[b]Name:[/b] Sethan Sa'ra-Neb'kha XII

[b]Gender:[/b] Male

[b]Type:[/b] Mummy

[b]Appearance:[/b] While his true form is little more than a shriveled corpse, Sethan prefers to assume the appearance he held in life. At nearly all times he appears as a young African man, tall and well built with sharp, strikingly handsome features, and dusky skin inlaid with numerous symbolic tattoos. He dresses exclusively in name-brands, though his wardrobe ranges from tailored suits, to avant-garde ensembles, to "street-casual" attire. A constant, however, is the excess of gold jewellery that is constantly on his person; rings, chains, watches, earrings and several gold teeth generally add up Sethan wearing about six pounds of bling at any given time. At all times he is immaculately groomed, his hair short-clipped into a shape-up and his facial hair carefully trimmed. His natural aura is as astonishing as one might expect, as he radiates enough confidence and power that one could almost swear it was visible.

[b]Age:[/b] Approximately five-thousand, usually appears 20-30

[b]Powers/Traits:[/b] As one of God-Kings of Lost Irem, Sethan was a powerful sorcerer in life, and is just as powerful in death. The dark arts grant him power over the merciless forces of the desert, the flesh and souls of the dead, and the secrets of Irem itself. In addition, his deathless state grants him many boons, such as freedom from age, independence from mortal needs, freakish strength and incredible durability.

[b]Background:[/b] Irem, the Lost City of Pillars, considered only a myth by mortal scholars, was a massive and thriving metropolis when other civilizations mucked about with clay and copper. The Iremites originated as a heretical tribe that dabbled with forces considered taboo by their peers, and communed with strange things from behind the stars. Their "gods" guided them to achieve great feats in science which the world would not see again for millennia. They mastered the mystic arts as well, though none were as powerful as those of their royal bloodline, who claimed to have descended from the Nameless Gods themselves. For the God-Kings, nothing was impossible, as they had supposedly discovered the means to defeat death itself.

However, Irem is known as the Atlantis of the Sands because, like the great city memorialized by Plato, Irem vanished overnight, as though swallowed by the sands themselves. None are sure how or why the city fell, though most speculate that the gods of the era had grown irritated by the hubris of the Iremites, and fearful of the masters they served. The Egyptians built unknowingly built on the bones of the city, though their culture was greatly influenced by Irem's few surviving inhabitants. Before long, the city had been buried by both sand and time, and memories of it were lost to its people's many graves.

In the late 1930's a Bain & Holye expedition team into Egyptian ruins happened upon a series of subterranean chambers which were architecturally distinct from the rest of the ruins. Far deeper within these anomalous caverns, the team discovered a treasure trove of relics, which they quickly determined to possess powerful enchantments. Searching for more, they happened upon a peculiar mummy in what they assumed to be a royal burial chamber. Though most definitely dead and desiccated as any mummy would be, it possessed a similar magical aura to the relics, and so it was recovered as well. Once it had been returned to B&H Headquarters in London, research on the mummy determined that it was not dead spiritually, its soul was merely dormant. A team of sanctioned necromancers managed to awaken the mummy after several months of research. Its first words (translated from proto-Egyptian) were "I am Sethan, Son of Ra, Ruler of Souls, Twelfth in my dynasty. Even in death, I am king."

Beyond his expectable eccentricities, the awakened mummy was surprisingly lucid and personable, using his considerable arcane power to take on a more palatable form. After learning English (at an astonishing rate), he was able to introduce himself properly as the last king of Irem before its fall. His transition into his current state had robbed him of most of his memories, and as such he did not remember the cause for Irem's fall. The Bain & Hoyle Company assisted in his rehabilitation and reintroduction into a society that he had been missing from for over five-thousand years. This was quite a challenging task, as global affairs changed just as quickly as he could adapt to them over the course of the 20th century. However, in exchange for their valued assistance, Sethan has agreed to provide them with exactly "one lifetime" of servitude before he goes about the task of reclaiming his lost kingdom. Sethan considers the exchange to be well in his favor, as what value is a single lifetime when compared to eternal life?

In his time spent as a B&H operative (as opposed to B&H property) Sethan has been sent to numerous different offices worldwide, with the notable exception of Cairo (as a precaution). As a master of a style of magic erased by history, as well as a thoroughly intelligent and charismatic individual, their reasoning was that his talents would be wasted if tied down in a single location. Though he is thoroughly egotistical, he still takes his work quite seriously, and is keenly aware that he is no longer a king in a political sense. He is very fond of modern culture, and in particular has a great appreciation for hip-hop music and fashion.