In the necropolises of the Tomb Kings of Khemri stand the Ushabti, great statues carved in the likeness of the beast-headed gods of Nehekhara, and when the mortuary priests speak the words of animation, these guardians take up their Ushabti Great Weapons and stride forth to war. Each is a colossal blade, axe, or glaive, sized for the towering stone warriors who wield them, and graven with the sacred hieroglyphs that bind spirit to statue.
The Ushabti are among the mightiest servants of the Tomb Kings, and the weapons they carry match their terrible strength. A single sweep of an Ushabti Great Weapon can cleave a warrior in two, shatter a shield-wall, or hew the legs from a charging monster. The stone guardians feel no fear and know no fatigue, advancing with the slow, inexorable tread of the desert itself, their great weapons rising and falling in a rhythm as ancient as the tombs they protect.
These weapons were consecrated in the golden age of Nehekhara, when the priests of the mortuary cult first learned to trap the essence of the gods within carven stone. To face the Ushabti is to war against the divine guardians of a civilisation that death itself could not end, and the sweep of their great weapons carries the weight of thousands of years of vigil. Where they march, the sands run red, and the enemies of the Tomb Kings are ground to ruin beneath blades that were old before the coming of men.
The armoury continues
