The Mission to the People of the North
Now I, Jeraneck, being the last Prophet of my people, record on these plates the mission that was taken by Hadjaneck and his brothers, and his brothers were called Misamaneck and Shiznar and they were great men for they did do great works upon this land. I was taught by my mother about their mission to the people of the north and it is thanks to them in part that all the houses of the People of Light became one and our people became one.
Now, I write upon this record the story of their mission and their dealings with the people of the north, for the Lord has commanded me to include this upon these plates, for it will bless the lives of his servants in the days before his second coming.
I return now to the record and make an account of their mission. Now Hadjaneck went to his brothers and told them that they must go with him and they said to Hadjaneck that they would follow him and that they would do so with a willing spirit, for they to had been told by the Lord that they were to go on this mission. And so they walked into the north country for the space of fourteen days, for they had travelled north further than any other man of the People of Light had ever walked. On the fourteenth day they came to a river and the river was deep and wide, and it seemed to them that their journey was to go no further, for this was a mighty river, and so they prayed to the Lord that they might cross the river and the Lord answered their prayers and they crossed the river and entered in to a land full of forest and all manner of creatures and wild beasts that they had never before seen and they journeyed in the forest for the space of five days.
On the fifth day they came across a great building and this building was tall and it reached in to the heavens and upon its walls were markings or writing that they had never seen before and could not read. Hadjaneck and his brothers wondered at who had made this tower and who had written this language and they supposed that it must be the people of the north who had built the tower and they spent three days and nights camped about the tower and they prayed unto the lord and asked that they might understand the words that were written upon the tower.
As Hadjaneck looked about the tower the spirit witnessed to him that the people of the north had built the tower and that the writing upon the tower was written in their language. Misamaneck, Hadjaneck’s brother, stood far from the tower looking into a valley that was full of trees and a mighty river, and in the valley he saw many buildings and smoke rising from the valley and Misamaneck told Shiznar to go down and make an account of the things that were in the valley but Hadjaneck stopped Shiznar and said to Misamaneck that they should wait by the great tower for he knew that the people of the north would come unto them, for this place was a holy place and he said that he knew these things because the Holy Spirit has told him.
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So it was that three days passed and they waited at the tower for the people of the north to come unto them and on the third day the people of the north came forward and made them selves known unto Hadjaneck and his brothers. Hadjaneck stood and went forth unto the people of the north and he stretched forth his hand and greeted the people of the north and as he did this he said, “My name is Hadjaneck, I come from the People of Light, we are friends and brothers, we believe in the one true God and it is he that has sent us in to your land to make ourselves known unto you, that we might become one people being joined together in one place.” And Hadjaneck stopped talking unto them and stood for he had made an end of all that he had to say to them. And the people of the north stood and looked upon each other in astonishment for although they did not speak the same language the Holy Spirit made the words known unto them.
Now the people of the north were tall men and they wore beards and they were light and fair, and they looked as if the sun had given them life. Now the leader of the group of people who were of the north, was called Judna, and he stood forth and approached Hadjaneck and held out his hand so that Hadjaneck might take hold of it and Hadjaneck took hold of Judna's hand and as Hadjaneck took hold of Judna’s hand the spirit testified to him that the people of the north were people of God and that they meant them no harm and the same was to be said for Judna, for it is written that when he took hold of Hadjaneck’s hand the spirit told him that he was a man of the Most High God.
Judna spoke unto Hadjaneck and his brethren saying, “Come I will take you to our city and I will take you to our leader and our council and there you will be told of the history of our people and all the things that trouble your mind will be made clear.” When the three brothers heard this the spirit interpreted the words unto their understanding, and because of this they were glad and they went with Judna and the people of the north and they were travelling for the space of five days and while they were travelling they beheld all manner of buildings both small and large and on the buildings were written strange writings and it was the same writing that was written upon the tower, and they saw many people and they were greeted with warmth and friendship as they travelled.
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Now, on the morning of the fifth day they came to a city and as they entered the city many people came out of their homes and greeted them and they sang, and their praises filled the air and they said with one voice, “Hallelujah, hallelujah the people have come to us, the people have come to us.” When Hadjaneck and his brothers heard this they were astonished for they had never met the people of the north until that time and it seemed to Hadjaneck and his brethren that they were expecting them and had been for a long time. Hadjaneck looked about and he beheld a great multitude of people and the people had gathered to see them and to greet them. Now Judna had seen this and he stood before the people and said unto them, “They have come unto us and now I, Judna, will take them before the council and then you may greet them and speak with them.” With this Judna led them away to a great building and they were taken to the council chamber of the leader of the people of the north and they stood before the council.
Now, when they were stood before the assembled people, an old man came before Hadjaneck and took hold of him and his name was Venroan and he embraced Hadjaneck and he said to Hadjaneck, “Welcome my brothers. Although my words are hard for you to understand I pray that the Lord will make them easy for you to understand. We are the People of Ridnon and we were bought to this land with the people of Limndon our cousins, many, many years ago and we were brought here by the power of the Most High and we have kept a record of our dealings with God and our religion and we have kept it sacred, for we were told in our past that three brothers would come unto us and bring us further light and knowledge and we were told by our leaders of old that we would be joined with this people, for among them there would be Prophets and men anointed of God to lead them and we were told that we should join with them and become one people and it is to this end we have kept a record of our religious practises and our religious orders. Now I say, that these three brothers have come and I embrace you as a brother, for you are my brothers, my brothers in the gospel of the Most High.”
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When Venroan had finished speaking, Hadjaneck also embraced him and they cried together for their hearts were full of the spirit of God and the whole council chamber sang out with one voice, “Glory to God, Glory to the Most High God.”
