Gate of Memoirs/The Scorpion-Lord

Aesys finds her husband at last, but only pain and anguish awaits her.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Overcome"	Music: "Overcome"
 	
*The atmosphere in here is thick and forbidding, and the stench of rotting corpses permeates every nook and cranny.
*Thick layers of dust along the broken edges are a testament to the long years since this altar-like tomb beneath the city was sealed.
*Hetepheres and Aesys find their footing in this cavernous hall, the dim gleam of the dying sun barely illuminating the ground.
*The sound of skittering insectoid legs causes Hetepheres to whip around, eyes wide.
 	
*Hetepheres: I don't like this place.
 	
*Rahotep: Neither did the God-King, if he went to such lengths to seal this away.
 	
*Rahotep steps in behind them, placing a reassuring hand on Hetepheres' shoulder and nodding at Aesys.
*Rahotep: So this was where the rumbling came from, huh?
 	
*Hetepheres: The ground before the temple collapsed in a sinkhole all of a sudden, creating this subterranean entrance.
 	
*Aesys kneels down and dusts away the rotted remains of raiments beneath the the debris.
 	
*Aesys: These belonged to the Priests of Silence. They communed and carried out the Lord of Life's will.
*Aesys: Given the near-complete state of these garments, I can only surmise they were...buried alive.
 	
*Rahotep: The Lord of Life...I've heard that name before. His true name was never uttered, for fear of persecution...
 	
*Rahotep: Who are you, Aesys?
 	
*Hetepheres: Wait...I hear something...
 	
*Aesys: The Sovereign of Duat...he draws close.
*Clasping her hands in prayer, Aesys begins her lament.
*Aesys: Behold me seeking for thee—I am searching for thee to behold thee!
*Aesys: Behold thou my heart that grieveth for thee, Great Osiris!
 	
*The chittering and tapping of claws swells into a cacophony, bringing with it countless corpse-flies
 	
*which coalesce in black swirls around a monstrous shadow.
 	
*In that instance, dim memories within Rahotep's and Hetepheres' memories cried out in agitation.
 	
*Aesys' own look of terror betrayed the goddess's thoughts as her gaze fell on her husband—
Music: "Holy War"	Music: "Holy War"
 	
*Now a rotting, mummified upper body of a gaunt man attached to a vile, beastly scorpion body.
*Its cruelly hooked twin pincers snapped in anticipation of its next victims.
*Osiris: Know thy place, lady of Life.
*Osiris: You tread within my domain.
 	
*Hetepheres: (Aesys...is the Lady of the Horizons herself?!)
 	
*Aesys: No—no!
*Aesys: O Lord, o Husband, what hath become of thee?!
 	
*Osiris: Liberated from my prison at last, I shall now reclaim that which belongs to me.
*Osiris: My rightful kingdom, the netherworld Duat.
 	
*Osiris: Faithful hound, knowest not thy master?
 	
*Rahotep: Gh!
*Rahotep falls to a knee as the shard of Anubis stirs in resistance against the dark energies, 
*recognition and sorrow warring against each other.
 	
*Rahotep: I serve no unholy being like you!
 	
*Aesys thrusts out a hand to shield Rahotep and Hetepheres, anger burning fiercely in her eyes.
*Aesys: Osiris thou art not; he will not speak in this manner to our kin!
 	
*Osiris: Traitor!
 	
*Osiris: Rise, true faithful, and destroy them!
 	
*The chamber begins to rumble as the buried Priests of Silence rise from the debris,
*their rotting forms starkly contrasting against their pale garments.
 	
*Rahotep: I am the Arbiter now, and by my hand I will restore this balance!
 	
*Aesys: Chaos has destroyed you, twisted you beyond recognition!
*Aesys: Once more must I purify thee with flame—
*Aesys: The vile shall ever fear the radiant sun!