Bahiti Najwa (necromancer) (Fantasy OC)
Name: Bahiti Najwa
Name meaning: Bahiti (fortune) Najwa (said in a whisper)
Gender: female
Species: cursed human (with necromantic powers)
Age: 25
Nationality: Egyptian
Religion: Kemetism (belief in the Ancient Egyptian pantheon)
Appearance: 155cm (average female height for her time), really dark brown eyes that look almost black, really dark brown shoulder length hair that looks black unless exposed to light. Her skin is slightly lighter than the usual dark tan of the Egyptians due to some foreign ancestor a few generations ago. She has five additional eyes (all fully functional) in various places on her body: one at her navel, one just below her collarbone, one on the side of each shoulder, and one at the small of her back.
Clothes: She wears a deep purple dress with holes edged in gold where her extra eyes are located. She wears a loose, flowing white robe over this; the robe is very slightly transparent. She wears a gold silk pouch at her hip for carrying magical items. She wears a gold headpiece with amethysts set into it and a purple veil attached.
Personality: has an air of mystery, secretive, bitter towards some people (especially for priests/priestesses because of her mother), persuasive, unexpectedly bold and brash, resourceful, sly, clever, quiet and introverted but can be social when it is necessary,
Backstory: Bahiti was born a regular human. Her father was a scribe, and her mother was a High Priestess of Isis. However, as the priests and priestesses were sworn to celibacy, her mother had been forced to hide her pregnancy and abandon Bahiti and her father as soon as the baby was born. Bahiti lived with her father in that town until she was four years old, when her father noticed that his daughter was already starting to show a strong resemblance to her mother. Since Bahiti's mother was a High Priestess, both mother and daughter would be in extreme danger if word got out that the child existed, so they moved away to a different town.
Bahiti was well-educated by her father throughout her childhood, learning to read and write, while most others, especially women, were illiterate. She was exposed to all sorts of literature during this time, including the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a piece detailing the gods like Osiris and Anubis who ruled over the dead, how the bodies of the dead were preserved and how the burial rites were performed, and what the souls of the deceased would experience in the afterlife. This fascinated the young Bahiti, who developed a fascination and respect for death and the dead that was unusual and disconcerting to most. Bahiti knew that her destiny was linked to this somehow, so she studied further and eventually her studies began to extend into the realm of magic. By this time, she had reached adulthood and left her father in order to travel in search of this knowledge that she knew she would need in order to serve the dead as she believed it was her destiny to do. Finally, once she realised she had everything she needed to contact Osiris, ruler of the dead, and pledge herself to him, she had an epiphany: it was not her destiny to serve the dead, it was her destiny to have the dead serve her. She had read numerous writings detailing necromancy, the magic of the dead, and she realised that that was where her greatest potential lay, if only she had the power. So, she summoned Osiris to ask this power.
However, things did not go according to plan. For instead of Osiris, it was Horus who appeared before her, and he was not pleased. He knew the woman before him should not even have been born in the first place, and now this creature had the audacity to ask the gods for power? Still, he knew it was not his place to mete out divine judgment upon her. It was not her time yet. He also knew that if her ritual had gone as she had planned, Osiris would have at least considered giving her the power she sought, given how she had devoted herself to her studies of the dead. So, he granted her the necromantic power she sought, but with a cost. Horus himself was still not pleased at Bahiti's actions or her existence itself, so he cast a spell on her. Upon her body appeared numerous additional eyes, all fully functional. This would serve as proof of how her existence displeased the gods. Anyone who saw the eyes would know that she was cursed. However, curious to see what the women would do with her new powers and cursed existence, Horus vowed to leave her be for the rest of her days, as did the rest of the gods.
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