King Solomon

King Solomon is an powerful undead magician and an antagonist of the 3rd book in the Theomachy series "Key of the Nile". In his true form Solomon is a mummified corpse seated on a throne, wearing the robes and regalia of a king including the magic ring on his left hand. He can still move around but can't speak due to his lack of a tongue (Solomon can only communicate through telepathy)

To whomever enters his chamber, Solomon creates an illusion of a vast beautiful brightly-lite throne room full of treasure and giggling nubile harem girls, and himself as a virile young man. You're nose smells fragrant incenses, and the food he offers you tastes real and delicious. While the chamber is in this illusionary state, Solomon's voice sounds human and it seems as though he's actually communicating verbally.

When the illusion fades, the room is reveled to be a dark and smelly tomb, the food becomes dust and Solomon is revealed as nothing more than an animated corpse. His voice becomes a shrill miserable ghostly sound in the back of your head.

Ancient Past
King Solomon was once a wise and benevolent ruler though he still had human flaws such as a lust, greed, and pride. Using a magic ring given to him by Michael the Archangel, King Solomon defeated an enslaved the Jinn (Genies), binding many of them to objects such as lamps, rings, and bottles so that whoever held those objects would be the Jinn's master.

He even forced the Jinn to help build the First Temple of Solomon. These actions were considered heroic by his human subjects who were sick of the mischievous Jinn always stealing from them, scaring them, and playing pranks on them but the Jinn would always remember Solomon as a tyrant.

As he got older his hedonism increased and his nobility faded. King Solomon taxed oppressively so he took in 666 talents of gold a year, and he took 700 princesses as wives, and 300 women as concubines.

Having taken wives from all over the world he learned of the existence of other gods, unsatisfied with the powers already granted to him as a prophet of the Lord he decided he should increase his magic by sacrificing to foreign deities. He designed a tomb for himself, reverse engineering the magic of the Pharaohs tomb to create a something that would stop his soul from traveling to the afterlife and presumably protect him from eternal retribution by the One God. After his death Solomon woke up in a tomb surrounded by treasure and foreign idols but unable to escape.

Theomachy Book 3 Key of the Nile
Hypatia Jackson first hears about King Solomon from Aliyah Nagi a Jinn bound to a bottle who has been ordered by the Apotheosis Initiative to assassinate Hypatia.

Hypatia Jackson, Ramses Kane, and Lucy Grace go on an adventure trying to find an artifact called the Ankh which can fix a rift in the Duat. Their also searching for Ramses cousin Rosetta Stone who went missing searching for the same artifact.

While adventuring in the Egyptian land of the dead they come across an unnamed Pharaoh's daughter who was one of the wives of Solomon. She tells Hypatia and Ramses that King Solomon has the Ankh and tells them how they can locate his tomb.

King Solomon appears to them in the guise of a teenager, he gives the trio a series of challenges to complete in order to prove their worthiness. In between the challenges, Solomon tries to tempt the heroes into staying forever; he shows Lucretia all the clothes and jewelry he'd give her, he shows Hypatia a vast library, he promises Ramses he'd share his harem and the concubines would serve Ramses every whim. The two girls receive glowing testimonies from the (nonexistent) harem girls about how great Solomon is and how well he treats them.

After the heroes beat all his challenges, King Solomon shows off Rosetta Stone who is bound in chains with a muzzle over her mouth and wearing the same skimpy clothing as the concubines (Rosetta is only 11 years old by the way) Solomon smugly challenges the heroes to another set of trials saying "double or nothing, you win you can take her you lose you have to stay forever". Lucy responds the only appropriate way, she grabs King Solomon by the collar then punches his head off, afterwards the illusions fade away and it's revealed that everything Solomon promised them was a lie.

King Solomon gets up grabs Lucy by the throat, lifts her off the ground and throws her against the wall, then levitates his head back to him and reattaches it. After an exhausting battle, the trio of heroes is able to defeat King Solomon by tearing him to pieces.

Hypatia grabs the Ankh and his magic ring but when the trio notices the pieces of King Solomon crawling back together, they decide to leave before he can reassemble himself. Hypatia later uses the Ring of Solomon to free Aliyah from the enchantment that binds her to the bottle.