I was born in Pelasgian Crete in the first year of Menes, 1775 years ago.

I have been in the company of pharaohs and slept in the beds of slaves. So has been my life. What I have seen you would never believe. What I believe you will never see. In the long years, I have loved and watched them die. I have watched my children grow old and die, and their children and so on through the ages. I don't even know who carries my blood anymore, nor do I care. It is only the battle that sees me through now. I have given my life to Sekhmet in the hopes that in the heat of battle I can die the final death. To end the torment of caring for these people, their tears still move me and I wish they didn't.

For a time they didn't, when I heard the call of travel. I find it amusing that I was captured in battle against the kingdom that I call home, the one that I saw start. But it gave me a unique perspective on the life of the slaves that fight for Egypt. I can bear it no more. All shall be free. No one should have to call another master. I believe only the gods themselves deserve such loyalty. All but one: Anubis only deserves my hatred.

I was a high priest of Anubis, second to none, with the power to destroy all that crossed my path. I dared think of myself as the equal of the pharaoh. Though I had several wives as high priest, I cared too much for Menes's favorite wife. Her name was Xeres, beautiful by all words. The child she carried was mine not Menes's. Menes soon discovered this, and we tried to steal away. We didn't make it. I killed her to end the suffering that would have been hers, had Menes gotten to her. I alone would face the torture of Menes. But Anubis had other plans for Xeres, and her death angered him greatly.

He spat out a curse. I was to be immortal until killed in combat and stripped of all my power. Menes let me go in the deserts of Egypt.

I lived for centuries out there in the desert. Never forgiving myself and only my anger for company, I fell into the company of a race that dwelled there called the Unas, horrible to look at, powerful and strong. But I found them gentle and kind. I lived with them for a time - many years, I remember. Then others came: Bden, Reneb, Cheops to name just a few. They were Pharaohs all, all bad too. They came and captured the Unas for slaves for their pyramids, dedications to the god Anubis. I too was captured. Set to work on constructions that were abhorrent to me, I channeled my hate and built tombs. I escaped several times to be captured again, in this way, it seems they never caught on that I was the same person over the centuries, or they knew and were told to keep quiet. I set my name into the stones of some of the finest pyramids. Cheop's pyramid still bears my name in Hieratic, the sphinx as well. I escaped only a century ago.

Egypt had been unkind to me, and I traveled south. Nubia was open and free, and I tried once again to live, but Egypt killed that hope again. Egyptian armies came south to seize the gold mines, and I was captured again and sent back to construction. But Ramses II started a new tradition. Any human slave that serves ten hard years on the pyramids gains his freedom. My time has come again, but this time in the service of Sekhmet.

I will avenge,

Piyesekhemarakhet (Pepy)

Pepy's Life (partial)
2950 Born in Pelasgian Crete
2938 Captured and impressed into Egyptian army
2936 Became Priest of Anubis
2930 Arch-priest of Lower Egypt
2927 High priest to Menes in Abydos
2926 Sack of Ulath
2924 Death of Xeres, Curse of Anubis, Banishment
2923 Torpored in the desert
2900 Encountered Unas
2600 Recaptured by Egyptians, Sent to Pyramids
1385 Final successful escape, Fled to Nubia
1278 Freed, Given citizenship, Assumed a new identity, Became Priest of Sekhmet
1275 An accident on the Nile...

Pepy's Names (very partial)
Plinseth: given name, meaning "rock that will not move."
Plinoth, Plins, Plinths. Plinthos: from various ports, companions.
Plinth: Simplified Egyptian name, the name of the Anubis priest. Yes, they *used* to simplify names.
Alalunas: Unas name, meaning "dreaming tortoise that isn't a tortoise."
Piyesekhemarakhet: Current full name, approximately meaning "Pereus, the Axe of Sekhmet." Just call me Pepy.