In ancient times, the city of Mohkadun housed an Egypt-like society with pyramids, mummies, and a series of gods.
Archeology
The Pyramid
The first encounter with Mohkadun in Sluggy was when Riff and Torg found a pyramid in Tunesia.
They ended up spending Christmas trapped inside the pyramid, with snakes, pitfalls, bones and a cursed mummy.[1]
The Necklace
Torg found a necklace inside the pyramid and gave it as a gift to Zoë.
The necklace was cursed, however, and Zoë turned into the form of a camel.[2]
Doing a bit of research they realised that the necklace came from Mohkadun, and found the two words "shupid" and "kwi" turned the wearer from human to camel and back.[3]
In ancient times
People of the city
The ancient city is profiled by a few personalities.
King Terohtep Farahn is the stern ruler of the city, disciple of the god of power and a fan of hand-cuttings.
Siphaniana is the queen of Mokhadun and the favored wife of King Farahn. Siphaniana are not satisfied with the king, however, and seeks romantic adventure with the godling Kron.
Kron enacts a plan to hide the queen from the kings spies, a magic necklace that will turn her into the form of his race-camel Shupid.
The enchantment backfires, however, and cause the souls of Siphaniana and Gwynn to swap, stranding both women in a foreign body and time, and with no mastery of the local language.
Once in the current time, Siphaniana learns english with the help of Aylee , who misunderstand the situation.
Siphaniana introduce the main characters to the creation mythology of Mokhadun. In this mythology the creator-god Prozoaku aided by his creation the time-god Krohnus seek to prevent the destroyer-god Kozoaku from destroying existance itself.
This leads to an interresting new perspective, once Zoë realise that Kozoaku is the same as the demon K'Z'K.
Gods
Living in a huge floating inverted pyramid, the gods of Mohkadun are more powerful than even Fahran, and play their own political games.
| Title | Name | Symbol |
|---|---|---|
| The Time-Father | Krohnus | Hourglass / Double Pyramid |
| God of Justice | Symachus | Scales of Justice |
| God of Power | ??? | Bun-bun face |
| God of Joy | Krig | Striped Egg |
| Godling of Krohnus | Kron | Diamond / Double Pyramid |
Mythology
In the ancient city of Mokhadun, mythology tell of the existance of a creator-supergod Prozoato and a destroyer supergod Kozoaku, both created by The One. Kozoaku turns out to be the truename of K'Z'K before some event caused him to loose the vowels in his name.
As soon as Prozoato would created a spark of life in the world, Kozoaku would end it. Frustrated, Prozoato created the first god Krohnus, who weaved a fate-web capable of keeping the destruction of Kozoaku at bay. To sap the power of Kozoaku, his soul was weaved into the web, from where the destroyer tempts Prozoatos creations to free him.[4]
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