Pharaoh Atem
Atem is a Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, who sealed a part of his soul within the Millennium Puzzle. This part of his soul took on the entity Yami Yugi, which resided in the body of Yugi Muto, after Yugi solved the Millennium Puzzle.
Character biography
As son of king Aknamkanon, Atem became heir to the throne of the Amenhotep Dynasty and the Millennium Puzzle. Three thousand years before the current storyline, he defeated Zorc Necrophades, sealing his shadow magic, along with himself, inside the Millennium Items. Atem's reincarnation is Yugi Muto.
Atem, now a disembodied, amnesiac spirit, aided Yugi many times over the course of his adventures, in a form known only as "Yami Yugi." Yugi attempts to return the favor by finding the secret of Atem's past. Yugi and his friends find themselves sucked into a Dark RPG played by Yami Yugi and his counterpart in the Millennium Ring, they meet the living Atem, who is played by his spiritual self as a character in the RPG.
With the aid of Yugi's friends, as well as the Sacred Guardians, Atem's priests who are also characters in the game, the Pharaoh re-enacts his own life in the RPG. After Yugi defeats a manifestation of Bakura, Yami learns his own name, enabling Atem, in the game, to summon The Creator God of Light, Horakhty, to defeat Zorc before Bakura can summon him to the present.
After the ceremonial duel, Yami crosses to the afterlife and becomes Atem once again, free to join his friends in the next world.
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