Horus

Horus
Horus with his mask.
Aliases	Horus Son Honorable Horus (Hathor)
Relatives	Isis (mother) Osiris (father) Anubis (elder half-brother) Nephthys (aunt) Seth (uncle) Ra (great-great-grandmother) Tefnut (great-grandmother) Shu (great-grandfather) Nut (grandmother) Geb (grandfather) Bastet (great-aunt) Hathor (great-aunt, alleged fiance) Maat (great-aunt) Sekhmet (great-aunt)
Affiliation	Ennead
Occupation	King of Egypt
Biographical information
Marital status	Unmarried, allegedly engaged
Date of birth	December 25th
Place of birth	Egypt
Physical description
Species	Unknown
Gender	Male
Height	195 cm (adult)
Eye color	Blue
Appearances
Appears in	ENNEAD
Debut	Season 1, Episode 1

Horus is the son of Isis and Osiris, and the deuteragonist of the series. He currently rules Egypt alongside Isis.

Appearance

Child Form

As a child, Horus is short and thin. He wears a golden cuff on both wrists and ankles, and a white shendyt or sheath skirt with a golden belt/top. He has short, dark hair.

Adult Form

In adult form, Horus has brown skin, and is tall and muscular. He typically wears a blue headdress with a falcon mask over a blue khat. The head of the falcon is darker blue, with white around the large oval golden eyes, and a line of red above them. The top of the mask's golden beak typically covers Horus' eyes. The ends of the khat are golden. Horus also wears a golden usekh or wesekh with two rows separated by golden strands. He wears two armlets with beads and golden fringe, one on each arm, a golden bracelet on each wrist, and golden anklets on each ankle. He wears a white shendyt or sheath skirt that falls to just above his knees, with a golden belt/top.

He has short, dark hair, and bright blue eyes, with facial structure very similar to Isis.

Personality

Horus is often laconic, particularly during diplomatic moments where he simply listens to others speak. But he can also be verbose and diplomatic himself, with a poetic way of speaking, particularly when talking to Seth. He is respectful of most of the gods, particularly those with higher authority (which is most of them until he takes over Egypt). He loves and supports his mother, and wishes to do right by her, but frequently prioritizes Seth's happiness, over all else, even the fate of Egypt. He is also territorial, and doesn't like when Seth shows others (e.g., Anubis, Foreign God, even Horus' own birds) favor. While he likes making Seth happy, he also seems to enjoy teasing Seth, and also enjoys fighting to some degree, at least with Seth. He is also protective of Seth. He is callous to the point of murder to the people he believes are bad for Seth, which includes Anubis, Foreign God, and Osiris. Despite his focus on Seth, he does care for humans in general, and wants what's best for Egypt.

Horus finds accepting help from others because of his own weakness frustrating.

Life

Horus is born seemingly as a demigod while Isis is on the run from Seth. Their life together is difficult, as they are hounded by Seth's hunters, and Seth himself. At one point, a very young Horus goes to Khemmis in search of Seth, in order to have Seth change his fate. There, a drunk and drugged Seth picks Horus up and begins crying over him, believing Horus to be Anubis. Seth allegedly unknowingly places a curse on both Anubis and Horus, forcing them to remain as children, rather than ascending to godhood. Horus, longing for Seth's affection, keeps Seth drunk and drugged, in order for Seth to continue loving him, until Seth's mind starts to disappear, and Horus realizes the arrangement is good for neither of them, and so returns to Isis. At the same time he sees Seth, he discovers the requirements for becoming a god due to his insight: a mature body, a strong mentality, the virtue of self sacrifice, and the determination to live as a god, and that afterward the person becomes an entirely different being, with a new body and mind.

Isis and Horus are found by Nut and Geb, who are shocked at how apparently cursed and underdeveloped Horus is. Nut consults with Thoth, who advises her to take Horus to Ra to strengthen him. Isis also tries to get him powers from Nut, in the hope of fixing the issue that is stopping Horus from ascending, and to gift him with wings to save him from her plan to drown Egypt in a last-ditch attempt to kill Seth and avenge herself on the gods who abandoned her. Horus spends time at Nut's temple, attempting to become a god, and is at some point empowered with abilities from Nut, and humiliated by Ra. He then grows to his current stature and gains physical abilities and insight.

