| “ | Order, why do you love it so, as it suffocates you? Your father's blood is yet warm upon my hands, my heart aflame with my conviction. There was never any future for us, beyond what He, our master allowed. Always a slave, only the blind could fail to see my courage. But I promise to make you see, I will make the world see our real potential, a power they have yet to witness! | „ |
| ~ Set |
Set is a playable character in the MOBA game SMITE, and is part of the Egyptian Pantheon, alongside his archenemy and nephew Horus, his hated brother Osiris, adoptive son Anubis, and his own father, Geb.
Lore in SMITE
Imagine you can, if only for the briefest of moments, glimpse the future. Your spirit yearns to see all that you hold dear prosper, shining like a beacon against all the rest of creation, defiant against hardship and basking in the glow of peace and security. Imagine then, seeing the truth, a truth of an altogether different kind.
You see your kingdom, the divine beings who protect it and its mortal peoples, and upon looking closer, you see a rot begin to form. A weakness, fraying away at the very heart, a fundamental absence of strength that threatens to spread, yawning wide into a void that will consume all.
What lengths would you go to, to prevent this from happening? What would you sacrifice, whose blood would you be willing to spill? For the god Set, he would pay any price, even the blood of his own brother, Osiris.
Set saw the tyrannical control his brother held over the land, the hoarding of strength and power even from his own son. He looked to that son, fair Horus, starved of the means to take the reigns of command when his appointed time came, incapable of leading them into any future but darkness. Set looked upon an unworthy king, and a worse successor, and he chose to act.
He knew the world would seek to damn him, to decry his deeds as those of a murderer, slavering for power. But Set would endure such lies, to save his kingdom. He would seize the throne back from the unworthy and the weak, from the sinister and the corrupt, and in time, when the truth of the world mirrored the truth he desired in his heart, they would throng the streets to praise him. Set would be their deliverance, no matter the cost.
Personality
Set is portrayed as a delusional god who believes that Order, the very foundation on which Egyptian mythology, and real life Egyptian culture was based on, is a perversion of everything. Willing to pay any price to sate his mad delusions, Set was willing to murder his own brother, and plunge Egypt into an age of darkness and chaos. And yet, in his delusions, Set either refuses, or cannot see all the suffering his actions cause.
Trivia
- Set was released alongside Horus, in a special patch of SMITE just for them
- Set has his abilities increase if he ever goes against Horus