Pharaoh

"Pharaoh" was the term used for the ultimate ruler of the empire of Mulhorand, considered a physical incarnation of Horus-Re himself to that nation's people.

The pharaoh's family members were considered incarnations, lesser avatars, of the other gods of the Mulhorandi pantheon; the firstborn son was also an incarnation of Horus-Re, such that the title of pharaoh could be passed down to him.

Requirements
All pharaohs were required to be male. They were expected to be members of the House of Helcaliant, the priestly House of Horus-Re, and thus descendants of an incarnation of the god.

Responsibilities
The pharaoh ruled from his throne in the city of Skuld. While the most powerful individual in Mulhorand in name, most pharaohs allowed the priests to determine most of its policies. The official second-in-command under the pharaoh was the vizier, who was one of the priests.

When a new pharaoh took the throne, typically, a census would be his first act.

History
The only pharaohs in the history of Mulhorand who were not an incarnation of Horus-Re were two incarnations of Thoth who ruled for a short time after the loss of Thay. This period of Mulhorand's history lasted from 922 DR to 955 DR.

Pharaohs were traditionally buried with their families in the Land of the Dead near the small town of Mishtan.

Following the Time of Troubles, the overgod Ao finally dispersed the magical barrier that separated the Mulhorandi gods' manifestations from their divine essence in the Outer Planes. As a result of their reunion, the then-pharaoh Horustep III and all his family members lost the fragments of divinity that were previously within them, reducing them to mere mortals with divine lineage.

Notable Pharaohs

 * Horusret I, the first pharaoh of Mulhorand. His reign lasted from -1045 DR to -926 DR.
 * Akonhorus II, pharaoh in 1320 DR
 * Horuseres II, the fifth pharaoh and the one whose tomb was the greatest of any other pharaoh.
 * Horustep III, the sixteenth pharaoh of Mulhorand and the first to be a mortal rather than an incarnation of a god.
 * Ramenhorus III, the twelfth pharaoh of Mulhorand. His reign lasted from 955 DR to 1098 DR, dying from the forces of Thay in their first attempted invasion.
 * Thothibistep I, the ninth pharaoh of Mulhorand and the first to be the physical incarnation of a god other than Horus-Re.
 * Thothibistep II, the tenth pharaoh of Mulhorand and the second to last pharaoh to be an incarnation of the god Thoth.