Hazoret

Jackal-headed Hazoret is the Amonkhet god of zeal. She is responsible for the final trial and slaughters the winner with her spear, rewarding them with the God-Pharaoh's presence. Hazoret's ideal of zeal encompasses powerful emotions as well as religious intensity. It is not enough to merely want a place in the afterlife, initiates must channel that drive into a furious battle that will determine their final place in the afterlife.

In the time before Bolas corrupted Amonkhet, however, she represented compassion and inspiration.

Under Bolas' thrall, she believes herself to be his daughter, and to have been made from the same magic as the Second Sun. While Bolas' deceived the gods about him being the creator of Amonkhet, the Second Sun is in fact natural to the plane.

During the Hour of Devastation, Hazoret fought to protect the citizens of Naktamun, hoping that the God-Pharaoh would come and end the destruction. However, after Nicol Bolas' arrival, Bontu revealed that she had helped the dragon planeswalker conquer Amonkhet long ago, due to her ambition. Bolas ordered Bontu to defeat the god of zeal. But bringing Hazoret before the God-Pharaoh, Bolas betrayed Bontu, killing her. Hazoret now remains the only living god of Amonkhet. After engaging the Scorpion God and being severely wounded, Hazoret managed to weaken its armor sufficiently enough for Samut and the others to finish it off. After Samut planeswalked away from Amonkhet and then returned, Hazoret took the remaining survivors of Naktamun and left with them into the desert, swearing to protect them as long as she drew breath. For this, she became known as Hazoret, the God-Survivor and mother of the mortals of Amonkhet.

Inspiration

Hazoret's canine form is likely inspired by Anubis, the Egyptian god of mummification and the afterlife; one of his epithets is tepy-dju-ef, "He who is upon his mountain". Her role in ending the life of the worthy draws parallels to Set, the Egyptian god of storms and the desert, who killed Osiris and thus allowed him to enter the afterlife. Her association with the sun and zeal to the God-Pharaoh might also invoke Sekhmet.

As the last untainted survivor of Amonkhet's original gods, and a solar deity, she might also resemble the Aten, a henotheistic/monotheistic solar deity worshiped as Egypt sole god in Akhenaten's time.

In-game references

Represented in:

• Hazoret the Fervent

Depicted in:

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• Cartouche of Zeal
• Gideon's Intervention
• Hazoret's Favor
• Hazoret's Monument
• Hazoret's Undying Fury
• Trial of Zeal

Quoted or referred to:

• Ahn-Crop Crasher
• Bloodrage Brawler
• Emberhorn Minotaur
• Flameblade Adept
• Gilded Cerodon
• Glorybringer
• Limits of Solidarity