‘Look following the dead’, said the priests, ‘and the deceased will look once you.’

Wise words most probably, but a tall order when you yourself have just end up being the pharaoh of a small and penniless nation whose largesse – and indeed treasury – is unlikely to stretch towards the building of the monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. And particularly when your only visible means of support is normally a recently acquired qualification from your Guild of Assassins where running a kingdom and fundamental financial acumen were not prerequisites for program entry…