When the Shan'iatu developed the Rite of Return it was to place souls before the 42 Judges of Duat for their judgement. Many were destroyed in the process, many others driven insane, but those who survived made their decree and were reborn as the Arisen.
Each Judge has a defining Pillar which also determines the decree of its pledges, a bestowed Affinity, and favored Affinities that are easier for its followers to manifest. Once pledged to a Judge, a mummy follows whatever purpose that Judge sets before them during its times of Descent. Judges sometimes visit the mummy in visions to give it direction, but these are terrible and frightening events.
Judges[]
| Name | Pillar | Appearance | Field of Duty | First Affinity | Favored Affinities | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akhi, the Roar | Ab | a massive lion with distended jaws and a mane of bones. | Uncontrolled rage | Voice of Conscience | Beast Companion, Beast Soul Fury, Guardian Wrath, Words Summoned Forth. | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 56 |
| Am-Khaibit, the Eater of Shadows | Sheut | a gigantic, three-headed hound that snorts tendrils of black smoke. | Crimes against Humanity | Night Creature | Eternal Legend, Glorious Mien, Nihilist Awakening, Shrouding Aura. | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 56 |
| An-Afkh, the Bringer of His Arm | Ba | a humanoid with alabaster skin and a headdress of golden, blood-spattered feathers | Destruction of purity | Auspicious Mien | Blessed Panoply, Deathsight, Miraculous Benefactor, Radiant Lifeforce | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 56 |
| An-Hotep, the Bringer of Sacrifice | Ka | a sacrificial bull with eyes mired in sadness | Violence in the cause of oppression | Enduring Flesh | Charming Lives, Healing Counsel, Night Creature, Running Like Flight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 56 |
| Arem-Abfu, the Final Judge | none (random) | solely manifests in the mind of a supplicant | Crimes against the Cosmos | Ancient Horror Unveiling | Guardian Wrath, Living in Now, Soulsight, Words Summoned Forth | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 56 |
| Artem-Khet, the Crocodile’s Tears | Sheut | a jackal-headed statue that seems to weep slowly from stone eyes | Blasphemy | Voice of Temptation | Auspicious Mastery, Blessed Soul, Gift of Truth, Retributive Curse | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 56 |
| Bastu, the Stare | Ren | a humanoid robed figure with an eyeless face and a multitude of snakes instead of hair, each ending in an unblinking eye | Crimes of avoiding one's just sentence | Enlightened Senses | Anointed Prowess, By Steps Unseen, Sight Beyond eyes, Soulsight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 56 |
| Fentu, the Snout | Ka | a stocky humanoid with a stark white bull’s head | Larceny | Anointed Prowess | Beast Companion, Beast Soul Fury, Enlightened Senses, Epic Heart | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 56-57 |
| Hepet-Khet, Embraced by Flame | Ab | a 10-foot tall, bare-chested warrior with the head of a male lion and burning hands and mane | Violent robbery | Glorious Mien | Dominating Might, Familiar Face, Grip of Death, Running Like Flight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 57 |
| Her-Uru, the Face of Dread | Sheut | an ever-shifting form of harrowing visions | Terrorizing others | Fearsome Soul | Auspicious Mastery, Divine Countenance, Familiar Face, Shrouding Aura | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 57 |
| Heraf-Het, He Whose Face Is Behind It | Ba | a linen-wrapped humanoid with a pair of darkly feathered wings and a featureless oval for a face. | Transgressions of fine distinction | Nihilist Awakening | Ancient Horror Unveiling, Enduring Flesh, Familiar Face, Voice of Conscience | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 57 |
| Hetch-Abhu, the Shining Teeth | Ka | a tall humanoid with black skin and bull horns, equipped with crook and flail | Violence against the sacred | Paragon Shames the Weak | Falcon Soul Aloft, Godsight, Pharaoh Reigns Anew, Rouse the Khaibit | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 57 |
