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OSIRION,

LAND OF PHARAOHS

OSIRION,

LAND OF PHARAOHS

Stepped To wer of Djedefar

Osirion

Cliffs of

Kusha-ta-Pahk

Alamein

Peninsula

Hor-Aha

Point of Interest

Ruins

The Sphinx

Head

The Seven

Stelae

Shiman-Sekh

To tra

The Swells of

Gozreh

Garden of

Shepeska

Xefon-Ra

Sahure

Wa stes

Lamasara

The Glazen

Sheet

Lamashtu's Flower

The Ruins

of Tumen

Ruins of

Akhenaten

Ruins of el-Amara

Sothis

Burning

Cape

Eto

The Footprints

of Rovagug

Pillars of

the Sun

Underdunes

Klarwa

Fountain

Asuulek's Mouth

Parched

Dunes

Mount Na-Ken

The Scorpion

Coast

Tar Kuata

Sokar's Boil

Tephu

Temple of An-Alak

Wa ti

Salt Hills

The Slave Tr enches

of Hakotep

Crook River

Ipeq

Pyramid

of Doom

Kho-Rarme

Pass

Ruins of Kho

The Temples

of Pharaoh Ahn

Mount

Osiki

Brazen Pe aks

Sand

Haven

Osirion

Stepped To wer of Djedefar

Cliffs of

Kusha-ta-Pahk

Alamein

Peninsula

Hor-Aha

Point of Interest

Ruins

The Sphinx

Head

The Seven

Stelae

Shiman-Sekh

The Swells of

Gozreh

To tra

Garden of

Shepeska

Xefon-Ra

Sahure

Wa stes

Lamasara

The Glazen

Sheet

Lamashtu's Flower

The Ruins

of Tumen

Burning

Cape

Sothis

Ruins of

Akhenaten

Ruins of el-Amara

Eto

Underdunes

The Footprints

of Rovagug

Pillars of

the Sun

Klarwa

Fountain

Mount Na-Ken

Parched

Dunes

Asuulek's Mouth

The Scorpion

Coast

Tar Kuata

Sokar's Boil

Temple of An-Alak

Tephu

Wa ti

Salt Hills

Crook River

The Slave Tr enches

of Hakotep

Ipeq

Pyramid

of Doom

Kho-Rarme

Pass

The Temples

of Pharaoh Ahn

Ruins of Kho

Mount

Osiki

Brazen Pe aks

Sand

Haven

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Osirion, Land of Pharaohs

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Osirion

Sothis

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OSIRION,

LAND OF PHAR AOH S

A nation of prideful people who till the current century

chafed under the yoke of foreign rule, Osirion now

stands independent once more, and both it and the rest

of Golarion’s nations look to its past to divine what the

future holds.

Since the cataclysmic fall of the Starstone in the Age of

Darkness, the desert nation has played host to one of the

irst lowerings of civilization as humanity clambered

its way out of barbarism. Untouched by the inluence of

the irst humans of Azlant, the native Garundi of Osirion

charted their own destiny as a nation and a culture,

potentially with deiic inluence from one of their own

ascended or even with aid from worlds beyond the dark

tapestry of night. Whatever the means, Osirion rose to

legendary heights during the Age of Destiny, led by

majestic, all-powerful pharaohs revered as living gods by

their subjects.

From their apex under the rule of the ancient god-

kings, Osirion’s civilization sufered periodic rises and

falls under diferent royal dynasties, dying a slow death

through complacency for most of a millennia before

ultimately succumbing to the conquering Qadiran armies

of the Keleshite Empire. Ironically, it was this oppression

that galvanized the Osirians once more, and under

Keleshite rule they sufered but refused to break. Now,

less than a century ater the death of their last foreign

sultan and the resumption of native rule, Osirion inds

itself led by a powerful and equally mysterious autocrat

versed in elemental magics and linked by blood to the

pharaohs of the Age of Destiny.

Although Osirion is oten assumed by foreigners to

be a monolithic sea of wind-blown sand, this view is a

lagrant overgeneralization. While it is true that hot,

sandy deserts comprise much of the arid landscape, and

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that the elemental-fueled khamsin storms deine Osirion’s

yearly cycles as much as the River Sphinx’s annual loods,

Osirion is packed with vibrant history, and sites of

enormous character and historical importance cover its

breadth from mountains to shores.

since Khemet III’s announcement opening the deserts to

foreign exploration, the situation has beneited the city

greatly, but brings risks as well as rewards.

