Alternative Path of Magic: Egyptian Path of Pharaohs, Or why I think the one in Digitial Grimoire misses the mark. Options

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I'm presenting this to my GM as an alternate Egyptian path for my Egyptian traditioned priestess character, looking for feedback on the balance of spirit choices and over all thematicness.


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Path of the Pharaohs


Why an Alternate?

I felt that the Egyptian Tradition in the Digital Grimoire was more of a sub-genre of Hermetic rather than it's own unique path. The Egyptian Mythos is a rich and deep story that is rooted in the cradle of civilization itself. This alternate, which I call 'The Path of Pharaohs' focuses more on the way Egyptians interacted with their God-kings as a society and what they did for civilization as a whole, rather than on the bastardization of 'New Age polytheism' that the canon tradition seemed to follow.

Concept

The Path of Pharaohs is a more focused tradition than the canon presentation. Instead of viewing it as the worship of elemental forces (which the Egyptians did not do), this looks at the pantheon of the Egyptians as more of the divine heroes of old, and the line of kings as being the God-Kings that the Egyptians viewed their Pharaohs as. The Spirits of Men line is primarily used, rather than elementals, because of the Egyptian's focus on giving the unknown and mystical the faces (or at least bodies) and personalities of men, rather than ephemeral unknowable forces. Logic is used as a Drain stat in place of Intuition because of the importance of Order in Egyptian Civilizations. Intuition is a stat more suited to a 'feel it out and see how it goes' tradition, such as the Path of Chaos, and Wicca.

The Path of Pharaohs is a Possession Tradition. Horus was the Pharaoh, he was not summoned by him.

Spirit Choices

Guardian Spirits are used for Combat for obvious purposes. Horus was a Warrior-King, the guardians of the temples were men, and men with the heads of beasts.
Summoned Guardian spirits would most commonly give the channeling vessel the shamanic mask of an animal headed god. Horus would be most common, though Set was a defender of the Empire as well, just not always a willing one.

Guidance Spirits are used for Detection as the represent the priests that would have been the magicians in a Pharaoh's court.
Summoned Guidance Spirits tend to take the form of either Egyptian priests, such as Imhotep, or goddesses such as Isis; channeling vessels tend to gain shamanic masks of either robed priests with the Crook Staff, or Isis in her winged guise.

Beast Spirits are used for Illusion because the Egyptian pantheon is an animal-headed pantheon after all. Bast was (among other things) a goddess of secrets, and would be the most common representative of an illusion centric beast spirit, lending her stealth and sneakiness to the caster.
Beast Spirits when channeled would take on aspects of Bast, Anubis, Sobek, and the other animal headed gods as deemed appropriate by the needs of the moment.

Water Spirits are used for Health because the Egyptian civilization did live and and die with the Waters of the Nile. This is an exception to the 'not worshiping elemental forces' rule.
Though an elemental force, a channeled water spirit is more likely to take on the crown of Hapi the Egyptian god of the Nile. Perhaps Sobek the god of crocodiles if a more aggressive aspect is needed.

Task Spirits This is the civilization that built the great pyramids and used more slaves than nearly any other large empire in history. If they don't deserve task spirits, who does?
This channeled spirit can lend an aspect of almost any worker in Ancient Egypt. From stone block mover, to engineer, to farmer; all depending on the needs of the summoning magician.