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Till I join them in the clouds.

Behold thy creations.

Make me mighty...

in body and soul.

Lest I forget...

the slavery of my fathers.

In mercy...

bestow Earth's bounty.

Blessed be my rock.

The God of Joseph (Yosef) .

Ever be exalted Thy name.

The gods have forsaken me.

All my seeds are dead.

But don't do anything stupid.

I love you too much to kill you.

Mahigana.

Leave us.

Get out. Get out!

Awake.

Awake.

Oh, my people,

how could you have fallen?

I, Moroni, do finish the record of my father.

Four hundred years have passed away

since the coming of our Lord.

And after the great and tremendous battle at Cumorah,

the Nephites were hunted by the Lamanites,

even until they are no more.

And my father was slain also at their hands

that I, alone, am left to finish the sad tale of my kindred.

Great and marvelous has been the destruction of my people.

But behold the prophecies of Isaiah.

For the Elders, who have gone before,

who possessed this land,

shall cry.

Even from the dust shall they cry.

And as the Lord lives,

He will remember the Oath He has made unto them.

For the eternal purposes of the Lord shall roll on...

until all His oaths shall be fulfilled.

Fulfilled also shall be my oath.

I live to finish this record and hide it up unto the Lord.

And how long He will suffer

that I may live on alone, I know not.

Yes.

But I swear, by the Great Spirit,

you shall not be harmed.

Flee if you must.

But your flesh is parched and you won't survive the night.

Only if you like.

Do you have a name?

My father taught me many languages.

And through trade, I gained others,

including yours.

At times.

But during war, I was something else.

No. But I led many.

Tens of thousands.

I was a chief captain.

I fought your people only in defense of mine.

Lies!

Perhaps.

But my oath to live

may complicate yours, I'm afraid.

I am called Moroni.

Hunted one.

Please, don't.

Monster!

I said I wouldn't harm you,

I swore an oath.

I could have left you to the wolves!

I've never--

I've never seen a woman come as far as you did.

I not like other women.

I not fear man or beast.

Indeed.

I'd fain to see the cowering beast

you bravely escaped yesterday.

Beast is master.

Where I come from, there are no masters.

Master is also king.

He'll kill us both if you leave.

You've sheltered with a Nephite. This is death.

Or has Lamanite custom changed?

He not spare you.

He not spare your father.

No, he didn't.

Then why you spare me?

I am not a man of blood.

If you desire to stay with one who is, then go.

I shall not stop you.

I'll suffer the consequences

of this encounter, come what may.

I, too, fear no man.

But whether in life or death...

it would seem our fates walk together now.

I could show you a life

beyond what you've ever known.

Freedom.

That far distant hill there is...

Cumorah.

Hill of great battle.

Yes. Hill of great battle.

That's where I go when I need to think.

And that way out there is where I found you.

Bathsheba.

Bathsheba.

You're Aaron's wife then?

Mistress.

He have many.

He is great man of passion.

Woman, a man who beats you

has neither greatness nor passion.

I've some thinking to do.

Perhaps you'd like to join me?

I'm sorry, forgive me, I--

I know I did err.

I so pined for fellowship.

A father, a mother,

a sister, a brother, a friend.

I see him.

Him!

I see him.

I find record.

What?

No, stop!

You cannot touch them.

Oh, God, what have I done?

Wait... you saw.

What did you do?

Confess it now!

I thought gold save me from king's wrath!

You must never do that again.

Swear to me.

Swear to him.

Say it from your lips.

I swear.

Bear.

What is color?

I don't know. Black, I think.

Touch ground.

Turn.

Now up.

Bear impediment.

Still needs to boil,

but we'll fire it after nightfall.

Or better yet,

with you around, perhaps we don't need it.

There is better impediment.

Oh, yes.

Now what?

No, no.

Last longer.

You burn flame with bats.

No fire in daylight.

Better toil under the sun.

I have trouble sleeping.

Perhaps, distract mind?

I used to whittle trinkets...

for my little ones.

I learn?

You teach?

This. What this mean?

His name is Alma.

Thirteenth record-bearer.

And him?

Mosiah the Great.

Twelfth record-bearer and the last Nephite monarch.

He was dearly beloved.

Why?

He gave his people freedom.

Mosiah's Alma's father?

No. Alma's father was...

Alma.

His name is...

Moroni.

It's confusing, I know.

Chief Captain Moroni.

I'm his namesake.

My father hoped it might make me like him, I suppose.

Lamanite have same custom.

But names more original.

And it work? You like him?

I would never presume.

"If all men had been, and were,

to ever would be, like unto Moroni,

the very powers of hell would be shaken forever."

My father wrote that of this man.

Then gave me his name.

What is Hell?

Probably best we start from the beginning.

What is Lamanite tradition of me?

Nephi, ancient father.

Laman, ancient father.

Brothers all, yes.

Nephi rob Laman of crown.

And treasures.

Good.

Are you ready for more?

Joseph (Yosef) of Egypt, our common forefather,

was a fruitful vine,

whose descendants climbed over the wall,

among whom, nearly a millennium ago,

were his heirs in Jerusalem (Yerushalayim).

