So this is a list of the podcast episodes Shaffir listened as ones he particularly liked as he is now ending the show.
There's also direct links to 0-200 as a comment below Enjoi.
First 100:

37: The Nuthouse (Brody Stevens):

"Steven Brody Stevens stopped by Skeptic Tank Studios (my apartment) to share the details of his 17 day stay in the psyche ward at UCLA. It took us, like, 30 minutes to get into the topic, but eventually we did. We diverged a lot into a really cool discussion about perspective on life and how you can fall into a negative and self sabotaging way of thinking about things."

40: Prostitutti Frutti (Miss X):

An upscale prostitute came to the Skeptic Tank to share with us about her job. It was one of the most interesting conversations I've had in a very long time. She was open and honest and very friendly. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did.

50: Buddhism (Duncan Trussell):

Duncan Trussell and I shared a ride out to Brea, CA to do shows at the Brea Improv. Duncan has always been into Buddhism and I figured what better time to talk about modern Buddhism than on a ride to the Inland Empire. It was a really interesting talk and it completely enlightened me to the humongous differences between that and the Judeo-Christian religions in regards to daily life. Enjoy.

73: Love Scam (Sarah Tiana):

Sarah Tiana met me at the Comedy Store to talk about her crazy experience with love in the Middle East. It's sort of a sad story. We're comics, so it was still funny, but it was still really sad at the same time. So it averages out to sort of sad.

80: Chester the Molester (Dale Dudley):

"Dale Dudley came over to my hotel room in Austin, TX to shoot the shit and talk about his childhood molestation. It's way more fun than the subject matter. This is a really good, honest, and funny podcast. It's exactly what I envisioned when I started the Skeptic Tank."

79a: We Are Anonymous (Luke Harder, Star_Fawkes):

Luke Harder and Star_Fawkes met me at the Comedy Store to talk about Anonymous. It was a really enlightening conversation. I think we all got the wrong idea about these guys. This is one to spread around.

79b: We Are Anonymous:

@Anonyphant and @Star_Fawkes came back to the Comedy Store to finish off our conversation about Anonymous. It was a really interesting and enlightening conversations and one of my favorite podcasts I've done. They're not out to get us, you guys. They're here to help us. They are us. We are Anonymous.

92: Caddyshack (Greg Fitzsimmons, Steve Simeone, Greg's hyper dog):

Greg Fitzsimmons had me over to his garage to tell me about his days as a caddy. I had no idea any other comedian had ever worked on a golf course. It's a strange community and it was an enexpected treat to be able to talk about it.

99: Scrappy Doo w Greg Fitzsimmons:

Greg Fitzsimmons had me over to his garage to tell me how much he loves to fight. Not organized fights. Just fights. Just regular, two dudes don't know each other and then one is punching the other, fights. It's a pretty fun podcast. What he does in the car is hard for me to wrap my head around.

95: Childless (Dom Irrera):

Dom Irrera met me at the Laugh Factory to talk about not having children. Dom is one of the only guys I know who has gone through most of his life while avoiding parenthood and we talked all about what that's like. It was a great podcast with an amazing comedian. Twitter him at @DomIrrera.

100: Deliverance (Ryan O'Neill, Jeff Danis, George Saint Pierre, Nate Diaz, Ari Shaffir):

Jeff Danis and Ryan O'Neill came by my apartment to talk about their jobs as grocery delivery drivers. Oh my god, there were so many hilarious stories. They're both comedians from the Comedy Store and their job is so ridiculous. For delivery drivers, there's a shocking amount of talk about nipples and Down syndrome.

104: The Art of War with Greg Jackson and Kevin Christy:

Greg Jackson of Greg Jackson's MMA met me in a hotel room in Vegas a few hours before UFC 156. Greg has always asked me about standup comedy and how comics will handle different situations. After some time he told me why he was so interested. He sees similarities between all art forms. He tries to find universal truths that apply to many art forms so he can apply that knowledge to MMA fight theory. It's really fascinating stuff. We've been talking about this stuff for years now and it's so interesting to me. If, like me, you thought everyone associated with cage fighting were meatheads, you're about to get a beautiful reminder of how people from all walks of life can offer you growth and knowlege.

105: Going Blind (Tom Segura):

Tom Segura invited me to go to his new Barbie Malibu Beach House so we could talk about masturbating. Just two best bro dudes intimately talking about making their penises shoot out loads of semen. And then somewhere at the end we talked about drunk driving. I don't think we ever talked about masturbating while drunk driving but we should have at least brought it up, huh?

115: Heroin - Down In A Hole (Donovan Pee):

Donovan Pee met me in my hotel room in Vancouver to talk about Heroin. Donovan was a heavy heroin user and lived on the streets of one of the most drug addicted blocks in North America. He was involved with the drug for decades and has only recently gotten away from it. It's a fascinating look at the life and exactly the kind of thing I like for this podcast.

