House Zamonth

**House Zamonth of Hamunaptra** was once a Court House until it became a Expelled House when they conspired against Saturania with the Romans during the Roman Conquest. They served for millennia since the reign of Sekhemperamun I, when Zamonth became a member of his council. Their seat is at Hamunaptra in Khalem on Per-Zamonth. The patriarch or matriarch of the family was given the title of "Neb of Hamunaptra" or "Nebet of Hamunaptra", but that ended once they where Expelled, according to legend they were punished with the Bloodcurse, and House Ptolemaios of Hamunaptra took their place in the Court.

Their symbol as a once Court House are a pair of crossed curved knifes commonly used in animal sacrifices.

Their patron deity is Montu, god of war and battle strategy.

## Coat of Arms

The head of a reddish bull with a cobra in the middle of its horns on a black field flanked by two curved knives, their sigil.

Since the Middle Ages the legendary sword Harmonthis was also associated as one of their emblems, as they became its keepers.

## Origins

### The Fourth Clan

After the First Arising the Netjeru created five groups of people from each of the Five Stars and put them in different parts of the world, giving them the instruction to reach its heart, where their human representatives would be. Years passed and each Clan finally reached the Benben and kneeled before Auron and Ket, filling the Khalemian Valley with humankind.

The Fourth Clan came from caverns in the north, where they used to live surrounded by darkness until they eventually found their way out. It is said that the god Montu protected them in their voyage to the heart of the world.

### Zamonth

Seven centuries later, when the first Pharaoh, Sekhemperamun I, was crowned as one, a member of each Clan joined the Pharaoh's Court to give council to the Pharaoh. Zamonth was the candidate of the descendants of the Fourth Clan to become a Neb.

Zamonth's kin kept his name as their family's name, House Zamonth of Hamunaptra

## History

### Betrayal

When the Roman Conquest began, the Zamonths were afraid of their family being executed or tortured, so they began to ally with the Romans through marriages to keep themselves alive and protect the House of Amun.

After years passed, the new Zamonth generations, now with Roman Blood, worked as a doble agent by telling the Roman Senate the secret Court's plans to defeat them. When the Court discovered House Zamonth's betrayal to the Pharaoh, they used it as a tactic to fight the Romans.

In the Battle of Independence, the Egyptians ended victors after their strategy with the Zamonths worked out. The Pharaoh Sekhemperamun II, the first after the Conquest, punished the House not by executing them, but by puting on their blood the Bloodcurse, to challenge little by little their pride, which they were known for. This curse would make them inherit mental and physical illnesses and decrease their fertility rate. It also left Per-Zamonth in a perpetual decaying state.

House Ptolemaios replaced them in the Court, and they became a Expelled House, although they kept their home in Hamunaptra.

## Trivia

* House Zamonth used to marry within the family for centuries, lasting even longer than the incest tradition of the House of Amun, which ended little after the Roman Conquest.