2229 BC. The Goldsmith was soaked in sweat working on the Kamal that had been specially ordered by the Pharaoh of Egypt, Neferkare. The Golden Staff as he referred to it himself was to be made especially with certain powers which left him to depend on his alchemical training by his father. Once the Staff was in Neferkare's hands it could be used for good or evil depending upon the individual. Sethu, the Goldsmith stayed awake for nearly 90 hours accounting for all of the ingredients in his alchemical collection and the special powers of each, collecting those that would blend for the desired effects. Once they were tamped into the staff he sealed the top off with a black pearl that he had soaked in a special spirit of his own making. Making sure not to touch the staff with his bare hands once the Black pearl was placed atop the staff, Sethu wrapped it in a strong gown that he had asked his grandmother to make.

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Jeb listened attentively to Neferkare explain his reasoning for creating the Kamal. "It may be necessary to call upon the Phoenix sometime in the future if the situation calls for. I was just a kid when the throne was thrust upon me and one of my first orders was to capture the beast and place him in his cold sleep. Now that I am older and only the gods know when my time will be finished, it is time to create the means of calling upon the Phoenix should the need rise. You are my choice to be the first holder of the Kamal upon my death."

Jeb indeed was the first holder of the Kamal upon Neferkare's death but was too old to live more than a year after Neferkare's passing. Pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare was to be the longest ruler of Egypt having been upon the throne for 94 years. When Jeb passed away without a son, it fell to a grandnephew of his to be the next holder of the Golden Staff. And for many generations it remained in the same clan. Sometime in 177 AD the Golden Staff fell into the hands of an English family. The next year, the first recorded bearer of the Golden Staff was Edward DiMare. There was a side effect for each passing generation that had held the Golden Staff. The bearer would live longer than most people would expect. The average lifespan of each passing bearer was 150 years of age. Edward DiMare had been born in the year of 178 AD and an unknown member of the family passed the Golden Staff into the young hands of Edward by holding the Staff with a heavy cloth. Edward would live until the year 401 AD where it was passed to his son Boris who been born in 389 AD and would live until 598 AD. And so it would fall upon the next DiMare hands for the next 2000 years. Boris' son Rinaldo was born in 679 AD and when Boris passed away, it fell to Rinaldo to bear the Golden Staff and would live until 812 AD. Each bearer would wind up using it for his own gain whether it was good or evil. As time passed, many events throughout history were the result of the one who held the Golden Staff. And occasionally there was no desire to use it for personal benefit but that was rare. Rinaldo's son, Paolo was born in 794 AD and would live until 981 AD. And so on, the holder of the Golden Staff was held by the DiMare family. In 948 AD Stefan DiMare was born and he would be the next bearer of the Golden Staff and would live until the year 1196 AD.

Unkown to Nerkare, Sethu had left a journal that was passed silently down to each of the following generation of his family until the year 210 AD when the bearer of the journal settled in the Roman province of Palmyra, in the town of Ardabil just before the Sassanid Empire rose less than three years later and in the process, Erdu, the bearer of the journal was killed. After the Sassanid soldiers left the area where hundreds had been slain, a child of an Alchemist scooped up the journal from the ground where Erdu lay dead and took it to her father, Umak, who was able to translate the language and the chemical equations and decided that a special ring should be made that could call upon the dormant Phoenix. Umak then set to work making a sapphire ring of a black color and calling it "The World's End Sun" along with two other rings that were called, "The Setting Sun of Ardabil" and "The Rising Sun of Ardabil". It was in Umak's infinite wisdom that the ring be a part of the three piece set. One of the elements used in the making of the three rings would later be identified in the late twentieth century was Cusslerite.

It would be a few years later when Umak was inspired when he had obtained a black pearl, gold and an emerald to make a special necklace. That necklace would gain notoriety several centuries later as the Transleikos jeweled necklace. And many people would be inspired to kill for it.