History TabletopGame / MummyTheCurse

** The [[AlchemyIsMagic Mesen-Nebu]] don't really have any skeletons in their closets, but don't think that makes them any nicer than the other guilds - they're egotistical, ruthless power-seekers.

* LovecraftianSuperpower: The Ancestry of Forgotten Voices Utterance, from ''Guildhalls of the Deathless''. The core concept is that you're calling upon the power of inhuman creatures that once interbred with humanity... and said creatures appear to have been rather [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian]]. The highest level transforms its invokers into an avatar of a being called the Herald of Forgotten Stars, which is explicitly described as a crawling chaos, one of Nyarlathotep's epithets, and which is sometimes accompanied by a man who sounds disturbingly like one of Nyarlathotep's or Hastur's avatars.

** The [[TheChessmaster Maa-]][[SecretPolice Kep]] don't bother hiding it-at some point, they stopped being the Shan'iatu's middle managers and became guardians of Irem's ideological purity, and that means surveillance. They still are officially just the guys in the background, but they'll cheerfully admit to wanting to TakeOverTheWorld one day and create a New Irem Empire. [[spoiler:Or at least, half of them do-the other, such as the South American Maa-Kep, have decided the modern world really is a lot better than Irem was, and want to keep it just the way it is.]]

* MadeOfIron: Amkhata, when dealing with anything not an Arisen but still supernatural. Mortals get the NighInvulnerability treatment. Sadikh and Fasad though, are Made of Iron at all times, and their masters can resurrect them

** The [[HighPriest Su-]][[SecretCircleOfSecrets Menet]] make sure the Judges are worshiped in the modern day and that Irem's knowledge remains alive. [[spoiler:And are falling apart, since somewhere along the line they realized how callous the Judges actually are and are only kept in line out of fear, and it's ''heavily'' implied their leader became the Heretic.]]
** The [[PostModernMagick Tef-Aabi]] are fascinated by the modern world, and want to adapt to it as much as possible. [[spoiler:And have been hijacked by the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Flesh Masons]], an extremely racist eugenics movement that wants to breed the imperfection out of humanity so as to [[HumanResources create a better power source]] for their architecture.]]

* EvilCounterpart: The Shuankhsen, the mummies created in service to Ammut, the Devourer. She wants Sekhem, and they will get it or die trying.

* PureEnergy: Sekhem. Stated in developer blogs to have no relation to [[MageTheAwakening Supernal Realms]]-it's far too old for that.

** This applies to some of the 42 Judges as well. The crimes they are meant to judge over are not all as serious now as they were in the time of the Empire (speaking out in anger, blaspheming, gossiping, disrespecting authority figures, etc). On the other hand, some of the crimes - mass murder, etc. - while still relevant, seem to have committed in Irem for the sake of progress anyway.

** This applies to the 42 Judges as well. The crimes they are meant to judge over are not all as serious now as they were in the time of the Empire (speaking out in anger, blaspheming, gossiping, disrespecting authority figures, etc).

* AliensInCardiff: The opening fiction deals with how far the Arisen have spread by focusing on the cult schism and artifact theft that results in one rising... in rural Alaska.

* DarkerAndEdgier: In the old Mummy, you were an immortal Egyptian superhero fighting against evil, greedy occult forces. Here, you overcame so much to be screwed over by your own powers, your purpose is to be pushed around by your cult and the Judges, [[spoiler:and pretty much ''are'' the servant of evil, greedy occult forces.]]

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: The opinion of mummies who think that the power and the ability/right to kill with impunity is worth the loss of Memory. The Arisen state of being is pretty good if you're TheSociopath.

** Interestingly, most Arisen ''weren't'' nobles as mortals - they generally came from the ranks of the lower and middle classes.

* HeroicWillpower: How the Arisen successfully returned from Duat the first time-they were faced with pointed questions about their very right to exist, and answered them.

* {{Magitek}}: Sekhem is explicitly detectable and usable by mundane scientific equipment, and is extremely useful in medicine. In fact, an AntiVillain MegaCorp, Last Dynasty Incorporated, wants to use the stuff to, among other things, cure AIDS and develop a healthier form of steroid.

* TheDragon: Sadikh and Fasad, to Arisen and Shanukshen, respectively. The former even goes into a self-induced LotusEaterMachine when their master is asleep.

* EvilCounterpart: The Shanukshen, the mummies created in service to Ammut, the Devourer. She wants Sekhem, and they will get it or die trying.

* RevengeBeforeReason: The Lost Guild, to the point where literally the only thing anyone knows about them is that they're obsessed with avenging themselves upon the descendants of the Nameless Empire. [[spoiler:It's outright stated that the Shanukshen, if someone were to cult their ties to Ammut, would still hunt down Arisen to the last mummy-[[HeWhoFightsMonsters for perfectly understandable reasons]].]]

* SorcerousOverlord: The Shan'iatu, the priest-kings of the Nameless Empire. The Arisen used to be directly under their command, [[PosthumousCharacter though they did not use the Rite of Return on themselves]]. [[spoiler:Though perhaps not as dead as they think-it is ''heavily'' implied that most, if not all, of the Judges of Duat [[DeityOfHumanOrigin are ascended Shan'iatu]], made immortal so that they may preserve the Nameless Empire forever. Why they did this [[ShrugOfGod is unknown]]-a Shanukshen claims IC they were simply looking for more power, but given that she's a Shanukshen, [[UnreliableNarrator she's more than a bit biased]] (though understandably-see how highly you think of the guys who condemmed you to a FateWorseThanDeath, after you were a chattel slave in their empire, no matter how sympathetic their motives were).]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:The Shanukshen were slaves in the Nameless Empire who were used as EquivalentExchange and test subjects for the developing Rite of Return, and in the process were enslaved again to Ammut. Their souls sustained heavy damage in the process, causing them to lose a lot of their sanity and all their free will. We would hug them, except they would probably try to eat us.]]

* {{Magitek}}: Sekhem is explicitly detectable and usable by mundane scientific equipment, and is extremely useful in medicine. In fact, an AntiVillain Megacorp, Last Dynasty Incorporated, wants to use the stuff to, among other things, cure AIDS and develop a healthier form of steroid.

* SorcerousOverlord: The Shan'iatu, the priest-kings of the Nameless Empire. The Arisen used to be directly under their command, [[PosthumousCharacter though they did not use the Rite of Return on themselves]].

In the beginning there was the city of Irem, heart of a powerful Nameless Empire, based where the Egypt of the Pharaohs would one day arise - an empire far more mystically advanced than any of the time. You and a select group of people were subject to the greatest feat of magic that has ever been attempted by mortal hands, the Rite of Return. Now, as an Arisen, you walk the line between life and death, which is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you have life everlasting. It takes nothing short of a nuclear bomb to destroy you. On the other, you're able to rise only for short periods, your power steadily ebbing away each time. You've seen your friends and family wither and die, even fading from your memory as the centuries pass.

* EldrtichAbomination: The Amkhata are so obviously errors in the natural order that they demoralize mortals who look upon them. [[spoiler:Ammut is far more along the lines of "Lovecraftian goddess".]]