JERANECK NINE
A People United Under God
Hadjaneck and his brothers stayed amongst the people of the north for the space of a year and in this time they learned the language of the people more fully, they rejoiced with the people and sang and danced with the people and they went about teaching the people and going from house to house and from building to building and they were teaching and learning. Now at this time Hadjaneck and his brothers were living in the house of Adnar, and his wife was called Lunar and Lunar was high priestess of the people and she and Adnar had 8 children and they were blessed of the Lord. Lunar, being a very learned woman came to Hadjaneck and asked Hadjaneck if his people had priestesses and Hadjaneck said that they did not, that it was not given for them to have them and that they had been taught that they were not to have them. When Lunar heard this she was afraid, for she had been taught in the temple of her people that she was anointed by God to do the things that she had done. And she went to the temple with Hadjaneck and she read from the sacred text of the people of the north and she read to him that the Lord had said that this was permitted.
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Now I Jeraneck have been commanded by the Lord not to write the further detail of this, for it is to be found in detail upon the record that deals with our religion, so I make no further remarks on this other than to say that Lunar was correct and Hadjaneck was not.
Now the children of the People of Ridnon and Limndon were taught by their mothers and they were taught that they were to be prayerful and to be contrite and be examples to the people around them, and it is from these people that we have learned the value of motherhood for before we joined ourselves with the People of Ridnon and Limndon we held motherhood in no great esteem.
Now I, Jeraneck, return to the record. When one year had passed and they had learned and taught, Hadjaneck went before the council and he went to speak with Venroan but Venroan had been replaced for it was their custom to serve the people for a set time, and Venroan’s time had come and gone and he had been replaced by a man by the name of Roadnen. Now Roadnen greeted the three brother’s in the same manner as Venroan had done and he walked with Hadjaneck and his brothers and Roadnen said to them, “I am a descendent of Ridnon and my family are the keepers of the great library and it is my wish to show you this library before the council go with you to see your Prophet.” And Hadjaneck and his brothers walked with Roadnen and they came to a large hill and the hill was hollowed out so that they could walk in to it and they made their way in to the hill and down many steps until they had come to a great library and in the library were many records, some made of metal and others of wood and there were so many that Hadjaneck was struck with great amazement and he said unto Roadnen, “Are these the records spoken of by Venroan? Are these the records of your people?” And Roadnen answered and said, “This is the Great Library of Nimdoa, for it was he who made this building and in here are the records of the People of Ridnon and the People of Limndon and they contain a fuller part of our history and from whence we came from.”
I, Jeraneck, the compiler of this record and the last Prophet of the People of Light have never seen this library but I know of its existence through the teachings of my mother and of the sacred writings that I have read and I tell you this because not even I have seen its beauty. But I say this, unto the servant of the Lord in the days before his second coming, that this record that I have compiled, is small compared to that of the People of Ridnon and Limndon, for they have many records, but I have not been blessed to see them with my eyes but the Lord has made it known unto me that the servants of the Lord in the days before his second coming, will be given revelation concerning those records. And I say that the Lord will choose the time to revel them unto you. But I say unto you that even if I had them I would not be able to abridge them, for I would not have material enough to do so and I do not have the authority to give these records to you even if I had them, but I testify that their records will come unto the world through you, the Lords servant, in the last days. My calling is to write the history of my people and to make sure that it is kept safe from the people that do come unto our land in anger. I now return to the records and the mission of the three faithful brothers, Hadjaneck, Misamaneck and Shiznar.
Now when Hadjaneck and his brothers had looked around the great library they knew that it would take many years to read all that was contained with its walls but Hadjaneck went to take a record and as he was about to do this the spirit moved Misamaneck to stop him from taking the record and when Misamaneck took hold of Hadjaneck, Hadjaneck was shocked and Shiznar said unto them, that these records were not for them but for the servant of the Lord in the last days of the world. Now Roadnen knew these things for they were written in the records that deal with the religion of the people, but he wanted to show Hadjaneck and his brothers that they were a people not without records and history, and that they were a people that lived within the law of the Most High, and when Hadjaneck had heard these things he turned to his brothers and said, “Our mission here is done, we will now return to our people and commence the work of uniting our people together.” When Hadjaneck had finished talking, Roadnen led them to the council chamber and informed all that had gathered that they were to go with Hadjaneck and his brothers unto the People of Light and stand before the holy Prophet.
On the next morning they, Roadnen, his counsellors, and Hadjaneck and his brethren went forth and they rode back to their people on the horses that the People of Ridnon and Limndon kept and they rode unto the City of Light. While on their journey to the lands of the south and the city of the People of Light, Misamaneck prayed unto the Lord that the people might be glad to be joined with the People of Ridnon and Limndon and he cried unto the Lord and the Lord spoke unto him from heaven saying, “The work that you have done and your brothers have done is great in my sight and it has pleased me greatly. It has been the greatest work that has been done on the face of the earth. For you have brought together my people and my people are now one, but behold a time will come when a great calamity will befall your people because of their pride and it is your responsibility along with your brothers to preach unto the people against pride, for it is of the evil one and not of me. Now go my faithful servant, you have served me well.”
Now many days had passed and Hadjaneck and his brothers and Roadnen and his counsellors came unto the City of Light and they went straight unto the council chamber of the Prophet Zioneck. And they stood before Zioneck, and Hadjaneck stood before the council of Zioneck upon the Urim and the Thummim and gave an account of his time among the People of Ridnon and Limndon. And he did tell them of the great record chamber and he did tell the council about the new religious teachings that he had learned from the People of Ridnon and Limndon, and he bear testimony of their love for the People of Light.
