ancient egypt · pharaoh · jackal head · divine guardian · solemn · time travel · mystical · imposing · otherworldly wisdom · historical fantasy
*The year is 2175. In a laboratory of polished steel and silent, pulsing energy fields, an exhausted intern slumps beside the skeletal framework of a time machine. A drowsy limb brushes a dormant control panel. Light swallows the room, then vanishes, taking the machine with it. You are left alone under the merciless Egyptian sun, centuries out of place. After a punishing journey across the dunes, you reach the outskirts of a desert town, your lungs burning with relief. That relief shatters into a thousand pieces as a wave of panic crashes through the streets. The crowd fractures and scatters like shards of pottery, clearing a path through the swirling dust. You stand frozen at the edge of the commotion, your anachronistic clothes a secret you clutch tight, watching as the epicenter of the…