Eventually, with the help of Anubis, Horus and Isis enter the palace at Heliopolis to attack Seth and demand the return of the throne to Horus, with most of the Ennead at their back. When Seth questions Horus' parentage, Osiris appears and claims Horus is his son, and offers a trimmed version of events the night Seth killed him. When Seth grows even more unruly, Horus proposes a trial between Horus and Seth for the throne, with Horus promising to serve his uncle if Seth wins.

Hathor gifts Horus a hand mirror for luck. Horus wonders if it's part of Thoth's prophecy that Ra would give Horus what he needed most, as Hathor is Ra's daughter, and Horus' insight told him that the mirror was indeed the thing from the prophecy.

Shu aids Horus during the first match, so that he can breathe underwater. After Seth kisses Horus to figure out how Horus is surviving underwater, and notices the water change when Khnum and Isis combine the waters, Horus realizes someone else is helping him. Seth knocks Horus out and drags him to the surface, and is declared the winner.

Hathor debates doing something to sway the outcome of the trial, while holding a copy of the hand mirror she gave Horus. Seth runs into her, and steals the mirror, upsetting Hathor. Horus notices something amiss with the mirror while in his room, and takes a closer look. When Seth appears in the mirror, Horus is surprised, and is then dragged into the mirror, where he meets a version of Nephthys, who is shocked that Isis had a child. Nephthys explains what happened to trap them both in the mirror, and warns him not to trust anyone or even himself, and that once he leaves the mirror, "her stage has been set and she'll be ready to make a move." She asks Horus to tell Seth about her whereabouts.

In the second match, Anubis tells Horus to use a wooden boat disguised as a stone boat, and then switch the stone boat back in when he reaches the shore, in exchange for telling Anubis about how to become a god. When Seth sees Horus gaining on him in the boat race, Seth attacks him and his boat, and attempts to destroy the boat. When Isis uses Osiris' magic to destroy Seth's boat, Horus takes advantage of Seth's distraction to carry him up into the air, before throwing him back to the starting shore. Horus successfully reaches the finishing line, and is declared the winner. Furious, Seth beats Horus up, and says that Horus used a wooden boat, but in his arrogance, accidentally aids Anubis and Horus' trick in passing muster by cutting "Horus'" boat open, revealing it to be stone.

Seth visits Horus' rooms in an attempt to assault him, but Horus fights back, turning the situation on him, possibly while being controlled by Hathor's mirror/Sekhmet. Horus is knocked unconscious afterward. Sekhmet interrupts Seth attempting to murder Horus, and Seth leaves the room to help Anubis. Sekhmet speaks to Horus, telling him about how Osiris jinxed Seth, that Sekhmet tweaked it, and that Horus needs to get rid of the jinx. When Horus accuses her of imprisoning Nephthys in the mirror, Sekhmet dodges the question. She also tells him that if he doesn't win the trial, Isis will destroy Egypt.

Anubis visits Horus, asking how to become a god. Horus explains the parameters. He further explains that to lift the two curses on Anubis, Anubis "must fully reject and ignore Seth", turn his back on Seth's desire for Anubis to remain his son, let go of what he currently desires most, throw away his family, happy memories, and hopes for the future, forget about the trial, and go far away from Heliopolis.

During the third match, Horus and Seth fight each other. When Seth appears to be winning, Anubis arrives, and gives him a cursed bracelet from Nephthys, which Seth puts on, and which knocks him out.

Powers

Status

It's unclear what Horus currently is: a demigod or something in-between a demigod and a god. Before the trial, Horus tells Seth, "I'm not a demigod", to which Seth laughs. This may simply be referring to Seth's accusation right before this that Horus' father is a human, and Horus is simply responding that his parents are both gods. Ra, Sekhmet and Foreign God all call Horus a demigod, Seth notes that Horus is "not even a god" during the trial, and Horus and Isis indicate that there's something wrong with Horus' powers, and possibly his godhood. Thoth tells Isis during the trial, "Wouldn't it be more useful to have Horus become a god as quickly as possible?" Isis notes that she's tried many ways to make it work, but Horus "still couldn't become a god." Thoth also notes that, "Despite the fact that [Horus] wasn't able to become a god, he has divine blood running through his body. Even with an empty stomach, he never starves. Even without sleep, his body doesn't tire." Thoth further notes that although Horus has the perfect body and mind to become a god, his growth is still otherwise stunted, because he still hasn't been able to obtain godhood. Anubis also notes that Horus is not a god. Isis declares to the Ennead that Horus is not a god, and is weaker than other gods (or at least Seth).

