History Quotes / Mummy

-> ''Once I rode over these fields as lord and master to my people. The land was ours as far as the swiftest horse could ride in a three day run all around. When the fierce ones came from the north, I was ready for their savagery and beat them soundly. When the Greenskins sought to despoil our lands, I drove them back. There was no tree I didn't know, no rock I hadn't trod over. My people prospered and so did I. All things wax and wane in time, my beard grew long and grey and I lay to rest, content that my people would be well without me. And yet, I told them with my dying word that if they or the land have need of me, I would return. \\

->''TRANSMIT - initiate the ka signal - RECEIVE - initiate the Book of the Dead - [[Film/TheMummy1999 FOR HE WOULD ARISE A WALKING DISEASE, A PLAGUE UPON MANKIND]] - illumine the Cult of Aten - WITNESS - The Mummy.''
->''Listen, sweetling. The whisper of antediluvian linen over sand-kissed stone... Not mere zombies, these are the ancient dead. [[FateWorseThanDeath Their bodies and souls have been dissected]], some vital parts removed, some new parts added. The cries of the unquiet dead echo between the rock faces, on occasion, but mostly it is silence, [[GoMadFromTheIsolation silence that desiccates sanity]]. That is the sound of the mummies dwelling in the Valley of the Sun God.''
-->--'''The Buzzing,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->A duality flowed within him like the Asian concept of yin and yang. Alex was modern, a skilled operative who could kick ass and take names against the best wetworks teams the world had to offer. [[SecretIdentity But he was also]] Menkaure, son of Kafre, son of Khufu. An ancient pharaoh who'd taken it upon himself to stand between humanity and the most terrible evil he'd encountered in all his long years. A king who'd made a pact with incalculable powers from far beyond the mortal realm for a chance to walk in Asar's footsteps and wield immortality as a weapon.
->He was Alex, a man shaped over nearly eighteen decades - vintner, explorer, scholar, spy, enforcer, assassin and cop. [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen He was the oncetime pharaoh Menkaure, a has-been deity]]. Now intimately bound to his direct foe, reliant on his brother god Re and the Path of Asar until [[PurposeDrivenImmortality his ultimate task was complete]].
-->--''Graveyard Shift,'' by Michael F. Haspil

-> Once I rode over these fields as lord and master to my people. The land was ours as far as the swiftest horse could ride in a three day run all around. When the fierce ones came from the north, I was ready for their savagery and beat them soundly. When the Greenskins sought to despoil our lands, I drove them back. There was no tree I didn't know, no rock I hadn't trod over. My people prospered and so did I. All things wax and wane in time, my beard grew long and grey and I lay to rest, content that my people would be well without me. And yet, I told them with my dying word that if they or the land have need of me, I would return.
-> My people are gone now. The land has changed beyond my recognition. I do not know these fields, these trees, only the rocks of my tomb remain as they were. But the fierce ones still come from the north and there are still Greenskins to be driven forth and I find that I have no mercy left in me for those that have disturbed my rest.

->TRANSMIT - initiate the ka signal - RECEIVE - initiate the Book of the Dead - [[Film/TheMummy1999 FOR HE WOULD ARISE A WALKING DISEASE, A PLAGUE UPON MANKIND]] - illumine the Cult of Aten - WITNESS - The Mummy.
->Listen, sweetling. The whisper of antediluvian linen over sand-kissed stone... Not mere zombies, these are the ancient dead. [[FateWorseThanDeath Their bodies and souls have been dissected]], some vital parts removed, some new parts added. The cries of the unquiet dead echo between the rock faces, on occasion, but mostly it is silence, [[GoMadFromTheIsolation silence that desiccates sanity]]. That is the sound of the mummies dwelling in the Valley of the Sun God.

