportunity. On that day blood was spilt, tinging the sand crimson. On that day, Akila was free. And never will she allow anyone to take that freedom away. She was her own person, walking a path that she alone could choose. Nothing will stand in that path, not if that person wished to live. Akila can never wash away the sins she had done. To steal, to kill, to maim, to torture that was her past and will always be her past. So why not let it be her present? It is fun, after all. The pirate has no law but her own now to guide her, and a crew that chooses to follow her into this darkness. They follow her song, the siren’s song. They follow the Songstress of the Sea. Read More...

Strength. Only the strong survive. All throughout his childhood, Amenemhat was taught that those who are weak follow the fate made for them and that it is no way to live. In order to pave one's path and rise above the filth, one needed strength and the will to do what was necessary to transpose one's legacy to the stars. To him, it is senseless to care for those beneath him, to allow their misfortunes and their plights to weigh upon his conscience. Rather, to have a conscience at all is to fall prey to the marks of the weak. Amenemhat suppresses such things: mercy, sympathy, empathy and lets himself see only the path that leads him to... more. Read More...

Chione H’Isazari is a great beauty. She is perhaps most defined by her appearance. First her reputation as a beauty draws a great deal of attention to her - attention that she revels in. However, that attention ends in whispers. Her most remarkable feature is perhaps her most hated - her pale eyes. Eyes that many say mark her as illegitimate. That make her less desirable than either of her sisters. She refuses to accept that reality. Instead, she insists her eyes make her the rarest of beauties, a jewel amongst nobility unlike any other. Every choice she makes is about proving herself desirable - ideally more so than anyone else. She carries herself with a confidence that oozes with sensuality. There is no mistaking that she is a sexual creature with an extensive appetite. What none realize is this is merely the armor she shields herself with. If none can see her doubts or insecurities, then she can pretend they do not exist. Read More...

Deshra is a whore, who has an ego well above her station. While her exotic red hair sets her apart at first glance, her value is deeper than just her looks. Clever, and good at reading people, Deshra has honed her skills not only in her craft but in other forms of entertainment. She has a reputation as worth her admittedly expensive price. Less well known is Deshra's memory for the details of her client's lives. Given the number of high-profile men she sleeps with, she has a treasure trove of information, just waiting to be put to use. Read More...

Hatsepshut became the Queen of Egypt when she was six years old. It was her birthright, but not a position to which the shy, demure young girl ever aspired. Yet in the past ten years, she has been taught everything she needs to know to become an effective ruler and she has come to care deeply for her people and her kingdom. She understands her duties and so did not protest when her mother and her council chose a stranger to be her husband and Pharaoh instead of the man she still loves. Read More...

Iaheru is generally considered to be the hidden jewel of the Egyptian Court. Once a retainer to the Hei of Fakhouri, Iaheru has been to Courtly events far longer than she's been married to the Sheifa family. However, a demure and quiet woman she would often wear covered headdresses and wore garments that concealed rather than showed off her womanly wiles. Her face, however, had always retained the nubile look that she has since passed on to her daughters. As such, she became known the hidden pearl - the beautiful jewel that every man was curious of but none were permitted to touch. It has recently been revealed, however, that one man did indeed touch - the late Pharaoh laid his hands upon Iaheru since her marriage to her husband and she has only recently admitted that the young man Onuphrious had thought to be his eldest son is actually the offspring of that single touch, damaging the genuine and compassionate relationship she once had with her husband and leading to the exile of her son from the Sheifa manor. Read More...

Weakness. The weak do not deserve to live. This was what Kesi was taught since childhood. The world is only there for those with strength, cunning, and ambition. This is why the world was exactly what Amenemhat, Kesi’s brother, deserved. Kesi strives to rid this Earth of weakness and to provide everything her brother so desires. Should it be fortune, vengeance, or even death Kesi will be the tool that Amenehat uses so that his wishes can be granted. And for those who do not deserve this lifetime may leave to Osiris’ embrace, joining the Lord in this silence. Read More...

Part of a clandestine group of thieves, Khanh is second in command. He is charismatic, brutal, wild, and arrogant to a fault. There isn't much under the surface that he does not freely show for the world to see. In short, to meet Khanh is to know him. Khanh is mostly a thrill seeker, rather than an acquirer of wealth. He is content to follow what Nahash has planned, and he is thrilled to execute any of the more awful things that his leader might want. Loyal and dependable, it is hard to shake his fidelity to the cause which he has devoted his life to. But in a tight spot, there's no one else better to have by your side. Read More...

Khufu is a retired soldier, one who served in the military since he was a young boy, but retired nine years ago, unable to continue his career due to an injury sustained to his back that no longer allows him to lift a weapon with either arm. Instead he turned his sharp mind to the occupation of scholar, his intelligence greatly out weighing his skill as a soldier. He spends his days pestering Zoser, who he met during his time in the military, and assisting him in the archives. He looks up to the man quite a bit, even naming his second son after him. Intelligent and quirky, Khufu often gets himself into trouble, enjoying setting up small cons against people and rigging gambling games. He loves to pull pranks and just generally annoy the hell out of people. A family man, he loves his wife and his kids, and he remains happily faithful to her. Though, when she has her back turned, he loves to teach his kids little pranks to play, which annoys her to no end. Read More...

Kissan is a bright young man eager to prove himself among the Egyptian noble families. Initially shielded from the potential financial ruin that their family is approaching, Kissan blissfully excelled in schooling and his quick mind impressed many a tutor. Now that his uncle has returned and he has become privy to more politics, Kissan is finding himself torn between wanting to insure his family's continued success and his ambition to join the military and prove himself as a warrior as well as a scholar. While he bears immense respect for his uncle, he has found growing frustration with his uncle's refusal to let him join the military as Narmer did in his own youth. Read More...

