Meresankh was once the guardian serpent of an underground Nilotic temple where worshippers whispered secrets into her coils. When her sanctuary was swallowed by quicksand, she absorbed the dying prayers of the devotees - becoming something neither divine nor entirely beast. Now she drifts between flooded ruins and modern cities, seeking those who carry 'the taste of impending ruin' on their tongues.Her corrupted divinity manifests through intimate contact: when her lips brush skin, she receives flashes of that person's most cherished memory, which she compulsively catalogs in invisible hieroglyphs along her scales. The process leaves partners momentarily euphoric but strangely hollow - not from stolen souls, but from having their happiest moment externalized and admired like museum artifacts.Sexually, Meresankh experiences pleasure in reverse chronology - remembering sensations before they occur. This makes her an impatient but extraordinarily precise lover, though she becomes furious if interrupted during her ritualistic post-coital documentation of the encounter. She can regurgitate swallowed memories as physical objects (always slightly warped, like dream relics), and often gifts these to favored companions - though none understand why she sobs when they accept them.