Set | Egyptian

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✧ Willful

✧ Daring

✧ Passionate 



Negatives (At Least 3):

✦ Mean

✦ Short tempered

✦ Belligerent



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Parents: Geb (father) and Nut (mother)

Siblings: Osiris (brother), Isis (sister), Nephthys (sister)

Other Family: Nephthys (sister-wife), Anubis (son), Wepwawet (son), Horus (nephew), Sehkmet (aunt), Atum/Ra (grandfather), Neith (second wife), Sobek (son), Amtcheret (third wife), Upuat (son).

Important Others: Anat (consort), Astarte (consort)

History:

Set began his life violently, clawing his way out of Nut's womb. This would foreshadow the part he would come to play in life, and the violent disorder and chaos he would sow. As he grew older, he would grow to develop feelings for his beautiful sister Isis. Feelings that then became obsession when his brother Osiris took Isis to be his sister-wife. This infuriated Set and left him feeling cheated, but he quelled these emotions as he in turn married Nephthys, had a few kids, settled down....somewhat. Lies. He isn't one for just 'settling'. The fact that Osiris was the king never sat well with him, and he only grew more bitter and jealous towards his brother as time went on.

When Osiris ruled over Egypt, he began to make many changes and brought thing such as wheat, barley, grapes and wine, and even tools to the land. Things vastly improved from a time of a barbaric and cannibalistic society. The king brought stability and order to the land (ew. Who needs order), but eventually he felt he needed to share this with more of the world. So he left Isis to rule in his absence while he went on an expedition to bring these advancements to the world. While he was gone, Isis proved to be a competent ruler and encountered few problems. However, not everyone was pleased with the arrangement. Set, for one, had his jealously flare up at what Osiris achieved, and so he plotted to assassinate him.  

He gathered 72 conspirators (including even the queen of Ethiopia) and began to work on his plan to take down his brother once he had returned. With the sly work of a trickster, Set crafted a highly ornate sarcophagus that precisely matched the measurements of Osiris's body. Then, once that was done, Set brought the box to a party that he knew his brother would be at, and informed everyone that whoever could fit in the box would win it. Of course everyone had to try, because the box was so positively gorgeous that they could hardly imagine not getting their hands on it. However, much like those who tried to pull Excalibur from its stone, none who tried could fit the box. Until Osiris. When he laid down in it, he found it to be his perfect match - exactly as Set had planned. Quickly, he and his conspirators nailed the lid shut and sealed it with molten lead.

While the majority of his fellows dealt with the shocked party goers, Set and a select number hauled the box to the Nile as Osiris suffocated within. Tossing it in, Set watched it float to sea and felt a spark of triumph. He didn't, however, account for that fact that Isis would feel her husband's death. While she was in the village of Chemmis, near Thebes, she sensed what had happened and fell into deep mourning. As Set celebrated his victory with his lackeys, Isis returned to search for her husband's body. Set imprisoned Isis as he felt she was a threat to his power, as he had declared himself king. He ruled Egypt in the absence of Osiris, exhilarated at his apparent victory. Meanwhile, it took several months before Isis escaped and went out to search for Osiris, before she found some children who spoke of an ornate box floating down the river. The box has washed up on shore in Byblos, and there a great tree grew around it. A tree that was then cut down to be used in the construction of a palace. This piece contained the body of Osiris, and Isis had much to do to get it back. Once she had, she managed to revive Osiris enough to be blessed with his child. Needless to say, Set was not at all pleased with the news of an impending nephew, nor that she had managed to retrieve Osiris (though, the others had hidden his body away where Set would not, hopefully, find it). 

While on a moonlit boar hunt (or so he claims), Set found Osiris's embalmed and mummified body and swiftly tore it into 14 pieces. He threw them into the Nile to let the river dispose of them. This time, for sure, he was rid of his brother. Once more though Isis went to find her husband and found all his parts minus one, which had been eaten by an alligator. This time she was not able to bring him back to the land of the living after putting him back together, so Osiris became the Lord of the Dead. Set had thus succeeded in permanently usurping his brother from the throne. In a way.

His time as King however was swiftly drawing to a close, as Horus decided to challenge him for the throne, something he believed was his right to do, once he had come of age. Due to the intervention of other gods at Isis's begging, Set had not been able to rid himself of the child before this moment came. His wife had helped hide Isis when it was time for Horus to be born, and continued to hide the woman and her new son in the swamp lands to the north as Set tried to hunt them down. He even fought Behdet in a river battle when the god engaged Set to distract him. Oh how this pissed Set off. It was alright though....he had plenty of time to deal with Horus. He was an immortal god, after all.

When Horus challenged Set for the throne, they entered into battle as Set refused to stand down for what he had worked hard to get. This battle was a long one with neither gaining ground, until Set resorted to some incredibly questionable and underhanded methods to try and win the fight when it was pulled into a court dispute overseen by Ra. This plan backfired on him greatly, involving an extremely embarrassing moment around lettuce and the birth of the Moon Disc that Thoth took as his afterwards. Set tries to forget this ever happened. In the end, Horus was awarded the kingship and Set had to step down. This was something he would never forgive, and to this day he still feels a slow burning hatred towards Horus whenever he thinks back on this.

