**An adventure for five to six characters of 3rd level.** Baez’Keph was once a god-queen of the Southlands, now lost to the ages and more appealing gods. In the time she reigned, she was a fair and just queen. Rather than place herself above her people to be worshipped and showered with lavish gifts and offerings as most gods did, she instead chose to rule by placing herself at the level of her people. She acted mostly as a mortal, except when necessary, such as in times of war or when planning her tomb. In those regards, she wielded her godhood like a gleaming, golden khopesh. She dressed in plain robes and always carried a forked staff called the Empyrean Trident. She claimed the staff was a gift from a creature that came from the heavens. It is said that the staff never left her grasp, and she never allowed anyone else to hold it, even for a moment. She ate with it, slept with it, governed with it, and was buried with it still in her grasp. Baez’Keph never married, bared offspring, or bequeathed her status to any of her subjects. When she died, her subjects strictly adhered to her entombing plan and followed every request, no matter how strange or cruel they may have seemed. In life, while communicating with other gods, she adjudicated for spreading knowledge instead of hoarding it and treating mortals as equals. This did not sit well with the other gods, and so Baez’Keph was eventually exiled from the pantheon. Her existence was to be scrubbed from history. Most of the hieroglyphic and cartouches depicting her, most often as a goat-headed woman wielding a trident, were defaced or modified to look like something else, except for within remote and secret places of the Southlands, where shadows form and whispers become currency. The cult of Baez’Keph was small but strong, and its writings endured the ages. Sacred texts of the cult say Baez’Keph’s staff has unknowable powers that even she could not comprehend, yet one of its properties that was known to her was that it granted its wielder the ability to manipulate the cosmos. The texts describe how she used the staff to create constellations, set the moon in its rightful place, and some even claim that it was she, and not Horus, that originally governed the sun’s journey through the sky each day. The texts also mention that she bound her spirit to a massive chunk of rock and flung it into the sky to circle the world as a three-tailed comet. As the comet, she passes by the same spot each millennium to signal the heavens and potentially return to reclaim her lost kingdom. The final resting place of Baez’Keph is a crucible-tomb that lies underwater, buried beneath the banks of the River Nuria just outside the city of Sjan’ab, south of Memphar. It is a place meant to test those who would be worthy enough to wield the Empyrean Trident and lend aid in returning her to power once more.