| Kenemti, the Penitent | Ren | a white-robed figure with a hairless, blue-skinned face and yellow, snake-like eyes | Desecration of holy places | Gift of Truth | Retributive Curse, Soul Infusion, Soulsight, Voice of Temptation | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 57 |
| Khem-Inhu, the Overthrower | Ren | an Egyptian noble with a death-mask in the form of a snake head, equipped with scepter and scale | Abuse of the law | Radiant Lifeforce | Auspicious Mastery, Deathsight, Guardian Wrath, Voice of Conscience | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 57 |
| Maa-Nantuuf, Seer of What is Brought Forth | Ka | a naked human figure with a neck collar and a ceremonial mask with two bull horns | Despoilment of the body | Living Monolith | Enlightened Senses, Glorious Mien, Sight Beyond Eyes, Voice of Temptation | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 57 |
| Neb-Abitu, the Lord of Horns | Ba | a gigantic owl with the head of a human with sewn mouth | Distraction through idle gossip | Sight Beyond Eyes | Night Creature, Shrouding Aura, Voice of Conscience, Words Summoned Forth | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 57-58 |
| Neb-Heru, the Lord Above | Ab | a sphinx with the head of an Egyptian man wearing a golden headdress | Acts decided in haste | Epic Heart | Charmed Lives, Fearsome Soul, Living Monolith, Wisdom of Ancients | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 58 |
| Neb-Kmkhu, the Lord Imkhu | Ren | a man in white linen with the head of a hooded cobra | Eavesdropping | Familiar Face | By Steps Unseen, Epic Heart, Living in Now, Shrouding Aura | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 58 |
| Nebha, the Flame | Sheut | a ball of white fire | Traders of lies | Rouse the Khaibit | Blessed Soul, Dauntless Explorer, Falcon Soul Aloft, Gift of Truth | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 58 |
| Nefer-tam, the Eternal Lotus | Ba | a falcon-headed mummy, equipped with scepter and lotus | Morally gray wrongdoings | Soul Infusion | Anointed Prowess, Deathsight, Eternal Legend, Soulsight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 58 |
| Neha-Hatu, the Stinking Body | Ka | a minotaur-like figure with an axe | Deprival of basic needs | Retributive Curse | Blessed Panoply, Glorious Mien, Grip of Death, Running Like Flight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 58 |
| Neheb-Ka, the One Who Unifies | Ab | a sphinx-like being with the head of a leopard, a forked tongue, the torso and forelegs of a lion, and the hind quarters of a long and coiling serpent with reddish brown scales. | Arrogance | Divine Countenance | Beast Soul Fury, Dominating Might, Enlightened Senses, Nihilist Awakening | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 58 |
| Neheb-Nefert, the Beautiful One | Ba | a radiant feminine silhouette with feathered skin whose face is ever obscured by light | Working against the common good | Living in Now | Ancient Horror Unveiling, Anointed Prowess, Divine Countenance, Familiar Face | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 58 |
| Nekhenhu, the Innocent | Sheut | six jackal pups nursing at the teats of their dead and bloated mother. | Disregard for Truth | Deathsight | Enduring Flesh, Godsight, Healing Counsel, Soul Infusion | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 58-59 |
| Qerrti, the Double-Nile Source | Ab | a lion-human hybrid with lion legs and tail, but the body and head of a human | Impure Intercourse | Miraculous Benefactor | Anointed Prowess, Radiant Lifeforce, Soul Infusion, Voice of Temptation | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 59 |
| Ruruti, the Double-Lion Judge | Ab | a large two-headed lion | Threatening sanctified ground | Blessed Soul | Beast Soul Fury, Blessed Panoply, Guardian Wrath, Running Like Flight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 59 |
| Sekhiru, the Balanced Scale | Ren | six baby Egyptian asps crawling in and out of their dead and bloated mother. | Meddling in affairs not of one's concern | Blessed Panoply | Living in Now, Night Creature, Retributive Curse, Soulsight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 59 |
