Editing Queen Neferata (section)

===Early History===
'''Neferata''', originally Neferatem (Neferata was the name she went by outside of Nehekhara, although later writers forgot about it and had her always called Neferata), was born a princess of the city of Lahmia in [[Nehekhara]] during the war of the Seven Kings against [[Nagash]]. She grew up with her cousin [[Queen Khalida|Khalida]]. But when they became adults, Khalida preferred to wear pants, ride horses, shoot arrows, and pray to the snake goddess, Neferata enjoyed dresses, learning about potion-making from her handmaidens, getting drunk on black lotus wine and forcing her servants to act out softcore porn.

This is because of unintended parental neglect; her father King '''Lamasheptra''' was too busy waging war against Nagash and the writers never bothered to elaborate on her mother. When Neferata's father died, her brother '''Lamashizzar''' took command of his forces and she was left to run the city. But Lamashizzar made a secret deal with [[Arkhan the Black]] to become necromancer bros by looting Nagash's house. After a string of betrayals, Lamashizzar won and took Nagash's books home plus an incapacitated Arkhan to give cliffnotes. As soon as Lamashizzar got back to Lahmia, he took over from Neferata and put her to work on the elixir while taking over her pastime of ordering cooks to suck face with stablehands.

As Lamashizzar got into studying Nagash's power, Neferata was put back in charge of running of the city. Then one day the Celestial Emperor of Cathay's son, Prince '''Xian Ha Feng''', arrived to discuss a trade agreement they'd made with her father. Out of desperation because his sister Neferem was Nagash's hostage, Lamasheptra signed a trade agreement to pay Cathay a bunch of gold every year in exchange for dragon staffs (cutting-edge Cathayan guns) and dragon powder (gun powder with some Cathyan secret ingredient), and if he missed a payment, Lahmia would belong to Cathay. Prince Xian announced that a new gold mine had been found in Cathay and so they were altering the deal to require more gold from Lahmia, putting the city in deep trouble with Neferata being expected to fix the problem.

Fed up and desperate, Neferata secretly turned to Arkhan for help. She asked Arkhan to teach her the secrets of necromancy and immortality, and tried hard to persuade him with charm. To her surprise, Neferata ended up sympathizing with Arkhan, the two bonding and potentially starting to love each other. Instead of taking notes and preparing a wizard army for her brother, Neferata experimented and actually improved Nagash's techniques.