Terra Nova Research Base, Antarctica.
RAIN-167: “Neith’s beehive”
Published in 1935 [no further updates]
We need to finish explaining one thing before begin explaining this artefact. In our current shared world experience, gods of multiple pantheons and religions exist and live among the humans. Though the current governing pantheon is denominated “Greek”, with key members like Zeus, Athena, Hera among many and many others, it is not uncommon to find members of the “old guard”, the former glories now dedicated to their own endeavours in a middle ground between gods and humans. The reasons of why this happens are many and too complex to devolve into them here. But it’s important for everyone who reads this understands the reality.
Among the old glories, as far as I know, are members of the Romans, Nordics, Egyptians, Sumerians, Indians, Sumatrans, and about other fifteen other collections of deities.
Case in point here, Neith. Neith is what we can categorize as a “Creator Entity”. Known as the one who developed the waters of life, creator of mankind in one of its iterations, and a key player in the cosmogony portrayed by the Ancient Egyptians. Though most commonly stablished as a goddess of war and hunt, her work as a creator was enough to bring to existence an artefact associated with the concept of “bringer of life”.
As one of the main tributes during the New Kingdom was honey, the clay the goddess used to create humans turned into a honeycomb and began producing bees. This was, in fact, one of its secondary effects, while the main one remained as Ms. Alice put it: “While on control of this artefact, one can create life with it, from flora and fauna to people, depending on the mental fortitude of the wielder”. However, one will get the anger of the bees and suffer a process called “mellification”, which is that by every sting of them, it will turn the recipient slowly into honey.
Even when it remained undisturbed by centuries inside her temple, the Egyptology craze of the 19th century came to ruin everything. In 1896, Sir Flinders Petrie begin the excavations on the city if Waset, known to the Western world as Thebes. In fear of the artefact being discovered and misused by the British Empire, Sophia sent Ms. Alice to resolve it.
Alice had been pregnant the year before, and by the time she had managed to make her way to Egypt, the excavations had begun. She was there to recover two artefacts, the beehive, and Merneptah Stele, which worked as a history compilator, causes, while used unproperly, your brain to blow a fuse while the entire history of Ancient Egypt engraves inside your mind. As most discovers were catalogued, shipped and exhibit in the British Museum, Sir Flinders disregard consideration of undercover wizards and tried to remove the Stele from its pedestal with his bare hands.
The rumour of what the artefact could do were more than rumours when Sir Flinders found himself in the middle of Giza, seeing the construction of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. All of this, while not even moving from the position where he was.
While in the trance, Alice had arrived. She has the same power as her father, one we call the “puppet master” which allow them to perform quick hypnosis on someone to make them perform a handful of actions. In this case, she made everyone leave back to the campsite and forget what they saw, in the meantime she dealt with the activation.
If Sir Flinders would have touched the Stele with gloved hands, like Ms. Alice did, he wouldn’t have lost the days before the incident from his memory. That was all that was needed. She took the Stele, the beehive and remained in the excavation site until Sir Flinders recovered his memory to be modified to make him forget the incident, while being left with a perfect copy of the Stele, but with no recollection of the beehive.
The artefacts were taken separately back to Sophia, and kept that way during the relocation to the Terra Nova Research Base. This was done until we have enough information on what they do when put together, of which Neith has refused to make any type of comment.
Ariel Bonheur, Chief Archivist.
Note from the Overseer’s Office
Ariel,
This is getting a bit ridiculous, don’t you think?
We have enough information to update this archival report since 1941! Why hasn’t this been done? Just because the Board confirmed your position as the only Chief Archivist, and the demi independence of Archive City, doesn’t mean you can neglect your job just to spite me.
The Overseer.
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