The first woman to hold the mantle. She was a temple scribe from Thebes, trained to copy texts, and she took the mantle during the worst years of the divided age, when rival kings ruled the north and south and the Pride's last strongholds were being lost one by one.
Her great act was the Reckoning. In her first year she gathered every surviving regional guard Intef-Ka had taught and made them recite their portions of the Roll together, aloud, in one room. For the first time in a century, the Roll was whole. It was never written down, because the Pride had learned what a single burned archive could cost, but she set a new rule: the whole Roll must be recited aloud, in full, at least once in every generation. She then sent word to every guard that the Pride existed again.
When the divided kingdom was reunited around 2055 BCE, she walked into the old capital at Memphis with only a handful of followers and reclaimed what remained of the Pride's seat. She also reopened a small, careful trade in resin, through the Nubian watchers whom the earlier Maahes Iuf-Seneb had met two centuries before. It was only a trickle, but it was enough to stretch her life and her tenure to 56 years.
What she left behind: the whole Roll, restored, the once-a-generation recitation, and the precedent that a woman could carry the mantle as well as any man.