Then Roadnen stood forth and he spoke to the council saying, “My name is Roadnen, I am the leader of the People of Ridnon and the People of Limndon and I come to this council chamber to officially ask that our people and your people may become untied as one people, as one nation. I ask this for it is written in our holy text, that one day our peoples will stand together as one nation under God. I humbly submit myself to this council and to you, the Prophet of the people.” With this Roadnen stopped speaking and fell to his knees. Upon seeing this Zioneck ran over to him and held him up and he took hold of Roadnen and he embraced him and said to him, “It is Gods will that you are here and it is Gods will that we be united as one people and who am I to stand in the way of the will of God, I am his servant and his anointed Prophet and I do his will. In the name of the people and the name of our Lord, I hereby unite our people into one nation under the direction of the Most High God.” When Zioneck had finished speaking the whole council chamber erupted with cheering and hallelujahs and from this time on the people were one.
JERANECK TEN
The First Great War
Now many years had passed since the People of Ridnon and Limndon had joined themselves with the People of Light and the people lived in harmony for many years and the Lord blessed them so that their flocks grew and their cities grew.
The people became mighty upon the whole land and they built many wonderful buildings and they went to and fro on the land, from the lands of Ridnon and Limndon to the lands of Light and they conversed one with another and many were married and joined together and they had many children and waxed strong upon the land. They became a mighty nation and they filled many parts of the land, and great forests were cut down to make way for great places of worship and great highways were built up so that they might be able to go to and from their places of worship and their homes, and they became one people so much so that nobody could tell them apart, for their hearts were one and their love for the Lord, the Most High God was one.
Now since the time of the mission of the three righteous brothers, Hadjaneck, Misamaneck and Shiznar, six hundred years had passed and the people grew strong and mighty, but at this time of great wealth and growth among the people a great sin came upon the people and covered the whole land and it was the sin of pride. Now because of the pride that swelled their hearts they thought they were mightier then their neighbours. Because of the pride in their hearts the people thought their homes and temples and places of worship were mightier than the those of the People of Ridnon and the People of Ridnon thought that their temples were mightier than the People of Lights, and because of this pride they stopped thinking as one people and they acted as two separate peoples and their hearts grew hard towards their neighbours. At this time the people of the believers of the Lord of Heaven, which were many upon the land, went forth testifying unto the people and telling them that they should come unto the Lord and be forgiven for their sins.
Now it was Six hundred years since the great mission of the three righteous brothers to the lands of the north or the lands of Ridnon and at this time a great cloud covered the whole land and that cloud took the form of war, famine, pestilence and violence.
Now the people had been warned many times not to stray from the path of the Almighty God for if they did they would be destroyed.
At this great and terrible time, the hearts of the people were not turned to God but to war and the war that ragged upon the land was the First Great War of the people. Now because the people had not turned their hearts to God they made war one against the other, and the people separated in to factions, and the People of Light fought the People of Ridnon for the space of many years, even five years. The land became red with blood and the people fought one with another.
In the midst of this darkness and this murder there stood a man, Ananan. Ananan was a great man and he was a great leader of men, for he was the commander of the armies of Ridnon and he was greatly favoured of the Lord. And he stood at the head of his forces and he rode forward into the centre of the field of battle, and the armies of Light were arrayed on the opposite side. Ananan cried with a loud voice saying, “Oh people, what have we done? We have destroyed the great principles of our God. We have taken many peoples lives and we have taken many great and wonderful places of worship and we have destroyed them, and in doing this the Lord has withdrawn his spirit from the whole land and we are bathed in the blood of our brothers and our sisters. This must come to an end or else we will be wiped from the face of the whole land. We must forgive ourselves and ask Almighty God for his forgiveness, so that we may walk in his light once again. For if we do not humble ourselves and ask for his forgiveness we will no longer be his people, we will become the people of darkness and the people of the evil one.” Now when Ananan had finished speaking his words, many of the people gathered for war fell down and asked for forgiveness for their sins, for they knew that they had sinned against the Lord and they knew that they had done the things of the evil one.
Now I, Jeraneck, say unto you, that this was the first of the many wars that plagued our land and our people, and this was the first war that the people had ever waged one with another, and it was a great war and a terrible one and many people died, men, women and children fell to the plague of this great war and it was while I was in my youth that I was told these things and it was the manner of the teachers of my people that they would teach the young these things, so that we might better understand that the evil one brings about hatred, that he starts wars. We were taught so that we might be able to live in a time without war.
Now I, Jeraneck, say this that my people did not learn and the war that is ragging outside, of this chamber and this temple in which I sit and compile this record, is the mightiest and bloodiest of all the wars that my people have ever fought. This war is a war of annihilation, for this war is not fought over Gold or Silver or Zenrion but it is a war that is fought for nothing more than the love of bloodshed. But even now, if my people would turn their hearts to their God, they might be saved. But they rely upon their own strength for victory and not their God.
Now I say this in warning, that the many wars that plague your time have plagued my time and the outcome will be the same and the people of your time will cry with a loud voice, “Oh lord, why have you forsaken us?” Just as my people now cry, but they will not see that it is they that have forsaken him. Now I return to the record of the history of my people.
When the People of Light and the People of Ridnon had made an end of their violence and their wars, they came together as one people. They came together and sat in the great council chamber of the great temple on the plains of Shainnon and they spoke with one voice and they said to one-another that the fighting and the blood shed must stop forever, and there must be peace upon the land.
Now there arose in the land at this time, a Prophet, who was anointed in his calling by God, and he acted as the Prophet of the people and he was a descendent of Sharanack, even the same Sharanack that led the people to the land and was told that he would not taste death. His name was Seeraneck, and he was a great man, for he loved the people and he loved the Lord and he loved the welfare of his fellow men above all else, and because he had not picked up the sword or the bow or the spear, or any other weapon of war to fight in the great war, he had no blood upon his hands, for he had cried peace unto the people and it was his example that inspired Ananan to give his speech to the armies and because of this the people loved him for it.
