Lybaras rose in the green eastern reaches of Nehekhara, where the temples of Asaph (goddess of grace, magic, and vengeance) stood taller than any king's palace. It was ever a city of archers and scholars rather than conquerors, ruled by warrior-queens who wore the serpent-crown of the asp goddess. Where other necropolises woke to reclaim an empire, Lybaras woke to settle a debt.
The debt is Neferata's. It was a daughter of Lybaras, High Queen Khalida, who first named the corruption festering behind the silks of Lahmia, and Neferata's venom that struck her down. Khalida rose again with the goddess's own poison in her veins, and her serpent-bannered legions rose with her, their bows blessed at the altar before they march. Their arrows are said to bite twice: once with bronze, once with Asaph's venom.
Lybaras does not stir for the ordinary quarrels of the Tomb Kings. It sleeps through border wars and successions alike, its queen enshrined and waiting, until word comes on the wind that the blood-curse of the vampire has taken root somewhere in the world. Then the eastern city wakes as one, and the hunt goes out: patient, ceremonial, and altogether without mercy.
Order of battle
The Lybaras field the units of the Tomb Kings of Khemri, a detachment from the roster:
Other Tomb Kings of Khemri formations
KhemriThe eternal city, first among the necropolises of Nehekhara and seat of the Great Pyramid, in whose shadow every other crown is a vassal's. Khemri's legions are the grandest in the Land of the Dead, marching beneath the standard of Settra himself, and its dust remembers being the center of the world. By decree of the King of Kings, it will be again.
MahrakThe City of the Gods, holiest ground in all Nehekhara, where every temple of the great pantheon raised its spires and the priest-councils once held power enough to humble kings. Its awakened defenders are as much relic as army: guardian constructs and censer-bearing dead marching beneath the icons of Ptra and Djaf. Mahrak still insists the gods, not the kings, own Nehekhara; Settra permits it to lose that argument slowly.
NumasThe city of the plains, whose kings counted their wealth in grain, herds, and the loyalty of the river-folk who worked its wide fields. Numas woke gentler than its rivals, but gentleness in a Tomb King is a relative thing: its skeletal legions still sweep the dunes clear of tomb-robbers, and its dead farmers still tend fields that have grown nothing for three thousand years.
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