The Vessel - Alphard
Alphard Alshua comes from another World Line from the one on which Chaldea walks. She is the leader of a Terrorist Organisation called Hebi. She is the antagonist to Canaan in the eponymous Series of
Canaan. They clash several times to prevent Alphard's attempt to unleash a deadly virus, the Ua Virus, upon the United Nations as an act of terrorism. Canaan and Alphard once had the same mentor, who trained them to become Assassins. Alphard was the first pupil of Siam and he named her Canaan. He described as the peak of human abilities, but she would be so much more powerful if she would fight for something herself. Several years later she killed her own mentor on a train under her new name 'Alphard'. His latest pupil, also named Canaan, had to watch it, helpless to prevent it. Afterwards she claims to have been followed by 'The Ghost of Siam' and comes to the conclusion that killing Canaan kills the Ghost of her former Mentor as well. She left Canaan alive several times, just to fight her at her peak. In their final encounter they fought again. The fight ended with Alphard losing and severing herself from the Ghost of Siam and apparently fell to her death.
Alphard is beautiful young woman and adept at everything associated with the work of Assassination and leading a Terrorist Organization. She has a strong will, she is cold and efficient, but she has lost most of her human emotions to the point, that she is interested in witnessing the most extreme emotions of others as a substitute. Especially interested is she in the individuals who are prepared to die for something, be it love or friendship. Her emotions are so far gone, that she has no problem of attacking her subordinate who was passionate about serving her and watch her die by the hands of her underling, who was deeply in love with her. It was just "boring" for her. She only shows emotions when she fights Canaan, a sadistic side of her comes to light when she does. She will enjoy it to free herself from 'The Ghost of Siam' that she claims resides in Canaan.
The Divine Sprit - Wadjet
One of the first deities born after the creation of the world was Wadjet. She was created when one of the four Creator Deities of Egypt, Atum, removed his own Eye and send it on a search. The Eye was Wadjet and she fulfilled her task. But after returning to her creator, she saw that Atum already recovered a new Eye. The Eye was upset, Atum replaced her and she lost everything she is supposed to be. Atum appeased her and gave her a new role, the protection of the Throne and Rule and placed her on top of his brow. Atum became King among the gods and together they fought against the monsters born in the desert sands.
Over the years Atum aged and the young human race started disrespecting the old King, unfit to rule anymore. Wadjet saw this as blasphemy and a threat to the Throne itself. She descended on her own accord and started slaughtering the mortals in a wild frenzy. In her blood lust she ignored the pleas of her Creator and the other gods. Because she was the mightiest fighter at that time, no one dared to approach her. Instead they put her to sleep with a magical potion. After three days she awoke to receive the message that the King will lay down his crown and retire. Wadjet, fearing she lost her purpose again, returns to her Creator, not acknowledging the sin she committed in the name of her father. Atum was upset at her and siphoned away much of her Divine Essence, removing her title, that would later become known as 'The Eye of Ra'. Atum then announces to the gods, that god Geb shall succeed him. Not accepting his choice, believing that only her Creator is worthy enough of being the king, waited in front of the Throne. When Geb arrived with his retinue, she slaughtered them all to fulfill her role. "Protect the Throne and Rule" and Geb was unworthy and therefore dangerous to the Throne itself.
When she was ready to kill Geb, Atum protected him and took the lethal hit instead. Alarmed, all the other gods stormed the Throne Room and a fight erupted between Wadjet, who accidentally mortally wounded her Father, and the rest of the gods under the lead of the Divine Mother Goddess Neith. Wadjet lost and was kicked from heaven by Neith, after spitting on her.
Meanwhile Atum was dying and regretted his incompetence of raising Wadjet and
seeing her. He promised to make amends. He send out the Essence of Wadjet and empowered other goddesses with it, birthing several new 'Eyes of Ra'. His power will strengthen those who shall be worthy of becoming King after him, worthy of becoming the next 'one above', the next
Horus, able 'to see'. When he finally died, his own Essence parted and saturated the Air and from his Corpse a being of pure Light ascended. The Ghost of Atum, left behind to continue the core function of Atum, 'to see the world'. That was the birth of Ra, the Sun God, who travels each day across the world, observing it.
