"I challenge you to demonstrate Egypt's unity and its perfection in the Seven Disciplines. I shall work with each Discipline's universities to create Seven Tests. Pass them all and build monuments to each Discipline, and you will convince me." --The Stranger
The objective of A Tale in the Desert is to build the ideal civilization by perfecting the Seven Disciplines of Man. Each discipline contains seven tests to challenge the citizens of Egypt.
The Disciplines each have a page, hopefully containing information useful to followers of that Discipline. In particular, each has a page that attempts to track who has passed what Tests, which will be useful when it comes to building the monuments at the end of the Telling.