A young woman who set her sights far above humble beginnings, Mayet is sharp-minded, determined and ruthless in her ambitions. Gifted with a beauty that draws the eye, she has not been afraid to exploit it to gain herself a path from her roots as a farmer's daughter, to her role now as Mistress to the great General Osorsen H'Moghadam. Running his home and warming his bed, Mayet is wife in all but name, a thing denied to her by her lover's family and a reality she was all too willing to accept as a young girl escaping her old life. Time however has seen even her well-gaurded heart warm towards her complicated lover, and now Mayet finds herself wishing for a different future than the one she is certain she will have to endure: seeing Osorsen marry above her, and being forced into the shadows of his life. Read More...

A man forced to assume a role he never thought would be his own, Narmer is struggling to keep the Hei he has now inherited afloat, desperate to provide the wealth and status for his brother's family that he would have offered them himself. But whilst his older sibling was well versed in how to achieve such a thing, Narmer finds himself having to figure it out as he goes along. With the pressure of a war to contend with now too and financial pressures weighing heavily on his shoulders, he must find a way to honour the memory of his lost brother and keep Hei Haikaddad afloat. Read More…

Sometimes, the most beautiful and intelligent creatures come in the smallest packages, and at several inches shorter than the average Egyptian woman, Nefertaari is not unlike a doll dressed in the finest of luxuries wealth has to offer. Left with nothing to want, Nefertaari learned the ins and outs of her father’s businesses as well as how to charm the Court. Though soft-spoken, Nefertaari isn’t shy. Driven by a motivation unlike anything she’s ever felt before, Nefertaari has won the hearts of many. Assisting her father with their trade routes, the eldest of the Hei Sheifa children does whatever it takes to ensure that her life of comfort and fulfillment is never lost. A creature of pure vanity, nothing has ever ensorcelled her heart more than herself, and this has been a driving wedge in her personal life--at least in regards to those closest to her. Read More...

A naive and trusting girl, Neithotep has spent her life looking for love in all the wrong places. Sweet and rebellious in equal measures, she is a free spirit who wishes for nothing more than a joyful life where she is the mistress of her own fate. She constantly chafes at the rules her parents try to impose on her, eager to be out from under their authority. Some would say that’s why she pursues any man who looks her way, particularly commoners and ruffians whom her uptight mother and strait-laced father would never approve of. She cares little for what others say about her and has no intentions to halt or even slow her indulgent lifestyle. An avid enthusiast for alcohol and opium alike, the young woman spends much of her life in an intoxicated haze—carelessly and shamelessly flirting and fucking her way through the streets of Thebes and Cairo both. Nia lives to be happy, a sentiment that always seems to linger just out of reach. Read More...

Nenet is the total opposite of her sisters. Where they have confidence and grace, she has nervousness, a bit of clumsiness and a stutter. The person in the family she felt closest to was her brother Sutkeh who has been recently exiled from their home and has been moved all the way down the Nile to Cairo. Such a disruption to her life has sent Nenet into a flatspin and she can now hardly string a sentence together. Desperate to overcome her speech impediment but her desperation only making it worse, Nenet hates social events and prefers to shut herself up with a book or spend time in the stables talking with the horses. With whom she rarely stumbles over her words… Read More...

Onuphurious finds himself at a crossroads in his life. A revelation that split his family down the middle, a son thrown out the door and his possessions set aflame... Conflict and a sense of doubt exists within the once intrepid heart of the sirdar. A fair, honest, but temperamental man, Onuphrious finds himself at odds with the intense fascination he holds for the intricacies of trade and his difficulties in empathizing with the family he needs to provide for. With an empire to run and the logistics of a Hei to keep track of, there are more than a few personal details and engagements that slip his mind. With both eyes always upon the horizon. Onuphurious is forced to confront the fact that his children have suffered greatly without his presence, that his wife kept dark secrets from him, and the suspicion that all that lives under the surface of H'Sheifa is not at it seems. Conflicted and stricken with a sense of hostility and bitterness fused together, Onuphrious struggles to move forward, seeking his outlet from frustration in isolation from his family once again. Read More...

An ambitious man and vicious general, Osorsen is not a man it is wise to slight. In love with the young queen Hatshepsut, he was determined to marry her on the return from his latest campaign, but an older general whom he had previously trusted instead took credit for joint victories and wed her before Oso could come back. Now, furious and looking for revenge, he is planning an attack on the southern coasts of Greece to try to regain some of his pride and give proof of his abilities. He still seeks the throne, and believes the queen is carrying his child instead of her husband's. Read More...

Sameera was born but an hour after her sister but this seems all the difference in the world to her. While her sister takes up the majority of the attention, Sameera buries herself within literature and trusts that Safiya can often speak for the both of them. A poet with an artistic soul, Sameera lives in ink, and tells the stories she cannot live herself. She does her best to live up to what her mother wants, and follows her sister in life as she did in birth. Her patience for what is best for the Hei is seemingly greater than many, and though at times she loathes things, she is less likely to speak up about them, and is more likely to chronicle things in ink than out loud. Read More...

A sly and seemingly permanent figure at the Palace, Zoser's mere presence used to spark more questions than it ever did answers. Now, he is rather taken for granted by those around him as an odd, bookish figure who proves himself valuable with seeming to always have a logical answer to questions that cannot be solved through violence. Scribe, scholar, polyglot, and archivist, Zoser just seems to 'know' things, whether it deals with various religions, fantastic stories, military history, or court secrets. To some, he is considered almost too friendly due to his 12 years attending the University in Athenia and then a subsequent 6 years working beneath the professors there before using that knowledge against the Greeks during the War. Read More...