BAB SHARKEY

AGE: 12.

LIKES: Books (especially books about old stuff), friends, games.

DISLIKES: Being alone, jackals, bubble wrap.

FAVOURITE FOOD: Marshmallows.

EDUCATION: School until he was kicked out. Now homeschooled.

JOB: Pharaoh of Mumphis (part-time).

BEARD: Weird.

SCALER

AGE: 4002.

LIKES: Music, funky hairstyles, street art.

DISLIKES: Fishing.

FAVOURITE FOOD: Dustshakes.

EDUCATION: Studying bass guitar at Mummy College.

JOB: Musician (bass and vocal).

LEGS: Wanted elephant legs but were too expensive. Bought ostrich and gazelle legs on sale.

PRONG

AGE: 4010.

LIKES: Plants, friends, cup-and-ball toys.

DISLIKES: Allergic reactions.

FAVOURITE FOOD: Dustburgers, although they give her a bad case of the Prong Bombs.

EDUCATION: Studying horticulture at Mummy College.

JOB: Small business owner (Prong’s Plants).

BRAIN: Potato.

THE UNPHARAOH

AGE: 4084.

LIKES: Being the best, hissing, zapping Cainus’s butt.

DISLIKES: Everyone.

FAVOURITE FOOD: Peeled dates or Animal Mummies, depending on mood.

EDUCATION: The Prince’s School and secret lessons with a local magician.

JOB: Pharaoh (retired).

SKIN REGIME: Spits into hand, rubs on skin.

CAINUS

AGE: 4008.

LIKES: Fashion, the Unpharaoh, his own face.

DISLIKES: Mess, being a mummy, having his butt zapped.

FAVOURITE FOOD: Low-carb dust salad presented in the shape of his own face.

EDUCATION: The Royal Puppy School. Graduated with Honours in Fawning.

JOB: Chief of the Jackal Mummies. Only the chief gets to wear the nemes, which is the Egyptian word for that striped scarf. In fact, the nemes is mostly why Cainus took the job.

SPELLING: Atrocious.

THE BEARD

AGE: SO old we can’t even say.

LIKES: Chins, changing shape, being told what to do.

DISLIKES: Razors.

FAVOURITE FOOD: Air.

EDUCATION: None. That’s why it needs a smart person’s face.

JOB: Decides who becomes Pharaoh.

GOOD OR EVIL: Both. It all depends whose chin it’s attached to!

PROF SHARKEY (MUM)

AGE: She can’t remember.

LIKES: Bab, ancient pots, beard hunts.

DISLIKES: Danger, selfish people, raisins.

FAVOURITE FOOD: Curry she’s made in an ancient pot.

EDUCATION: 14 degrees in archaeology.

JOB: Mum/archaeologist.

HAIR: Springy.

PROF SHARKEY (DAD)

AGE: 45

LIKES: Exploring ancient ruins.

DISLIKES: Voids, disappearing.

FAVOURITE FOOD: Marshmallow curry.

EDUCATION: 13 degrees in archaeology.

JOB: Dad/archaeologist.

STATUS: Offline.

OSIRIS

AGE: Infinite.

COLOUR: Green.

JOB: Boss of the gods, the Afterworld, the Underworld, and rebirth. Phew!

LIKES: Inventing complicated rules, growing green things.

DISLIKES: Rule breakers, little scrapers, having too many jobs.

ATTITUDE: Bad.

BODY: Repairs itself by growing like a plant.

WISHES: He could fire himself and go on holiday forever in the Afterworld jacuzzi.

THE MAGICIAN BY THE NILE

NAME: ???

FACE: Frightful.

LOVES: Teaching purple magic.

HATES: Classrooms, living in nice clean houses.

EDUCATION: Who knows?

FAVOURITE FOOD: Nile reed chips.

FINGERNAILS: Gross and thick.

THE SPONGY VOID

AGE: About 4000.

SHAPE: Room-shaped.

MADE OF: Spongy stone infused with purple magic.

LOCATION: Hidden inside the Great Pyramid .

ABSORBS: The life-force of anyone who enters.

DOESN’T ABSORB: The undead, the Pharaoh’s Beard, plastic wraps.

RATED BY TOURISTS: Half a star. ‘Cramped.’ ‘Never gets cleaned.’ ‘Lost my life.’

A COMMON SPONGE

This common sponge is not unlike one that may be in your kitchen sink. It is good for washing dishes and nothing else. It is otherwise uninteresting and completely unmagical . . . or is it?

SHREW MUMMY

BREED: Egyptian pygmy shrew.

LIKES: Being a shrew, eating scraps off Prong and Scaler’s floor.

DISLIKES: Not being a main character.

WISHES: He could be Pharaoh, and that his voice wasn’t so high pitched.

BANDAGES: Painted fluoro pink.

NOSE: Pointy.

JOB: Doesn’t want one. Lazy shrew.