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| names = The Rag-picker, Sand Emperor/Empress, Myrmeleo
| aspects = {{Aspect|Forge}} {{Aspect|Moth}} {{Aspect|Edge}}
| arrival = Before the Collision, from the History of Water Salt and Sand.
| owners = [[User:Viktor|Viktor]]
}}
===History===
An Egypt-like country was destroyed by a rival empire, based on Venice, some time around the Industrial Revolutionthe 15th century, during the Renaissance. The Zabbaleen arose from the wishes of the people to fix what was broken, from their need for a new purpose. In fact, the Scarabeus has always existed within [[The Antecedent]], whose blazing rotation was halted by the Rag-picker, which caused it to hatch, birthing the Zabbaleen and shattering the aspect of Wheel into precursors of Forge, Moth, Grail, Heart, and Winter.
The Hour salvaged the big part of an entire History to make a new one, where the country has never been defeated, and prospered. Their work was almost done when the Histories started clashing and dividing: from three, six; from six, twelve; from twelve, one. The Zabbaleen's History was once again bashed to pieces and dispersed, but with that calamity came all the other Histories, with their people, things and places that were now lost and without purpose. Thus, the Zabbaleen expanded their goals. The City of Dust, it seems, is all that is left from the Zabbaleen's History, apart from an odd artifact here and there. Everything else was reforged beyond recognition.
==Relationships==
* [[The Demiurge]]: They respect his vision and goals, but they disagree with the Demiurge's means of accomplishing those goals.
* [[The Stone Meridian]]: This is what became of the rival empire, eventually. They hold no grudges, since without the Meridian, the Zabbaleen would not have been created, nor would they receive their purpose. They helped create it, and among other things they have gifted one of the obelisks flanking the Alabaster Door, that became the Obelisk of the Meridian, who will eventually become their Heir of Time and Pearl.* [[The Glorious Child]]: The Zabbaleen support the Child, often taking his plans and making them actually useful. Not all of them are given back, and not all of them even share the initial goal.They manipulate him, and groom him to become their Heir of the Sun.* [[Her Scarred Serenity]]: The Zabbaleen taught her servants the arts of mummification, in exchange for something?* [[The Embrace]]: The Zabbaleen have saved her from death, gathering her various pieces and, with [[The Modiste-and-Mannequin]]'s help, weaving them into their existing Name (based on linen), gifted to them by [[The Modiste-with-Spindle]]. She is now known as the Mantle, and will become the Heir of the Dead.* [[]]:* [[]]:
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