Set the Deceiver

Set, the chaotic goddess of deserts, storms, and trickery, is notorious among the Urzyma pantheon for her greatest crime—the murder of her own brother, Osiris, over rulership of the ancient lands. While this allowed his subsequent rebirth as the ruler of the netherworld Duat, Set was shunned as an outcast by the rest of her brethren, itinerant forevermore. Only Thoth, the goddess of knowledge, remains impartial to the entire affair—for reality, even for gods, is never black and white. In several of her scribes' inscriptions dismissed (and later, destroyed) by Osiris' Priests of Silence as blasphemy, the vagabond followers of Set's benighted path attest that the Lord of Life's murder in the physical realm was necessary. Without an immortal figure to watch over the passing of mortal souls, the underworld would be a lawless realm, fit to one day overturn the Balance of the world. Chaos, while an inherently dark and destructive force, served as a counterbalance—the Shadow of the Sun. When the marked mortal known as the God-King rose to infamy, several of the gods assumed treachery on her part. Suspicion deepened as the Deceiver herself vanished from court, and it was only Thoth's intervention and the relative silence of Ptah that prevented the pantheon from mounting a god-hunt. Few, however, know of Set's ultimate role in this spiral of darkness. Where even the Architect obeyed Order without question, Set dared to challenge the wheels of fate herself. Indeed, there may be a seed of truth in the inscriptions the Priests of Silence refused to acknowledge: that Set, for all her capriciousness, had bestowed upon mortals that most human of traits—defiance.