FROM THE SHADOWS. A NEW EVIL WILL RISE. FACELESS. NAMELESS.
Since his appointment as Nomarch of Memphis, by the God-Pharaoh Rameses, Piay
has throw n himself into pulling the city back from the brink. The famous white city
walls have been rebuilt, the once starving inhabitants fed and every day caravans have
arrived from the desert wastes, filled with the many riches looted and hidden by the
Hyksos. But w hen the body of a murdered scribe is found sealed inside the newly
constructed city vault - the mark of Anubis, god of death, scraw led next to him in his
ow n blood - panic sweeps the city. Only the wisest man in all Egypt can solve this
mystery - Piay's mentor, the great sage Taita.
Called from his place at the God-Pharaoh Rameses' side, Taita's arrival in Memphis
calms the populace, but it isn't long before the mark of Anubis appears again, and
again. Taita and Piay are draw n into a battle of w its against a criminal mastermind
turned warlord, his aim - with the demise of the Hyksos - to see the kingdom of the
Red Pretender restored and the forces of Rameses crushed.
Will everything that Taita has fought for be torn asunder? Or will he and Piay finally
reunite the two kingdoms? Only time w ill tell. And time is running out.