The Book of The Life of Enom

A.E. Means After Extinction, referring to the nearly wipeout of human kind with only one remaining human female left to repopulate with a divine prince. Their marriage and conceptions caused them to repopulate the human race with the divine royality also flowing through their descendants' blood.

Early History According to Enom's Written Account, you can also find the story in a collection here: Chronicles of The World of Ortuna

## **Chapter 1**

About a thousand years ago in the world of Ortuna, there were the three Kings, all being named Artthunis, Flammus, and Draccon. The three kings had originally ruled over the overworld over man with peace and harmony, however it did not last long. King Flammus became jealous that he had been given a less important role compared to the other two kings, so he rebelled against the two other kings, and the kingdoms went to war.

The battle was known as “The Great Battle”. Each king went against one and another with no alliances throughout the war. During the battle, each human was slain, except for a little girl named Gina, she lived alone and struggled to survive, however she managed to take care of herself.

The battle raged till King Artthunis used the remainder of his power to defeat King Flammus. King Flammus kneeled to the ground in defeat, and was exiled by the order of King Artthunis to the nether, before he was casted into the dimension, the king casted a curse upon Draccon after defeating him as well. King Draccon was cursed to slowly turn into a dragon. King Draccon then chose to leave the kingdom and moved to the End Dimension, where he completely turned into an Ender Dragon, with no prior memories of who he even was.

Now King Artthunis was the only remaining king in the overworld, and he decided to further protect his capital city of his kingdom called “Ortuna” by having a huge glass over the city by submerging it hidden under water, that way the city would be protected and hidden from the sight of any enemy to come.

Later on King Artthunis begat a son and heir named Artthun. When Artthun became a teenager, he went out to the surface and while there, he met the remaining human, a female named Gina, now all grown up and fair to look upon. The prince fell in love with her and took her as his wife, and she later conceived and bore the prince a son and a daughter. The son was named Copernicus, and the daughter was named Darla.

Then came the time when King Artthunis had died, that his son had heard of the news, and went and claimed the throne, and he became king, then his seed multiplied on the land as the newly repopulated human race.

## **Chapter 2**

Prince Copernicus then took his sister Darla to wife, and she bore him sons and daughters; among their sons was a man named Achim. Achim and his siblings were forced to stay upon the overworld by the decree of the King of Ortuna, they then resided together on the land of Zeha and multiplied there. Then Achim took a sister of his to wife and begat sons and daughters, he even begat Ubal, then Ubal took a cousin to wife and begat Sheth: In Sheth’s days, the human population began to grow and they split up upon the land.

They were forced to split up due to a failed coup that never took place. Sheth was a man of great stature, he was ruddy and blonde, and a mighty man who hunted the evil beasts of the field, fending off those who attack Zeha. He gained favor in the sight of men, and this got to his head; he saw himself as greater than the rest of men, and he appointed himself as leader of the human race. Sheth stood on a hill looking over at man kind and said to them, “Hearken to my voice! I have fought tannins and the beasts of the field, I even drew my bow and shot the fowls of the air and fended off our precious land of Zeha, now I call arms to fend off from a greater evil than the beasts of the land. Make me thine leader and we shall conquer the threat of the Kingdom of Ortuna. For they desire our extinction!”

However Sheth had lied to them and they gave in to the lie.

They appointed Sheth as the leader over them and they constructed the first ships since the extinction, and they sailed to the sea, and the King of Ortuna said to his juggernaut, “Go to, and send out a great fog.” And a fog was set over the entire sea and man could not locate the sunken city. Days passed over the sea and each man began to complain and lost faith in their leader, and each man sought to appoint themselves as the new leader and spoke of slaying Sheth for the role. (This is the moment when man was on the brink of dividing).

They returned to land and rebelled against their leader Sheth, and they each took their families and divided, leaving the land of Zeha to establish the land of Hud, Dur, Azah, Arah, Zetu, and other unidentified tribes and multiplied across the overworld, this was also the time when ethnicities came into existence based on the tribes and people that were divided.

Sheth was brought low and was ashamed at his failure, afterward he continued to rule the land of Zeha with an iron fist, and took a wife called Makaiah and begat sons and daughters, one of which was a man named Meziah, of whom Sheth despised. Meziah was a shepard upon the land of Zeha and fended off the land of Zeha similar to his father prior to him.

Then Meziah begat a son named Segub; it is in the days of Segub that the earlier kingdoms since the extinction began to form, Sheth was slain and his rival from the people of Dur set themselves a king over Zeha named Conan. Conan was a mighty man who ruled over the giants of the people of Dur in his reign (for the people of Dur were giants in his days), he was the son of of Arad, the son of Amaz, the son of Tuk, the son of Achim who in turn was the son of Prince Copernicus of The Kingdom of Ortuna.

He took the sister of Segub named Zada to wife and he had hybrid giants. It is in these days when giants first went to war with man and had prevailed for a time, and ate of their flesh, till Segub led a rebellion against the giant king Conan, and chased them back into Dur.