Meanwhile Wadjet was falling down to Earth. She was now a mere empty vessel. Devoid of Divine Essence, devoid of a name and purpose, again stolen by her father, who died preventing her to do the divine role as protector of the throne. This emptiness was filled by the only thing that was bestowed upon her. The Spit of Neith. Neith, like the other Creator Gods, embodies aspects of the Primordial Origin and she was the aspect of Darkness, Chaos. Chaos filled what Order left void. Like the mud of a Mother Goddess, banished from this plain of existence, the link to the Primordial Darkness tainted her body, strength and purpose. Her determination to follow her role is strengthened, she is to protect the Throne of the Gods and none are worthy to reside upon it. To protect the Throne from unworthiness, she must kill all who dare defile it and her target is now the Being of Light that ascended and took the Throne with it - Ra. That is the birth of the Chaos Serpent. Apep was born, or how we call it,
Apophis.
Apophis will not stop until all who defile the Throne are punished. She was summoned after
her and she will enjoy it to free the world from 'The Ghost of Atum' after disposing of Canaan, who acts as his protector now.
This is just a shorter version of what I have created of the background story of the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon. For more details of it i recommend reading
the Blog I made for these two sheets and probably more to come.
The Birth of the Servant
After Canaan accepted to help the Egyptian Gods, the gods fulfilled their deal and brought the people close to her over to this world. Among them was Alphard too. When Canaan became a Servant with Wadjet's Counterpart Nekhbet and Watcher Ra was summoned to raise her to become a full Pseudo-Servant, that triggered the Birth of Apophis. In mythology it is said that Apep was born as a consequence of Ra, sometimes said to be born out of Ra's umbilical cord. A fitting vessel was needed and Apep chose the Nemesis of Nekhbet's vessel Alphard. Like in the Egyptian belief, granting new persons the name of gods, makes them destined to relive the events of legends. A birth of a new light necessitates the birth of a new darkness. A darkness that seeks to destroy the sun necessitates the action of the ones tasked with protecting it.
The Core connection between Alphard=Wadjet and Canaan=Nekhbet is that Nekhbet and Wadjet are a pair of goddesses that are mostly depicted together, both represent Upper and Lower Egypt respectively and are named 'The Two Ladies', while Nekhbet is 'The White' (White Crown = White Hair) and the more protective and less aggressive of the two; and Wadjet being the more aggressive one, adorning the Red Crown, similar to her bloody past. While Nekhbet is barely mentioned without her, Wadjet is the representation of the Eye of Ra or Horus, both were often equated for each other. The worship of Wadjet, one of the several 'Eye of Ra', predates all others as it started in the Predynastic times. Nekhbet came later and is associated with both being an Eye of Ra, but also being strongly associated with the Eye of Horus. In essence, both have the same name, but Wadjet discarded it after killing Atum, similar to how Alphard changed her name and killed her mentor. In my interpretation of the story, both were born from the Eyes of the Kings, Wadjet from Atum/Ra and Nekhbet, unrecorded fully by myths, from the Eye of Horus. Both could not return to their former place, as they were replaced by new Eyes. One might say Canaan is the replacement of Alphard and Nekhbet is with few steps the Eye that replaced Wadjet. After killing their respective Master, both, Wadjet and Alphard, carried a heavy burden and dealt with it in their own way, but both tried to erase the 'ghosts' of them.
Regarding the connection of all three Servants: Timur summoned and represents the Evil Eye as a concept -> as a reaction the Counter Force summons what counters the Evil Eye - The Good Eye = Eye of Horus, said to be born as a reaction to it -> choosing Canaan and Nekhbet necessitated the summoning of Wadjet in the form of Alphard to reenact mythology, because the Evil Eye of Apophis is the Egyptian equivalent -> Timur's goal is to meet Genghis Khan, a supposed Grand Servant and he can only be summoned to fight a Beast. Wadjet's transformation into the real Apophis could warrant the summoning of a Grand, so he plans to use Alphard and Canaan to create such a situation.
A triad that counters each other with their abilities and concepts. When they fight I imagine that Timur actually is killed first, because he used his Evil Eye to attempt to take over the Eye of Horus, but can not handle what he sees, as he does not have Synesthesia, so Alphard can observe his pitiful demise with her lines from the anime:
"Sound will start hacking away the body,
while colors eat away the pores
and fragrances hollow out your eye balls."
Originally Posted by Cursed by Fortuna
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