The Twelve Hours of Night

Past Fair Ament lies Mount Manu, part of another titanic mountain range at the westernmost edge of the world. At the base of Mount Manu is a great gaping canyon, the entrance to the Twelve Hours of Night. Each night, the Solar Barge must pass through this long, tortured series of caverns in order to emerge in the east and traverse the sky again. Along the way, it is hindered by demons and monsters, as well as some foreign souls who chose to throw in their lot with the forces of evil. Apothis is the master of these evils, endlessly plotting to overthrow Horus and Khepri and seize rulership of the Pharaonic pantheon. Perhaps the biggest threat is Apothis himself, the monstrous serpent that challenges the Solar Barge every morning, refusing to allow it passage out of the Twelve Hours of Night. The duty of battling Apothis while the Solar Barge escapes falls to Bast.   Most of the mortal souls that populate the Twelve Hours of Night belong to those who were not given proper funerals. Because of this oversight, their souls could not be found by Anubis and escorted to the Hall of Truth. Some of these souls try to aid Khepri and help the Solar barge complete its nightly passage. Khepri regularly rewards these souls by carrying them out, a few at a time, and depositing them in Fair Ament before descending once more into the Twelve Hours of Night. The Solar Barge can carry only a few souls each night, however.   The Twelve Hours of Night is the third Outer Plane of the Pharaonic cosmology. It is divinely morphic and mildly evil-aligned with a minor negative dominance.