Since those days Segub ruled over the land in Conan’s stead, then his son Bruel after him did likewise till he was chased off of the throne and replaced by his brother Joaz. Bruel then went on to have a son named Yelden, Yelden then begat Joz, Joz begat Phocan, Phocan begat two sons named Isham and Anam. Isham was a man of renown and a criminal in the land of Zeha, and he and his sons formed the land of Isham, then Anam, Isham’s brother went on and begat Ered, Ered begat Jamin, Jamin begat Natan, Natan begat Caleb, Caleb begat Zekiah, Zekiah begat Abel, and Abel took a Zehalite woman named Keziah as his wife and had a son named Enom.

## **Chapter 3**

Enom was born in Zeha to a man named Abel and his wife Keziah, of whom Abel took among the fair daughters of Zeha, for she is a descendant of Joaz, the late longtime king of Zeha, for it is said, “The daughters of Joaz are the fairest among the daughters of Zeha”. They lived in Zeha to raise their son Enom in peace, till the day came when a known tyrant of their day named Akash took the land and ruled as King there, and demanded for certain of the people to be slain for sport for his own pleasure.

Enom’s parents were one of Akash’s targets, and they knew this, and they went and hid their son Enom, and he watched as his parents were cut down before his eyes while in his hiding spot. Enom that day sought vengeance, He escaped without being detected and fled to the land of Hud, and he grew there, and performed tasks for the people of Hud.

Enom became an assassin for the ruler of Hud, and carried out his deeds and wishes, and became well trained in those tasks, and he earned coins by performing these tasks. Then Enom retired himself from being an assassin, and he turned and used the shekels to hire trained men from among the people of Hud, and hired them to be Enom’s men in an attempt to retake Zeha against Akash the tyrant for revenge from the very act of the slaughter of Enom’s parents. Enom waged battle against Akash and his men, and slew many of them with the edge of the sword (for they expected not this battle so suddenly).

Enom himself slew Akash with the edge of the sword, and chased away the rest of Akash’s men. The people of Zeha rejoiced and gladly made Enom their leader for a time, and they uncovered an ancient palace from the early days of the kingdoms and Enom dwelt there, however it wasn’t to last long, for he turned and ruled the land with an iron fist and robbed the people of their coins to make himself rich. A month into his reign a rebellion broke out and they chased away Enom and his men hired from the people of Hud.

Enom then went North and plundered any village he saw as a result, and he came to locally be known as a famous robber. Enom robbed in the wilderness with his trained men and even took a village to the coastal North, and named the land after him, Enom. Enom and his men did anything they pleased to the inhabitants of that village and would continually sin there. Enom was a cold core robber ruling over Enom with an iron fist, way worse than how he ruled in Zeha (for he slew no residents there under his rule).

The people of Zeha then saw they had no king, and they appointed themselves a new king, a man named Koah. Koah vowed to protect the land of Zeha from Enom and his men, and chose from the sons of Isham a man named Phelan to lead his men in battle against Enom. They waged war till Zeha itself was under threat of another king from a far off kingdom, for it was Ish, the king of the slimes who went up and attacked Zeha. Due to this, King Koah pulled his attack on Enom back and turned his attention to fend off the slime kingdom’s attack on Zeha.

Then Ish, slew Koah with the edge of the sword, and all of his fighting men of valor, and put their bodies on display for all of the children of Zeha to see, thus Zeha was under control of Ish’s hand and all of the children of Zeha feared Ish, and they hid themselves from him within their homes.

Then one escaped from the children of Zeha, ran and told Enom of what had happened to Zeha, and Enom made haste with the children of Hud, and laid a surprise attack upon the slimes at Zeha, and Enom himself went alone to meet Ish face to face. Enom spotted Ish, The King of The Slimes upon the roof of a home awaiting for Enom’s arrival, and Enom shouted to the Slime King, “I suppose this is you, Ish The King of The Slimes? You look less threatening than I thought you would.” “Yes it is I, now perish!” Ish responded to the bandit leader of Enom. The king leapt off and charged at him with an iron sword, while Enom fought with an stone axe and a shield. Each swing that Enom would land on the King, he would not die, for he was a slime, eventually Enom prevailed in the battle, for he swung down his axe upon the crown of the Slime King, and his crown broke into two, and he collapsed into a pile of slime likened unto a pile of dung, and his men did likewise, and he was dead by the hand of Enom.

When Enom and the Children of Hud saw that Ish and his slimes were dead, they rejoiced with a loud shout.

Then Enom turned to the Children of Hud and said unto them, “We may have won this battle, but surely the Zehalites will pursue us and put us to death, per adventure they would spare us, therefore we must retreat back to Enom!”

Then just as they had quickly arrived, they likewise quickly departed back to Enom’s domain. Once the inhabitants of Zeha emerged from their homes, they saw that Ish and his men were dead upon the field of the land, and they rejoiced but knew not who their defender was. Then a witness came up and said to them, “It was Enom The Robber, the son of Abel of Zeha who hath slain Ish! We hath judged him wrongly for he surely must have not known how to rule over us, therefore we must go to, and ask him to be King over us under the condition of having advisors by his side!”

This suggestion by the witness pleased the Children of Zeha and they repented of their decision of casting Enom , their brother from among the land of their ancestors, and sent out men to recover him. However Enom knew not of this decision made by his brethren. The event of defending his land made an impact on his heart and changed his mindset, and he repented of his wicked deeds upon both Zeha and his domain of Enom, and he abused and slew the inhabitants of Enom no more.

