Abram (No Supernatural Intervention)

Abram Ben-Terah (291 - 468 AM) was the father of the Abrami tribe. Originally of historic Ur Kashdim, he moved to the land of the Arami in the later days of his father's life. From there he would migrate through the land of the Paleshi into the land of the Mitsrai along the river Nile. Known as a man of principle, he was the first to call mankind to a belief in a creator god assumed to have been at the beginning of time two millennia earlier. His faith would be strengthened by Maleki-Tsedeq, the aged king of the city of Shalem in the land of the Paleshi. His tribe would come to be a dominant from the lands between the Great Rivers to the land of Mitsrai, especially in the desert of the Great Peninsula.

Early Life and family
Abram was a Semi, born in the city founded by Noakh's grandson Ur in the land of Kashdim 1948 years after the first humans appeared in the era of the Ancients. In the waning years of the third century after the Great Flood, Abram was named in honor of one regarded as a god among the people of Ur - the exalted father (Ab-Ram), Ur-p-Kashed. Ur had been born in 2 AM to Sem, the father of the greater tribe. In the days of grandson, in the consolidated region of Babylon under Nimrod the Chami, Ur had been a leader in the First Rebellion. Finding the land south of the "First City" to be almost as good, he had founded a city of his own. Having either learned or stolen the technology of Bab-El, the "gate of the Mighty One," Ur was able to establish a walled city in which he built a much smaller version of the "Mountain" of the Khami.

Within the first century of the new age, Noah and his sons had begun to be regarded as gods by the third generation, and by the fifth generation, around 150 AM, Noah's grandsons were also being considered gods as well! As the tribe had migrated to the plain, Noah's great-grandson proclaimed that his grandfather Kham was the last of the Ancients, and that a mountain should be built in the lowlands to honor him and the Mighty Ones from before the flood. Kham, by then 250 years old, concurred that he was indeed the last of the Mighty Ones - the "Elohim." Noah and Shem had rejected this idea, taking many of the clan up the river Euphrates when his son Cham began to accept worship. Others though, chose others unto which to bow. Ur, as chief among the rebels, had become one who began to accept worship as well.

As a descendant of Ur, Terah supervised the worship in the temple dedicated to him. The moon had become the symbol of the new age into which they had come, and so, it was the on all the banners proclaiming Ur to be among the Elohim. Terah raised his children, Haran, Nakhur, Ab-Ram, along with their half-sister Sari, as loyal worshipers of Ur (lit. "Light"). However, when Haran, the oldest, refused to bow to Ur when he made an appearance, Terah himself struck him down in the Mighty One's presence. Haran's son Lot was told that his father had died in service of Ur. Though this execution was not public knowledge, Terah soon grew uncomfortable serving in the temple, treating his ancestor as something other than a man. In the cover of night, he moved his extended family out of town up towards a settlement of the Arami on the Euphrates near the Sea.

Soon after they had moved, fearing that his sons might marry among the Arami, Terah had his remaining sons marry from within the family. Nakhur was paired with his own niece, Milcah (lit. Queen), while Ab-Ram was made to marry his half-sister Sari (lit. Princess). Whereas Milcah would go on to have eight children with Nakhur, Sari refused to ever have sexual relations with her brother. After establishing a shrine to Ur in their new home, Terah urged his children to encourage their new neighbors to honor their ancestor as one of the Elohim. Within a few years, though, Terah would die at the hands of his grandson Lot, who had learned of the earlier treachery.

When Abram confronted his nephew over the slaying, Lot told him of the true nature of Terah's religion. Together they agreed that Ur was not a Mighty One, but rather just a weak old man. They decided to leave the relative safety of Haran (meaning "of the Mountain," perhaps in reference to the Landing, and only coincidentally the same as their slain relative), and headed down into the lush Khami land of Palesit.

The Wonderers
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