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Blood of the Snake
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Poisons + Alchemy
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: None
Each dose of this preparation – typically a potion or a salve – defends against poisons for four hours. This brew reduces by three the toxin rating of any poison that is already in the character’s body or introduced into her body during the antidote’s duration. Reducing a toxin rating to zero negates the poison’s effects entirely. If this potion is administered within one turn of the point at which a poison took effect, Blood of the Snake can also restore a number of health levels to the subject equal to the successes gained on a roll of the alchemist’s Alchemy rating.

Cobra Spit
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Occult + Alchemy
Difficulty: 8
Sekhem: 1
Although it could be used as a poison, this potion is actually a vitriolic acid. Each dose causes one level of aggravated damage to whatever substance it touches unless said substance is gold or glass. Cobra spit can be used to eat through non-living barriers, and it is devastating against living tissue. Considering the fact that all other materials are likely to corrode when brought into contact with this concoction, the alchemist always stores Cobra Spit in gold or glass containers.

Essence of Longing
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Seduction + Alchemy
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: None
This perfume acts as a mild aphrodisiac on those who inhale its fragrance. To those beneficiaries with the appropriate sexual inclination, the essence effectively increases the user’s Appearance and Charisma by two points. Anyone else who is subjected to the fragrance might become uncomfortable around the user due to conflicting feelings they likely don’t recognize consciously. The Storyteller may modify the resistance roll against the essence depending upon factors like how close the affected person is to the user or whether a breeze is blowing. Those who resist may find the scent of the perfume cloying or simply not notice it.

Eyes of the Ka
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Thanatology + Alchemy
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: None
The alchemist applies this magical salve to the beneficiary’s eyes and ears. While its effects last, the character may see across the Shroud into Neter-khertet, the part of Duat that borders closest to the world of the living. The Shadowlands appear as a ghostly overlay superimposed upon the physical world. Sights are distorted and sounds are muted. Since ghosts normally pass unseen amongst the living, they are likely to notice that the user is actually observing them.
Botching this preparation spells trouble. The resulting salve might render the user temporarily blind or deaf. Worse still, it might subject the user to visions so terrible that she loses her mind, gaining a temporary Derangement.

Ice of the Desert
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Occult + Alchemy
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 1
Supposedly, the ancient Egyptians could create ice by placing water out at night under the stars. This spell lets the alchemist change a substance’s state within a reasonable scope (never by more than one step). Mercury and water turn into solids, soft metals turn to liquid, stone and hard metal soften, and air thickens into liquid condensation.
The change in state maintains itself for one turn per success. Once the duration ends, the substance returns gradually to its natural state as appropriate to the local conditions. The spell alters one cubic foot per success, provided that the alchemist can touch the targeted material. Furthermore, the substance affected must be part of one contiguous mass, and it may not interfere directly with any living creature. Therefore, the air above a person’s head could be affected, but that in his lungs is immune.

Lesser Quiddity
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Occult + Alchemy
Difficulty: 6
Sekhem: 1
Every substance has an inherent essence that provides it with spiritual properties in addition to its physical ones. The science of chemistry abandoned such alchemical principles when its rules and methods could not replicate the reputed qualities. One of the secrets of alchemists is that quiddity (the substance’s essence) may be activated by the flow of Sekhem. An empowered quiddity transfers a substance’s reputed property to the first person that it touches. This property lasts for one scene. Sometimes, especially with modern synthesized materials, the spiritual effect is the same as the physical chemical property.
No Lesser Quiddity effect may exceed one die, an adjustment of one to a target number or a temporary adjustment of one health level. The true advantage of the spell is its flexibility.
An alchemist could use willow bark to reduce a beneficiary’s wound penalty by one point. A bit of moss could help in Survival rolls when a character is trying to determine north. A bit of lion’s mane might grant an extra die when the character is dealing with animals. Unfortunately, we can’t provide a comprehensive list of mythical properties for every substance on earth. Use the examples here and research common legends and myths to create more.

Reed of Hidden Currents
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Occult + Alchemy
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: None
Science has invented the litmus test. This spell precedes such primitive detection by millennia. With a few words of power and an investment of Sekhem, the alchemist empowers a bit of hay, straw or grass to detect the presence of a specific other substance. The alchemist then casts the enchanted substance into the air or upon the surface of a liquid. On a successful roll, the reed points the direction of any detectable quantity of the requested substance. This spell has a range of one mile for each point that the mummy has in Alchemy Hekau, and it lasts for the scene.