Laman and Nephi.

But on their voyage to the promised land,

Laman tried to kill Nephi.

Why?

To be king of the New World.

But, unlike Laman,

who coveted the plates for gain,

Nephi cherished them and kept records of his own.

Thus the birth of two nations:

Nephites and Lamanites,

ruled by rivaling brothers.

And, thus, was born the ancient grudge.

And endless war.

Nephi becoming the first record-bearer

and Nephite king of my line.

No. Laman entitled. He was eldest.

Yes, as was Esau.

You were taught your fathers were robbed by mine.

But the same was said of Esau's younger brother, Jacob (Yacob).

That he deceived him.

But, alas, Esau willingly sold his birthright to Jacob (Yacob)

for a measly bowl of stew.

And Jacob (Yacob)...

become Israel (Yisra'el).

And Israel (Yisra'el) begat Joseph (Yosef),

our common ancestor.

Thus, you and I both

are children of the ancient Oath.

But enough of birthrights.

I am not my forefathers nor are you yours.

But why a record is so chief?

Words are powerful.

They change hearts.

You say many record?

Wagonloads. I've seen them.

I see?

Perhaps you will some day.

My father, he was more patient than I.

He took all the records...

from this to that

and combined them into one.

This is great effort.

He gave his life for it.

And you... give life?

I would.

Why?

The Oath.

Their words

will cry from the dust.

Don't arouse me. Maybe she deserted.

Never. No tribe would defy Aaron.

Would you abide a man who hit you?

I prefer women.

And that man is our king.

Our rightful king?

Watch yourself.

He's given us position.

No Nephite can give a Lamanite position.

He's renounced, he's one of us.

And yet, here we are,

tracking my runaway sister.

If Aaron is one of us,

why does Bathsheba run?

I would go after the first fist,

or I'd slit his throat.

Always rash.

That's why you're unwedded.

I'll wed when I'm good and ready.

And it won't be to a mink's ass like you.

You are boring.

All your thinking.

Try to hit.

Again.

You roll and watch.

Again. Faster.

How often did you play this game?

Every day since I had ten years.

Now you try again.

Try again.

This time,

imagine you haven't eaten for a week.

The stone is rabbit.

The morrow, your turn for dinner.

I need a break from fish.

Bathsheba?

The morrow, you have dinner?

I have something for you to read.

Unless you're too weary.

"For can a woman forget

her suck-- suckling child

that she should not have compassion...

on the son of her womb?

They may forget me...

yet will I not forget you, O Israel."

I've never been with child.

A son.

A son is all I've ever wanted.

If your god not forget me...

if he have compassion, then he...

Bathsheba! Bathsheba, don't go!

Bathsheba!

Bathsheba!

Bathsheba!

Bathsheba!

Bathsheba.

Bathsheba,

don't leave me.

Bathsheba, don't leave me!

Don't leave me alone!

Bathsheba.

Wolf.

You're fortunate to be alive.

Never do that again.

Never, never leave me again.

Say it.

Say it from your lips.

I swear.

I see you're feeling improved.

Please know,

I would never hurt you.

Not ever.

An epistle.

From my father.

"My son, I write unto you

somewhat concerning the sufferings of this people.

The Lamanites have taken many prisoners...

men, women, and children.

And they...

feed the women

upon the flesh of their husbands,

and the children

upon the flesh of their fathers."

Why do you have me read this?

Please, go on.

"And notwithstanding

this great abomination of the Lamanites,

it does not exceed that of our people.

For the daughters of the Lamanites have they taken,

and after depriving them of that which is most dear

and precious above all--

chastity and virtue--

they torture their bodies to death

as a token of their bravery."

That which is most dear

and precious above all.

You are not a token to me.

I had to turn away.

I had to turn away or...

I would have broken my oath.

I want to make the oath.

You think I beguile you for an oath?

I want to make the oath.

Yes.

Yes.

You promise to resist evil.

To defend your family,

your land, and your faith,

even unto bloodshed.

Yes.

I cleave unto you and no other.

Bone of my bones.

Flesh of my flesh.

May souls, once twain, be one forever.

I cleave unto you and no other.

Bone of my bones.

Flesh of my flesh.

May souls, once twain, be one forever.

Last night was the first night

I slept soundly in 20 years.

Promise to never leave me.

Say it from your lips.

I swear.

Weeks without bed or women.

Next ridge, we turn back.

And what will you tell the king, I wonder?

That Mahigana goaded us like mules.

Turn back and I put this in your spine.

We go on till we find her!

I feel...

Tell me.

Like that.

Soaring high above the lands.

Above the mountains.

Above the clouds.

Freedom.

Yes!

Like I've never felt before.

What is it?

If you're in the clouds,

I'm in the firmament.

How did I live 20 years without you?

And how did my will to keep an oath

nearly blind me

from the one right before me?

Sometimes when we love a thing

we hold it too tight.

But my oath.

I'll turn the sheets.

He came to them.

Yeshua.

He came to our fathers.

Yes. The legends are true.

