[ WP ] We 've seen epic fantasy worlds based on historical Europe ( i.e . LotR ) and historical East Asia ( i.e . Avatar ) . Write about an epic fantasy world based on historical Africa .

`` Your people would do well to heed my warnings, Pharaoh,'' screeched the haggard old man, as he struggled against the Pharaoh's guards. In an unexpected show of strength the man pushed all four armed men away and onto their backs, before turning to face Pharaoh Ankhmare once more. His figure twisted and grew as a beak sprung from the man's face and feathers replaced his tattered rags. 
 
 `` Your power can not stand against a true god!'' cried the angered birdkin, before it flew out of the palace towards the horizon. A few arrows followed, but none hit their mark. 
 
 Pharaoh Ankhmare sat quiet for a while, troubled by these events. How had a magical being, never mind mind a hostile one, sneaked past his priests? He would have to consult them, and check the reports from the border patrols. Tales of a mighty army gathering beyond the rolling sands had been flowing down the Anteph river, perhaps this beast had been speaking for them. 
 
 Outside the palace, the sun beat down on the backs of farmers spread throughout the kingdom of Anteph-Egypt, one of five Egypts built along the mighty rivers that carved a path through the desert. All the rivers flowed south from a vast mountain range occupying the centre of the continent. Djerit-Egypt, Iset-Egypt and Psahnk-Egypt were the closest together, and were the backbone of the pan-Egyptian alliance. To the west of them lay Memet-Egypt and then, even further out, was Anteph-Egypt. 
 
 In the east travellers had found an end of the desert where the sand plunged into the sea, the waves lapping against a gargantuan beach, but none, not even those living in Anteph-Egypt, knew what lay beyond the rolling sands of the west. In response to aforementioned rumours, Pharaoh Ankhmare had sent out scouts to prove there was no vast army waiting to crush the isolated Egypt. 
 
 One such scout, Sebkay, found himself lost in the desert after several weeks. The mountains had fled far past the horizon, and the sun never seemed to rise where it should. It was in this state of confusion that he came across a valley filled to the brim with foreign, painted masks. He watched in horror as the masks rose from the ground, glowing as they chanted in an unknown tongue. 
 
 A force formed out of thousands of spirits captured from the wastes was being led towards Anteph-Egypt by the great Roost-Lord Ibis. In not too long the kingdom would fall under the relentless assault, but not before Sebkay had fled over the mountains while being chased by a band of the haunted masks. 
 
 It was then that he discovered the jungles beyond the frigid peaks, inhabited by a people worried by the disappearance of many spirits. The tribes open contact with the remaining Egypts, which are locked in a fierce struggle against the ever growing spirit army, to offer aid. After several long years of war, and the almost total destruction of Memet-Egypt and Iset-Egypt, Ibis' power is weakened enough for a fateful arrow to pierce his eye, sending him tumbling from the sky and into a horde of Egyptian warriors. 
 
 The new technologies brought to the tribes of the jungle, along with their unification against a common enemy, allowed them to form their own sort of kingdom. The chiefs come together under a new Spirit Chief, who ensures the safety of both living subjects and the spirits of his land. The Egypts do not fully recover, and become trade-centric civilization allied with the mega-tribe of the jungle. 
 
 Then of course there's the Anubi, who awoke from a long slumber in the tombs of the five Egypts to aid them in their war; the mountain spirits who were convinced to shatter the Roost-Lord's hold over his spirits during the battle of Memet-Egypt; the birdkin themselves who just succeeded in singlehandedly conquering Memet-Egypt despite the work of the mountain spirits; and the nomads of the plains north of the jungles who began menacing the new mega-tribe not long after it was formed.
