Ptah

Ptah is a newer God in the Netjer pantheon, though he’s still thousands of years old. An ascended Scion of Re, he rose to prominence due to his activities during life. Ptah was one of Re’s favorite children, claiming one of the God’s earlier Mantles — or, perhaps, the Mantle of a rival — to take a name meaning breath of life. He also assumed a marriage to Sekhmet in the process. Ptah worked to engineer and build up the city of Ineb-Hedg, now known as Memphis. Before he left, he had laid down the architectural groundwork for the city, inspiring others to build and craft a city so great it became the seat of the kingdom.

As Ptah ascended, he distinguished himself from his father in many ways, though ultimately Re’s aspects still clung to him like a protective shield. For a time, the people of Ineb-Hedg worshipped Ptah as the sun God, and had given up Re completely, which angered Re. While he still had care for his son, he was not thrilled about a replacement. Re took the sun away from the people for three days and exiled Ptah back to Ineb-Hedg to correct his problem. In that time, Ptah taught the people how to build fires for light, and increasingly elaborate architectures and buildings, and soon they started to worship him as a God of crafters and builders.

Nowadays, Ptah is a master craftsman, who designs and creates buildings, engineering projects, and complex machinery, each a work of art on its own. He enjoys taking on complex tasks and building elaborate works. He enjoys working in architectural firms, creating innovative designs. He may also appear as an engineer, a computer programmer, a carpenter, and sometimes as a toy maker. Anything he creates tends towards simplicity of design with complex actions or mechanisms. He created games and puzzles and enjoys designing brain teasers that even he has problems solving.

His Scions are similarly possessed with the ability for design and challenge, leading them to areas of both crafting and puzzle solving, such as cryptology. They are logical people, who easily see the underlying mechanisms of a problem or situation and can approach solutions in a rational way. They are not prone to rash action, though they do have passions that can get in the way of their own logical thought. They seek justice over balance, believing their logical processes will prevent biases.