## **Chapter 4**

Then a messenger arrived at the land of Enom wearing never before seen armor with bright color and not a single scratch was upon it, every man that looked upon the man’s armor was left in wonder. Then Enom saw the man and his armor and became fearful of the man, the man in the armor approached before Enom and personally passed him a letter and Enom read it before the people around him, “Message from the King of Ortuna,

Enom, you have been chosen to take part of the King’s court in Ortuna, however you have to change your ways and amend your mistakes in the Land of Zeha.”

After Enom had read the message he asked the man in the fancy armor, “I thought the sunken city Kingdom of Ortuna was merely a myth of old?” “Nay Enom, but he is real as you and I are.” After hearing those words, Enom’s heart sank as he speedily stood up from his judging seat and became fearful of what the King of Ortuna could do to him.

The messenger then said to Enom, “You must make amends with this people and those of your birth land of Zeha, then shall we come and take thee to Ortuna before my King, we shall give thee two days.” Then the messenger departed, and Enom snapped his axe into two and wept sorely.

Not long after a man from Zeha came to recover Enom and he said to him, “Come and be our King again, for we hath no King and thank thee with all of our hearts for fending our land from Ish The King of The Slimes!” Enom kneeled down and wept at the feet of the man and said to him, “Forgive me for I have sinned against our people!” The man was shocked and asked, “Is this how a King should act? Get thee up and come with me!” Then Enom and the children of Hud came with the man to Zeha.

When the children of Zeha saw Enom in a company of people coming to the capital in the plain, the people saw Enom and said, “Let us go down and meet our King!” Then the children of Zeha rushed down to meet their King and they rejoiced and embraced him. Enom said to them, “Shall I be thine King again? What about the wickedness I hath brought upon thee?” The Children of Zeha replied to Enom, “Be our King again, as we see your heart is still in our people and in this land our brother!”

Then Enom wept out loud before them and said to them, “Forgive me for I shall surely die for my evil upon thee!” The Children of Zeha then responded to him, “We forgive thee! Come and be our King again and let there be advisors by thine side!” So Enom arose and they once again crowned him King over Zeha and they sat him upon the throne of the palace once more, and the land of Enom became a vassal to Zeha. The inhabitants of The Land of Enom were not pleased, for they said in their heart, “How could such a tyrant who hath slain our parents be forgiven and become king of the very land he was banished from?!”

## **Chapter 5**

Two days into my reign after becoming King over Zeha for the second time, the same messenger from Ortuna returned, and I left with the messenger to the shoreline of Zeha. we waited and I in confusion asked, “Why are we standing idly by?” Then as I had said this thing, a huge sea scorpion-like arthropod structure surfaced from the water, it was  scaled to be larger than any navy ship that I have ever seen in my entire life up to this point, he led me inside it by causing a huge water bubble to continually spin around us and it lifted us up unto the structure. I Was left in awe over the whole situation.

The structure in the form of a sea scorpion then submerged underwater to the depths. Watching us travel downward scares me, my mind was filled with what could lie underwater and slay us. Eventually we went deep enough and went through an even deeper cavern, large enough for us to go through. It appeared as if it were a giant eye of a skull. We went even further down till we reached the end of the cavern, where what appeared to be a bubble as a gate and on the other side I saw some lush grassland, however I could not see much from where we were.

We slowly went through it and before I knew it, we were flying above the ground. The experience amazed me, I had a better view of the world beneath us. Behold, I saw that the land was very lush and huge, the trees in appearance seemed to be like no other tree that I have ever seen with my own eyes. I even saw Tannins roam the land and eat from the tall trees, and even soar high up to our level, and above the land high up was a large rock wall ceiling, and I wondered where the source of light was coming from if there is no sun here. I even saw great and mighty structures across the land, and man had tamed the Tannins and rode upon them. The land appeared to be a paradise with no violence in sight.

We flew over till I laid eyes on a great and wonderful city, which was greater than the palace in Zeha. The city stood on the water therein with a crescent island surrounding a smaller island with a palace in its center. We flew closer and I saw the people living in harmony with the streets therein packed, living amongst Tannins, as we do not live with Tannin in Zeha, for they are too dangerous for us to tame.

The messenger then came up to me with his left hand reaching out to the city and said unto me, “Behold, the Kingdom of Ortuna.” The man said that with some light of joy from his lips, then I turned my eyes unto the city again, admiring its beauty. Then the messenger said unto me, “Come, I will take you to my King.”

Then he took us by the bubble again as we levitated downward onto the dock of the center island with the palace. We landed on the dock and the people and the Tannins surrounding us all had their eyes upon us. I would imagine they were looking at me since I wore dirty garments as they were wearing white and colorful clean garments, each looking adorned as if they were at a wedding feast.

The messenger gestured for me to go upward to the palace. I went upward slowly and looked at my surroundings with amazement. I finally arrived at the palace, it was the most adorned palace that I had ever laid my eyes upon up till this point in my life. The throne room was scaled to be larger than my own palace in Zeha, the roof of the room was being held up by pillars as tall as palm trees.

And behold, there at the far back, was a throne, the throne was supported by a tall structure, and thereupon it, a king sat upon the throne up top. I had barely got a good glance at him before I immediately fell to the floor and bowed myself.