Spark of Ra
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Occult + Alchemy
Difficulty: 8
Sekhem: 1
One of an alchemist’s goals is mastery of the elements. This spell lets the mummy start a fire with little more than her force of will, a couple of words and a non-living flammable substance. The size of the subsequent fire depends upon the amount of flammable material available and the number of successes the alchemist’s player rolls. Damage to a victim caught by the flame follows normal rules for fire.

Ashes to Ashes
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Occult + Alchemy
Difficulty: 8
Sekhem: 3
This spell acts much like Ice of the Desert except that it can change the state of virtually any inert substance into any other state. Each success represents one human-sized portion of material that may be affected, provided that the alchemist can touch it during casting. The change that the mummy intends to affect must be possible in nature, but they occur instantly. Stones turn into fine powder, wood turns into ashes, metal turns into useless corroded flakes, pigments dull to pale nothingness, dead bodies become tomb dust and so on.

Greater Quiddity
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Occult + Alchemy
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 2
This spell causes the same effects as Lesser Quiddity does, but the mystical property endowed is stronger. The effect grants three extra dice on a roll, a reduction of three to a target number or a temporary adjustment of three health levels.

Panacea
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Medicine + Alchemy
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 4
This ritual creates a potion that can cure almost any disease. Each dose removes from the recipient one illness up to a toxin rating equal to the alchemist’s Medicine + Alchemy rating – from a common cold to amoebic dysentery to AIDS. The panacea does not heal wounds, however.

Philosopher’s Stone
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Occult + Alchemy
Difficulty: 9
Sekhem: 3
This preparation takes the form of a powder that has congealed into a solid pebble-like form. Each time a dose touches a base metal, the dose is expended in a brief glow that changes the metal to gold or silver. The change is permanent, but it can affect only a couple of ounces per dose.

Potion of the Separable Ka
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Meditation + Alchemy
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 3
This potion puts the user into a trance-like state, allowing her consciousness to separate from her body and travel astrally. More correctly, the mummy’s spirit remains connected to her physical form via the protective link of her khu. Astral travel operates mostly as per the Psychic Projection power in Vampire: The Masquerade or under the astral projection rules in Mage: The Ascension. The spirit is restricted to travel in the Shadowlands, the near portion of the Underworld that reflects the Lands of the Living. The mummy must use other Hekau (notably Necromancy) to plunge into the far depths of Duat.
If the user’s consciousness is still separate from her body when the potion wears off, the khu snaps her wayward spirit back into khat. Returning to flesh in such a jarring fashion requires the user’s player to make a Stamina + Occult roll ( difficulty 8 ) or lose a bashing health level due to shock.

Ashen Shroud
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Thanatology + Amulets
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: None
By intoning appropriate words of power while quickly applying dirt or ash to her face, the artisan takes on a mien of death. Her appearance becomes as one of the walking dead for the remainder of the scene. She is creature that clearly is not alive, yet she moves nonetheless. All mortals in the area are thrown into hysterics at the sight. This spell does not affect the supernatural.

Eye of the Horizon
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Perception + Amulets
Difficulty: 6
Sekhem: None
This spell links any single image of an eye to the artisan’s own senses. This image can be anything from the plastic eye of an action figure to an ancient hieroglyph carved on a tomb wall to one drawn quickly on a napkin. Until the next sunset, the artisan may see what the linked eye sees just easily as he can see with his own eyes. The eye and the artisan may not be parted by the curve of the horizon (about 12 miles at sea level), however, or the spell is broken.

Simple Ward
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Crafts + Amulets
Difficulty: 6
Sekhem: 5
A Simple Ward allows for a variety of defensive effects. Each is designed to defend the wearer against one particular type of harm, so the artisan must learn each ward as a separate ritual. Some wards protect specific parts of the body and those effects mystically associated with them, while others guard against particular types of magic. A Simple Ward provides the wearer protection at level one. A few common wards are listed here, although players and Storytellers are encouraged to work together to create more.
Heart (ab): This ward protects against all attacks aimed at the heart. Because the Egyptians believed that the heart was the seat of consciousness, the ward guards against physical damage to the physical heart as well as magic targeting the mind, from illusions to all forms of mental control and psychological influence.
Name (ren): This ward protects against Nomenclature Hekau that affects the user through her true name. A name ward is always attuned to a single user.
Eye of Horus (udjat): This ward protects against all magic that affects the user’s health. This includes poisons and spells that harm the body as a whole.

