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[White Oak Dragon]

Personally, I’d let them have a body with cybernetic implants, up until they were damaged. Once it was broken, the sahu would heal it back to a “normal” limb. Really, it’s whatever you’d need for your table, though....

[White Oak Dragon]

Yes, “No Such Thing As Dragons” was the first thing Onyx Path hired me to write. I’m glad it made an impression.
As far as who can enter Duat: short simple answer? Whoever you need to enter it. How can be a bit trickier. To give a few possibilities: Certain rituals in a mummy’s could bring other characters to Duat when the mummy enters henet. A strange celestial conjunction could interact with a natural or artificial structure to open a portal directly into it. Mages screw something up while doing the mage thing. Reality starts breaking down, causing gateways to other realms to crack...

[White Oak Dragon]

I’m the one who wrote Duat, as well as the fiends and shades. Duat is its own realm. It is AN Underworld, but not THE Underworld, if that makes any sense. Mummies actually are able to enter the Underworld, but they can’t cross the first river because Anpu stops them. Duat’s “main entrances” are located deep in Neter-Khertet.
The exact nature of shades is left for individual groups to decide. An easy explanation that I’ve offered up before for people who want one without coming up with it themselves is to treat them as the Sheut Pillar of the deceased. Shades go to Duat for judgment....

[White Oak Dragon]

Apep is mentioned as a fiend. As a godly entity in his own right, he would be greater than Rank 5....

[White Oak Dragon]

They’re of variable rank. There’s just no stats for them (or anything else) in Duat, as all challenges must be handled narratively. There’s a sidebar explaining how to stat them when they escape into the world.

[White Oak Dragon]

Fiends, yes. Absolutely. Shades are left open for individual groups to decide.