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• Hemet Medusa has returned to the palace with Nokht. The pup is gradually healing from injuries sustained during the cartel attack.
  
  
• A confrontation with the cartel leaves jodai Khusobek and mazoi Meseba injured, and the pup, Nokht, stolen from home. Hebsut Eset has gone missing, and leadership arrives from Akashingo to aid their vassal palace. Pharaoh Toula and Semer-wati Rashepses remain in Muat-riya to restore safety.
  
  
• Tragedy strikes the jeweled halls of Pharaoh’s pleasure palace. A boy, Rowdy, has been killed under unknown circumstances. Safiya is gravely injured by a member of the cartel, Machiavelli has vanished, and the dangerous fugitive Soto is again free to run the sands once more.
  
  
  

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Expanding her power into the South, Pharaoh Toula alongside Semer-wati Rashepses of Akashingo have established a glittering, high-arched pleasure palace fit for the Gods.
The surrounding scrubland gives way to two perfectly round bodies of water adjacent to one another like a pair of luminous blue eyes. These pools are deep, connected by dense underwater tunnels and a network of subterranean caverns. Through every room runs the faint sound of water and the walls sparkle with all manner of cave-made flowers and fungi, the entrances to the caverns glittering with mica and crystal. Some chambers are dark with only bioluminescent fungi and glow worms to brighten their otherwise mysterious halls.

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• AKASHINGO
  
• BRECHELIANT
  
• MOONGLOW
  
• MOONTIDE