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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 4772019" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Twenty-one, “The French Connection” September 2nd, 1882, 1:30 P.M.</strong></p><p></p><p>James says, “Well, ours would have only been a theory without further evidence. An accidental discovery by Luiz less than a year ago was the definitive piece of evidence, and what prompted this current endeavor.” Doctor Chernovitz says, “The key to this discovery which became the basis of our theory occurred last winter when I was in France with my family. I was in a French bookstore and I stumbled across a one-of-a-kind book. It provided evidence of an alternate history about the Timucuan people and also solves the mystery of Fort Caroline. </p><p></p><p>What I discovered is a history that both the Spanish and French governments have officially suppressed for over three centuries. I only discovered this now through a fluke, in that the book store owner had for sale several crates of books inherited from an estate sale. This book was unpublished, a one-of-a-kind personal journal, that had some very interesting prints in it.” </p><p></p><p>Luiz, James, Sol and Alsoomse stand up and head over to a large cabinet and take out several large drawings of tattooed Native Americans that they place upon the easels (images below). Luiz states, “These are pictures of the Saturiwa tribe of the Timucuan people, copied and enlarged from prints within the book that I found. They were drawn by a French artist named Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. He made these during the year that he resided at Fort Caroline, which was the first French Colony in the United States. It was established right here on this very plateau in 1563, two years before the Spanish established their own colony at Saint Augustine and two years before they supposedly built the Castillo de San Mateo on this site." </p><p></p><p>Luiz continues, "The founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline was a man named Jean Ribault, a noble from the French City of Dieppe. The city is in the Normandy region overlooking the English Channel. He and the other colonists had fled the Diepee region of France due to religious persecution. The 1560’s was one of the uglier times in the wars between Wizard and Clerical magics, and Ribualt’s group actually believed in both. </p><p></p><p>Ribualt was the leader of a religious sect that believed that wizard magic as the gift from the Celtic deity Math Mathonwy, also known as Mathu, who rules over the realm of sorcery, magics and enchantment. One would think that the pro-wizard factions would have actually embraced a religion that believed in wizard magic. There is even evidence that the Atlanteans themselves first worship of this deity Math Mathonwy, as there is mention of it in Homer’s volume about the Atlantians that arcane magic is based upon. </p><p></p><p>But instead of accepting this view, Ribault and his followers were deemed as anti-arcane heretics. In 1563, France’s King Charles IX commanded that all believers of Math Mathonwy were to be found and put to death. Given that decree it is not surprising that these heretics chose to flee. They left France and reached Florida, building their new colony right here where this house now stands.” </p><p></p><p>Ruby asks, "Is that why their government wanted to hide the existence of the fort, because of Ribault's history as a supposed heretic?" James says, "Yes, exactly. Neither pro-wizard magic government, France or Spain, wished for there to be a public record of the French heretics and their religion. The French were here for two years. According to secret Spanish records, the true reason behind the Spanish expedition and colonization in 1565 was because the Spanish King discovered that they was a French colony here the lands claimed by Spain. Spain sought to force the French colonists away and to then establish a colony of their own in Florida, to strengthen the legitimacy of their claim. So the Spanish did not actually build the fortress of San Mateo here on this site. After they forced the French out they just renamed the fortress that had already been built by the French and the Saturiwa allies of the French. </p><p></p><p>It took some effort on our part, but we discovered and read the Spanish accounts of the 1565 battle here in Florida with the French. The Spaniards claim that they had a great naval victory, managing to sink every one of the French vessels with the loss of most of the French soldiers and sailors on board, without loosing any of their own vessels. They then claim to have marched to the Fortress here and that they killed all but two dozen of the three-hundred colonists, only allowing the ones who renounced clerical magic to live. These survivors were kept as prisoner servants to the Spanish in their Saint Augustine colony and never allowed to return to Europe. </p><p></p><p>The secret