Then the King stood up from his throne and he came down to me by the long steps leading up to his throne. He came to stand a few cubits before me but I kept myself down to the floor. Then the King said to me, “Enom, I have heard a lot about you and your decision to save Zeha from Ish, but I don’t understand why. Why did you choose to help them instead of dispute your past with them?”

I heard his words come to my ears so I responded while keeping myself down with my face still toward the floor, still not looking up at him, fearing that he might slay me for a poor choice of words, “Zeha is my birth land, It is in my heart, It shall remain my true land of origin..”

The king responded, “I applaud you for it, therefore I am trusting you to keep the Kingdom of Ortuna. I am giving you the land that will be the first nation in a long time since the days of Isham. The Kingdom shall be called Zehaenom, which the capital shall be established in the land of Zeha.

This land shall encompass the land of Zeha, the Ocean where Ortuna is located, and the land of Enom.”

Then I finally lifted my head up to him, still surprised by what he said boldly and with confidence. “Why me O’ King of Ortuna? For lo, I am not worthy, I hath been a wicked ruler in the land. Who am I to keep the Kingdom of Ortuna?” I responded.

Then he said to me in response, “You have shown me that you are able to change thyself, which is why I invited you to join my court Enom. You may have been an evil ruler, but still people are bound to change, which is Ortunis nature.”

“Why? Why me of every flesh of the land?” I began to be doubtful, instead his response lowered my worry. He responded, “I trust that you would be able to protect the ocean in between Enom and Zeha. If you and your descendants need help, fear not to come and ask for it.”

“Thank you for giving me this, lest it’d be better if I was struck down here and now. Thou art merciful.” I said that with tears of joy before the King of Ortuna.

“Like my father before me, I am a just and merciful King.” The King of Ortuna responded.

Then I asked him, “With me ruling over the three realms (The three Realms being: Enom, Zeha, and The Ortunis Ocean), are there certain rules or restrictions that I need to follow?”

The King in response said to me, “I will impose five laws. One, Thou shalt not murder. Two, Thou shalt not usurp the King that I have appointed to be ruler over a certain land. Three, In every case, treason shall be handled by the King of Ortuna. Four, The King of the land shall have control over his land with the King of Ortuna stepping into matters of importance. Five, History scrolls shall contain the history of Ortuna.”

After hearing these five laws, I stood up and said to him in response, “Then so shall it be done so in Zehaenom. Anything else you wish to add?” I added.

“No Enom, the rest is in your hands, go in Peace.” The King gave me the leave.

“Thank you for having me in this paradise of a palace.” Then I took my leave and was escorted back to the surface the same way I was brought in. Then I made haste and sent out letters and decrees. Thus the Kingdom of Zeha was reformed into the Kingdom of Zehaenom, ruling over the lands of Enom, Zeha, and the Ocean of Ortuna in between the two lands.

Then I appointed Zenni, a Zehalite, as my scribe and he recorded the acts of the events during my reign.

## **Chapter 6**

Now it was in the days of Sheth that the city was always called Zeha; therefore King Enom renamed his capital to Mount Keziah, for Enom said, “My mother was of the fair daughters of Joaz, therefore let her be remembered in this way when no man had yet named the mount which the palace stands upon.”

Then Enom went up to the Province of Enom (for Enom turned the land of Zeha and the land of Enom as provinces) and he named the city therein, Sheleg-Point, named after the snowy mountain behind the city. And he called the bay in Sheleg-point, Trident Bay, for the bay was in the shape of a trident.

Then Enom expanded the territory of Zeha, and he took therein a small isle just to the Northern Coast of Zeha, and he took therein an island to the Northern East of Zeha. King Enom named the isle, Serpent Isle, and he named the island, Tannin Island; when he encountered a community of Tannins still living among men there. Enom then named the bay in between mainland Zeha and Tannin Island, Lushful Bay, for many kinds of fish that live there thrive in communities.

And Enom adjusted the name of Zehaenom to Zeha-Enom, and therefore that was the name from henceforth.

King Enom then had a small navy built to keep guard of the Ortuna Kingdom pit (wherein man can enter). King Enom spent many days repairing the damage that he had caused upon the children of Zeha and the inhabitants of the land of Enom, but the inhabitants of Sheleg-Point were stubborn to heed to their King.

During the eighth day of his reign after the reformation of the Kingdom, an advisor that he appointed named Shelah, went up to him with a request, “My lord, I hath but a request for thee.” “Say on.” King Enom replied. “I pray thee, let us go out and choose among the fair daughters of Joaz, and bring them hither to thee, and the one that pleaseth thee, let her be queen, so that ye may begat heirs, and surely then shall thine dynasty not die out.”

At the first, King Enom scoffed at the idea saying, “I hath not the time, I must make haste and make changes to the realms of my Kingdom.” Then he added, “Let it be suggested later on when the time is right.” Then King Enom dismissed the meeting, he arose from his throne and he walked out of the room with everyone’s eyes on him, leaving them a bit worried about their King.

## **Chapter 7**

The next day, the Chief over the children of Hud came down to Mount Keziah and spoke before King Enom as he sat upon his throne. “Thou art like a brother unto me, I pray thee, take a wife from among my daughters and set her as Queen beside thee.”

