Zahi

52 (as of 4022)

53 (as of 4023)

### Residence

Iunu, Sepat of Ra (formerly)Narmer Orphanage, Sesheshet, Sepat of Nephtys (formerly)

Apeproid Laboratories

## Physical Description

### Eyes

Golden-yellow

**Zahi** is the Setepnetjer of Ra (Setepenra) and an orphan adopted by Heath Kheprini, a Smai. After living in the Apeproid Laboratories for a long time, he was released to retrieve his *Was* and then he was taken again. Because he is currently held hostage, the Eyes of Ra were created.

## Biography

### Early Life

The day Zahi was born is recorded to be one with the highest sun temperature in modern times. He was born in Iunu, Sepat of Ra, in the year 3970. His birth parents are unknown, but they are assumed to be part of the low class. They left him two days after he was born in a children's hospital along with his Setepenra amulet. The cloth he was wrapped in had the name "Zahi" poorly written. Thus, the reason behind his parent's abandonment of him seem to be originated from the fact that he was Chosen as a Setepnetjer. Although it is strange, because at that time Setepnetjeru were not seen as a threat, nor as a blessing. He then was put into an orphanage. The people who took care of him did not know he was a Chosen One.

When he was 3 years old, Zahi was moved along with many other orphans to other orphanages in Western Saturania due to a shortage of the budget in Iunu. Zahi was put into the Narmer Home for Children in Athribis, Sepat of Nephthys.

### Adoption

A year later he was formally adopted by Heath Kheprini, a rising businessman who had fertility issues. He was happily accepted by him and his wife at their home. It took Heath a year more to buy a couple of small pharmaceutical companies and found Kheprini Enterprises. In time his business was extended and he became very rich. After the Storm of Hermopolis, he was reached by the Smaiu of Athribis to join them, and being a witness of the recent events, he accepted. Around that time, too, Heath discovered that Zahi's only possession, the amulet, was the amulet of a Setepnetjer. His loving son turned into a potential monster in his mind.

### Experimentation

Heath then informed the Smaiu about it, and they coerced him into letting them research on Zahi to develop something they could use against other Setepnetjeru in the Arising. Heath reluctantly agreed and a six-year-old Zahi was taken to one of the warehouses Heath bought and later converted into a laboratory. Zahi was told that he held something in his genes that could be used to create a cure for the Pink Fever. Consequently, Heath's wife divorced him when he took her child away.

The complex was later put under the name of "Apeproid Laboratories". Zahi lived there his whole childhood, teenage years, and part of his adulthood running test after test, but his abilities never came out, because he needed to pass the Jerui trials first. By that time he discovered that he was a Setepnetjer and that the Pink Fever cure was a lie. Although he did not know exactly what it meant, only that he had something special in him that could help others, and needed harsh procedures to take it out. He became friends with Iara Miseht, a nurse that confided in him her newborn daughter was a Setepnetjeret. He warned her about the reality of the Apeproid Laboratories and advised her to run.

Eventually, Iara and her husband were killed and her daughter taken to the Laboratories. Having a new subject they could train, experiment on and have by their side, and one with a connection to the Duat, they freed Zahi in 4001 with the idea of taking him back after he completed his Setjebu successfully. Zahi was led to believe that he did not have any power, so he thought his adoptive father and the Smaiu would leave him alone.

### Life on his own

By the year 4002 he worked as a miner in a coal mine near Iunu. He had a colleague named Cleo who was a single mother. He was in love with her but was too shy to tell her.

Two years later he was called by his Setjebu.