History NightmareFuel / MummyTheCurse

* Some of the Arisen powers fall into this; Ancestry of Forgotten Stars, Words of Dread Glory, Dreams of Dead Gods, Words of Dead Fury... the Arisen can screw around with reality itself on a scale even [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Awakened]] would blanch at.

* The Rite of Revival itself; we don't really get much details on how it was developed back in Irem, but it apparently involved ''a lot'' of really messed-up experiments on humans and dead bodies, with [[spoiler:the [[EvilCounterpart Shuankhsen]] being part of the result]]. These implications are horrible in themselves, but then you learn the actual process of becoming Arisen had the would-be Mummies travel to the Judges' kingdom, where after a long a difficult travel, they were essentially ''tortured'' as part of a test to see which part of their soul wouldn't break and define their Decree. And ''every single Arisen'' had to go through this.

* The Shuankhsen, twisted, wretched undead things that exist for the purpose of ''cannibalizing'' the Arisen. Think of them as Mummies, only even harder to kill because they automatically BodySurf to the nearest corpse, completely psychotic, with the ability to fuel their powers by [[LifeDrinker sucking life force from mortals]], and to [[GameFace grow gigantic, sharp-toothed jaws]] meant to devour other Mummies. [[spoiler: And then you find out that they 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 bound utterly to Ammut, the vilest of the Judges of Duat, something that nearly destroyed their souls and cost them most of their sanity and all of their free will]].
** In general, the Shuankhsen's fate if they die. [[spoiler:Ammut takes advantage on the fact their souls are hers to devour them, [[AndIMustScream then resurrect them so she can have them die and be devoured again, and again, and again]]...]] They are trying so hard to survive at all cost [[spoiler:because they don't want to be devoured by Ammut again]].

* The Rite of Revival itself; we don't really get much details on how it was developped back in Irem, but it apparently involved ''a lot'' of really messed-up experiments on humans and dead bodies, with [[spoiler:the [[EvilCounterpart Shuankhsen]] being part of the result]]. These implications are horrible in themselves, but then you learn the actual process of becoming Arisen had the would-be Mummies travel to the Judges' kingdom, where after a long a difficult travel, they were essentially ''tortured'' as part of a test to see which part of their soul wouldn't break and define their Decree. And ''every single Arisen'' had to go through this.

* The Amkhata, [[MixAndMatchCritter chimera-like amalgams of various animals]] created either by wasting Sekhem (for the lesser ones), or [[PoweredByAForsakenChild by literally patching the various animal bodyparts together through a dark ritual using human blood]] (for the greater ones). These things maintain themselves solid by devouring occult energies, including Sekhem and ''human death'', and their mere existence distords reality in such a way [[BrownNote seeing them can drive mortals insane]]. Once they manage to become solid, they will start tracking down Vessels to feed from or humans to kill so they can stay tangible as long as possible, meaning you now have a homicidal unnatural beast going around killing to survive. They are powered by vermins such as wasps, centipedes or fungus living inside their body, which will actually crawl out of their wounds to attack you if you manage to strike their host. Oh, and aside from a nuclear explosion, they are nearly invulnerable to attacks coming from a mortal. So you might have a chance if you're a supernatural being, but if you are just an average joe, your best option really is to run.

* Unease Sybaris. If a Mummy stays for too long in a populated area, or has too many direct contacts with people, and her Memory isn't high enough to temper it, this will cause people to grow paranoid, supersitious or depressed about their mortality. At its worst, it will flat-out result in them suffering visions from Duat and the Judges, which can cause some of them to do things such as performing bloody rituals in their basements or attacking their friends because they saw "Demons" inside them. A single Mummy can easily turn a perfectly ordinary place into a TownWithADarkSecret just by having her Tomb be inside it.
** Not only that, but Mummies in this game don't necessarily have their tomb built in the middle of nowhere. Thanks to their Cults, they can have it taken to pieces, moved, and rebuilt somewhere else, which they often do if they feel it will help in their goals. It's perfectly possible for a Mummy to have her tomb hidden in the middle of a modern city, in undergrounds below the foundations or at the top of a skycraper, and as such bring her Unease Sybaris with her.