Warding Sign
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Occult + Amulets
Difficulty: 6
Sekhem: None
Not every symbol must be inscribed physically in order to provide protection. Nevertheless, those signs created with simple gestures are useful for brief, relatively simple effects. The most basic ward is one against bad luck. If this spell is successful, the first botch that the mummy’s player rolls during the remainder of the scene affects him no more severely than a normal failure. The character may have only one Warding Sign in effect at a time.

Wood Ward
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Crafts + Amulets
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 10
Whatever its form, this amulet makes the wearer resistant to any object made of wood. Most objects bounce off the user’s skin, although fragile implements may shatter. For rules purposes, the amulet adds the artisan’s rating in Amulets Hekau to the user’s natural Stamina when resisting any damage from wooden objects. It adds the same bonus to the user’s natural Strength when directly applied to damaging wooden objects by smashing them with her hands or body. Furthermore, a user who is normally unable to soak lethal damage may do so at difficulty 7 should it be caused by a wooden source.
Naturally, a few disadvantages occur when a mummy wears such an amulet. Most notably, even casual contact can damage a wooden object. Wooden chairs, fences, chopsticks, baseball bats and the like that the user touches may crack or wiggle from her grasp. Additionally, nature spirits generally take offense at an individual wearing a Wood Ward.

Metal Ward
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Crafts + Amulets
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 18
This ritual creates an amulet similar to the Wood Ward. Such is the amulet’s protective power that metal objects become pliable, softening or crumbling to flakes along the edge nearest the wearer. For rules purposes, the amulet adds the artisan’s rating in Amulets Hekau to the user’s natural Stamina when resisting any damage from metal objects. The wearer may also soak lethal damage ( difficulty 8 ) inflicted by a metal object, even if she cannot normally do so.
The user’s natural Strength likewise increases by the artisan’s Amulets score when the user is directly trying to deflect, harm or otherwise deal with metal objects with her hands or body. Therefore, the amulet-wearer could apply double Strength if she shoved with her body against a steel door, but not if she chopped at the door with a fire axe.
A few disadvantages naturally occur when wearing such protection. Most notably, even casual contact can damage a metal object. Door knobs, car doors, utensils, pistols and the like that the user touches may bend or wiggle from her grasp. Small pieces of metal – zippers, loose change – separated from the user’s body by clothing vibrate almost imperceptibly, making for a mildly uncomfortable but bearable sensation. Additionally, nature spirits generally take offense at an individual wearing a Metal Ward.

Major Ward
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Crafts + Amulets
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 18
Each Major Ward is identical to its Simple Ward counterparts, except that it has a level-three ward rating.

Sign of Luck
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Divination + Amulets
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: None
This spell empowers one of many tiny superstitious rituals to improve one’s fortunes. The number of successes achieved indicates the number of rolls in the current scene the artisan’s player may attempt at one lower difficulty. Fortune is a fickle mistress. Overusing this sign may backlash on the mummy sooner or later. The character may have only one Sign of Luck in effect at a time.

Veil of Amaunet
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Perception + Amulets
Difficulty: 8
Sekhem: 20
The goddess Amaunet, the counterpart to Amon, was the goddess of invisibility. This amulet calls upon her favor to render the wearer undetectable to all of the senses that animals possess (i.e., sight, touch, sound, taste or smell). Even a being that can take the form of an animal is subject to the amulet’s magic while it is in its beast form. A supernatural creature of this sort is naturally more intelligent than most animals, so even if it cannot see the person wearing the amulet, it may still get a Perception + Awareness roll ( difficulty 8 ) to notice a dim haze. This roll does not bestow any understanding of what the paranormal being sees, however. If an animal has some mystical ability that pierces invisibility, it operates as appropriate.
The wearer must concentrate for one turn and succeed on a Manipulation + Amulets roll to activate the amulet. When he does so, the effects last for the remainder of the scene. In fact, anyone with a rating in Amulets Hekau who touches the amulet may activate or deactivate the amulet with the same roll.

