Ruby Prince Khemet III, the Forthbringer, is the current ruler of the nation of Osirion. The prince is not quite middle aged, with brown eyes in a still-boyish face; some speculate his youthful appearance is the consequence of drinking the sun orchid elixir. He cultivates the weak, malleable image his apparent youth inspires. Nazmi, a celestial gynosphinx servant of Abadar, advises the prince, who allows the Council of Liberated Slaves to manage most of the mundane government functions while he manages the byzantine elemental and planar pacts that underlie Osirion's independence. The prince bears two unusual wondrous items as the rightful heir of the Dynasty of the Forthbringers: the Crook of the Ancient Serpent as his rod of office, and the Ruby circlet beneath his pharaonic headpiece, wh