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Egyptian

Horus

The Avenger

Egyptian Kingship, Sky, War, Protection, Vengeance c. 3100 BCE – 400 CE All Egypt (as royal god); Hierakonpolis (oldest cult, Predynastic); Edfu (greatest temple, Ptolemaic-era)
Portrait of Horus
Portrait of Horus
Rank Sky God / Living King
Domain Kingship, Sky, War, Protection, Vengeance
Period c. 3100 BCE – 400 CE
Alignment Mythological
Power MYTHIC 90

Attributes

ATK
90
DEF
85
SPR
82
SPD
92
INT
80
CHA
99
WIS
91
END
99

Combat Profile

ATK DEF SPR SPD INT CHA WIS END
Special Move

Divine Retribution

Horus unleashes a devastating aerial strike that multiplies in power for each injustice against the rightful throne, targeting enemies who usurped or betrayed legitimate rule.

Passive

Falcon's Dominion

Horus commands the skies and all winged creatures; he gains enhanced vision and cannot be blinded, and his attacks deal additional damage from heights or aerial positions.

Weakness

Lost his left eye fighting Set (the Eye of Horus)

“The Eye that was lost, that was torn out, that was healed — it became the symbol of wholeness itself.”

Horus is the falcon-headed god of the sky, son of Osiris and Isis, conceived after Osiris’s death and raised in secret to avenge his father. His battle with Set for the throne of Egypt is the central myth of Egyptian kingship — every living Pharaoh was considered the incarnation of Horus, and every dead Pharaoh became Osiris. The Eye of Horus (the Wedjat), lost in combat with Set and restored by Thoth, became the most ubiquitous protective symbol in Egypt, representing healing, wholeness, and restoration. The image of Isis holding the infant Horus — the divine mother and the sacred child who would grow to defeat evil — is the visual ancestor of the Madonna and Child, a connection that art historians have documented extensively.


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Nemesis / Counter

Set (his eternal adversary)

Primary Source

Pyramid Texts; Chester Beatty Papyrus I; Edfu Temple inscriptions

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