I finished.

But it stopped.

Can I read more?

But there is more to record.

I was hoping...

you could help with that.

I missed the sunrise.

You sleep so beautiful,

I just couldn't wake you.

Thank you for traveling with me.

Do you ever feel as if...

as if our lives are like a dream?

All my years, all my memories...

passing by like a moment in time.

This belonged to my first wife.

Her favorite testament.

I gave it to her on our tenth jubilee

so she could have it with her always.

It's my favorite also.

I've carried it since you shared it with me.

I want you to have this.

God bless the day you wandered into my life.

I told you not to do anything foolish.

Mahigana!

It's not what you think.

He's a good man.

A good man?

A Nephite?

And now you bear his child?

I'm going to kill him

and then I'm taking you home.

I'm not going back.

I've found happiness here.

I've found freedom!

Happiness?

With a Nephite?

If you want to kill him,

you'll have to kill me first.

You love him?

Stay with me.

Please, sister.

Please don't.

Just stay with me.

Don't go.

Don't tell him where I am.

Please.

I love you.

Can we not rest, my Lord?

Yes.

Rest, child.

Is anyone else weary?

We move on!

Mahigana?

I thought you were waiting.

At the cave?

Protect the king's prize, remember?

Coward.

Aaron!

Show yourself!

Well, finally, the last great general.

Strange, the way of fate.

If I hadn't of given Bathsheba what she deserved,

she wouldn't have run.

If she hadn't run, I wouldn't have found you.

The lone fugitive.

For 20 years I've eradicated your people.

They were your people too.

Don't remind me.

Now kneel before your king.

I have but one King.

Well, then you shall die

as your father, a martyr.

Oh, that's right,

there's no one left to remember you!

Refreshing.

Before my last breath,

my sword shall run you through.

Strong words for a man without a sword.

No.

No, not--

no, not here,

not like this in your pathetic grief.

You will be strong and rested and nourished.

One day.

One day to ready yourself.

And no praying.

No fasting to your god.

You will eat, sleep and die.

For on the morrow, you shall fall by my sword.

I will agree to your terms.

Well, thank God for that.

But only when my wife and son

receive a proper burial.

Your wife?!

Minimal rites.

Do your cursed ritual.

This time the morrow,

the duel begins.

Father...

what lesson do you teach?

Behold...

my heart cries out.

Come out.

Come out in judgment, O God,

and hide their abominations from before thy face.

Come out, O God...

or take me with them.

Take me with them.

Perhaps...

but your oath to live may complicate that, I'm afraid.

Please.

A moment.

For your sister.

Do you want part in this?

Then give me some dignity.

For my wife.

And your sister's son.

Moroni.

You let him escape?

And just as the sun

hides its face?

If you weren't my best tracker...

Lord, I found her.

You would not have found her

if it weren't for Mahigana.

He's got our advantage.

Tonight.

Cohor, set up camp.

Fulfilled also shall be my oath

and the oath of my father.

To finish this record...

and hide it up unto the Lord.

And if they slay me...

it matters not...

if it so be that I am saved

in the Kingdom of Heaven.

For the eternal purposes of the Lord shall roll on...

until all His oaths shall be fulfilled.

"In memory of our God,

our faith, our freedom,

our peace, our wives, and our children."

Blessed Father,

I seal this record unto you.

And unto he who will one day, discover it unto the world.

That Joseph (Yosef) of the Old World

shall at long last, know Joseph (Yosef) of the New.

It is finished.

Aaron!

In memory of my God, my faith, and my freedom...

my wife and my son!

Aaron!

I'll never call you king!

I know you're sitting on your ass

thinking to wear me down!

Well, I won't!

Here I stand!

Why?

Why fight for a soulless coward?

He cares not for your blood.

Stop!

Was that difficult, Cohor?

I imagine it was.

You know, I was wrong.

You must be a prophet.

Otherwise, how else could you know

I was sitting on my ass?

Oh, the great Moroni and his last...

stand.

Well, that's nice armor.

I suspect that's why you're still breathing.

Tell me, freeman...

does the last of the Nephite blood

still grope for peace from a god

that leaves you alone to die?

Peace

is better than war.

Uh, war is better than tribute?

I'm constrained...

to offer one last chance for penance.

Kneel before your Maker.

Confess your abominations.

And He shall spare you.

There is no God!

No Heaven!

No Hell!

Then gird yourself for surprise.

For today, I send you there!

Oh, does that hurt?

Where is the brave general now?

You're looking at him,

child of Hell!

Today, you pay for all the lives

you've taken in cold blood.

Today, you face eternal vengeance.

Alright now...

know this, Moroni.

Mahigana will tear this world apart

until she finds your secret record.

And all of your lies

and your father's

and your father's father's,

will be erased.

No one will remember your name.

And after I've killed you,

I'll dig Bathsheba

and your shriveled son

up from the grave

and I'll leave them to the wolves!

The exile has something to say.

He came to them.

He came to our fathers.

I covered for you.

Mahigana. Have mercy.

For Bathsheba.

Hunted one.

You are hunted no more.