Rath

Because I admit, I don't take every single episode as canon while playing Rath. Some of them are definitely weaker than others or very inconsistent with the characterization or worldbuilding in weird ways.

Key:
Canon
Haven't watched yet
Decanonizing

1 - Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra
2 - Sleep Walk Like an Egyptian
3 - Pack to the Future
4 - The Gift of Geb
5 - Desert Chic
6 - High Nuhn
7 - Dead Man Walking
8 - Good Bye Mr. Cheops
9 - Body Slam
10 - Paws
11 - The Curse of Sekhmet
12 - Dog Bites Mummy
13 - Reunion
14 - The Prince and the Presley
15 - The Egyp-Tsu Kid
16 - The Face in the Mirror
17 - Miscast
18 - Sleight of Hand
19 - Missing Ja-Kal
20 - Ghouls' Gold
21 - Tempting Offer
22 - Loss of Face
23 - Kid Scarab
24 - Married to the Geb
25 - Water, Water Everywhere
26 - A Dark and Shrieky Night
27 - Pepped with Good Intention
28 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Huxley
29 - Monster Truck Mania
30 - Eye of the Beholder
31 - Tree O'Clock Rock
32 - Object of His Affections
33 - The Bird-Mummy of Alcatraz
34 - Honey, I Shrunk the Mummies
35 - True Believer
36 - Who's Who?
37 - My Dad the Hero
38 - Family Feud: Part 1, Brother's Keeper
39 - Family Feud: Part 2, New Mummy in Town
40 - Family Feud: Part 3, The Heart's Arrow
41 - We've Got One
42 - Show Me the Mummy

Rath - Wadjet
Ja-Kal - Horus
Armon - Khnum
Nefer - Bastet

Scarab - Khepri, but he sort of hacked his way into it

"With the strength of Ra!"

Died in 1525 BC, awoke in the 1990s about 3,520 years later. Scarab actually awoke in the 20s, around 3,450 years later, but they all round it to "thirty-five hundred years" or even, in some cases, "three thousand years."

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After failing to save Rapses in time, Rapses's ba (his personality) could not be reunited with his ka (vital essence) to form the Akh (intellect/"magically effective one"). This meant that his ba would continue on and be reincarnated (gaining a new ka) rather than passing into the afterlife.

As a punishment (though it was framed as giving them another chance, and therefore an honor as well as their duty), the Pharaoh had Rapses's four guardians ritually sacrificed to their gods and mummified to continue being Rapses's guardians in his next earthly life.

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The four guardians' ba are tied to Presley's ka, which is what allows them to continue living though they have no ka of their own. However, this means that when Presley dies, his guardians will die as well.

Does Scarab want Presley's ib (heart) to trick Anubis? Or does he want Presley's ka, which is special because he is of the pharaohs' bloodline, so it is a stronger life force than any other (also why he's able to support five ba simultaneously)?

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It's been ~3500 years. If the guardians' ba can no longer easily be reunited with their ka (as their ka left their bodies upon their death), it's very possible that their spirits will not become Akh and move safely into the afterlife. They would need to either find their ka somehow (if they still exist) or be reincarnated themselves to have a chance at that.

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The ritual that made them into Rapses's eternal (or, well, "eternal") guardians empowered them through their amulets, but also by sacrificing an animal sacred to their patron deities alongside them (in identical ways); this encouraged the deities to bless them with power, a piece of themselves in the form of a corresponding animal spirit which became a sort of second shut (shadow) for them. This shut is also what kept their ba in their mortal bodies until they could join with Presley's ka.

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More vocab:

• Sah - Mummy, but also the spiritual body that one uses in the afterlife, so...
• Khet - The physical body that one uses in life, so strictly speaking, the guardians are still using their khet, as well as their sah.
• Ren - Name, identity. A part of the soul, therefore magic and used in magic.