Loyalists of the Ptolemaic Dynasty

The Loyalists of the Ptolemaic Dynasty were a sorcerer cult active in Egypt in the first century BCE.

Overview

The Loyalists originated as a cult called the Reborn Osiris, serving a meret of mummies others dubbed the "Cult of Isis." These mummies researched and recorded the original Prophecies of Isis that implied Cleopatra would give birth to a reincarnation of Azar.[1]

The Reborn Osiris meddled in the lore of Amkhata, and in 140 BCE successfully created one of their own. This monster, the Maahes Abomination, could not be controlled by its creators. The Tamaithian meret insisted on punishing the cult and their Arisen patrons; the sorcerers were buried alive, and the meret was exiled to Ionia in pieces.[2]

The Loyalists (re)appeared in 86 BCE, claiming to be the successors to the Reborn Osiris;[2] their Arisen mistress avoids other mummies, which seems to lend credence to the idea that one of the "Cult of Isis" returned to Egypt and restored her cult.[3] The Loyalists originally had a conservative interpretation of the Prophecies of Isis, claiming that Cleopatra Philoraptor and her brother-husband Ptolemy XIII would bring forth Azar from the purity of their bloodline, being descended from Phillip of Macedon. When Ptolemy XIII died, the Loyalists shifted their hopes to Mark Antony. They sanctified his marriage to Cleopatra so that their son Ptolemy Philadelphus would become the new Azar.[4]

The Loyalists were eventually wiped out by the Parangelía Seth, and the fate of their Azar is unknown.[5]

References

  1. ↑ CofD: Dark Eras Companion, p. 20
  2. 1 2 CofD: Dark Eras Companion, p. 32
  3. ↑ CofD: Dark Eras Companion, p. 33
  4. ↑ CofD: Dark Eras Companion, p. 21-22
  5. ↑ CofD: Dark Eras Companion, p. 22
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