Khnum

**Khnum** is a God of the Nile River.

## Appearance

Khnum initially appears as a column of water in the general shape of a person bowing. He has pale skin, and appears lithe. He wears a white ram's head mask, with golden eyes, curved golden horns, and green and gold stripes along the snout, with a blue khat beneath it, almost entirely covering his face. He wears a golden usekh or wesekh, which connect to his white cloak when his cloak is corporeal. Beneath his cloak, he wears a short white shendyt, with a large belt. The belt is blue and gold, and the buckle is a golden square, with a large circular red gem or bead in the center, and a half circle/crown of blue and gold stripes. Beneath the buckle is a long fan of gold and blue striped feather-like strands, like a bird's tail.

Khnum can also appear as a wave of water, and form watery limbs.

After he is knocked out, Khnum's skin is gray and covered in dark corruption lines, like diseased veins, and his lips are marked with dark paint. Even comatose, only his upper body and clothes are corporeal, while his legs remain liquid, and appear to leak onto the floor of the Temple of Life, possibly resulting in the slight flooding in the chamber he sleeps in.

## Life

Khnum is one of Egypt's gods of the Nile River, and serves Isis. It's possible he also abandons her, like the other river gods, during her flight from Seth and Heliopolis, out of fear of retaliation from Seth. He potentially witnessed Isis filling the Nile with Osiris' essence, as well as Osiris' temporary resurrection by Isis and Horus' conception.

Khnum first appears in the story during the first match between Horus and Seth for the throne of Egypt. Isis calls him to her side while observing the match, and she orders him to join the river Horus and Seth are in to the Nile, so that she can help Horus breathe and win the match. Khnum agrees, and this allows Horus to survive for some time.

During Seth's sentencing, Isis calls Khnum to take Anubis away when Anubis begs for mercy for Seth. Khnum wraps up the struggling Anubis in his waters and holds him back. During Nephthys' testimony, Isis signals Khnum to drag Anubis away. But Anubis escapes, and runs back in time to hear that Osiris is his father, and Nephthys loved Osiris. When either Osiris seems to attempt to take over Anubis' body again, Anubis experiences another of his growth spurts, or the curse reacts, Anubis collapses, and Khnum, seemingly worried, picks him up and carries him away.

At some point after this, around the time Seth leaves Heliopolis, the curse on Anubis' arm attacks Khnum, knocking him unconscious.

Khnum remains in a coma recovering in the basement of the Temple of Life, and Isis and Nephthys use magic and Isis' special medicine on Khnum to help heal him, until "Foreign God"/"FG" steals it. Isis implies that without the medicine, something bad will happen to Khnum, or he won't ever wake up. Nephthys tends to watch over him and use her magic while Isis is busy, in the hopes that if they heal him, they can discover Anubis' whereabouts.

## Powers

Khnum has the ability to dissolve into water and reform himself from it, traveling through the smallest cracks in masonry. He can also change the path of the Nile, and merge it with other rivers.

## Relationships

#### Anubis

Khnum looks after Anubis, at least for a brief time.

#### Isis

Khnum is Isis' servant, and obedient to her commands.

#### Nephthys

Nephthys either worries for Khnum's well-being generally after he goes into a coma, and/or hopes to heal him so that he can tell her what happened to Anubis.

#### Seth

Seth blames himself for making the curse that attacks Khnum, at least in part because it means they don't have clear answers for Anubis' whereabouts, and because Foreign God stole the medicine intended to be used on Khnum and used it on Seth, instead.

## Trivia

* From 30-31 March 2019, Mojito shared a two-part unofficial comic featuring the *ENNEAD* cast in the folktale *Heungbu and Nolbu*, which is located in full on Mojito's twitter. In the second part, Khnum can apparently be seen in a pond with his headdress off, and is shown with long hair. This is the only time Mojito has seemingly drawn him without his headdress on, publicly. It's unclear if this will carry over to his canon appearance.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Mojito. *ENNEAD,* Tappytoon, English. Season 1, Episode 14.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mojito. *ENNEAD,* Tappytoon, English. Season 1, Episode 73.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Mojito. *ENNEAD,* Tappytoon, English. Season 2, Episode 14.
4. ↑ Mojito. *ENNEAD,* Tappytoon, English. Season 1, Episode 68.
5. ↑ Mojito. *ENNEAD,* Tappytoon, English. Season 1, Episode 45.
6. ↑ Mojito. *ENNEAD,* Tappytoon, English. Season 1, Episode 6.
7. ↑ Mojito. *ENNEAD,* Tappytoon, English. Season 1, Episode 69.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Mojito. *ENNEAD,* Tappytoon, English. Season 2, Episode 28.
9. ↑ Mojito. *ENNEAD,* Tappytoon, English. Season 2, Episode 7.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 모히또 Mojito [@mojito\_ennead]. "각 플랫폼당 10만이 넘어간 기념으로 옛날에 그렸던 흥부놀부 패러디 재업. [English translation: To commemorate the passing of 100,000 on each platform, reuploaded a parody of Heungbu Nolbu]." *Twitter*, 30 March, 2019, https://twitter.com/mojito\_ennead/status/1112055994886979584.