The one who heard the first echo. Hor-Seneb was a young soldier in the new capital at Memphis when the mantle found him two years after Nebmaat-ka died. On the night he took it, he heard a voice in the dark, a man speaking quietly about a gate. It was the voice of the first Maahes, and it was giving him instructions.
He understood at once that the mantle carried memory, and that if he did nothing, the memory would be lost when he died. He decided to make it something that could be learned. He took the story of Nebmaat-ka and the few things the first Maahes had said, and set them to a rhythm that a person could remember: a name, a deed, a name, a deed. It was the first version of the Roll, and he sang it to every watcher who would sit still for it.
He also gave the enemy a name. In his song, the things that came out of the dark were called the Children of Apep, after the old serpent of chaos that swallowed the sun each night. The name stayed.
He held the mantle for 27 years, and he died in the Delta marshes in 2942, in a fight with a brood hiding in the reeds. The song survived him, and every Maahes since has heard his name in it.
What he left behind: the Roll, the name of the enemy, and the first Test of the Names.
