Editing Darklord (section)

==Tiyet==
Darklord of Sebua. The second of Ravenloft's official [[mummy]] darklords, whereas Ankhtepot is based on Universal's bandage-wrapped lumberers Imhotep and Kharis, Tiyet is based on the concept of the mummy as a sexy woman with [[ghost]]ly traits, which, believe it or not, is not a modern-day [[monstergirls]] thing but was actually the ''original'' pop-cultural depiction of mummies in stories before Karloff made the bandage-wrapped shambling not-[[zombie]] so iconic in the 30s. In fact, Tiyet is probably based on Queen Tera, the [[witch]]/[[ghost]]/[[mummy]] from the 1971 Hammer Horror film "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb", which was itself an adaptation of the first ever mummy-centric novel, "The Jewel of Seven Stars", which was written by Bram Stoker... aka, the creator of Count '''Motherfucking''' Dracula!

Anyway! Born the beautiful daughter of a wealthy scribe in an unnamed fantasy [[Egypt]]-land, Tiyet was an ambitious and power-hungry girl who caught the eye of the local pharoah's fourth son, Khamose, and eagerly accepted his invitation to wed. Unfortunately for Khamose, Tiyet had greater ambitions than being the fourth wife of a fourth son, and she decided the perfect place to start was by advancing up the ranks of Khamose's wives. She did this by framing his "Grand Wife", the first and most important of his brides, Nufreri (who was also Khamose's half-sister, because Egypt gonna Egypt) for adultery with a male slave, which saw her being thrown into a pit of wild jackals, who ripped her apart before her remains were publicly burned, denying her the afterlife.

Naturally, somebody found out what Tiyet had done... unfortunately, that somebody was the horny local priest of [[Apophis]], Zordenakht (no, we don't know why a fantasy Egyptian has a fantasy pseudo-German name either), who instead used this knowledge to blackmail Tiyet into shagging him. Ironically, this led the two to fall in love, and Tiyet lost all interest in trying to arrange for Khamose to climb the ranks of the pharoah's sons, deciding he was just an unambitious idiot. Every day, under the pretense that she was going to the royal tomb to honor her husband's ancestors, Tiyet would sneak into the Temple of Apophis and bang Zordenakht.

Things were going swell, until one night Tiyet had a dream about facing eternal damnation when she died and was transported to the afterlife. She begged her lover for some way of avoiding death, but he only knew of a ritual that would bind a newly deceased soul to the living world. He managed to calm her, and they carried on... but Khamose wasn't as dumb as Tiyet thought, and he discovered her adultery. When she learned this, Tiyet once more begged Zordenakht to save her from the hideous death she would face as a murderess and adulteress, before finally pleading with Apophis to save her and stabbing herself to death. Her heartbroken lover performed the ritual of soul-binding, then, overwhelmed with grief, he poisoned himself with asp venom and died.

Like, seriously, dude, bit of an overreaction there? She ''was'' supposed to be coming back. It might have made sense if he was going to be executed as well, but the lore doesn't mention that possibility at all!

Anyway, the next night, Tiyet rose from her grave. She slipped across the estate to her former husband's house, ripped out and ate his heart, then returned to the temple of Apophis and laid down beside Zordenakht's corpse. When she next opened her eyes, however, she found the temple complex had been mysteriously spirited away and placed in the domain of Sebua.

Whilst the undead Tiyet is tormented by her need to devour at least one human heart per year, being driven increasingly mad with hunger the longer she goes without her meals, the true focus of her curse is similar to that of fellow mummy Ankhtepot: being stuck in a forsaken desert ruin devoid of all life and culture. Even beyond how it torments her former ambitions to be stuck in the middle of the wasteland, there's also the basic fundamental torment of loneliness. Adding to her torment, the Dark Powers occasionally create phantasmal parties, filling her manor with the sounds of voices, even that of her beloved Zordenakht, but whenever Tiyet gives chase, she finds nothing but rooms empty of all life and light as soon as she enters them.

Fighting Tiyet is dangerous because of her abilities. Whilst she lacks physical strength, she can paralyze and inflict heart attacks with her gaze (though she rarely uses the heart attack gaze, because it ruins the taste), deliver a deadly touch attack (and even delay the onset of damage, which combined with her ability to turn into a seemingly regular monkey lets her make deadly sneak attacks), drain [[Strength]] with a kiss, and rip the hearts out of those she paralyzes. If slain (and she takes +1 or better weapons to harm), she dissolves into sand and then reforms in a month. The only way to truly destroy her is by finding her heart where it is hidden in the Temple of Apophis and presenting it to her, whereupon she will be compelled to eat it and break the spells binding her soul, sending her on to the torments of the Egyptian afterlife.
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