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For the first time in centuries, great Kefi paws sink into the warm desert sands, the Pharaoh feels a nostalgic tingle at the sensation. This is not the same sands as in Ta. Of course the Miews and Penews don't treasure this feeling, wrapping their humanoid feet in cloth to spare burning themselves on the sands. The Penews meet with their wild kin, while the Miews marvel at the ruins. The Kefi pay no heed to those, they have a task given to them by the late Pharaoh, and that is infinitely more important.
>Action 1: Creation of the Shadow Library. A library of cursed tablets, each containing a Daemon/Tulpa, but with plenty of smaller tablets, containing lesser copies of each Tulpa.As the Cult of Zenmetjenu starts using their inner Daemons/Tulpas for contracts, the issue arises of having enough of them, as their creation is costly. At first the Kefi priests make a library of their Tulpas, contained in cursed clay tablets, which the priest can them fetch a Tulpa from when necessary. But as the tablets are created, duplicates appear, containing a similar but inferior Tulpa, a lesser clone. The original Tulpa is potent, but the lesser Tulpa requires an experienced Dream Mage to discern from the original, and when a Tulpa is bound, you wont know which you've been saddled with until they are unbound. Penew attendants are tasked with creating a plethora of lesser Tulpa, and they do not require as large of a clay tablet to contain, thus for every True Tulpa in the library, there are dozens if not hundreds of Lesser Tulpas alongside it. If the Kefi priests are expecting a Miew to break the contract, they can slip in a True Tulpa on their Shadow Contract, so they can be made an example of when they inevitably break the contract.
>Action 2: The Northern Expedition continues, Northwest. They are at the edge of the desert, within shall lie the ancestral home of the Kefi, perhaps even other Kefi.The wild Penews do not interest the Kefis, such meagre morsels are not worth the effort to conquer. The ruins similarly are uninteresting, what good is conquering somewhere there are no people to rule? The Kefi spend only as long as is needed to resupply, before continuing into the desert. There are many legends of Kefi before Ta-Kefi, of great warriors performing superKefian feats, whose burial mounds are so great they make hills or even mountains by themselves. The Ta-Kefi pyramid is a logical progression from this funerary practice. We will have to make a middleground between a burial mound and a pyramid, a hybrid of old and new. Though there is a need for more manpower, so hopefully we can encounter some wild Kefi soon, who shall help us make our great tomb.