Enom upon hearing this was annoyed, “Let it be in due time that I shall have a Queen, but it shall not be now, thou art dismissed.” The chief of Hud then bowed down and took his leave.

Shelah went up to Enom’s other advisors and he said unto them, “Come, let us go and arrange for women to dance before the king, then surely shall he choose a Queen from amongst them.”

The saying pleased the ears of the advisors, so they made haste and arranged for the virgins to dance before the king.

They later went up to the King, each having expressions of excitement on their face, making Enom confused. Shelah whispered into his King’s ear, “We hath but an early birthday surprise for you my Lord, shall we bring it in?”

Enom replied, “I shall wait till my birthday cometh.” “Nay, but this thing is an arrangement and they would have come for nothing.” Shelah begged the King. “Bring them in.” Enom sighed as he gave in.

The guards then let in ten beautiful young virgins, one from each different culture, and they danced before the King, but the King was not pleased.

King Enom mid performance had the virgins escorted out of the room, surprising his advisors. Enom , being kindled, stood up fastly from his throne and shouted at them, “Get Out!’

Shelah and the other advisors were stunned as they only intended good unto their king, but their King took it unto annoyance.

## **Chapter 8**

Then the giants of Dur came up to the border of the Kingdom from a mountain, shouting at the children of Zeha, to mock them from across a river, saying, “Yor Kings are weak! The children of Conan shall rule it once more!” The Children of Zeha were discouraged and they begged their King to do something about it, but he would not, for he said, “If we take action against them for this very thing, then shall they have what they want, even shall they be in the right, for we would have attacked them first. We shall wait till they attack first so that we shall be in the right.”

The giants later found out the King’s response to the situation, so they stopped shouting at the children of Zeha from across the border and they schemed up a different plan.

At one time, one of the giants of Dur threw a horn of a Tannin across the border, and they went and reported it to the King, however he told them to take no action.

## **Chapter 9**

Then Azar went and fought with Zeha-Enom, and smote some of them. Zeha-Enom retaliated back, and smote them in the wilderness of Tannin island; For Azar had illegally succeeded from Zeha-Enom and led a rebellion from Tannin island, and used the tannins to pull their chariots, and the king of Azar was named Meza.

The king of Azar sent a messenger with a head of a tannin and sat it before the throne of Zeha-Enom while Enom sat upon the throne. The messenger then said to the king, “Thus says the King of Azar, I have made a league with the children of Dur and the children of Isham, among the children of Conan sits a giant named Ish-Ban upon the throne of Dur, and upon the throne of Isham sits a man named Telech-Conan of the Conanite dynasty. Therefore just as this tannin was presented before thee, so shall thy head be presented before the three kings’ thrones. We shall smite and attack thee in thine capital within three days time.” Then the messenger left without the head.

Everyone in the throne room was frightened, saying, “We are doomed!” “Yet again shall we be wiped off the map likened unto the dynasty of Joaz!”

King Enom stood from his throne and took the head of the tannin, and he said unto them, “Brothers and sisters, listen ye children of Zeha! Be not discouraged, we are more than they are, indeed they have tannins pulling their chariots, Howbeit we are more advanced than them. Come and let us build a wall around Keziah, therefore they cannot come in, it shall delay their plunder on our capital. Then shall ye gather able fighting men and make yourselves bows and arrows, and make yourselves calutrons and fill them with lava from the caverns, and if it comes to pass, you shall pour them upon the heads of the tannins and the head upon the men of Dur, and of Isham, and of Azar, thus says your King.”

They that were in the room to hear their king’s speech were moved and encouraged, and they did so: they made themselves armor, weapons, bows and arrows, and even the calutrons and filled them with the lava from the large caverns, and began construction of a wall around the city, and completed the work within two days.

Then on the third day, the kingdoms of Azar, and of Dur, and of Isham gathered their men and chariots, and their kings were sat upon chariots likewise with their swords drawn out to lead the plunder. The king of Isham then said, “Look, the city of Keziah hath built them a wall to keep us from plundering them. I pray thee, let us hold off the attack and come up with a plan!” The king of Azar hearkened to the king of Isham’s words, and they retired to Tannin island.

## **Chapter 10**

Back at Tannin island, king Meza, king Ish-Ban of Dur, and king Telech-Conan of Isham all regrouped there and came up with a plan. They set up camp and made themselves thrones for each king to sit upon (for there were no buildings in Azar). The king of Azar held a feast, and slew the fattest of the calves, and some of the tannins, and fed them to the other kings and each of their men, and he took a the horns of one of the tannin and made himself a helmet, containing the two horns. Upon seeing this, each man of Azar likewise took horns from other tannins, and they even likewise put them upon their helmets, making them fierce in appearance in their armor.

Then King Meza took some of their gold, and he made himself a golden idol of a tannin, and he worshiped it. When the kings of Dur and Isham saw this, they likewise bowed down to it, even their men did the same, and the men of Azar followed after them, and the idol became their god, and they named the idol, “Ish-Tannin.”

They took sheep, baby tannins, and their own firstborn children, and they sacrificed unto it, causing evil across Azar.

The kings of Dur and Isham loved the idol so much that they had them made in Dur and in Isham, and Ish-Tannin became their god.

