Mirage Zamonth

**Mirage Zamonth** was the Zamonth matriarch in the 3910's. She is known for founding a new era for the Smaiu after forging an alliance with the Church of Atum.

Mirage is the mother of Brandon Zamonth and grandmother of Senka Zamonth.

## Biography

### Rebirth of the Smaiu

Mirage Zamonth was an only daughter, and it came upon her to save her dying family from poverty. Through becoming a member of the Church of Atum and her natural charisma, she got many powerful contacts.

From a young age Mirage discovered she was sensible to Heka, therefore she could become a magician by learning ancient spells written by Zamonth priests. However, she only got to channel it weakly through her *ba*.

Before her time, the Smaiu, Followers of Set, were an extremely disorganized and decentralized congregation, spread all over the continent in dozens of subgroups. Not only that, but most of them had very demonic and ritualistic traditions, where blood sacrifices were made and dark magic was attempted in adoration of absolute Chaos.

When she became an Atumian Elder in 3915, Mirage decided to reorganize the Smaiu, claiming her power as a Zamonth, who hosted Smaiu masses in antiquity. She joined forces with some Saturanian Elders and met with the different Smaiu gatherings of the continent. The majority joined her cause, defined by finding a way to save mankind when the Arising arrived, particularly ending the barbaric elements of old traditions. Many of the people that joined her were aspiring businesspeople, who, due to her contacts, became influential, rich, and powerful individuals, thus making them able to do something significant for their goal.

The Smaiu, now Followers of Set and Heralds of Atum, were given a new dogma very much aligned with that of the Church of Atum; preaching for each Smai to play the role of Atum in the world of the living, and practicing salvation in plans to save the Remetj instead of evangelization.

Mirage then became the Khalemian Smaiu Representative, the most important figure of the Smaiu, outranking the Smaiu Representatives of each city. She also established the old Red Priest tradition, where each Smaiu congregation had a Red Priest conducting the religious aspects of the meetings, which she chose according to their sensibility to Heka. Mirage also rehabilitated the Khalem Catacombs, kept hidden from the surface for decades, in order for the Khalemian Smaiu to go in secret to the Smaiu meetings in the chambers under Per-Zamonth.

### Harmonthis Vision

In the first years of the Smaiu reorganization, Mirage claimed to have a vision were she was told that the sword Harmonthis, an old Smai family heirloom of House Zamonth, was vital in providing Apophis with its Arising, but that it could only be used when the Second Phase of the Age of the Chosen Ones commenced, namely after the second decade of the 41th century. She was met with skepticism the first years, but when the birth of the first Setepnetjer was announced in 3948, meaning the Age of the Chosen Ones started, all the Smaiu believed her. Around the same time, with the world population speculating about the near end of the world and a increasing resurgence in the Netjeri Faith, the Smaiu tripled its number of members worldwide.

Thus, the Smaiu, the only people knowing an almost exact date for the Second Phase, prepared to actually begin their masterplan by the date of Mirage's decree.

### Family

She married Roy Akh, an Atumian, and together had three children, the largest number of Zamonth children in years: Lionel, Tatiana and Brandon Zamonth. After realizing that Senka, Brandon's only son, inherited her sensibility to Heka, she taught him what she knew. He also only managed to practice a weak form of *ba* magic.

Mirage died before each of their children and most of their families died tragically.

## Trivia

* A set of stairs overlooking a large portrait of Mirage is Nathan's favorite spot in Per-Zamonth, as he describes it is the "quietest" place in the mansion.