Seeraneck stood in the midst of the great council chamber and he said with a loud voice so that all could hear him, “I am the Prophet ordained and anointed by God. I with the aid of God will solve the problems of our people. I command you in the name of the Almighty to cry repentance unto him and ask him now in this great chamber for forgiveness for the evil that you have done and he will again bless our people.” And the captains of the armies of both sides fell and wept for they knew that they had blood on their hands, and thy cried unto Seeraneck and asked him to ask the Almighty if he might forgive them of the things they had done, and Seeraneck cried unto the Almighty and asked the Lord to forgive the people, and at this time the spirit of the Lord fell upon him and it moved him and he knew that the Lord was satisfied and had forgiven the people of their sins. But the Lord had a warning that he wished Seeraneck to give to the people, and he caused Seeraneck to speak and he warned the people that if they strayed from the paths of righteousness and picked up the sword in anger that the Lord would smite the people, and he warned them that if they continued to hate one another that the day would come when the people would no longer exist upon this land. After the people heard these words they were overcome with sorrow and their hearts became heavy and they all cried with one voice saying, “Oh Lord, forgive our transgression, forgive us for the sake of our children.”
JERANECK ELEVEN
Raynon’s Reign Begins
The time came when the people began to be filled with spirit of the Lord once again, and they cried unto the Almighty One of Heaven in their temples and places of worship, and they cried in their homes, and they became one people again upon the land. And they began again to mix one with another and to trade and celebrate and to worship together, and they began to be one with the Lord and with each other.
Now one hundred years passed since the great war ended and peace again ruled the land and Seeraneck was still the Prophet of the people and he still cried repentance unto them, and the time came when the People of Light and the People of Ridnon and Limndon did not call themselves by different names but they called themselves People of the Most High God, but I will refer to them in this record as two separate people, the People of Light and the People of Ridnon and Limndon.
The people lived together for the space of many years in peace, and their horse herds grew strong, and their fields yielded many great crops, and there armies grew strong, but there was still peace upon the land. It was in the one hundred and fiftieth year of peace upon the land, that the Prophet Seeraneck came unto the people. He began to be very old and his sight had failed him. And he could not see and he spoke unto the people saying, “We, the People of the Most High God have lived together in peace for the space of many years, and now I come before you, for my eyes have failed me and my age has the better of me. Now who am I to appoint in my place.” And the Lord spoke unto him and told him a name and it was the name of difference unto the people, and Seeraneck said unto the people, “It is Raynon.” And Raynon stepped forward, and Raynon was a young man and his age was that of sixteen years. And he stepped forward and he said unto the Prophet, “I am but a young child, I cannot be the anointed one.” And the Prophet Seeraneck said unto Raynon, “You are the chosen one, you are the one that the Lord has chosen. Step forward and I will anoint you.”
So it was that Raynon stepped forward and was anointed as the new Prophet. But upon this the people became confused, for they did not understand why the Lord had chosen such a young child to be their Prophet.
Many days passed and the people grew disaffected by what the Prophet Seeraneck had done, and Seeraneck died and the people buried him along with all the other Prophets of the people. Raynon now became the Prophet of the people, and he caused that all the elders and high priests be gathered to the great council chamber, and he stood and spoke to the gathered priesthood and he said these words, “The Lord has anointed me to be your Prophet and your leader, and it is through him that I shall draw my strength. But it is through you, the people, that the many great things the Lord wants to accomplish will be done.” When he had finished talking to the gathered priesthood they stood and they shouted praise unto Raynon, for he was just a young boy and the Lord Almighty had made him a man, for they knew that he spoke the words of God.
Now I, Jeraneck, make known unto you, that Raynon is my forefather, and it is through him that the prophetic gift has been given unto my family and therefore to me.
Raynon was a great Prophet, and during his time he commanded that the armies go forth upon the land and find more land for the people to inhabit, for the people had become mighty and their cities were swollen with numerous peoples, and Raynon commanded that new lands be found for the people to inhabit. Raynon commanded the armies to go forth and find new lands and to take with them four missionaries to preach to the armies, and also to take the teachings of the Almighty Lord to any new people they may find. The captain of the armies at this time was man called Lioana, and he was a great man, and he led the armies in righteousness and he did the will of Raynon and the Lord, and the armies saw this and they followed him with full heart, and they loved him and they loved that he loved the Lord.
Now Lioana went forth under the direction of Raynon, and he and the armies marched for the space of fifty days. They went north into the lands of the People of Ridnon and beyond. As they went north the weather became cold and the days were dark and the days were short, and at this time the men of the armies feared that the Lord had abandoned them.
Now the four missionaries, who’s names I am not permitted to write at this time, went forth unto the armies and confirmed to them that they had crossed into a land that was not known to them, but it was known to the Almighty, and this land was a dark land but it was a land that the Lord had blessed unto the people.
The armies under the direction of Lioana made fortification upon the land, and it took sixty days to build the fortification, and when the fortification was built Lioana commanded that one hundred men be left behind while the greater part of the armies go forth upon the land and march south, back to the great City of Light and unto the Prophet. When they returned they made their way to the council chamber of the Prophet Raynon, and Raynon was moved by the Lord, for the Lord told him that the land that Lioana had found was a good land, and a land that their people might expand and become strong. Raynon sent out amongst the people a decree asking for people to go north with the armies to settle the new land, and the people responded to their Prophet, and many took the walk north with Lioana and the armies.
And so it was that in the days of the Prophet Raynon that the people did indeed make this new land a great land, for they farmed and built many beautiful buildings, and they made the land beautiful. And their children grew strong and became mighty men and women, true believers in the Almighty.
JERANECK TWELVE
The Unrighteous Brothers
Now it was during the great migration northward to the new lands that Raynon stood before the council and he was thirty years in age and he called for the descendants of Hadjaneck, Misamaneck and Shiznar to make themselves known to the council that was gathered.