## **Chapter 11**

When King Enom heard of this, he himself went down to see for himself, and he smote a scout of an Azarite in the field of Zeha-Enom while they were alone, and he took the scout’s armor and helmet, and put them on for a disguise. Then Enom went to Azar and saw the abominations they were committing, and it shook him to the core, seeing them like zombies, following a big golden statue and sacrificing babies to it blindly, being worse than when Enom himself was a bandit.

Enom returned and confirmed their report to be true. He had Azarite armor made, and had fifty of his own men put them on, taking with them torches, with pots covering the top, being held by their other hand, and they quietly marched down to Azar at night, while their enemies partied.

Once there, they surrounded some of Tannin Island, and Enom gave a shout, saying, "Burn this wicked forest down!”

The fifty Zehalite men then took the pots that covered the fire of their torches, and casted them to the ground, where they shattered. They then took the torches and lit the outer trees on fire. Slaying a lot of the Azarites, the Durites, and the Ishamites inside, and those that manage to flee the forest, they slew when they came out. When the three kings made it out, they took them and put them in fetters of brass, taking them captive.

Those that did not make it out were slain by the fire, and the forest was burnt. And the Kingdom of Azar was no more.

Enom from that day renamed the island to, “The Island of Sin.”

They departed back to Zeha-Enom.

## **Chapter 12**

They held the king of Azar, the king of Dur, and the king of Isham in their dungeon for a time, till they took them and went down to the sunken kingdom of Ortuna, where they were to be judged by King Artthun himself. Then King Enom of Zeha-Enom presented before the throne: King Meza of Azar, King Ish-Ban of Dur, and King Telech-Conan of Isham before the throne of Ortuna, while King Artthun sat upon it.

As the three wicked kings looked upon the King of Ortuna, they bowed down and wept, begging for their lives to be spared, then said King Meza, “Forgive us O’ king of Ortuna, we merely thought you were a myth, I pray thee, let us free and we shall worship thee!”

The King of Ortuna then asked, “How do you three kings plead?”

The King of Azar then said to the king of Ortuna, “I beseech thee O’ king, father Artthun, let our punishments be light, we rebelled against the King of Zeha-Enom as we saw he was not fit to rule over us, for he made changes that did not accept!”

After him the giant king of Dur said to the king of Ortuna, “Let your yoke be light father Artthun, Azar promised us to have land from the kingdom of Zeha-Enom if we put King Meza on the throne, I only followed along as I desired the extinction of the Zehalites!”

After him the king of Isham said to the king of Ortuna, “Father Artthun, I have no excuse, we sacrificed our children unto our idol Ish-Tannin, for we blindly followed our new god in hopes of defeating Zeha-Enom, and taking the holy land.”

Then King Meza and King Ish-Ban both said to King Telech-Conan, “We should have sacrificed you instead of your son so that we would not be here!”

King Telech-Conan then kneeled down, and wept in regret, while the other two kings still stood up, in hopes of escaping justice.

“Stop crying and get up! I am a just and merciful King, for I will strip you all for your powers and have you do community service for ever!” The King of Ortuna lashed out.

Then King Enom asked, “How is community service punishment enough for three kings who slew many children?!”

The King of Ortuna then asked King Enom, “Then what do you suggest, Enom?”

King Enom responded, “During the rule of the dynasty of Joaz over the children of Zeha, we had a law where they would be put to death before the people for crimes such as what these three kings have done.

This was in effect up until King Akash stole the throne and slew King Durl, the final king of the house of Joaz, till I slew king Akash for slaying my parents and taking the throne from him.”

“So be it.” The king of Ortuna replied.

Enom then asked, “Where shall they die?”

The king of Ortuna replied, “You choose.”

The king of Zeha-Enom then took thee three kings and smote their heads off before the children of Zeha in the capital city of Keziah, then Enom had their heads on pikes for three days, afterward he had the heads of Ish-Ban and Telech-Conan sent to the kingdoms of Dur and Isham to their newly crowned kings.

King Ish-Ban’s brother, Barban, succeeded him as king of Dur. And King Telech-Conan’s son, Ish-Ram, reigned in his stead at the age of nine years.

## **Chapter 13**

The Kingdom of Dur then laid an attack on Zeha-Enom, lead by King Barban and his captain, Sarza, and they had sixty thousand men and thirty chariots being pulled by tannins, and smote the children of Zeha in the plain of Zeha-Enom. King Enom then took himself some armor and a sword, while wearing a crown upon his head with the armor, then he took his captain of the host, Zaradin, along with fifty thousand Zehalite men, and took they ten chariots being pulled by tannins (for they adopted the warfare tactics of their enemies), and they went and smote the children of Dur, five thousand men, and pushed them toward the border. There, they smote twenty and five thousand of them, while only losing three thousand men both times. They even pushed them down into their capital, and conquered them, and destroyed their men.

King Enom had King Barban brought before him and said to him, “You shall live and rule thine kingdom, as long as thou wilt pay tribute to your conqueror, Zeha-Enom.”

The kingdom of Zeha-Enom won the war against Dur and they became tributaries unto the King of Zeha-Enom.

And King Enom’s fame spread throughout the known world, as the giants of Dur were always the victors in almost every battle.