113: Lefty Liberty (Jimmy Dore):

Jimmy Dore came by my slop haven of an apartment to tell me the truth about politics. I've never been very political, but lately I've started to become increasingly angrier about how little representation the average citizen has. Jimmy was always into the leftist side of things and he did a great job of explaining the problems with how things are run. And Mat Edgar joins me for the intro and outro to talk about Shroomfest and to share a few extra stealing stories that he forgot to mention on "Klepto."

120: Shroomfest 2013 w Tony Hinchcliffe, Mat Edgar, Pete Cornacchione:

Tony Hinchcliffe, Mat Edgar, Pete Cornacchione, and I spent Shroomfest together this year. We drove out to Joshua Tree, ate some shrooms, and wandered out into the wilderness. And then we had, what I believe, is probably the first podcast recorded at Joshua Tree National Park.

122: Exspecially Cutting:@JustyDodge

Justy Dodge came over to my New York apartment on the hottest day of the summer. We talked about her various mental disorders but centered on cutting. Justy is a New York based standup who spent her teens in and out of rehab for self mutilation. It was a great conversation despite a couple of her white trash words slipping out.

123: You Know What Dad (Robert Kelly):

Robert Kelly invited me over to his beautiful Manhattan apartment so we could talk about becoming a father. He had his first son 45 days ago and we had a nice discussion about what it was like. It was nice for me to hear how a former degenerate like Robert could transform himself into the type of dad that won't get child services called on him.

124: Rape & Eggs (Kathleen McGee):

Kathleen McGee invited me over to the apartment she was staying in while we were in Winnipeg together and we talked about her rape. It's about as lighthearted a conversation as possible considering the subject matter. This is kind of what this podcast is all about. Stark, realistic views of the world told in funny ways. Enjoy.

133: Fuck the Government (Dave Smith):

Dave Smith came over to my apartment so we could talk about this growing disillusionment I'm experiencing with our federal government. Dave is a devout libertarian and he knows a lot more of the facts than I do, so we discussed a lot of where we've gone wrong and where our politicians and generals have betrayed the will of its people. Listen to it now, because when the revolution comes, downloading podcasts won't be easy.

134: Maniac (John F. O'Donnell):

John F O'Donnell met me in Bushwick to talk about his manic depressive disorder. He's gone off the deep end a few times in his life and we got into it all. How it started, what happens, how it's affected him. It was a fun podcast that only got interrupted a couple times by a gang of 8 year old handball punks.

141: Happiness (@SteveSimeone) by AriShaffir:

Steve Simeone invited me over to his place while I was in LA and we talked about happiness. It started off being a conversation about being broke, but it quickly shifted as it became evident that Steve's poverty level was no longer the main influence on his mood. We talked about girls, and about family, and about giganitic boobs. But at its base, it's just a couple of buddies hanging out.

142: Gender Bender (Lauren Hennessy):

Lauren Hennessy came over to my NY apartment to tell me about what it's like to be a he/she. Lauren is a boy trapped in a girl's body. He's been that way since he was born. And you think you had it tough. Don't worry, this didn't get too serious or sad. Just two dudes talking about one of the dude's vaginas.

151: Ass Burger (@AutisticThunder):

Josh Meyrowitz came over to my LA apartment to talk to Mat Edgar and me about asperger's syndrome. I've been hearing about it ever since I was little but I've never met anyone with it until Josh. He's a little different than they way it's usually portrayed on TV. Maybe that's the comic side of him. Anyway, fun conversations on an interesting condition.

152: The Streetz, USA (Doc Willis):

Doc Willis met me at the Comedy Store to talk about his days slinging rock on the streets of Detroit. That's right, when Doc was 14 (What? 14? Yes, 14) he was in a gang and sold drugs to make a living. We go into who his customers were, all the violence, what makes someone hard, and much, much more. It's a really good episode. Enjoy.

157: Divorce, of Course:

"Jacob Sirof and Sherry Sirof (nee East) each had me over to their places of residence to talk about the divorce that they're going through right now. First I went to Moshe Kasher's old place where Jacob is staying. Then a week later I went to their old apartment to talk to Sherry about the same topic. It's an interesting view into two sides of a disolution of the bond of marriage."

159: Thrilled (@TomSegura):

"Tom Segura had me over to his palatial beach house to do an in depth analysis of his first album, Thrilled. It was a hilarious album and I'm glad he was able to give an inside look at how the bits came to be, his delivery style, and the problems he has looking back at the album. We treat it kind of academically. It's something I'd like to see a lot more comics do in the future and I'm so happy Tom was willing to do it here. The standup will be hilarious and the analysis will be instructive."

