1 PROLOGUE
[ARDETH NARRATE]
"Six thousand years ago, a fierce warrior known as the Scorpion King, led a great army on a campaign to unite the known world".
A powerful fist is thrust into frame, clenching a scimitar, a gold bracelet adorns the warrior's wrist. Muscular, brutal looking and heavily scarred, this is the Scorpion King.
The spooky thing about him is that through a strange Akkadian tribal ritual, all the skin on his head above his eyebrows has been removed. Exposing his bleached skullcap.
He bellows a command. He and his soldiers charge forward.
As both armies, fifteen thousand men strong, pour over the golden dunes and clash. The Scorpion King fights like a man possessed. Slowly being swallowed up in the dust.
[ARDETH NARRATE]
"The Scorpion King and his army were finally defeated by the Sumerians and driven deep into the sacred desert of Ahm Shere".
The Desert of Ahm Shere. Day. The remains of the Scorpion King's decimated army retreats into the desert.
[ARDETH NARRATE]
"For three months they wanderedthe desert, slowly dying, untilthe Scorpion King himself wasthe last man left alive".
Alone in the middle of a vast wasteland, the Scorpion King crawls on his hands and knees, then he looks up into theheavens, raises his fist in anger, and BELLOWS A CURSE.
[ARDETH NARRATE]
"On death's door, he made a pact with the great god Anubis".
The Scorpion King sees a live Scorpion crawling towards him. He looks back up to the heavens and sneers, then grabs the wriggling thing with his bare hands.
His face grimaces as it stings him. Be shoves thescorpion into his mouth and chews.
[ARDETH NARRATE]
"He swore that if Anubis would spare him, and let him conquer his enemies, that he would give Anubis his soul ,and build him a great temple, a pyramid of gold".
Suddenly, in a circle around him, lush green vegetation springs up out of the sand, then explodes out exponentially in every direction. And then a huge hole opens up in the ground in front of him.
Stairs made of sand lead down into a netherworld. Grinning malevolently, the Scorpion King starts down the stairs.
Ancient Thebes Courtyard. Day. A decapitated human head rolls through frame , followed by a headless man, still twitching.
And then a big clawed footsteps onto the headless man's chest. Tilt up to reveal an extremely evil looking Anubis warrior, from the waist down he has a human exoskeleton covered in striated muscles, from the waist up he's a hairy Anubis-headed creature.
He lifts his scimitar and shrieks in triumph.
[ARDETH NARRATE]
"The next year, the Scorpion King stormed northward with the Army of Anubis. And like a great flood, washed away all that lay before them".
Thousands of hideous Anubis Warriors swarm through the fantastic and sprawling City of Thebes, now in ruins. Buildings burn. Monuments collapse. People scream.
[ARDETH NARRATE]
"He defeated his enemies, united all of Egypt, became the first Pharaoh, and created a religion that would last for a thousand years".
The fills with the horrific face of an Anubis Warrior, he shrieks and then dissolves into black sand from whence they came... where they wait, silently to be awakened once again.