King Enom took a rest at his palace after the battle while Zaradin continued to fight against the Ishamites. The next day, King Enom’s birthday came and he invited the chief of Hud, some of the seed royal of Joaz, and a representative of Ortuna. King Enom held the feast in his throne room, having tables set up for the guests, and had food and wine prepared for them, and he let them eat and drink to their own desire, however Enom avoided the wine.

The guests brought gifts to the king of Zeha-Enom, including new weapons, armor, spices, things from other cultures, clothing, servants, and concubines. However King Enom ordered for the servants and the concubines to be returned to where they were taken from, this made the guests’ anger to be kindled against the king of Zeha-Enom.

One of the guests went up to Enom and asked, “Why do you avoid chances to take a wife and concubines to produce heirs to the throne? Are you into men rather than women?” To this, Enom replied, “I am not into men, but I am into women, in due time I shall take a wife and produce heirs, but I do not think now is the time for me to perform that task.” King Enom’s advisors then pressured him to keep the concubines and have harems built for him, he denied it every time and they pressured him harder and harder, until King Enom could not take it anymore, so he gave in, and they took in the five concubines, two from Hud, one from Zetu, another from Azah, and the last one being from Arah. And they sat the daughter of King Durl born by a concubine of his over the harem, whose name was Sera. And the concubines eyed the king while desiring to please him, making the king nervous.

## **Chapter 14**

Later at night during the feast, a man came in unannounced, and the King of Enom said to the man, "Who art thou and hast thou come in unannounced?”

The man said to the king, “Behold king of Zeha-Enom, because you have conquered the children of Dur, the giants; your kingdom shall form into an empire, you are the greatest of all of the kings before you, for you sought your people’s safety over taking a wife, therefore your seed shall multiply numerous as the stars in the heavens, and your dynasty shall rule and be favored above all other dynasties on the face of the land, because king Artthun favored you above all other of his seed.”

Upon hearing this, all of the guests were amazed at the man’s words, causing the king to get up from his throne to look at the man in amazement. Then the king drew close to the man and looked at him eye to eye, then the king broke down in tears and held onto the man’s garment, causing the guests to be disgusted by the king’s current behavior.

Then the king of Zeha-Enom asked the man, “How is this so? I am a sinner and took innocent lives from Sheleg, I was a robber and a usurper in the eyes of man? If it’s not far off, I pray thee, tell me your identity.”

The man replied to the king, “Behold king Enom, I am Zekiah, the father of thy father Abel.”

King Enom stood up in surprise, then asked, “Who sent thee?”

“I shall tell thee in due time, for I have been instructed to not reveal him.” Zekiah replied to the king.

King Enom then asked of the man, “Reveal thine genealogy.”

Zekiah responded, “I am Zekiah, the son of Caleb, the son of Natan, the son of Jamin, the son of Ered, the son of Anam, the son of Phocan, the son of Joz, the son of Yelden, the son of King Bruel, the son of King Segub, the son of Meziah, the son of King Sheth. I am of the royal seed of house Sheth.”

Then Zekiah furthermore said, “Listen my grandson, before your birth I was instructed to betrothed my son Abel, your father, to your mother Keziah, to fulfill a prophecy of reuniting the royal branches of Bruel and Joaz to the throne of Zeha. Your mother Keziah was a hated sister of King Durl, who tried to erase her from the history scrolls, both were the children of King Jom.”

Upon hearing this, everyone in the room was silent in surprise upon the man’s word.

King Enom then embraced his grandfather, and made him his honored guest at his birthday feast.

## **Chapter 15**

Now this was the genealogy from King Joaz down to Enom’s mother, Keziah:

King Joaz reigned in the stead of Bruel, his brother, on the throne of Zeha. As he reigned, Joaz begat a son and his name was Ram. King Ram fathered King Malachi, King Malachi fathered King Ham, King Ham fathered King Vespi, King Vespi fathered King Luel, King Luel fathered King Tubal, King Tubal fathered King Mash, King Mash fathered King Joel, King Joel fathered King Jom, King Jom fathered King Durl, and his sister Keziah, and other children. Princess Keziah was casted out by her brother the king, for her brother King Durl hated her out of jealousy (for she was the eldest and heir to the throne), and he tried to erase her from history.

The king of Zeha-Enom then went out and met with the young king of Isham, and they became tributaries unto the king of Zeha-Enom, afterward Hud willingly joined under Zeha-Enom for protection as an ally; after these things, the kingdom of Zeha-Enom declared itself The Kingdom Empire of Zeha-Enom.

Then rebel groups formed and waged war against Zeha-Enom, however they were all crushed under the might of the empire.

Then King Enom’s men scouted a cave with a local tannin who was called, “Terror.” The scouts were eaten by Terror, however one fled and told it to Enom. Enom said to the survivor, “I shall send thee fifty men to take down the tannin, you shall lead them to the cave you speak of.”

The scout did so, and again, Terror ate them and a soldier fled and told the thing to the king.

King Enom said to the man, “I will go up and slay the tannin.”

King Enom as he was on his way, an elderly man, said to the king, “Beware Terror, the fierce tannin who dwells in a cavern!”

King Enom went down to the mouth of the cave and saw the flesh and the bones of his men upon the ground, and he saw Terror walk out of the cave, and the soldier that led Enom there, fled and hid behind a boulder in fear of Terror.

King Enom saw this, and he said to the tannin, “Behold Terror, I shall not fear thee, for I am on the side of the one who is mightier than thee!”