French accounts tell of a very different version of this story, the Spanish account having apparently been exaggerated by the Florida Provincial Governor Pedro Menendez de Aviles to impress his King. According to the French records, once Fort Caroline became aware of the newly established Spanish colony at Saint Augustine thirty miles to the south the French soldiers and sailors set off from here with all of their ships to attack the Spanish settlement. They left despite dire warnings from the Saturiwa leaders, who is seems knew something about weather prediction. As the French fleet neared Saint Augustine a massive hurricane struck and sank the entire fleet, killing the vast majority of the soldiers and sailors on board. The surviving French soldiers who actually managed to swim to shore were then easily captured and slain by the Spanish, with only a few young cabin boys being spared. </p><p></p><p>With their French military protectors of the Fort now gone, the settlers of Fort Caroline were left unprotected from a Spanish counterattack. The French records are consistent with the Spanish account of the fortress falling quickly, with almost everyone present at the fort being slain. So, in addition to not wanting to promote the heritics, they also wouldn’t have wanted the clerical magic nations to know that the wizard magic nations were fighting amongst themselves. And lastly, one can also assume that since the monarchs of both nations were cousins they may have wanted to suppress this entire incident as nothing more than an internal family squabble." </p><p></p><p>James continues, "But there remains several large inconsistencies to these stories. There is no evidence that any of the two dozen or so French prisoners of the Spaniards ever left Florida. But if that was the case, then how did this artist’s work and journal find its way back to France? If he had been a prisoner of the Spanish then his journal and sketchbook would have been confiscated and destroyed, yet here it is today. And even if he had managed to somehow hide it, you would think that he certainly would have mentioned having been captured by the Spanish. </p><p></p><p>But all of the journal entries at Fort Caroline end in 1565 prior to the Spanish arrival, with no mention at all of the Spanish. Later entries in the journal were written in France and dated from 1567 until the late 1570’s, but it remains completely silent on the two years from 1565 until 1567. You could ask similar questions regarding the note in the other book from French physician about the Doctor from the Fortress whose descendents later lived in France, how did he return?. </p><p></p><p>A third discrepancy concerns the official Spanish account claims that three-hundred French settlers were killed at the Fort. A written account by the Spanish officer in charge of the attack on the fort put the number at only around seventy-five. One could assume the smaller number to be correct, that the higher number was an exaggeration by the Spanish Governor. The higher account would match the maximum amount of people that could have made a single journey from French given the number and type of French ships. </p><p></p><p>But the discrepancy that really gets interesting is a review of the listings of the names of the French heretics who fled persecution from the city of Dieppe France and all supposedly came to the Fort Caroline colony. That list shows that, combined with the sailors and soldiers, there would have been approximately 900 French people. That is around twice the number of the higher Spanish account, as well as twice what the ships would have been able to transport. Furthermore, some of the dates listed in Jacques Le Moyne de Morgue's journal at Fort Caroline begin in 1563. But the departure date of the French fleet was not until 1564. So how could the colony have been established here at a time when these heretics were just beginning to raise money to purchase the ships?" </p><p></p><p>Luiz says, "And there is one other interesting coincidence that was recently discovered by my son, going through records in Dieppe, France. The physician whose fever remedy comes from Fort Caroline was one of a group of approximately 400 people who suddenly arrived in the French City of Dieppe in 1567. What is officially known of these new residents is they all spoke fluent French. They also had with then written evidence in the form of logs of the ships that brought them to the port city of Dieppe, but curiously, there were no witnesses to any ships having actually arrived and departed, or for that matter, to have ever existed. A separate note cites an unproven rumor that these newcomers were actually the former residents who had left for the New World three and four years earlier, and had then returned with new faces and names to escape persecution as heretics. " </p><p></p><p>Nanuet spoke up from his spot at the back of the room. "James, I am sure all of this history is fascinating, but it is being lost on