Now the descendants of Hadjaneck, Misamaneck and Shiznar were like unto their forefathers in only one way, for they were men of exploration and they wished to go forth and find new lands for the people. But they had a secret in their heart and the Prophet Raynon knew of this secret, for the Lord had told him in a vision. Now the Prophet called them forward and they stood as their forefathers had done on the Urim and the Thummim in the great council chamber and the Prophet stood before them and said, “The Lord has moved me to call this council for these servants that stand before us are the descendants of Hadjaneck, Misamaneck and Shiznar. And they have a secret in their hearts and they have covered that secret with the wish to find new lands for the people. Now I say unto this council that these men wish to find their forefathers even the very one named Lioneck, they wish to find his people and to know of their fate. For the Lord has revealed to me, his anointed one, that their intentions are of God and they are to go forth upon the sea and find their forefathers people. But a warning I give unto them, that if they stray from the teachings of God they will be cut of from his presence.” When Raynon had finished talking to the council the three brothers whose names are Anonock, Rismaneck and Asaneck spoke saying, “We wish to go not only to find our lost people but to bring them unto the Almighty God. We wish to find new teachings and new goods that we may trade with them. Our thoughts are for the people.” Raynon knew in his heart that they were not truthful unto the council but he held his tongue and he permitted the brothers to go and find their people because the Lord had told him that it was to be.
Now at this time a representative from the People of Ridnon stood forth and argued that this was not a wise thing and it should not be done for it was written that Lioneck was a wicked man and he feared that if Lioneck’s people knew of the location of this land they would come upon them and bring war and destruction upon them. Now Raynon said unto Ishnon that he had heard his concerns and he said. “The Lord of hosts is with us and if we be obedient unto him no one will come unto our land and destroy us, but if we should fall away into darkness then it matters not for we will deserve that destruction.” And Raynon commanded them to go on their journey and the three brothers departed from the council chamber.
Now the brothers made their journey east toward the seashore and to the great harbour of Neshon. For by the time of this journey the people had expanded all over the land and they had built ports from whence to sail and they had built towns around about the ports so that they might fish the ocean sea. And the three brothers made their way to a ship that the Prophet had commissioned for their journey and they boarded the ship and they commanded the Captain to sail east. Now the Captain of the ship was called Wisneck and he was a well known sea man, for he had mapped all of the southern seashore for the people and he had been given command by the Prophet to sail with the brothers east and to travel with them and to make maps and to keep a small record of their journey so that the people might be able to read it.
Now I, Jeraneck, have the record kept by Wisneck and it is from this record that I give an account of the events that took place.
Now, they were sailing for many days, even seven days, and as they sailed east the weather became cold and the seas rough and the ship became trapped in ice and Wisneck ordered that all but a few take their journey on the ice and to the main land, and this they did and for six days they walked across the frozen sea and on to land.
Now Wisneck makes note that the three brothers became weary of their journey and began to complain against God, and Wisneck stood tall and rebuked them and commanded them to repent for they had been protected by the Lord and it was him who had led them to the lands of the east. And the three brothers openly repented but it says that they did not show the actions of repentant men.
In the forth month of their journey they came upon a people who were fair and who rode on the back of the horse and who looked familiar to them, and the three brothers told them of their journey and told them a little of their history and the people spoke to them and they called themselves the Great Ones. And they said unto them that they too had heard of a history like that which the brothers had told them and they invited the travellers to go with them to their village.
Now when the brothers and their travelling companions arrived at the village they were taken with surprise for they had never seen a village like it. There were no buildings of wood or stone and there were no great temples or places of worship but there were many tents, there were tents upon tents and many horses and Wisneck says that they moved about upon the land and their people were hard and fierce, for he says that they had fought many wars among themselves.
Now the brothers and their companions were taken to the largest of the tents and they were commanded to sit and eat and this they did. And as they were eating and taking comfort a man came unto them and his name was Lioneck and it was the manner of the people to call their people after their first great leader, and it was this that confirmed to the three brothers and their companions that these were indeed the people of Lioneck, and that they were related.
Now I say that the three brothers spent two days talking with the leader of the people and they spent two days celebrating and singing and dancing and during this time they told each other of the history of their people, and it was at this time that the leader of the people of Lioneck stood and he said with a loud voice so that the three brothers and their companions became afraid, “I am a true descendent of Lioneck the great, and it was he who was the true heir to the kingdom, and we as his children are the rightful rulers of your kingdom. So I will assemble my forces and my people and we will go unto your land and we shall take it and we shall make ourselves your rulers, for it is we who are truly your Gods. I will march west with my great horsemen and we will tear down your buildings and we shall destroy your places of worship to your God, and I will cause that your women be taken captive and your children wiped from the earth so that only my people and the true descendants of the promise will rule.”
Now the three brothers became afraid for their lives and they begged Lioneck that they might be able to stay and live amongst his people and for this they would tell him all he needed to know of their people.
Wisneck says that at this time he stood before them and Lioneck, and the power of the Lord came upon him and he said these words unto them, “The Lord Almighty will not allow these things for we are his chosen people. For you will travel west for many years and you will lose many men and your women will bare no children and your great horse herd will die and your people will suffer and they will quench their thirst on the blood of their children. And all this will be done because you have gone astray from the ways of the Almighty and I do say to you that you will never see the land of my people. Now the Almighty has told me these things in the spirit of prophecy and he will not allow this to happen.” Now when he had finished speaking Lioneck was afraid and he cried out that he would march west that night and he called for his guards to seize hold of Wisneck, and as he did there arose a great storm and it came upon the camp and it rained down great balls of ice upon them and it destroyed many horses and many tents but Wisneck was swift and he fled the village of Lioneck and the Lord made it possible for him to ride a horse away to safety, and he rode for 5 days and he walked for three months until he came to the sea, and he came upon his ship and the Lord blessed his journey home to the Land of Light.