Not a day goes by without trade caravans and parties

of adventurers arriving at the city gates with horses and

camels loaded with treasures from the depths of the

desert. While dozens of merchant houses have joined those

already plying the interior trade routes and gold-hungry

mercenaries lock to exploit the desert’s buried wealth,

bandits and less archaeologically adept adventurers

have taken to raiding excavations in progress as well as

targeting poorly defended merchant caravans. This would

be expected with Eto’s economic explosion, but in the 6

months since the last khamsin season, the situation has

devolved dramatically, with attacks becoming both more

frequent and more deadly. Rather than human bandits

and unscrupulous treasure hunters, the few survivors of

the latest attacks tell of organized packs of bloodthirsty

gnolls and even summoned demons raging out of the

desert depths.

An, the City of Triangles

The irst of Sothis’s trio of southern sister cities, An

was founded in –107 ar by Pharaoh Hirkoshek I as a

permanent outgrowth of the temporary worker city

housing the laborers and artisans working to construct

his pyramid. Originally lacking a title, An’s “City of

Triangles” appellation comes from both the distant

Mount Na-Ken and its surrounding peaks to the city’s

northeast and the pyramids visible on the southern

horizon. Like mirror counterparts to the mountains, the

pyramids include those of Pharaoh Hirkoshek himself

and his minor dynastic successors Hirkoshek II, Zahur I,

and Kamaria the Brazen (infamously known as the only

pharaoh to openly revere an aspect of Rovagug).

As prominent as they are, the pyramids that lend

An its title were plundered long ago. Despite this, they

still provide for a steady stream of explorers hoping

to uncover a hidden chamber, reveal an ancillary

tomb overlooked through the millennia, or prey upon

other explorers like themselves. Adventurers still do

occasionally uncover small tombs along the outskirts

of the principal necropolis, though the ruins hold the

danger of desert beasts, enraged mummiied guardians,

and bandits. The pyramid of Kamaria, though long since

scavenged of any valuables, is a danger in and of itself,

due to its prominence as a place of unholy pilgrimage

for the cult of Rovagug. To this day, the cult remains

underground but entrenched within An, preying upon

visitors to the pyramids and drawing monsters from out

of the Salt Hills into the ruin complex and occasionally

the city itself.

Footprints of Rovagug

Osirion’s western deserts, encompassing a region

roughly bound between the Barrier Wall Mountains,

the Junira, and the Crook, are largely free of windblown

sand. While just as parched as the majority of western

Osirion, the dunes give way to hundreds of square miles

of desolate, rocky terrain. More than just the foothills

to the Barrier Wall, this region, known widely as the

Footprints of Rovagug, is dotted by several regions of

hot springs—like mocking, mirror counterparts to

desert oases—and Osirion’s only volcanoes: Sokar’s Boil

and Asuulek’s Mouth. Despite the daunting terrain,

Osirian nobles frequent the region’s springs in the

belief that bathing in their waters carries a rejuvenating

and healing efect.

The two volcanoes are separated by 50 miles of rocks and

ash from ancient eruptions. Today only Asuulek’s Mouth

is active, and for the past few centuries it has maintained

an active magma lake at its shallow, open summit. While

the Mouth froths and emits a constant plume of steam and

smoke, its only recorded eruptions have been minor afairs

with little danger outside of the sparsely populated rocky

desert around its base. The Boil, on the other hand, may be

a lurking nightmare.

Travelers wisely avoid Asuulek’s Mouth, and not only for

its periodic but minor eruptions. Rather than the volcano,

the true danger is the burning mountain’s namesake:

Asuulek, an ancient red wyrm who lairs somewhere

inside of the cone, potentially within the molten lake

itself. Asuulek has historically alternated between

decades of near-hibernation and equally long stretches of

activity marked by destructive raids and ierce responses

Eto

A central point along the trade routes from Thuvia, and

from Shiman-Sekh to Sothis, the city of Eto has seen its

fortunes rise in recent years as foreign trade has waxed,

irst under the reign of Khemet I and continuing with his

son the Crocodile King and currently the Ruby Prince.

The city’s residents and its merchant elite would have

been overjoyed by that alone, but in the last year they

have seen their cofers swell as Eto has become a nexus for

adventurers seeking to explore Osirion’s central deserts.

With the ingress of native and foreign treasure hunters

alike, the population has risen with a concurrent inlux

of laborers, tradesman, and merchants eager to supply

the explorers with everything they might need, as well as

many luxuries they don’t. Similar to the events in Sothis

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