The Demons appeared on the first day of creation, and have been present ever since. The power of the gods has been enough to keep them away from innocent civilians for many generations, but during the Age of Bones, the Pharaoh of
Usire abandoned the peaceful worship of Amut-Rah and started worshipping the World-eater, Apophis. The region was quickly plunged into chaos as the Demons defaulted on their promise to make the Pharaoh more powerful, and killed him. The Murderous marauder, the Chaos-serpent, assumed direct control over the region and let his minions roam freely.

As the gods tried to encourage people to worship them again, the Serpent attacked. An endless battle raged, gods killing demons, brother fought brother, and the blood flowed like a river. In order to assume control, Ra tried to punish the mortals for failing to worship him by creating me from one of his eyelashes. I was a savage, a predator. Man after man, I consumed, ending only after the gods conspired against me. The gods were only able to approach me once I was too drunk off of blood-red wine to fight back. The task had failed, humanity refused to worship the Sun-God.

While the battle raged endlessly for us immortals, the Demons heedlessly tormented humanity. Bands of roving demons raped and pillaged with endless abandon, in some cases going door-to-door in small villages, torturing and devouring anybody or anything unfortunate enough to be inside of the buildings. A favorite practice of the wretched creatures was to drag a victim to the top of a temple and kill them by shoving a statue of one of the old gods on top of them. There are only so much statues though, so they turned to their second favorite practice-rodent slaughter. Random citizens would be picked out of a crowd and tossed into a pit full of hungry rats to be devoured.

The people of Abydos didn't just stand back and let Demons invade, contrary to what Khonsu tells everybody. (Would you believe somebody who gambled away the moon?) Once word spread about the Demons, villagers started fortifying their villages. They started reaching out to each other to gain allies. One notable occasion of a defense was when a small group of twenty humans defended themselves from one hundred Demons using nothing but a hill and a lot of arrows. The denizens of Abydos soon learned that the Demons mostly attacked at random, but always attacked priests of Order, of Ma'at. Three hundred years after the Pharaoh's betrayal of the people, the war turned into a stalemate.

Around this time, Osiris, God of the dead, had taken power. He had a large army, but he did not want to risk losing his people to Chaos- the chaos demons have the ability to deystroy the soul- so he did not fight. The god of wisdom had a plan to defeat the demons, but he needed more troops for the plan to work. Amut-Rah, in his infinite wisdom, told me to escort the egghead over to the underworld. The journey lasted a week, and the whole time we were on edge. Finally, we made it, and Thoth told Osiris of his plan.

The plan was to use priests of Ma'at as bait for a trap. All of the priests would go to the same temple, and the undead soldiers of Osiris would be lying in wait inside. (The temple wasn't a single building, but instead was more of a compound.) The humans would lie in wait in a nearby pit, waiting to hear the cries of battle, and the gods would accompany them. Osiris agreed to the plan, and thus the battle ensued.

During the reign of the demons, it was not unusual for weeks to go by without sunlight, as the sun god busied himself fighting the Deystroyer of Civilizations, Apophis. The day of the battle of the temple of Ma'at was no different. There was no light, as the moon god, Khonsu, was also fighting Aphophis. It was as if everybody was blind. I feel as if this is important to say, because the only way we could tell where our enemies were was through their awful stench and loud whooping-the Christian idea of demons living in a sulfur-and brimstone hell may was most likely formed during this battle, because that is exactly what the beasts smelled like.

The demons surrounded the temple, and screamed and brandished their weapons. The priests, as if in fear, began to "retreat" from the creatures, who gave chase. The priests suddenly turned on their attackers, wielding khopeshes. As the chaos demons were used to the priests running, they were caught by surprise and momentarily stopped attacking, shocked. The warriors of Osiris started shooting arrows as the demons started recovering from the counter-attack, thinning their massive horde. After many hours, the demons finally reached the front line of the undead warriors-only for the humans to arise from their pit and attack their flank, deystrouing them entirely. The blood flowed freely on the temple ground, the earth shook with the force of the battle as the hated creatures fought the side of righteousness.

About halfway through the battle, the hateful Devourer himself appeared, roaring out a challenge to the defenders of good and justice. Out from the pit came Amut-Rah, god of the sun and all that is good. The armor of the Bright one was made of the finest of Sun-fibers, and his arrows made from the tips of a cobra's venom. The Brilliant god let loose an arrow into the serpents maw, angering him greatly. For seven days was this battle fought between the Giver of all that is Good and the Great Deceiver. Finally, the mortals ended the battle with the demons, and the priests of Ma'at performed the ancient ritual of banishment upon the Sun-Blotter as he fought, and into the Du'at he went.