A rebuilder. Peksater-Ankh took the mantle at a time of enormous uncertainty. The old homeland was under foreign rule, the Pride's northern posts had been scattered, and in 525 BCE a new empire from the east conquered Egypt entirely. Everyone in Napata waited to see whether it would turn south.
He spent his 55 years in the mantle making sure the Pride was ready for that day. He trained the Napata Guard, a standing company of slayers drawn from every kingdom along the southern Nile, and drilled it relentlessly in the arts of defence, scouting and the hunting of broods that crossed borders under the cover of war. The company outlived him by centuries.
He also rebuilt the northern network, quietly and in disguise, sending watchers back into the Egyptian cities as merchants, scribes and boatmen. By the end of his tenure, the Pride had cells again from Memphis to Elephantine.
He died in 499 BCE, killed in a battle on the southern marches against a brood that had followed the wars south.
What he left behind: the Napata Guard, the rebuilt northern network, and a Pride that could fight as well as hide.
