#v; dunes may shift but the desert remains (main)

[daybreakrising]

KING DESHRET - CURRENT TIMELINE VERSE

DUNES MAY SHIFT BUT THE DESERT REMAINS (slight spoilers for the 'golden slumber' world questline)

everything we know about deshret points to him being highly intelligent and cunning, with plans within plans. there are many theories about his actions throughout history, including that corrupting apep with forbidden knowledge upon his death, per their agreement that apep would consume him to absorb his knowledge, was a kind of fail-safe he had put into play. so, to me, it only makes sense that he would have other plans too - and some text found through the scarlet sand slate implies that "his intelligence lies elsewhere" (delving deeper: the mausoleum of king deshret).

naturally, i'm taking that and running with it. whilst his physical body was indeed consumed by apep upon his sacrifice, he succeeded in separating his consciousness and secreting it away somewhere unknown in the process.

this was done entirely in secret: no one but deshret himself knew of this. he bound his soul and locked it securely away somewhere within khaj-nisut, where it remained for thousands of years - until an eremite seeking his throne, and his power, uttered the words of a prayer and awakened the consciousness of the king himself.

"whoever acquires the wisdom of al-ahmar shall lose their bodily form", states the scarlet sand slate on khaj-nisut, and this is precisely what happens to the eremite samail - in a sense. after his defeat in the 'eternal dreamland', samail's consciousness was erased, and replaced by the consciousness of deshret himself. thus, the scarlet king was indeed resurrected: into the body of the deceased samail.

IMPORTANT NOTES

though prophesied, no one actually knows of the resurrection itself. gods, dragons, or similar beings will be able to sense something about the eremite should they cross paths, but not necessarily know who he is (at least not immediately). the first person he would directly reveal his identity to is n.ahida.

he goes by the name "ammon" in his eremite guise. an incredibly obvious name if you know who he is, of course - and this is deliberate. he's hiding in plain sight.

though it undergoes a few minor changes, his appearance remains that of samail's. only his eyes and hair are altered to better fit his former appearance - the body type remains the same. for reference, samail had the look of an eremite sunfrost. his eye colour is similar to a.lhaitham's (teal with orange pupils). his hair colour is similar to c.yno's.

when travelling, he keeps his eyes covered in the eremite fashion. he will remove the coverings, however, when he is at rest or within cities.

he still strives to rebel against celestia. his goals have not changed at all since his sacrifice, though he has definitely learned a lesson with regards to knowledge. perhaps a little too late, he heeds the warnings nabu malikata gave him in the past, but his ambition still burns hot within him. (if any dragons want to recruit him in their war against celestia.... just saying-)

he commands the power of dendro. with dendro's ties to technology and knowledge, no other element made sense for him. for appearance's sake, he does carry a fake vision.