->In the before, they are all rich men - merchants, nobles, and priests - living fine lives in the [[AncientEgypt golden age of the Land of Pharaohs]]. But death is blind to wealth. These men of affluence [[ImmortalitySeeker obsess over immortality and afterlife access.]] Their coin buys potent rituals: [[GoneHorriblyRight something goes horribly right; something goes wonderfully wrong.]] A bizarre accident- the spark of life hibernates within their mummified husks. Time passes, first in years, then in decades. Their souls rebuild- spirits ever-living, flesh ever-dead. They open their shrivelled eyes: [[WhatHaveIBecome oh, the shock; oh, the best-laid plans.]]
->They stumble from their tombs like emerging cicadas who find they have no wings. They are strangers in a strange land. But they find one another, and these men of pragmatism [[StagesOfMonsterGrief accept their cadaverous existence]]: they are men of talent, now united; why should they lower their standard of living in this Afterlife? Their mouths decay into smiles. They gather their funerary treasures, and the forbidden relics of other tombs. Wealthy once more, they hide from the living and form a decadent underworld...
-->-- Lore entry on '''[[TheNecrocracy The Kingdom]]''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

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->In the before, they are all rich men - merchants, nobles, and priests - living fine lives in the [[AncientEgypt golden age of the Land of Pharaohs]]. But death is blind to wealth. These men of affluence [[ImmortalitySeeker obsess over immortality and afterlife access.]] Their coin buys potent rituals: [[GoneHorriblyRight something goes horribly right; something goes wonderfully wrong.]] A bizarre accident- the spark of life hibernates within their mummified husks. Time passes, first in years, then in decades. Their souls rebuild- spirits ever-living, flesh ever-dead. They open their shrivelled eyes: [[WhatHaveIBecome oh, the shock; oh, the best-laid plans.]

->In the before, they are all rich men - merchants, nobles, and priests - living fine lives in the [[AncientEgypt golden age of the Land of Pharaohs]]. But death is blind to wealth. These men of affluence [[ImmortalitySeeker obsess over immortality and afterlife access.]] Their coin buys potent rituals: [[GoneHorriblyRight something goes horribly right; something goes wonderfully wrong.]] A bizarre accident- the spark of life hibernates within their mummified husks. Time passes, first in years, then in decades. Their souls rebuild- spirits ever-living, flesh ever-dead. They open their shrivelled eyes: [[WhatHaveIBecome oh, the shock; oh, the best-laid plans.]]

-->-- '''Sharu, Barrow King''', ''{{Warhammer}}''

-->-- Lore entry on '''[[TheNecrocracy The Kingdom]]''', ''TheSecretWorld''

->In the before, they are all rich men - merchants, nobles, and priests - living fine lives in the [[AncientEgypt golden age of the Land of Pharaohs]]. But death is blind to wealth. These men of affluence [[ImmortalitySeeker obsess over immortality and afterlife access.]] Their coin buys potent rituals: something goes horribly right; something goes wonderfully wrong. A bizarre accident- the spark of life hibernates within their mummified husks. Time passes, first in years, then in decades. Their souls rebuild- spirits ever-living, flesh ever-dead. They open their shrivelled eyes: oh, the shock; oh, the best-laid plans.

->They stumble from their tombs like emerging cicadas who find they have no wings. They are strangers in a strange land. But they find one another, and these men of pragmatism accept their cadaverous existence: they are men of talent, now united; why should they lower their standard of living in this Afterlife? Their mouths decay into smiles. They gather their funerary treasures, and the forbidden relics of other tombs. Wealthy once more, they hide from the living and form a decadent underworld.

-> Once I rode over these fields as lord and master to my people. The land was ours as far as the swiftest horse could ride in a three day run all around. When the fierce ones came from the north, I was ready for their savagery and beat them soundly. When the [[GoddamnOrks Greenskins]] sought to despoil our lands, I drove them back. There was no tree I didn't know, no rock I hadn't trod over. My people prospered and so did I. All things wax and wane in time, my beard grew long and grey and I lay to rest, content that my people would be well without me. And yet, I told them with my dying word that if they or the land have need of me, I would return.