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Age Cannot Wither Her

Winter 30 BC

You, Cleopatra VII Philopator, Last Pharaoh and Queen of Egypt are dead. Your faithful servant, Olympos has attended to the end of your life after beloved Marc Anthony took his own life on his sword. His funeral was given and you mourned as you should and all saw your beauty in Alexandria. The rest of your life as it was, was a blur of sadness, loss and the potions of your physician to give you sleep that grief has denied you.

Finally, you take the cobra to your breast, symbol of mighty Aprodite-Hathor and let the sacred venom coarse through your veins. Sleep follows quickly. Your body, lifeless and cold make it's way up the Nile on a funerary barge, accompanied by your many servants, slaves, courtiers and personal retinue. Thousands come to the banks of the river to watch and offer sacrifices in your name as you are carried over a week up to Sacred Iunet where the Dendra Temple Compex sits by the Nile.

Your body is washed and blessed by priestess of Aprodite-Hathor, lamentations and glorifications sung and spells cast and woven over you, the last Pharaoh. All these things are attested to you by Olympos who was with you the whole way. He never once left sight of your body nor allowed anyone to touch you who was unclean or unsanctified. In the great temple of Mighty Aprodite-Hathor, the high priestess lead the ritual preparing you for burial and transformation into the afterlife according to the customs of the Egypt of Ptolemy, no mummification is performed and only your body is embalmed with herbs, poultices, ice and spells.

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This is a Chronicles of Darkness game about the afterlife of Cleopatra. You will play her unlife after she has been turned into a vampire just after her official death.