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Also known variously as Osirians depending on their original setting.

One of the oldest human civilizations on Oerth, Erypt has passed through several ages, with interegnumsn and long periods of occupation. One such period began when the river Sphinx changed its course dramatically, causing the lands of old Erypt to turn into pur desert. This is now a land of the undead, where skeetons plow and reap harvests of dust. Erypt is recently risen from a long period under Q'dran domination, the people of Erypt are trying to reconnect with their cultural heritage. 

=== Strong Abilities ===
Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom.

== Cultural Traits ==
Indulgent, 
Hierarchical, 
Pacifist, 
Traditional.

=== Real-World Models ===
Egyptians.

=== Alignment ===
Eryptians are lawful, hidebound people. At the same time, the "unwashed masses" try to get away from their obligations when they can, and their strict society creates a number of outcasts and rebels, but even these are more likely to seek to re-join society at a higher social level than to be true revolutionaries. Instead, chaotic Eryptians tend to be free-thinking intellectuals, religious mystics, or artists. Eryptians have the usual spread of good and evil, and consider such differences minor.

=== Practices ===
Adoption, Arranged marriages, Polygamy/Polyandry, Preventives, Prostitution.
Eryptians figure that the rich and powerful have sexual privileges; basically anything goes if you can pay for it. It is not usual for a powerful individual of either sex to have a formal marriage but a small harem of concubines on the side.

=== Competition ===
Eryptians are not big on free competition. 
Rather, they stage rehearsed displays, where a single person or team shows off their skill.
Informal competition still happens, and when there are witnesses they can have a great impact on a person status - and create long-standing feuds.

=== Taboos ===
The strongest taboo most Eryptians have is about leaving their country; all other places in the world are considered poor places to live and worse to die in. 

Being a warrior is not taboo, but it is certainly looked down on as a low-status profession; soldiers of quality are generally foreign mercenaries.

=== Family ===
Formalized. Upper-class families are often two separate adjacent households. Marriage between the classes is not unusual, as it is a way for an upper-class Eryptian to avoid the open nature of same-status marriages. Inheritance is strictly by favoritism; an Eryptian is free to designate anyone as an heir, offspring or not.

=== Magic ===
Eryptians are very focused on magic, especially divine magic. They are not devout as other people understand the term, but consider the observance of ritual extremely important. Any Eryptian of quality is likely to use at least some  magic. Divine magic is highly regarded and everpresent in public life, public figures are very often divine spellcasters. Occult magic is common in private life and a perfectly legitimate profession. Arcane magic is regarded as wild and uncouth, possibly related to the reality-altering powers of Apep, and frowned upon. It is still respectable practiced by the naturally talented and by scribes and engineers. Witches and hedge magicians are frowned upon, but also greatly feared.

== Pantheon ==
The Eryptians have an ancient and powerful pantheon, but it has been persecuted for hundreds of years and is only slowly reemerging. 

===  Abject Belief (Faith) ===
Source Faiths and Philosophies

You cling tenaciously to a faith that is doubted by many, perhaps based around a god who has vanished, or was never a god in the first place. You refuse to forsake your beliefs despite all evidence, perhaps due to a need to belong, respect for tradition, or a religious experience. As a result, it is nearly impossible to convince you of your deity’s absence. You gain a +2 trait bonus on Will saving throws against fear effects.

== Anubis ==
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== Apep ==
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== Bastet ==
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== Bes ==
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== Hathor ==
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== Horus ==
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== Isis ==
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== Khepri ==
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== Kherty ==
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== Maat ==
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== Neith ==
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== Nephthys ==
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== Osiris ==
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== Ptah ==
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== Ra ==
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== Sekhmet ==
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== Selket ==
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== Set ==
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== Sobek ==
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== Thoth ==
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== Wadjet ==
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