Terror roared at the king and charged straight at him.

King Enom casted a spear at the charging tannin, and it smote his right eye, and he fell down at the feet of Enom, Enom drew out his sword and smote the tannin’s head off.

He took the head and dragged it and left with it. As the hiding soldier saw this, he ran and shouted, “Who could slay such a tannin such as Terror?!”

He repeated this as he ran past the locals.

Once they saw the king drag the head of the tannin and his remaining soldiers shout and dance in victory behind him, they feared Enom, saying, “Who could slay a tannin such as Terror? For he towers above all other tannins, dominating over them with his many scars and his very sharp teeth. Who among men could defeat him, lest he be the chosen one of Artthun?” Then locals joined under Zeha-Enom.

News spread of king Enom of Zeha-Enom slaying the largest man eating tannin in all of Ortuna, the news even spread to the ears of Enom’s enemies, and they were sorely afraid of him.

## **Chapter 16**

King Enom crushed the rebels and took them captive, and the land had rest on all sides from war, therefore he returned to Keziah.

Enom sat upon his throne again and governed the empire.

As King Enom governed the kingdom on his throne, the head of the harem, Sera the illegitimate daughter of King Durl taught all of the concubines and prepared them if Enom ever laid with them. In the harem was Avital of Hud and her sister Shoshana of Hud, Yael of Azah, Bracha of Arah, and Zinni of Zetu.

The concubines there praised Sera for her elegance and her confidence in her teaching skills to prepare them to please the king despite half of them being afraid of the experience.

When Sera had fully prepared the concubines, King Enom avoided them and went out and trained, casting his javelin into trees. Sera, his cousin, then requested to be summoned by the king, yet again he ignored them, showing no interest in them.

This kindled Sera, so she held a feast for her and the concubines in the palace garden.

The king wondered what the noise was from his bedchamber window, he looked out therein and he saw his concubines holding a feast in the palace garden, as he looked on, Sera saw him and said to him in a seducing manner, “My king, won’t you come hither and join us for a feast?”

The other concubines then looked on and begged him to join.

King Enom was spooked by them seeing him, so he quickly backed away from the window, and a servant of his saw this and said to him, “You spend too much time on war matters, I pray thee, expand your variety and go to the feasts held by your cousin Sera.”

King Enom left his bedchamber not taking the advice of his servant, however, Shelah, his advisor, overheard and he went to Enom and kneeled down before him begging him, saying,”I beseech thee O, king, go down to the feast of the concubines, thou shouldest not trouble thyself with no peace, but let it be as if there were peace, what would thou do in those days?”

King Enom asked Shelah his advisor, “If I go to the feast held by Sera the daughter of King Durl, wilt thou be silent?”

Shelah said to him, “I will cease to bother thee furthermore if thou wilt go!”

So the king went down to the feast of the concubines held by Sera, he sat in silence, feeling the awkward atmosphere in the air coming from the concubines as they made gestures for him to come over to them.

Sera then asked Enom his cousin, “Art thou afraid to be conquered by women dear cousin? You have slain many thousand men.”

Enom knew she was right, so he went over to the concubines and they embraced him and held onto him as they fed him and said nice things to him in an attempt to please him, throughout the whole situation the king was nervous but desired them not.

Sometime after as they still tried to please him, he still felt uncomfortable, so he hastily got up saying, “I must go and govern!”

Sera then said to the king, her cousin, “Admit it, you enjoyed the whole new experience dear cousin.”

King Enom paused for a moment, not looking back at them, then he returned to walking in the palace, leaving the concubines to be disappointed at his departure.

Instead, Enom went to a private bathhouse alone, he sat there and processed the whole situation. And he said to himself, “I know not how to love nor take pleasure.”

## **Chapter 17**

Shelah, the advisor of the king of Zeha-Enom took Zaradin the captain of the host of the army, and they met in private, Shelah said to Zaradin, “Let us make a league between me and thee, for I shall gain thee the throne of Zeha-Enom if thou wilt follow my instruction.” To this, Zaradin responded, “Why do thou think that I wilt betray my king? Therefore I shall turn thee in!”

Therefore Zaradin took Shelah and told all his words to the king, and king Enom said to Shelah, “If this be true then thou shall die!”

Out of fear, Shelah hastily took Zaradin’s sword and charged Enom with it, and a guard from behind smote Shelah, causing him to die.

King Enom ordered for Shelah’s body to be put on display, warning those who betray the king.

Zaradin’s brother, Manasseh, became the new advisor for the king.

Then the queen of the tannins came forth; desiring the love of the king.

However, he loved her not.

She desired him forevermore;

But he desired her not.

Love can be transformed by bond;

but there is none to be found.

She concluded, “There is no love but power in the hands of Seha!”

## **Chapter 18**

This account is written by Utarn the scribe of Zetu:

In the second year of the reign of Anam (Enom) of Seha-Anam (Zeha-Enom), King Anam went forth and drew water from the river that borders with Dur, there he found a wither rose, so he took it and gave it to the keeper of the of the garden, and he planted it therein on display for the concubines each time they go back there to admire it.

However this was no ordinary wither rose, it was enchanted; but a curse put upon it by the queen of the tannins herself for Anam not returning her love to her. (more to be added)