North · Kemet Letheion · South

A splinter of the world’s own backbone is thrust into his palm, and it wants to go home.

A young outsider carries a fragment of the world’s founding pillar across a continent split between two civilizations, each one built on a different way to escape death. Neither will let him go. The gate is not open to a third.

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The Ineb Djer ↓ the world wall
The Premise

Kemet is the black land — an enclosed world ringed by ice, its one gate sealed. Menkhef, an outsider to both its civilizations, is carrying a piece of the pillar that sealed the gate in the first place. It is killing him, and it is the only thing pointing him toward the truth both civilizations buried on purpose.

The North answers with permanence

Ka priests bind the dead so the spirit is never homeless.

The South answers with release

Hierophants pour Nepenthe down the throats of the grieving, so the living forget what they buried.

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