Wrappings of Imhotep
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Medicine + Amulets
Difficulty: 6
Sekhem: 1
Most amulets protect against some sort of harm. Named after the famed mystic and physician Imhotep, these ensorcelled bandages may be used after the damage occurs. The artisan inscribes a few mystical symbols to a covering or wrapping when he casts the spell. Clean, dry cloth or sterile dressings work best, but even a paper restaurant napkin will suffice in an emergency. The artisan empowers the bandage to heal damage from a wound to which it was applied. Each success on the roll heals two bashing levels or one lethal level. As long as it remains on the wound, the bandage treats the injury as if it were one level less severe for the purposes of healing. If multiple wounds exist, a separate wrapping may be used for each. Applying more than one bandage to the same wound does not increase the healing rate any further, however. Although it cannot repair aggravated damage, a wrapping’s improved healing rate does apply to an aggravated wound. A bandage loses its enchantment immediately upon being changed or with any attempt to reuse it.

Buckle of Isis
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Occult + Amulets
Difficulty: 8
Sekhem: 80
The artisan forms this amulet in the shape of a sandal-strap, according to the origin of the ankh. The buckle endows the protection of the goddess Isis and guards against all hostile magic with a ward rating of five. This protection covers all forms of magic, from the Hekau of mummies themselves to the “true magic” mortal wizards use and even the “blood magic” of vampires. The Buckle of Isis is physically fragile and easily damaged, just as all amulets are.

Princely Talisman
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Crafts + Amulets
Difficulty: 8
Sekhem: 75
Each Princely Talisman functions identically to a Lesser Talisman except that it grants three points to a specific Attribute while the user is wearing it. Remember that a Hekau endowment is based off of the mortal maximum, which can reach no higher than five dots.

Princely Ward
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Crafts + Amulets
Difficulty: 8
Sekhem: 80
Each Princely Ward is identical to its Simple Ward counterparts, except that it has a ward rating of five.

Scarab of Death
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Crafts + Amulets
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 50
Although the user wears this amulet physically, this scarab protects the soul during its sojourns into the spirit world. The Scarab of Death channels all damage that the mummy’s spirit suffers in the underworld to the khat (body). This protection may extend the time spent in the dead state, but it helps ensure the Amenti’s ultimate survival by keeping her soul intact. Although the mummy’s spirit gains no protection from its other amulets, those talismans can defend the khat from damage that the scarab transfers as long as they have the appropriate defensive capabilities. No further damage may be passed from the soul once the corpse is reduced to Dust. After that, any attacks on the soul in Duat have their normal effect.

Ward of Permanence
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Crafts + Amulets
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 100 + relevant ritual
This potent ward is inscribed upon an amulet to bond any existing effect to the object permanently. The Ward of Permanence is applied (typically to the amulet’s reverse side) when the artisan creates or re-infuses another Amulets ritual. Since the Ward of Permanence is itself a ritual, add its time and expenditures to those required for the other ritual – which includes spending the days, Sekhem and successes as appropriate for the other ritual. Afterward, the artisan no longer needs to maintain the amulet’s other power periodically. Barring the amulet’s destruction, its mystical endowment will remain in effect for eternity.
To aid in its longevity, the Ward of Permanence also bestows a soak equal to the path rating of the amulet’s primary ritual. Therefore, a permanent Metal Ward has a soak total of three while a permanent Geb’s Blessing has a soak of four. This soak applies to any damage directed at the amulet itself, regardless of its origin. The wearer gains no benefit from her amulet’s soak.
Since few artisans ever achieved the mastery of this Hekau sufficient to create permanent amulets, very few talismans from ancient Egypt retained their mystical properties unto the modern age.

Wrappings of Osiris
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Medicine + Amulets
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 2
Osiris is peerless in his influence over life and death. This greater mastery is reflected in this more potent version of Wrappings of Imhotep. When applied to a wound, the wrapping heals one health level of damage for each success rolled, including aggravated wounds. In fact, the Wrappings of Osiris heals any aggravated levels of damage first. If the user leaves the wrappings on the wound, the bandage treats the injury as if it were three levels less severe for the purposes of healing.

