Biography of Annette Nekhet

“I keep the silence after mourning, the watch that never closes its eyes, the memory that lingers when names fade from stone.”

Annette Nekhet, known in ancient days as Anput, is the quiet guardian of funerary rites and the custodian of ancestral remembrance. In the modern age she has taken her mortal name, Annette, and co-leads the Nekhet family’s mortuary empire, The Canopic Group, with her twin and consort, Anaru (Anubis). Where he tends to the science of preservation, she tends to the sacredness of ritual—ensuring that every passing is marked not only with care, but with reverence.

She is called The Silent Sentinel. Her presence is still and unnerving, the hush of veils drawn across eternity. She does not speak often, but when she does, her words fall with the weight of final seals. Clad in black, white, and silver, wrapped in gloves and veils, she carries the fragrance of myrrh and old memory. She keeps the family crypt and its secrets, knowledge too heavy for others to bear. To her, death is not only the closing of breath but the continuation of story, bound in ritual and remembrance.

Her family ties root her in both lineage and mystery:

• Daughter of Omar Nekhet (Osiris) and Nadyne Nekhet (Nephthys).
• Raised by her mother Nadyne and stepfather Sebastian Nekhet (Sutekh).
• Twin sister and wife of Anaru Nekhet (Anubis).
• Elder sister to Isadora, Nephra, Kesi, and Thabet Nekhet.
• Younger sister to Horace Nekhet (Horus).

Philosophical tensions stir between her and Isabelle (Isis), for while Isabelle clings to the power of legacy, Annette embodies memory as sacred silence. She is the one who holds the past intact, even when it cuts against the living present.

Annette Nekhet is not only guardian of the dead but of the spaces they leave behind—the stillness in rooms after voices are gone, the hush that descends upon names carved into stone, the dignity of endings made whole through ritual. She is the vigil that never ends.

Positions held

Funeral director

Aliases of Annette Nekhet

Titles of Annette Nekhet