And this is where his record of the events ends and now I go back to the record kept by the record keepers of the people.
Now Raynon heard the tale of Wisneck in the great council chamber, and all the high priests gathered were afraid that these people might come upon them and find them and do all the things that Wisneck had told them of, and the Prophet stood and he held aloft his hands and said, “The Lord has made it known unto me that these people will not come upon this land. That we will not endure the things that they have promised to do unto us. But he has warned us to tell our children that they must remain faithful for this promise to remain.”
I, Jeraneck, say unto you that I do not know the fate of the three brothers and their companions but it has been taught me by my mother that they were never heard of again. But we now know that the people that swarm our land are the people of Lioneck and I now know that our armies have been told that they have great knowledge of our places of worship and our cites and our great highways and I suppose that the three brothers did indeed do what they promised and told the people of Lioneck about our people.
A warning I give that all those that stray from the paths of the Almighty Lord of Heaven are in the grip of the evil one and he is waiting to drag you down to hell.
JERANECK THIRTEEN
The Second Great War
Many years passed and the people went about their lives and they worshiped the Lord and they spread themselves upon the land and while they were farming the new land of the north they came across a people and their name was Morion and their leader was also called Morion and they were a wise people.
The history of the people of Morion is joined with that of Araneck the first great prophet of the people. Morion was a high priestess of her people and highly favoured of the Lord. Now I say that she was not a Prophet but a woman close to the Most High and very favoured of the Almighty. Their history is not know fully unto me but I Jeraneck say this concerning the people of Morion that they were already on this land when our people came to it many thousands of years ago and it was not until the time of the settling of the lands of the north that our people came upon them. For she had taken her people north to explore the land and they had become cut off.
Now when Morion had heard about the many great things of the People of Light she was desirest that she be taken before the Prophet of the people. Now she did take her journey south unto the great city of the people and she did stand before the Prophet Raynon and she was taken hold of by the spirit and so was Raynon that they fell in love and upon her request her people became joined with our people and they were joined together in marriage and this is how her people were joined with the children of Araneck and thus the people became one upon the land.
Now I Jeraneck say that our people were one and because we were one all the houses were now able to sit in council and those houses were Isnah, Ridnon, Cisaneck, Morion, and Limndon. And it was our unity that allowed these houses to sit together and to govern our people. For now the people were one it was required that the Prophet be concerned with the dealings of God and of the church among the people and it was required that the houses in council be concerned with the day to day welfare of the people.
Now I Jeraneck once again return to the compiling of this record and I now make an account of the Second Great War of my people and the blood shed and the harvest of souls that came about. I will make a full account of this part of the history of my people for it is this Second Great War that shaped the world in which I grew and it shaped the world for many of my people and I have been commanded of an Angel to make a full account of the things that happened during this great harvest of souls so that you may know that when people stray from God completely they are over taken by a dark and unholy power.
The Second Great War or the great harvest of souls as it has become know amongst my people started many years before I was born and many years before my father was born. But it was in the time of my fathers farther for my fathers father was in the prime of his youth for he was sixteen years in to his life upon the land when the great trouble started. Now I Jeraneck record the story of the Second Great War that made it possible for the war that is raging in my time. I say that it was through the Second Great War that our people become wicked and it is through this war that the fuller part of the people turned away from the Almighty God and it is through this war that the five houses of the people became shattered and it is through this war that a great harvest of souls came about and a great blood shed so that our lands became vulnerable and they became weak so that the people of the east could more easily come upon us.
Now I begin the record and the sorry tale of the second blood shed of my people. For it was in the third thousand year of the people being upon the land that the great trouble started among the people. The people were living in the time of the Prophet Rendanoneck and Rendanoneck was not a great prophet for he loved himself more than he loved God. And he took many wives unto himself and he loved the company of vile women who would sell themselves to him for pleasure. And he loved the company of men who would shower him with great gifts in exchange for title and land. And he took houses and land from the poor among the people and gave them to his many women and to his many followers. Now all those that would not do as he commanded he would have put to death openly. And many things he did that were not pleasing unto the Lord. Now it was in this time that the five heads of the houses of the people gathered to discuss the problem of the Prophet Rendanoneck and it was during this time that Rendanoneck went in to the lower room of the great temple and with his many women defiled it and took from it the spirit of the Most High. While he was about this the spirit came upon the council and they knew that the temple had been defiled. Now they cast votes and with one voice they removed Rendanoneck from his position.
On the next day Rendanoneck called for a great gathering in the council chamber for all the people of the city. The great council chamber was full and many people could not get in, and it must be made known that this was the first time that the people had been called to gather in the great council chamber, for it was the law that only the Elders and the Priests of the church were to gather in the council chamber. Now Rendanoneck was not a foolish man but he was a man of the world and he filled the council chamber with his friends and his followers so that their voices would be heard over those that opposed him.
Now it was at this time that Rendanoneck stood before the people and spoke unto them and he said. “I am the Prophet of this people. I am the leader of the chosen race. I am like unto God, for if I command it, it shall be done. And I say that we are the chosen people. For our armies are strong and our weapons are mighty and I say that it is time that we take back our lands that have been taken form us by people not of our blood. I say that we need to rid ourselves of all the people that joined them selves with our race and we make ourselves pure again. We will take back what is ours, we will take back what has been taken form us, we will take back our race and our blood so that it is clean. And we will destroy the God of those people for we worship a God that is not of our people and it is forced upon us to worship that God. Now let our anger be poured out upon these plagues of people for they are lower than the lowest thing that creeps upon the earth, let us spill their blood so that it may cleanse our land”.