Book of Thoth
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Divination + Celestial
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 1
Through the auspices of heaven all things are revealed. The Book of Thoth (the god of wisdom) holds knowledge eternal. Lesser beings can only glimpse at a few of the secrets held therein, but such wisdom often provides great illumination.
While a mummy can use other Celestial divinations to read the future, the Book of Thoth allows an astrologer to glimpse secrets held by a person or situation right now. Typically, the mummy simply closes her eyes (or passes a hand in front of them) while she mutters a mystical phrase to open herself to the wisdom of Thoth. Thereafter, the mummy gains a preternatural awareness of her surroundings. She may pick out hidden figures, concealed portals and even supernaturally invisible entities. The mummy exhibits a superb awareness of things happening around her. Indeed, this awareness is not simply a heightening of senses, but a revelation of secrets and subtexts.
For the remainder of the scene, the mummy notices concealed or hidden elements in her vicinity automatically. The secret knowledge lets her determine hidden patterns with accuracy (although she may not know what they signify), and she cannot be surprised by any natural stealth. To detect an object that is concealed supernaturally, the mummy’s player rolls Perception + Alertness (difficulty 5 + level of the subject’s power) in a resisted roll against the subject’s Manipulation + Subterfuge (difficulty 7).

Lesser Weather Magic
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Occult + Celestial
Difficulty: Varies
Sekhem: Varies
As the celestine’s attunement to the heavens increases, so too does her ability to manipulate the forces of nature. With Lesser Weather Magic, the mummy can build upon her previous efforts to create effects that are larger in scale and more pronounced.
As with Simple Weather Magic, the accompanying chart lists the various difficulty and Sekhem costs for desired effects. A few sample options are described briefly here. The difficulty and Sekhem costs for each assumes that the base conditions include an average summer day in a temperature clime over a small area (mid-80° Fahrenheit, mild humidity and partial clouds over a village).
Dust or sandstorm (difficulty 7, Sekhem 2): Strong winds stir up the loose topsoil or sand in the area to simulate the effects of fog.
Light rain (difficulty 6, Sekhem 2): Although not a full-out storm, the precipitation is still sufficient to reduce visibility as with fog. In addition, driving becomes more challenging on the slick roads, applying a +1 difficulty penalty to all Drive rolls.

Read the Stars
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Divination + Celestial
Difficulty: Special
Sekhem: None
The stars hold many secrets, among which is the key to weaknesses in an opponent or auspicious times for magic. Careful astrological readings allow a mummy to unveil the heavens’ secrets and use them to advantage in casting other Hekau. The astrologer discovers the motions behind the gods, and she tailors her Hekau to take advantage of prevailing forces.
Once the character casts this ritual, his player makes a Divination roll (with no corresponding Attribute) against the difficulty of a subsequent Hekau effect. Successes add to the dice pool for the final spell or ritual. Say an astrologer wants to cast Read the Stars followed by Hiding the Stars, a spell with difficulty 6. Her player rolls Divination (difficulty 6) and gets two successes. The player then adds two dice to her dice pool for the Hiding the Stars casting.
Botching a Read the Stars attempt causes the mummy to interpret the omens incorrectly, which subtracts one die from the subsequent effect.
The Storyteller may also decide that this Hekau reveals specific times or places of import. A celestine who moves to a specified place or waits for the appropriate time may garner an additional die on the casting of a subsequent Hekau. When a mummy casts Read the Stars, the Storyteller might decide that the specific subsequent casting of Death’s Shroud will function most efficaciously if the mummy performs it at sunset following a funeral at a cemetery across town. The mummy’s player may gain an additional die for the spell if the character meets these conditions.

Sahu-Ra
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Appearance + Celestial
Difficulty: 6
Sekhem: 1
A simple but impressive incantation, the sahu-Ra takes but a moment to invoke. With this spell, the mummy takes on the mantle of Ra, shining with the sun god’s munificence.
Each success scored on this simple Hekau causes the celestine to glow with sunlit radiance for one turn. The light extends only a few feet from the mummy, but it has the qualities of soft, natural sunlight. It illuminates dark places, highlights the mummy, injures vampires and so on.
In game terms, a vampire suffers one level of aggravated damage each turn he’s caught in the radiance. If you use Vampire: the Masquerade treat the vampire as if it has been caught in indirect shrouded sunlight.