me. Perhaps it is because I lack a formal education. Whatever the reason I am not really comprehending all of these dates and the politics behind hiding journals or lying about the existence of forts and how that ties into us sitting here today." </p><p></p><p>James says, "Nanuet, this background is to give you all of the puzzle pieces, we still have to put them together, towards discovering the secrets of Atlantis. </p><p></p><p>One reason the heretics chose Dieppe as the main base of worship to begin with. Three thousand years ago this port of Dieppe was one of the main foreign ports used by the island Kingdom of Atlantis to trade with Europe. Chateau de Dieppe, an ancient fortress and castle within the city, was said to have been built upon the stone ruins of the place where the Atlantian aristocracy stayed while visiting there. And not so coincidentally, it was from that very same castle that the townspeople saw these 400 new residents suddenly emerge after being supposedly dropped off by ships that presumably docked near the Chateau. </p><p></p><p>One other thing you have to take into account is that a common means of transportation for high-level wizards to day, teleportation, is a relatively new spell. It was only invented within the last century, originally created by the very same Society of French mages that I referenced yesterday. They devised the spell during their many attempts to rescue Napoleon Bonaparte from his exile on the remote Island of Saint Helena. The Atlantians therefore did not have access to a transport spell. </p><p></p><p>Alsoomse says, “Homer’s writings tell of their being great sailors but there is no mention of them having any vessels of sufficient size to travel the ocean to distant continents with large numbers of passengers. But what we do find is a brief mention by Homer of what translates as a ‘Magical Octagonal Gate’, said to be at the Cathedral to Math Mathonwy in Atlantis. Scholars have traditionally thought that this meant only an eight-sized doorway with magical protections on it. Atlantian scholars haven’t found any further references to this magical gate in recognized writings.” </p><p></p><p>James states, “A octagonal magical gate is mentioned in a twenty-three-century old writing by the chief scribe of the Egyptian Pharaoh Nectanebo II. This account has long since been discredited as fiction, as it also contains what has been deemed as a fanciful tale whereby Nectanebo II dons a magical disguise and then becomes the biological father of Alexander the Great. Dimensional gates themselves are not a new concept. Similar magical gates have been used for fourteen centuries, with the high-level Merlin’s Magnificent Mansion spell, which makes a doorway to an inter-dimensional multi-room building.</p><p></p><p>Nectanebo II was the last ruler of Egypt to be known by the title Pharoah, in the 30th Dynasty. His rule ended some 2,250 years ago when Egypt was defeated by the Persian King Artaxerxes III. According to the scribe’s writings, Nectanebo II was also said to be a great wizard and sorceror and is rumored to have been trained by the Atlantians themselves. That rumor is also been generally discounted, as Necranebo II lived full half-millineia after the fall of Atlantis. </p><p></p><p>Another of the same scribe’s writings explains this. It claims that a half-millinea before that writing, when Atlantis was sinking beneath the waves, the city’s elite wizards escaped the destruction. They did this by entering through an eight-walled diminensional portal, through a magical doorway that opened from Atlantis into Egypt. These wizards then became a new group of senior advisors to Pharaoh Osorkon II of the 22nd Dynasty in his capital city of Tanis. </p><p></p><p>It is a documented fact that Osorkon II was the first Pharaoh to surround himself with a group of top foreign advisors, but the official writings claiming these advisors to be of Greek descent rather than Atlantian. The role of senior advisors to the Pharaoh continued from the 22nd until the 30th Dynasties, and these advisors passed down their positions to their own children. So if Osorkon II’s advisors were Atlatian wizards then Necranebo II could very well have been trained by the descendents of those Atlantian wizards.