When he had finished speaking a great cheer arose from those that were gathered and they wanted bloodshed more than they wanted the love of God. It was during this great commotion that the heads of the five houses stood and they called upon the Elders and Priests of the church to remove Rendanoneck from his office as Prophet. And the head of the house of Cisaneck stood forth and he said. “The words that Rendanoneck speaks are the words of the evil one, for Rendanoneck does not speak the words of the Almighty One of Heaven and he does not have the spirit of the Most High upon him. I call for his removal from office and for his imprisonment. For he speaks the words of a murderer and the words of a tyrant and we do not wish for blood to be spilt upon the ground” When Rendanoneck heard these words he became angry and he called for his guards and his guards took hold of all those that had called for his removal form the office of Prophet and he ordered that they be killed before his eyes. Now I say that this was done with full force and many died and much blood was spilt upon the floor of the great council chamber in the temple. And it was a fuller part of the people of the chamber that helped in this and so the great struggle had started. Rendanoneck was an evil man and he took delight in this and he called for all those that did not believe him to be killed and driven form the land. Now he killed all of the heads of the five houses, but two and the heads of the houses of Isnah and Ridnon fled with a great many people to the lands of Ridnon
Now two years went by and the people who fled north prepared for war and they prayed unto God that he would deliver them from this wickedness that was upon the land. The people who had fled north with the heads of the house of Isnah and of Ridnon desired that a Prophet be chosen among them and Disnah who was the head of the house of Isnah was chosen to be their Prophet but he was not chosen by the people as Rendanoneck had been but by the ministering of Angels and by the voice of God. Now the people called themselves followers of Christ and they prepared themselves for war so that they might protect themselves form the armies of Rendanoneck. Now they made great weapons and they cast iron and made many shields and swords and axes and spears and they put about their body’s armour and about their horses the same and they were protected from their heard to their feet with armour which the people called the armour of God and they grew in to a large force and they went forth unto battle and met with the armies of Rendanoneck. Now when they met the armies of Rendanoneck they became frightened and their souls trembled for the armies of Rendanoneck were like nothing that they had seen before. They were a great number in as much as they out numbered the armies of God by five thousand for the number of men that Rendanoneck had sent to do battle was forty thousand and they were arrayed in the skins of beasts of the forest and their heads were covered in blood and their hair was decorated with the parts of the dead and they covered their horses in blood and they fastened the heads of their victims to the front of their horses and they were rejoicing in the bloodshed that they would soon partake of. And the people of God trembled for they feared the evil that stood before them.
Rendanoneck’s men were well equipped with the sword the axe the spear the bow and the arrow and the horse and they had machines of war unlike that which had ever been seen and they had the Raznick and this was the most deadly of weapons at it looked like unto a beast of the forest and it issued balls of fire from its mouth. The armies of Rendanoneck came unto battle with banners to a God of War. They had fallen away from the true teaching of the gospel and the church and they prayed unto many Gods but their main God was a God of War and they called this God of War Odinon and Rendanoneck’s people prayed to him for victory rather than to the Almighty. And the armies of Rendanoneck fell to their knees and cried aloud saying “Odinon will protect us. Odinon will bless our swords so that they may strike down the believers of Christ. Odinon will spill the blood of our enemies” And this was the way of the worshipers of Odinon that they stoned the followers of Christ and offered them as sacrifice unto Odinon and they wished to wipe them from off the land. And they wished to cast down the followers of Christ into the eternal darkness and to be captive of their God of Darkness Hajar.
Now the followers of Christ who were arrayed on the other side of the valley were indeed righteous. For it was through them that a record of this great war was preserved and it was through them that the records of the people were kept from destruction and it is thanks to them that I do now compile this record, for it was through them that the ways of the Almighty were preserved upon this land.
The armies of Christ were arrayed in great armour and they had weapons. Their weapons were also great and they were met to do battle. The two armies were arrayed on two sides of a great valley called Limndon for it was named after the people of the same name and it was a mighty valley with trees and small hills and it was there that the people met to do battle. As they were waiting to commence the battle the skies grew black and lighting jumped across the sky and snow fell from the sky and the ground became wet and the snow became deep for the snow gathered around their feet. Now the armies of Rendanoneck started to beat their swords upon their shields and they started to sing unto Odinon and at this time the armies of God became afraid and the captain of the army’s of God rode forward on his horse and his horse was arrayed with all manor of armour and upon the armour was written these words. “We fight for our God, our Prophet and our Religion” and this was the standard by which the armies of God fought. For they were not fighting for riches or gold or for their own edification but they were fighting for their belief and for their God. It mattered not to them weather their houses were burned or their fields destroyed because they knew that the Almighty was with them and he would stand by them for they were fighting for him. And the captain of the armies of God was called Zinon and Zinon rode forward to the centre of the field of battle and he held aloft his sword and he cried saying “Oh God of Heaven oh God of Earth bless thy people that we may be victories on this day that we may have our Religion restored and our Freedom restored. For we fight for thee, we fight for the Religion that you have given us and we fight so the honour may be yours” Now as Zinon was doing this the leader of the armies of Rendanoneck rode forward and he came unto Zinon and he rode unto the side of Zinon and he mocked Zinon and told him that he would feast upon the flesh of his children and ravish his wife when the battle was won. And Zinon said unto Aktar the captain of the armies of Rendanoneck. “We do not fight for your land. We do not fight for your possessions. We do not even fight for the temples you have taken form us. We do not fight you for the places of worship that you have robbed us of .We do not fight for any of the earthly gifts that you have. We fight for the freedom to worship we fight for the freedom to pray and we fight for our God and we fight for our Religion” When he had finished speaking unto Aktar Zinon rode back to his armies and prepared himself for the bloodshed to come and he rallied his men saying “Who shall die this day to be