Weather Whispers
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Divination + Celestial
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: None
This Hekau is similar to Weather Sight, except that the astrologer gleans sounds carried along the wind. By manipulating the breeze mystically, the mummy draws forth words spoken upwind. Successes on the roll indicate the mummy’s success in separating the jumble of different voices into separate distinct conversations. Only the mummy hears these sounds. Those standing next to her hear only a strange susurration. Weather Whispers only carries sounds from upwind, although the celestine may use other magic to change the very course of the wind to suit her. More simply, she may adjust her position until she is downwind of the sounds she wishes to hear. The effect covers a small area and lasts for the scene.

Greater Weather Magic
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Occult + Celestial
Difficulty: Special
Sekhem: Special
With this level of mastery, the celestine can command drastic weather changes including thunderstorms, sudden cold snaps or hot spells. He may even extend the existing weather conditions – longer rain showers, colder weather, stronger winds – beyond their normal duration. Perhaps most dramatically, the astrologer can call lightning down from the very heavens.
As with previous Weather Magic rituals, the chart lists effect variables. A few sample options are described here. The variables for these samples assume that the caster is working on an average fall day over a notable area (high-60° Fahrenheit and partial clouds over a city). Again, having existing conditions closer to the desired variables lowers the difficulty.
Lightning strikes (difficulty 8, Sekhem 2): Tremendous electrical charges surge amid the clouds, the celestine can call them down on a target with an Occult + Celestial roll. The difficulty of the first strike is 7, and each subsequent bolt takes on a (cumulative) +1 difficulty penalty. This penalty reflects the fact that it becomes progressively harder to control the discharges. A lightning bolt is not a precision instrument. It inflicts 10 dice of lethal damage to whatever it strikes, and anything within one yard suffers five dice of lethal damage.
Snowstorm (difficulty 8, Sekhem 2): A freak snowstorm in autumn has effects similar to both desert wind and driving rain (which are described in the level-three Hekau). Furthermore, anyone exposed to the elements for the storm’s duration suffers one level of bashing damage per hour.
Thunderstorm (difficulty 6, Sekhem 2): As a snowstorm, although without the danger of frostbite and other exposure effects. Flooding may occur depending on recent weather patterns in the area, however.

Ra’s Awakening
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Cosmology + Celestial
Difficulty: 7
Sekhem: 2
Each morning, Ra passes across the sky and brings light to the world once more. With experience, the astrologer can learn to reflect Ra’s Awakening in a simple gesture.
The spell affects up to five people within the mummy’s line of sight. The celestine waves one hand in a rising arc, and each subject feels warmth overcome him as if he is greeting the rising sun. In a living creature (including a living mummy), this spell banishes fatigue as if the subject had undergone a full night’s sleep. Ra’s energy suffuses the target with alertness and readiness for a new day. The subject finds his concentration improved and his energy renewed. The difficulties of all mental tasks (including magic) decrease by one for the next hour, and even a wounded subject feels a surge of life that halves all wound penalties (rounded down) for the next hour.
In addition to its refreshing benefits, Ra’s Awakening seems to shine with the sun god’s munificence, illuminating each subject’s very soul. A target of the spell feels as if he is being watched and judged for his actions. A caring, generous and honest person (or one who believes himself to be) feels a positive acknowledgement of his strength. One who feels that he is somehow lacking or is weighed down by guilt is wracked with remorse. In game terms, a mummy’s player may roll Balance. Every two successes (round down) restore a point of Sekhem. A mortal character’s player may roll Willpower, with very two successes (round down) restoring one Willpower point. On a botch, some past guilt arises so strongly in the subject that she loses a point of Sekhem or Willpower, as appropriate.
Despite its potent life-bringing properties, Ra’s Awakening was developed initially as a weapon against the Followers of Set. Against vampires, the spell induces lethargy and slumber. Any vampire affected by the spell feels a sudden uncomfortable heat and an overpowering need to sleep, as if dawn had arrived. Most often, this effect results in the vampire collapsing into sleep within a turn and sleeping for a full hour. Only an attack or being set on fire will rouse the vampire from its induced slumber – although it’s often too late for the undead at that point. The vampire may spend a Willpower point to remain awake for the turn. Even a few seconds are usually enough for all but the most foolish vampire to make its escape. As long as it escapes the immediate vicinity, the effects of Ra’s Awakening dissipate. (Although the undead will likely retreat rather than face the spell’s debilitating effects again.)