</p><p></p><p>So Luiz and I launched this project upon the assumptions that the Saturiwa were a tribe of half-elves of mixed North American and Atlantian descent and that they worked as the servants to the Atlantians until the destruction of the island continent. With the destruction of Atlantis, the contact between the Saturiwa and their masters abruptly ceased, with those members of the tribe who were currently away under servitude contracts never returned and the annual payments ceased. </p><p></p><p>The Timucuan had no way of knowing what had occurred. They waited generations for the return of their former benefactors. When the Europeans arrived, they were initially mistaken by the Saturiwa to be Atlantians, a misconception perpetuated by references that these Europeans made about having come from across the Atlantic Ocean. So our theory is rather far fetched, but here it is. We believe that the Magical Octagonal Gate of the Atlantians existed and continues to exist. We believe that this octagonal room is an inter-dimensional room with eight doorways that lead to eight different locations on the world." </p><p></p><p>Ruby says, "Um, yeah, I sorta of agree with Nanuet, I'm not exactly the scholarly type to get all this. But... do you think you know where this gate is, I mean, where the doorways might be?" Luiz says, “We do indeed, we think it is right here! Assuming the writings are correct, the first doorway was in Atlantis at Math Mathonwy’s Cathedral. That doorway is now beneath the ocean and most-likely blocked by debris. Another of these doorways leads to Osorkon II’s temple in Tanis, Egypt and was used by the Atlantian elder wizards as their means of escape. </p><p></p><p>We believe that a third doorway leads to the Chateau de Dieppe in France and that a forth doorway leads to right here, San Mateo Hill, in Jacksonville, Florida. We think that the Atlantians originally used the gateway to bring the Timucuan servants to and from Atlantis. The French hetitics later used the same gateway to escape from religious persecution, making contact with the Timucuan in 1563 and establishing this colony. The French ships were later sent as a afterthought the following year to explain how the colonists got here through non-magical means, thus keeping the gateway a secret. </p><p></p><p>We believe that the majority of the French colonists used the gateway to escape the Spanish attack on the fortress in 1565. The seventy-five or so who were killed in the Spanish account would have been the brave souls who stayed behind to fight off the Spanish, to give the others time to escape, and then to hide the entrance to the gateway from the Spanish. The colonists who escaped did not return to France as they would have been killed as heretics. Instead, they traveled though one of the other gateways. They then spent a two-year period at this other location where they modified their appearances and created elaborate aliases, before eventually returning to France. </p><p></p><p>So in 1565 after the Spanish defeated the remaining French at Fort Caroline and renamed the Castillo de San Mateo, posting Spanish soldiers here. I’m also guessing as to the reason behind the counter-attack against the Spanish in 1568 by combined French and Timucuan forces. At that time all of the Spaniards were killed and the Fortress burnt to the ground. I believe that it may have been precipitated by the Spanish soldiers having finally discovered the entrance to the magical gate. The attack and destruction would have been to silence the Spanish before the discovery was investigated and reported. </p><p></p><p>James says, "We believe that the final time the gate was used was in 1595, by the Saturiwa themselves, to escape from the Spanish. We believe that the two families of Saturiwa who remained behind did so in order to cover and hide the entrance to the gateway." Alsoomse adds, "The cryptic message they left by these Seminole to pass on to non-Spanish seeking them out would have been for the Atlantians, if they ever returned." </p><p></p><p>Ruby states, "Wow, that is really... cool. Do you know where the gate is here? Or how we can find it? If it's still working we can travel all over the place!" James replies, Yes, we think that we have found the entrance to the gateway. We have no way of knowing that it works but there is no reason to suspect that it doesn't. After several weeks of digging at various spots throughout the plateau we reached a large flat rock around ten feet below that surface. The rock was twenty-feet in diameter and was protected by a very faint aura of hard-to-detect magic. Once Dr. Chernovtz was able to dispel the magic on the rock it shank to one-fifth its size. </p><p></p><p>We believe that the rock had been magically enlarged and then enshrouded with a permanency spell, used to block the passageway to the doorway. Beneath the rock was heavy stone and also thickly-packed dirt, The dirt was of a different shade than the rest of the gravel and sand on this site, with the odd-dirt taking up an area exactly twelve-feet in diameter, surrounded on all sides by thick finished stone. Digging further, we discovered that this was an elaborate dirt-filled stone tunnel, which continued diagonally downward into the ground at a steep thirty-degree angle. </p><p></p><p>Realizing that we need to keep prying eyes away, both outsiders as well as the students visiting here from Massachusetts, we built a structure over it. That structure is this very building. The four of us constructed a large windowless room around the tunnel entrance. We then had construction crews come in and build the remainder of the house around and above that room, but the construction crew members never saw inside the first room and we later put on the interior doorways to that room ourselves, with substantial locks on those door. That room is the Transportation and Logistics room. The tunnel entrance is directly beneath the large map table."