Menes II (pronounced meh-NEES) was the ruler of Khapesh from Y9671* until Y9976*. As the last of his family, and lacking a dynastic heir, Menes had himself turned into a mummy in order to avert a succession crisis. In this form he ruled from a distance for almost 250 years, rarely appearing in public and leaving almost all details of governance to his nomarchs. Even prior to his disappearance in Y9975* he was rarely seen outside of his traditional role in pageantry and parades, and always behind layers of enchanted obscuring veils. Few had even seen the king directly, and all royal communication was handled by his retinue of scribes.
In Y9975* Menes was eventually trapped by the countermeasures set up after the reign of Khentimeresh the Evil, designed to stop an undead from once again sitting on the throne of Khapesh. He was discovered by a group of adventurers the following year, at which point he was finally laid to rest and his body interred in a secret tomb outside Apis.