| Ser-Kheru, the Disposer of Speech | Ba | a giant vulture with a gleam in its eye and a severed tongue dangling from its blood-caked beak. | Creating strife | Running Like Flight | Charmed Lives, Dauntless Explorer, Grip of Death, Voice of Conscience | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 59 |
| Ser-Tihu, the Disposer of Wrath | Ab | a very pregnant African lioness | Embracing anger without a cause | Healing Counsel | Deathsight, Radiant Lifeforce, Retributive Curse, Sight Beyond Eyes | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 59 |
| Ser-Qesu, the Crusher of Bones | Ka | a moving, snorting automaton carved from limestone in the shape of a bull | Stealing without a cause | Dominating Might | Charmed Lives, Glorious Mien, Grip of Death, Nihilist Awakening | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 59 |
| Shet-Kheru, the Orderer of Speech | Ba | a hieracosphinx | Allowing one's baser nature to overwhelm virtue | Wisdom of the Ancients | Godsight, Guardian Wrath, Pharaoh Reigns Anew, Voice of Temptation | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 59 |
| Ta-Retinhu, the Fiery Foot | Ka | a bronze bull set atop a small pyre | Violence for the sake of violence | Guardian Wrath | Divine Countenance, Fearsome Soul, Running Like Flight, Words Summoned Forth | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 59-60 |
| Tcheser-Tep, the Exalted Hand | Sheut | a jackal-headed noble, equipped with ankh and staff | Abuse of the dead | By Steps Unseen | Godsight, Guardian Wrath, Nihilist Awakening, Voice of Conscience | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 60 |
| Tem-Senpu, the Scourge of Command | Ren | a pale and hairless pharaoh, dressed in royal finery, but in place of a head, there’s a nest of writhing viper tails emerging from a central fleshy hub | Crimes against authority | Auspicious Mastery | Dominating Might, Fearsome Soul, Pharaoh Reigns Anew | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 60 |
| Tenemhu, the Retreater | Sheut | a shivering cur, its pelt half-eaten by mange | Lies | Beast Soul Fury | Enlightened Senses, Running Like Flight, Shrouding Aura, Soulsight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 60 |
| Tutuutef, the Giver of Wickedness | Ab | an obsidian funerary statue in the shape of a cat | Reactive indulgence of desire | Pharaoh Reigns Anew | Anointed Prowess, Beast Companion, Charmed Lives, Voice of Temptation | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 60 |
| Uanamenti, the Seed Entwined | Ka | an ithyphallic anthropomorph with the head of a black bull with arms that end not in hands but in snake heads | Debauchment of others | Shrouding Aura | Epic Heart, Familiar Face, Grip of Death, Soul Infusion | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 60 |
| Uatch-Rekhet, the Rectifier | Ren | a limestone statue of a hooded figure holding a scroll open with two scaly hands | Cursing against Fate | Godsight | Ancient Horror Unveiling, Divine Countenance, Nihilist Awakening, Retributive Curse | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 60 |
| Unem-Besek, the Eater of Entrails | Ren | a reptilian horror comprised of a fleshy hub, protruding seven different kinds of poisonous snake | Stealing territory | Eternal Legend | Beast Companion, Beast Soul Fury, Dominating Might, Glorious Mien | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 60 |
| Unem-Sef, the Eater of Blood | Sheut | a massive, ratty jackal that looks more spider than mammal, its neck and head swung low to the ground | Corrupting others | Grip of Death | Enduring Flesh, Gift of Truth, Running Like Flight, Soulsight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 60 |
| Usekh-Nemtet, the First Judge | all | one's own father | the concept of immorality | Dauntless Explorer | Deathsight, Godsight, Sight Beyond Eyes, Soulsight | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 61 |
| Utu-Nesert, the Vigorous of Fire | Ba | a hawk with burning feathers | Cursing others | Falcon Soul Aloft | Blessed Soul, Dauntless Explorer, Radiant Lifeforce, Rouse the Khaibit | Mummy: The Curse Rulebook, pg. 61 |