 Senef-Hekau While Egypt was still new, Sechat's mission have been to give the Vampire Gods of Egypt magical power that would enable them to defend the Two Lands from exterior aggression. Disciplines were at the same time created, but Set believed letting mortals from priesthoods and memory weak mummies be the magicians of Egypt could be a great mistake. Sechat, fabled wife of Thot, not only enabled the Vampires to have access to Thot-Hekau, but she even went higher, as she discovered the use of Celestial Structures to power High Spells, as well as Path Disciplines, similar to Vampire Disciplines, but attuned to each Hekau Path. Of course, few mortals could use High Spells, but for her Bloodline, the Hekau Nebet, this was a new source of power few had dared to dream about... Systems Senef Hekau (Akhu), unlike Tremere Thaumaturgy, don't rely on Vitae to power its magic. Akhu Sorcerers draw energy from enchanted focuses, which can be of three known types: Sekhem Amulets, Celestial Structures and Mummies. Followers of Set, unless exception, know only about Mummy Focuses. The use of Akhu needs at least an active focus to power it, even if the Akhu power don't need Sekhem, or Vitae expenditure. Also, one can use the Sekhem harvested from these focuses to spend as Sekhem or Vitae. Also, while the vampiric Sorcerer can't add successes to his rolls by spending Sekhem (as could a Mummy), she can spend successes to remove 1's from its roll if the roll is not a botch. For example, for a difficulty 6 roll of [1, 6, 4, 3, 1], one can spend 2 Sekhems to remove the 1's (and thus, have a simple success on the roll). But for a difficulty 6 roll of [1, 5, 4, 3, 1], which is considered a botch, the sorcerer is powerless to correct this. Akhu Paths Akhu and Tremere Thaumaturgy are fully incompatible.
The Followers of Set have a (relative) easy access to the Known Paths, but only legends know mentions the lost paths, which are currently known only by Meryt-Neith and some faithful followers. It is possible for someone to learn twice the same Path, one Hermetic version, and one Hekau, in any order. It is believed that the Sethite Sorcerers can reproduce any kind of Thaumaturgy Path and Rituals with their Magic. But this seems to be more easily said than done... (Meryt-Neith used this subterfuge to avoid being recognized by the Clan Tremere as a non-hermetic mage...). Note that Sekhem can be used as would be Vitae to power other Blood Sorceries. For example, Meryt-Neith could use Sekhem to power a Tremere Thaumaturgy power. Sekhem Amulets
The Vampire magician can use Amulets the same way Mummies and mortals can, but because of their extended lifetime, Vampires and Mummies have two problems concerning the Sekhem Amulets, which explains why few among them even remember how to create one: Celestial Structures Vampires can use Celestial Structures as easily as can other Hekau magicians. In facts, Vampire usually found it easier: Most Ancient Egypt Vampires were powerful Generation Cainites, thus enabling them to have High Spells, which needed this kind of structure. Mummy Focus Vampires can use Mummy Focus as would a mortal Sorcerer. The Mummy focus is a less efficient focus, but as it enable one to add the harvested Sekhem to one's willpower Faith? It is rumoured that some Vampires of Ancient Egypt could increase their Sekhem pool by somehow absorbing the True Faith of their priests. No Hekau Spell enable the magician to do that, so if this was true, it must have been a strange Discipline, now long lost... 
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