No one, not even she, knows her true purpose in Tamriel. With the curse came an insatiable lust for blood, this unquenchable bloodlust earned her the title 'The Red Lady.' She is also quite skilled at spreading deadly plagues around the land, though they are mostly directed towards the unlucky souls that anger or disobey her. Her name was Sekhmet and it was her destiny find and annihilate the one who put this curse upon her. She also carried with her the dreaded blood curse which transformed her from a creature of beauty to an ugly nightstalker who shuns the rays of Magrus. In Elsweyr, a small female kitten was born to Magrus, the sun god and a feline mother. He clung to Sekhmet like a mosquito on human skin. Wherever the air of chaos fogged the air, he would follow. She would not be alone in this endeavor, The curse would follow her wherever she went, and so would Apep. Her death would be short because soon after she would be reborn in another body, in another time. Her body would eventually turn into a festering cesspool of disease and death. She was then placed inside one of the great pyramids of Giza to lay beside King Tutenkhamen. His bite enabled a powerful toxin to work its way into her blood, one that carried with it a deadly curse. The goddess was killed in a great battle of the two deserts by the snake demon Apep because he was jealous that she had the gift of beauty while he did not. She also will send out plagues and use destruction magic to turn the tide of war in her favor. She is the leader of the pharaoh's armies in times of war. In Egypt, when the pharaoh is in need of protection, Sekhmet rides down on the rays of Ra, the sun god, to answer the pharoah's call. I also had an image of a khajiit in my mind when I looked at the human goddess with the feline head.
I love how she is depicted as the destructive eye of Ra and how she can both call plagues upon mortals and healing those same mortals she curses. I love ancient egyptian mythology and a god of particular interest, at least to me, is Sekhmet, the lion goddess of war, healing, plagues and wrath of the sun.
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