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 4772019, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Twenty-one, “The French Connection” September 2nd, 1882, 1:30 P.M.[/B] James says, “Well, ours would have only been a theory without further evidence. An accidental discovery by Luiz less than a year ago was the definitive piece of evidence, and what prompted this current endeavor.” Doctor Chernovitz says, “The key to this discovery which became the basis of our theory occurred last winter when I was in France with my family. I was in a French bookstore and I stumbled across a one-of-a-kind book. It provided evidence of an alternate history about the Timucuan people and also solves the mystery of Fort Caroline. What I discovered is a history that both the Spanish and French governments have officially suppressed for over three centuries. I only discovered this now through a fluke, in that the book store owner had for sale several crates of books inherited from an estate sale. This book was unpublished, a one-of-a-kind personal journal, that had some very interesting prints in it.” Luiz, James, Sol and Alsoomse stand up and head over to a large cabinet and take out several large drawings of tattooed Native Americans that they place upon the easels (images below). Luiz states, “These are pictures of the Saturiwa tribe of the Timucuan people, copied and enlarged from prints within the book that I found. They were drawn by a French artist named Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. He made these during the year that he resided at Fort Caroline, which was the first French Colony in the United States. It was established right here on this very plateau in 1563, two years before the Spanish established their own colony at Saint Augustine and two years before they supposedly built the Castillo de San Mateo on this site." Luiz continues, "The founder of the French colony of Fort Caroline was a man named Jean Ribault, a noble from the French City of Dieppe. The city is in the Normandy region overlooking the English Channel. He and the other colonists had fled the Diepee region of France due to religious persecution. The 1560’s was one of the uglier times in the wars between Wizard and Clerical magics, and Ribualt’s group actually believed in both. Ribualt was the leader of a religious sect that believed that wizard magic as the gift from the Celtic deity Math Mathonwy, also known as Mathu, who rules over the realm of sorcery, magics and enchantment. One would think that the pro-wizard factions would have actually embraced a religion that believed in wizard magic. There is even evidence that the Atlanteans themselves first worship of this deity Math Mathonwy, as there is mention of it in Homer’s volume about the Atlantians that arcane magic is based upon. But instead of accepting this view, Ribault and his followers were deemed as anti-arcane heretics. In 1563, France’s King Charles IX commanded that all believers of Math Mathonwy were to be found and put to death. Given that decree it is not surprising that these heretics chose to flee. They left France and reached Florida, building their new colony right here where this house now stands.” Ruby asks, "Is that why their government wanted to hide the existence of the fort, because of Ribault's history as a supposed heretic?" James says, "Yes, exactly. Neither pro-wizard magic government, France or Spain, wished for there to be a public record of the French heretics and their religion. The French were here for two years. According to secret Spanish records, the true reason behind the Spanish expedition and colonization in 1565 was because the Spanish King discovered that they was a French colony here the lands claimed by Spain. Spain sought to force the French colonists away and to then establish a colony of their own in Florida, to strengthen the legitimacy of their claim. So the Spanish did not actually build the fortress of San Mateo here on this site. After they forced the French out they just renamed the fortress that had already been built by the French and the Saturiwa allies of the French. It took some effort on our part, but we discovered and read the Spanish accounts of the 1565 battle here in Florida with the French. The Spaniards claim that they had a great naval victory, managing to sink every one of the French vessels with the loss of most of the French soldiers and sailors on board, without loosing any of their own vessels. They then claim to have marched to the Fortress here and that they killed all but two dozen of the three-hundred colonists, only allowing the ones who renounced clerical magic to live. These survivors were kept as prisoner servants to the Spanish in their Saint Augustine colony and never