Read the Tree of Life
Type: Ritual
Dice Pool: Divination + Celestial
Difficulty: 8
Sekhem: 1
Written among the heavens’ secrets are the lives of all mortals. Recorded on the Tree of Life by Seshat (the wife of Thoth), a skilled astrologer can discern these symbols. The mummy can unfurl the leaf of heaven that holds one life and decipher thereupon the future of the individual. Even the undead are not immune. Any being with a beginning and ending has a recorded fate.
Once a mummy reads the fate of a being, she can predict the general course of the being’s future with some accuracy. Such predictions are rather vague, of course. The writing of Seshat is complex and cryptic, and the figures become more blurred and distant the further one reads along the leaf of a life. Still, such divination affords many opportunities. The mummy can divine success or failure in some upcoming endeavor. By reading backward, the mummy can dig deeply into the subject’s history. A forewarned subject may even meet his fate with greater clarity and purpose. In effect, he gains a free re-roll when the prophesied event comes to pass. The Storyteller decides the clarity and comprehensibility of the secrets that this ritual reveals. Still, bear in mind that this is the most powerful and direct divinatory magic available through Celestial Hekau.
The time span into which the mummy can peer depends upon the successes scored:
Successes----Time Span
1---------------one day
2---------------one week
3---------------one month
4---------------one year
5---------------a lifetime

Sandstorm
Type: Spell or Ritual
Dice Pool: Occult + Celestial
Difficulty: 8
Sekhem: 3 + 1 per additional damage level
Sand holds a firm place in Egyptian imagery. The monuments of Egypt stand amid the sand as a bulwark against time, even as the rising and falling Nile shows that the sand can consume and defeat anything that pays too little heed to the natural cycle. An astrologer harnesses that timeless power to show that the cycle of weather can wear all things to sand, be it stone, metal or bone. The mummy may direct these energies in one of two ways.
The mummy can unleash a spell that creates a savage whirlwind of blasting sand. This column rises from the ground, swirling upward at ever-increasing speed. Such is the celestine’s power that she can even create sand from the very motes of dust in the air if no sand is immediately available. The whirling sand spreads into a column that is roughly one yard in diameter for each success scored.
The celestine may instead perform a ritual to raise a significantly more potent effect. In this case, the mummy performs a working similar to Weather Magic or Call the Stars, but with a devastating effect. As the spell concludes, shrieking winds stir the sands at the caster’s bidding, then move in a terrifying storm wall to envelop anything in their path. The storm summoned thus towers 500 feet, extends half a mile across by 100 feet deep and travels at up to 80 miles per hour in the direction of the prevailing winds for as long as the mummy retains sight of it.
Anything caught within the sand blast is scoured for one level of lethal damage each turn, plus one for each extra point of Sekhem into the Hekau (over the base Sekhem cost). The sandstorm also clogs engines, scours off paint and blinds anyone unfortunate enough to be hit (any victim must spend two turns clearing his eyes). Unlike the spell effect, the ritual does require the mummy to create the sandstorm with access to a significant amount of sand or loose dirt to achieve the full effect. Otherwise, the ritual still works, but it does so as a vicious windstorm instead. Devastating in its own right, this manifestation is the same except that the damage is bashing, not lethal.
Either version of this Hekau lasts for as long as the astrologer concentrates solely upon the storm. Taking damage is enough to shake the mummy’s concentration.

Wisdom of Isis
Type: Spell
Dice Pool: Occult + Celestial
Difficulty: Opposing magic
Sekhem: 2
This Hekau is named in honor of the goddess of magic. A Celestial astrologer can appeal to the divine to snuff the spells of others.
The difficulty for Wisdom of Isis equals the difficulty of the opposing spell. Successes scored remove successes from the enemy’s spell; if this effect removes all of the successes, the effect fizzles. This form of counter-magic is not restricted to weather control or divination spells, and it is effective even against non-Hekau powers. Thaumaturgy, Sphere magic and sorcery are all equally susceptible.
If the mummy’s player scores more successes than her adversary, she may choose to warp the spell effect to her desire by changing the target that's affected. Therefore, if a vampire uses a corrupting spell to make a subject vulnerable to suggestion, the mummy can counter it and send it back at the vampire or one of his lackeys.
A favored tactic of some celestines is to delay Wisdom of Isis with Hanging the Stars, then use it immediately in the event of hostile magic.