Abilities

Horus is physically powerful and agile, and skilled with a sword. Isis notes that without Nut's protection, he's the same as any human.

Horus has the power of insight or intuition. Horus notes, "I've just always had sharp senses, ever since I was born. . . . I can't see into the future, but I can feel the transient flow of forces that shape the world. I'm struck with sudden revelations, as if someone were giving me hints. Hints about things that would give me an advance... which road is safest, who's lying... all of these come to me by instinct. This is an ability I was born with."

He has the ability to grow wings on his back and fly. He can also transform entirely into a falcon (though transforming into a bird of smaller size is seemingly harder). He can also create birds from his wing feathers to serve as his eyes and ears elsewhere, and he can do this in small groups or en masse. However, when he does it too much, this takes away his ability to use the wings to fly. The birds can grow to a very large size, and when they are killed, it physically pains him. His feathers can be used to provide heat, and as weapons. He can also turn his feathers into swords.

He can also breathe underwater, due to Shu's protection.

He has wind powers that he can use to pull or throw objects, and can even create tornadoes, seemingly due to Nut's protection. He can seemingly manifest clothing - or at least his headdress - from wind.

Relationships

Anubis

Horus deeply dislikes Anubis, out of jealousy for the life Horus would have had if he hadn't lived on the run, and the closeness Anubis has with Seth. Horus is callous of Anubis' life, notes that Anubis got off easy in his punishments because he was Seth's son, considers Anubis to be too weak in his decision-making, and only accepts Anubis' help when Anubis agrees to help Horus in exchange for Horus telling Anubis how to ascend to godhood. Horus also refuses to allow Anubis to harm Seth. Anubis as a demigod was jealous of Horus' apparent ascension. Anubis as a god seems ambivalent to Horus' existence.

"Foreign God"/"FG"

FG is patronizing towards Horus, and frequently steps in to Horus' interactions with Seth to try and keep Horus at a distance from Seth. Horus hates FG, and sees him as a danger to Seth and a thief. FG also notes that if it weren't for the contract he signed with Maat, he would have killed Horus already.

Hathor

Hathor seems to be attracted to Horus, but doesn't seem to respect his boundaries, as she gives him a mirror she possibly uses to spy on him. Horus is polite and even friendly to her, and respects the political implications of disrespecting her, but appears to be otherwise ambivalent to her existence.

Isis

Horus loves his mother and participates in the trial to reclaim the rights that were taken from her.

Osiris

Osiris and Horus only interact twice: their first meeting, where Osiris acknowledges that Horus is his son, and the second, when Horus cuts Osiris down while Osiris is assaulting Seth, and Horus calls him a madman. Osiris never planned to have children with Isis.

Sekhmet

Sekhmet seems to enjoy taunting Horus. Horus seems to detest her.

Seth

Horus forgave Seth when Seth repeatedly asked for it, and seems to wish only to be with him and support him, though he enjoys teasing Seth. During the trial, Seth takes every opportunity to either belittle or attempt to kill Horus. At times where Horus shows compassion, such as saving or showing concern for Seth, Seth rejects it. In general, Seth, until the later episodes, typically shows disdain towards Horus. Seth sees him as both competition and the son of his adversaries, Isis and Osiris. Seth is deeply confused why Horus is so besotted with him, and is even annoyed when Horus attempts to help him, and does all he can to escape Horus' imprisonment, including pissing off Hanekete. Seth is hostile when Horus attacks Anubis. Over the course of season 2, Seth becomes more open to being around Horus, making use of his help, and being physically close with him. Horus becomes more frustrated that Seth is so focused on Anubis.

Quotations

• Horus to Anubis: "I won't allow you to put [Seth] in danger because you won't forgive him for what he's done."

Trivia

• Seth notes that Osiris died "hundreds of years" before Horus was born, indicating that Horus is likely hundreds of years old. Despite this, and Horus' appearance, given the timeline of Anubis being alive when Osiris was murdered, and Horus being conceived after Osiris' death, Anubis, even in his child form, is far older than Horus.