allowed to return to Europe. The secret French accounts tell of a very different version of this story, the Spanish account having apparently been exaggerated by the Florida Provincial Governor Pedro Menendez de Aviles to impress his King. According to the French records, once Fort Caroline became aware of the newly established Spanish colony at Saint Augustine thirty miles to the south the French soldiers and sailors set off from here with all of their ships to attack the Spanish settlement. They left despite dire warnings from the Saturiwa leaders, who is seems knew something about weather prediction. As the French fleet neared Saint Augustine a massive hurricane struck and sank the entire fleet, killing the vast majority of the soldiers and sailors on board. The surviving French soldiers who actually managed to swim to shore were then easily captured and slain by the Spanish, with only a few young cabin boys being spared. With their French military protectors of the Fort now gone, the settlers of Fort Caroline were left unprotected from a Spanish counterattack. The French records are consistent with the Spanish account of the fortress falling quickly, with almost everyone present at the fort being slain. So, in addition to not wanting to promote the heritics, they also wouldn’t have wanted the clerical magic nations to know that the wizard magic nations were fighting amongst themselves. And lastly, one can also assume that since the monarchs of both nations were cousins they may have wanted to suppress this entire incident as nothing more than an internal family squabble." James continues, "But there remains several large inconsistencies to these stories. There is no evidence that any of the two dozen or so French prisoners of the Spaniards ever left Florida. But if that was the case, then how did this artist’s work and journal find its way back to France? If he had been a prisoner of the Spanish then his journal and sketchbook would have been confiscated and destroyed, yet here it is today. And even if he had managed to somehow hide it, you would think that he certainly would have mentioned having been captured by the Spanish. But all of the journal entries at Fort Caroline end in 1565 prior to the Spanish arrival, with no mention at all of the Spanish. Later entries in the journal were written in France and dated from 1567 until the late 1570’s, but it remains completely silent on the two years from 1565 until 1567. You could ask similar questions regarding the note in the other book from French physician about the Doctor from the Fortress whose descendents later lived in France, how did he return?. A third discrepancy concerns the official Spanish account claims that three-hundred French settlers were killed at the Fort. A written account by the Spanish officer in charge of the attack on the fort put the number at only around seventy-five. One could assume the smaller number to be correct, that the higher number was an exaggeration by the Spanish Governor. The higher account would match the maximum amount of people that could have made a single journey from French given the number and type of French ships. But the discrepancy that really gets interesting is a review of the listings of the names of the French heretics who fled persecution from the city of Dieppe France and all supposedly came to the Fort Caroline colony. That list shows that, combined with the sailors and soldiers, there would have been approximately 900 French people. That is around twice the number of the higher Spanish account, as well as twice what the ships would have been able to transport. Furthermore, some of the dates listed in Jacques Le Moyne de Morgue's journal at Fort Caroline begin in 1563. But the departure date of the French fleet was not until 1564. So how could the colony have been established here at a time when these heretics were just beginning to raise money to purchase the ships?" Luiz says, "And there is one other interesting coincidence that was recently discovered by my son, going through records in Dieppe, France. The physician whose fever remedy comes from Fort Caroline was one of a group of approximately 400 people who suddenly arrived in the French City of Dieppe in 1567. What is officially known of these new residents is they all spoke fluent French. They also had with then written evidence in the form of logs of the ships that brought them to the port city of Dieppe, but curiously, there were no witnesses to any ships having actually arrived and departed, or for that matter, to have ever existed. A separate note cites an unproven rumor that these newcomers were actually the former residents who had left for the New World three and four years earlier, and had then returned with new faces and names to escape persecution as heretics. " Nanuet spoke up from his spot at the back of the room. "James, I am sure all of this history is fascinating, but it is being lost on me. Perhaps it is because I lack a formal education. Whatever