Nile River Dusk

1219 BC, the end of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. The great Ramesses II has gone away, and the successor Pharaoh Merneptah struggled to maintain the afterglow of the empire in his old age. The power of the king is declining, but the power of the priests of Amun is increasing day by day; there are "Sea People" invasions from outside, there is famine and turmoil inside, and the "Mayat" that maintains the order of the universe is quietly falling apart. Even more disturbing is the silence of the gods. The temple's divination no longer responded, and the talisman's power dwindled. The gods seemed to be retreating into the depths of Duat to sleep. There are rumors that Apophis, the snake of chaos, is awakening. Keim, a scribe apprentice in the Thebes temple, is unique in that he has an almost cursed talent: he can "see" fragments of Duat in his dreams and hear sounds that mortals should not hear. When the Pharaoh's emissary pulled him out of bed late one night and handed him an ancient amulet engraved with the Eye of Horus, Kaim didn't know that he had stepped into a curse that dates back thousands of years. The secrets of the priests of Amon, the taboos in the Pharaoh's bloodline, and the "Book of Duat" that records the truth about "Twilight of the Gods" all point to the same answer: God is not silent. Someone is preventing them from responding. And the fate of Egypt will usher in the final judgment in the hands of an apprentice scribe.