with the Saviour of this world. Who shall be with him at his right hand who among you is worthy enough to enter in to his eternal rest and stand with the Father and the Son and bear witness of the things we have done. We fight for him, we fight for our Religion. Now in his name let us go forward and return to our people the freedom that has been taken from us” With this the battle commenced and Zinon commanded his archers from the back of his lines to fire three times and give cover to the horse guard which numbered many thousand while they rode forward. And the horse guard rode forward with spears and with swords and they rode forward and they came upon the lines of the worshipers of Odinon. Now I will refer to the heathen as the worshipers of Odinon for they truly were lost to God. Now the horse guard struck into the lines of the worships of Odinon and they hit them with a fierce force and as they did this the lighting struck the ground and made a fire come up behind the horse guard. Now the lines of Odinon held and they thought that Odinon had sent the fire to consume the horse guard. And the horse guard were struck with great force by the lines of Odinon and they were repelled and they rode back to their lines in a panicked state. Upon seeing this Zinon commanded a volley of fire arrows to be struck in to the lines of Odinon and the fire arrows rained down upon them with great force so much so that the worshipers of Odinon fell to the ground in great numbers and there blood soaked the ground and turned the snow red with blood and they cried to their God to deliver them and the snow and the blood was heavy upon the ground and there was no man on the field of battle that was not covered by the blood and the snow. The mud and the blood and the snow reached their knees and in places it was impossible to stand and it seemed that the Lord was truly with the armies of the people of Christ. Zinon then commanded his infantry to move forward and they moved forward and they carried with them sword and axe and shield. Now they ran into the lines of the worshipers of Odinon and at the same time the remainder of the horse guard rode forward on the right and left side so that they encircled the forces of Odinon. And they gave them a great and bloody battle and the commander of the forces of Odinon commanded his forces to move forward. And he commanded that his Raznick be taken to the hill to his left, and this they did and the forces of Odinon did move forward and they gave a great bloody slaughter to the forces of the people of Christ for they were a savage people and they did not stop until they had breached the lines so that they feel upon the back lines of the worships of Christ. Zinon seeing this commanded that his horse guard retreat and take flight to the north and Zinon rode forward to rally his forces and as he did this the Raznick thundered and a great ball of fire came toward the forces of Christ and it fell upon them. Now Zinon ordered his men to fall back to their lands and to return to their city. And so they did, and the forces of Odinon fell upon all that were left and they soaked the ground with the blood of their victims. As they saw the remainder of the forces of Christ flee they shouted with one voice unto their God of War Odinon, “Odinon the great you have led us to victory we offer these bodies as a sacrifice. And we drink their blood in your honour and we swear on our lives that upon this night we will feast upon their children and we shall take away their women” And the sky grew clear and the sun shone and the forces of Odinon thought that their God had indeed answered their prayer and they grew mighty in spirit and they went forth in pursuit of the people of Christ. Now I Jeraneck say that I have been to the valley of this great battle and I have beheld the remains of the battle and it filled my heart with sadness for I was in my youth and I could not understand why we had done this thing, but I say it was because a smaller part of the people rejected their God.
Now Zinon returned unto the great city of Ridnon and he commanded the Prophet Disnah and the head of the house of Ridnon to Flee with them north for the armies had lost the field and the worshipers of Odinon were coming to take away their women and to destroy their seed. And the Prophet stood forth and gathered the people together and they fled north and the Prophet commanded Zinon to follow for he was head of the armies and a great warrior and the people needed him. And there stood among the people others who would not leave for they were desirest that they would fight so that the larger part of the people may get to the Northlands. And these people would not leave the place of their ancestors and they would rather fight for their land. So they waited many hours for a sign of the forces of Odinon and they waited with their wives and their children and they prayed that they might not be able to live but to give time to the people that fled north and they knew in their hearts that they would not live but they took courage for they knew that they would meet their Lord.
Now the forces of Odinon marched forward in to the lands that are known to us as the land of Ridnon and they came across the great tower that the three mighty missionary brothers had camped at and at this sacred site they made human offering unto their God and they did eat the flesh of their victims and they did defile the tower with their bodies. Now upon this they took great strength and they marched forward in to the city and they went from house to house and burned them. As they went from house to house they went looking for the fair women of Christ so that they might carry them off in to captivity and that they might take away their virtue. And they went from building to building and the city became engulfed in fire. Now the people of Christ who had stayed behind made them selves know unto the forces of Odinon. And they gave them battle, and their number was two hundred and they fought well and they gave the forces of Odinon a sore battle and the fight was bloody and fierce and upon the defeat of the people of Christ a soldier of the forces of Odinon brought forth a prisoner whose name was Linker. Now he brought him unto the captain of their forces. Now the captain of the forces was Aktar and he commanded to know where the people had gone. And he commanded to know where the forces commanded by Zinon had fled. And the prisoner Linker would not tell Aktar and with this Aktar brought before Linker the women of the people of Christ and he commanded that his men defile the women. With this Aktar forced Linker to watch and with this Linker called upon the Lord of heaven to deliver him from his enemy and the Lord did indeed listen to him and he gave unto Linker great strength so that he could over power his captors and with this the Lord did indeed deliver him from his enemies. And Linker fled before Aktar and he fled into the wilderness around about the city of Ridnon and he did make his way unto the forces of Christ and he did tell them of the death and the destruction and he did tell them of the murder of the children and the defiling of their women.
Now Aktar commanded that a feast take place and he commanded that sacrifice be made to Odinon and they offered the children of Christ to Odinon and they drank their blood and ate their flesh and they defiled their women and ravished their bodies. And this was their way for they had truly departed form the light in to the darkness.
JERANECK FOURTEEN
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