the reason I am not really comprehending all of these dates and the politics behind hiding journals or lying about the existence of forts and how that ties into us sitting here today." James says, "Nanuet, this background is to give you all of the puzzle pieces, we still have to put them together, towards discovering the secrets of Atlantis. One reason the heretics chose Dieppe as the main base of worship to begin with. Three thousand years ago this port of Dieppe was one of the main foreign ports used by the island Kingdom of Atlantis to trade with Europe. Chateau de Dieppe, an ancient fortress and castle within the city, was said to have been built upon the stone ruins of the place where the Atlantian aristocracy stayed while visiting there. And not so coincidentally, it was from that very same castle that the townspeople saw these 400 new residents suddenly emerge after being supposedly dropped off by ships that presumably docked near the Chateau. One other thing you have to take into account is that a common means of transportation for high-level wizards to day, teleportation, is a relatively new spell. It was only invented within the last century, originally created by the very same Society of French mages that I referenced yesterday. They devised the spell during their many attempts to rescue Napoleon Bonaparte from his exile on the remote Island of Saint Helena. The Atlantians therefore did not have access to a transport spell. Alsoomse says, “Homer’s writings tell of their being great sailors but there is no mention of them having any vessels of sufficient size to travel the ocean to distant continents with large numbers of passengers. But what we do find is a brief mention by Homer of what translates as a ‘Magical Octagonal Gate’, said to be at the Cathedral to Math Mathonwy in Atlantis. Scholars have traditionally thought that this meant only an eight-sized doorway with magical protections on it. Atlantian scholars haven’t found any further references to this magical gate in recognized writings.” James states, “A octagonal magical gate is mentioned in a twenty-three-century old writing by the chief scribe of the Egyptian Pharaoh Nectanebo II. This account has long since been discredited as fiction, as it also contains what has been deemed as a fanciful tale whereby Nectanebo II dons a magical disguise and then becomes the biological father of Alexander the Great. Dimensional gates themselves are not a new concept. Similar magical gates have been used for fourteen centuries, with the high-level Merlin’s Magnificent Mansion spell, which makes a doorway to an inter-dimensional multi-room building. Nectanebo II was the last ruler of Egypt to be known by the title Pharoah, in the 30th Dynasty. His rule ended some 2,250 years ago when Egypt was defeated by the Persian King Artaxerxes III. According to the scribe’s writings, Nectanebo II was also said to be a great wizard and sorceror and is rumored to have been trained by the Atlantians themselves. That rumor is also been generally discounted, as Necranebo II lived full half-millineia after the fall of Atlantis. Another of the same scribe’s writings explains this. It claims that a half-millinea before that writing, when Atlantis was sinking beneath the waves, the city’s elite wizards escaped the destruction. They did this by entering through an eight-walled diminensional portal, through a magical doorway that opened from Atlantis into Egypt. These wizards then became a new group of senior advisors to Pharaoh Osorkon II of the 22nd Dynasty in his capital city of Tanis. It is a documented fact that Osorkon II was the first Pharaoh to surround himself with a group of top foreign advisors, but the official writings claiming these advisors to be of Greek descent rather than Atlantian. The role of senior advisors to the Pharaoh continued from the 22nd until the 30th Dynasties, and these advisors passed down their positions to their own children. So if Osorkon II’s advisors were Atlatian wizards then Necranebo II could very well have been trained by the descendents of those Atlantian wizards. So Luiz and I launched this project upon the assumptions that the Saturiwa were a tribe of half-elves of mixed North American and Atlantian descent and that they worked as the servants to the Atlantians until the destruction of the island continent. With the destruction of Atlantis, the contact between the Saturiwa and their masters abruptly ceased, with those members of the tribe who were currently away under servitude contracts never returned and the annual payments ceased. The Timucuan had no way of knowing what had occurred. They waited generations for the return of their former benefactors. When the Europeans arrived, they were initially mistaken by the Saturiwa to be Atlantians, a misconception perpetuated by references that these Europeans made about having come from across the Atlantic Ocean. So our theory is rather far fetched, but here it is. We believe that the Magical