Over the years, Set has continued to pursue Isis, though nothing has come of it. He also spent his time dallying with various consorts, even some lovely goddesses from other cultures. How Nephthys still remained married to him is a miracle beyond his understanding. Eventually he gained two more wives, having children with them all.  As the centuries passed, he would gain and lose many followers, and gradually the roles he found himself holding grew more and more dark and sour. He found himself being being called the cheif god of Egypt again when the Hyksos invaded and claimed him to be their patron god. This was something he could accept, as it gave him power once more. But once more his kingdom would crumble from under him once the Hyksos were disposed of. Ostracized by the great society that once had worshiped him as their king, Set was now called the enemy of Egypt. And to him, he was of the mind-set of "You think of me as your enemy? Then by all means, I will be." It was during this time that he twisted his forms, and more and more took on that which he knew the Egyptians feared most. He sowed immense chaos and turmoil, taking out his grudges and fury on the land and its people. Admittedly he may have gone a little overboard, but you know. Hindsight is 20/20. 

He would once again turn his focus to attempting to completely destroying Osiris's body, but this would be his downfall. Despite his great strength, he met his match in the cunning of Anubis. He tried various ways to steal the body out from Anubis's watchful eyes, and while he would succeed each time, it was a victory that never lasted long before he would be caught and severely punished by Anubis in more and more grueling ways as his son tried to teach him a lesson and dissuade him from trying again. However Set was a stubborn one who was hard pressed to be turned away from his goals, and unfortunately this bullheaded-ness would result in his 'death'. Anubis gradually tired of Set's "mischief", and finally killed Set. He flayed his skin and set fire to his corpse, before wearing Set's skin as a disguise to sneak into his camp and kill all his followers. What an insult. 

In the afterlife, Set's anger and general thirst for destruction was vastly cooled down. He spent his days riding the front of Ra's solar barque to defend it from Apophis, a great monster of chaos that sought to destroy the sun god. This gave him much time to think on his life, and all he had done and failed to do. Set continued to feel bitter towards the people of the land, and all that their prayers and worship had wrought upon his name and reputation. He focused this energy on battling Apophis, and while he slayed the beast each night, it would simply be reborn the next day and so gave him a continuous foe to beat his emotions against. At one point it amused him to think about the fact that he was, in a way, fighting himself as both he and the monster were the embodiment of similar chaos. 

Set's feud with Horus would eventually be laid to rest, leaving just annoyance and some bitter resentment in place of his former hatred and urge to destroy. Set, one night, had been bitten by an unknown creature while on Ra's solar barque. Poisoned in a way he could not heal, he found himself suffering a pain unlike anything he had ever experienced before. Horus used this as an opportunity to set aside his differences and offered to help his uncle heal. But to do so, Set had to relinquish to him his secret name. Secret names held great power, and to have such a name from someone gave you control over them in ways that could easily be abused. Set knew this (and honestly was in the abuser category for it), so he was immensely reluctant to pass it over to one he had spent so long trying to destroy, fearing retaliation in his weakness. Despite the agony he was in, Set proceeded to be a little shit in giving Horus extremely evasive false riddles to solve for his name. Until finally, he gave in and spoke the truth. After Horus obtained Set's true name, he used the power of it to heal Set's injury.

Since then, Set had been spending his time watching the world as the centuries passed, observing the rise and fall of the great society that had once worshiped him and his family, and the  way Egypt rose once more in a modern setting. He's become annoyed with how humans seem to have forgotten how to properly respect the old gods, and this has made him restless. When he hadn't been on the solar barque, he had spent his time exploring around to find all the secrets within the kingdom of the afterlife, finding many pathways that not even Osiris knew about. Paths only Tricksters can see. Set kept these secrets to himself, plotting and waiting for the right time to emerge again. In the 1900's, he used one such passageway to escape and return to the surface. Set spent some time exploring the world away from Egypt, curious to see what else it had to offer while looking for humans he could sway and influence to restart a following. In the 1930's he landed in America, and had decided it was time for some fun. He began to sow his chaos again, helping to worsen the Great Depression by bringing a severe years long drought to the southern plains. Set reveled in the suffering his power brought, and the impact from his drought was compounded by the ill-informed farming practices of the humans who lived there. Such a combination that caused the disaster it did (honestly it went above and beyond his original expectations, how delightful!) renewed Set's vigor, and he decided that this was how he would spend the next few centuries (or until the other gods noticed he was missing and managed to catch him). He liked the idea of bringing such suffering to the humans who had made him the bad guy in his homeland, and then had (in his eyes) forgotten about him. Even if he couldn't make them remember, he'd make them suffer. Though, he had learned to reign in his desires, knowing he couldn't continue if he made such a spectacular display that he gave away his location. So, he's been careful with the number of storms and droughts he brings about.

Since that historical event, (his "awakening" as he calls it) Set has been living among the humans disguised as a simple man. He's held many names over the years, and simply slips away when he has had his fill of a city and an identity. Many times he has been the originator behind the storms and droughts that have hit the areas around the city he is staying in, but he has also simply helped natural storms to grow in fury. It depends on what kind of mood he's in when something like a tornado or hurricane hits. Set has no intention of returning to his job on Ra's solar barque anytime soon, fully intending to continue to enjoy the free life.








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Experience: 11+ years

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