Octagonal Gate of the Atlantians existed and continues to exist. We believe that this octagonal room is an inter-dimensional room with eight doorways that lead to eight different locations on the world." Ruby says, "Um, yeah, I sorta of agree with Nanuet, I'm not exactly the scholarly type to get all this. But... do you think you know where this gate is, I mean, where the doorways might be?" Luiz says, “We do indeed, we think it is right here! Assuming the writings are correct, the first doorway was in Atlantis at Math Mathonwy’s Cathedral. That doorway is now beneath the ocean and most-likely blocked by debris. Another of these doorways leads to Osorkon II’s temple in Tanis, Egypt and was used by the Atlantian elder wizards as their means of escape. We believe that a third doorway leads to the Chateau de Dieppe in France and that a forth doorway leads to right here, San Mateo Hill, in Jacksonville, Florida. We think that the Atlantians originally used the gateway to bring the Timucuan servants to and from Atlantis. The French hetitics later used the same gateway to escape from religious persecution, making contact with the Timucuan in 1563 and establishing this colony. The French ships were later sent as a afterthought the following year to explain how the colonists got here through non-magical means, thus keeping the gateway a secret. We believe that the majority of the French colonists used the gateway to escape the Spanish attack on the fortress in 1565. The seventy-five or so who were killed in the Spanish account would have been the brave souls who stayed behind to fight off the Spanish, to give the others time to escape, and then to hide the entrance to the gateway from the Spanish. The colonists who escaped did not return to France as they would have been killed as heretics. Instead, they traveled though one of the other gateways. They then spent a two-year period at this other location where they modified their appearances and created elaborate aliases, before eventually returning to France. So in 1565 after the Spanish defeated the remaining French at Fort Caroline and renamed the Castillo de San Mateo, posting Spanish soldiers here. I’m also guessing as to the reason behind the counter-attack against the Spanish in 1568 by combined French and Timucuan forces. At that time all of the Spaniards were killed and the Fortress burnt to the ground. I believe that it may have been precipitated by the Spanish soldiers having finally discovered the entrance to the magical gate. The attack and destruction would have been to silence the Spanish before the discovery was investigated and reported. James says, "We believe that the final time the gate was used was in 1595, by the Saturiwa themselves, to escape from the Spanish. We believe that the two families of Saturiwa who remained behind did so in order to cover and hide the entrance to the gateway." Alsoomse adds, "The cryptic message they left by these Seminole to pass on to non-Spanish seeking them out would have been for the Atlantians, if they ever returned." Ruby states, "Wow, that is really... cool. Do you know where the gate is here? Or how we can find it? If it's still working we can travel all over the place!" James replies, Yes, we think that we have found the entrance to the gateway. We have no way of knowing that it works but there is no reason to suspect that it doesn't. After several weeks of digging at various spots throughout the plateau we reached a large flat rock around ten feet below that surface. The rock was twenty-feet in diameter and was protected by a very faint aura of hard-to-detect magic. Once Dr. Chernovtz was able to dispel the magic on the rock it shank to one-fifth its size. We believe that the rock had been magically enlarged and then enshrouded with a permanency spell, used to block the passageway to the doorway. Beneath the rock was heavy stone and also thickly-packed dirt, The dirt was of a different shade than the rest of the gravel and sand on this site, with the odd-dirt taking up an area exactly twelve-feet in diameter, surrounded on all sides by thick finished stone. Digging further, we discovered that this was an elaborate dirt-filled stone tunnel, which continued diagonally downward into the ground at a steep thirty-degree angle. Realizing that we need to keep prying eyes away, both outsiders as well as the students visiting here from Massachusetts, we built a structure over it. That structure is this very building. The four of us constructed a large windowless room around the tunnel entrance. We then had construction crews come in and build the remainder of the house around and above that room, but the construction crew members never saw inside the first room and we later put on the interior doorways to that room ourselves, with substantial locks on those door. That room is the Transportation and Logistics room. The tunnel entrance is directly beneath the large map table." [/QUOTE]
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