169: Blacklanta with Big Jay Oakerson and Ms. Pat:

Ms. Pat joined me in a park in Brooklyn (maybe Park Slope? No, that seems wrong) to tell me about what it was like growing up in the hood in Atlanta. Spoiler alert: It was way different than how I grew up in the suburbs of Maryland. It's a story of teen pregnancies, gunshot wounds, and Jimmy Carter..

170: HIV for Victory w Jeff Scott:

"Jeff Scott had me over to his West Hollywood apartment to tell me the story of his HIV. How he got it, how he's managed to live with it for 30 years, how it's affected his life, how he's been treated by others, and about the friends he's lost. It's one of the most interesting podcasts I've done. You should share it with everybody."

173: Beijingaling (@DesBishop, @ComicDaveSmith):

Des Bishop met me in a park in Beijing to tell me all about China. Des is a comic from Ireland by way of New York and he moved to Beijing a couple of years ago to learn Mandarin to try to do standup for Chinese people. He came as an outsider and after almost 2 years there, he's made quite a few observations about the country and about Beijing in particular. What a cool thing about podcasts that I can record these with minimal effort on the other side of the planet. Dave Smith joins me for the intro and outro.

183: Popo (@MarkDemayo):

Mark Demayo came over to my apartment this week. We drank some beers and talked about his 20 years as a policeman in New York. It was a fun, open conversation. I asked him a ton of questions about what being a cop is like and Mark answered everything. Fun podcast.

197: Injection Protection (Morgan Black):

Morgan Black met me in my hotel room in Vancouver to talk about his job at Insite. Insite is the safe injection place on Hastings Street in Vancouver. It's a place in heroin alley where junkies can go to get clean needles and they can use those needls to shoot up in a place that's supervised by people like Morgan. He watches over them to make sure they don't overdose. If they begin to, it's up to him to try and save them. He's seen a lot since he's been there and he shares it here.

203: Prison Rules (Ali Siddiq)

Ali Siddiq met me at the Comedy Store to talk about prison. I always knew prison life was hard, but damn. I didn't know about all of this. Ali spent 6 years locked away with some of the most violent criminals in Texas. This is a great episode and really fun and interesting.

216: Tenement (Nick Mullen):

"Nick Mullen met me at my in New York to talk about his illegal living situation. Nick is a funny young comic who literally lives in tenement housing. We talked all about it and got into some existential stuff about comedy. And we took a fun walk around the Bowery to see his garbage neighborhood full of chuds."

219: Khob Khun Krap with Pete C:

"Pete Cornacchione and I sat down outside the airport in Chiang Mai, Thailand to talk about all the things we saw out there. We did so much that we couldn't even fit it into one episode. So we just talked about mainland Thailand. Phuket, Bangkok, and Chiang Mai. Man, did we do a crapload of stuff. Join us on our podcast..."

223: Palsy with Davey Wester:

Davey Wester trekked his way across Manhattan to my apartment to talk to me about his cerebral palsy. Davey is a Comedy Store comic from way back. We've had a couple CP comics there over the years and this is actually the first time I really talked to any of them about the condition. Surprisingly fun discussion based on the topic. And some good Gallagher stuff. Ian Edwards and Zara Mizrahi join me from Bonnaroo for the introduction.

224: Take Me Out To The Ball Game (@PaulMorrissey):

Paul Morrissey and I went to a Yankee game to talk about baseball. We got seats right behind the visitor's bullpen and we did a podcast from right there. We started on the walk to the subway, continued on the train a little, got lost some, got inside, met some Jews, had a dog, met some more people, and watched some more baseball. It was a great day.

227: The Herp (@JoeListComedy):

"Joe List met me in Central Park on a beautiful summer day to have a wonderful talk about herpes. Joe's got it. He's open about it. And he answered everything you wanted to know abou tit. If you already have it, you'll relate. If you are going to get it soon, this will help you when you get unlucky. If you never get it. Congrats. Let's bone."

235: First Responder; A 9/11 Story (Cris Italia):

9/11 was a terrible day in American history. This is one story of the many stories of that day. Cris Italia was a volunteer EMT and was around the corner when the first plane hit. By the time the second plane hit, he was already at ground zero, helping. It's a heartbreaking story of what happened to one man the day America stopped being invincible.

256: Take a Hike (@TheoVon):

Theo Von met me at a secret hike in LA to do a walking podcast about hiking. Theo's a hilarious comic but he's also hiked Mount Kilimanjaro. I climb hills, bro. Hills. He climbed a giant mountain. It was a fun talk and it really puts you in the place where we were. I love these "on-location" podcasts.

257: Money For Nothing (2 anonymous defense contractors):

"Two US Army defense contractors met me in a secret location in America to discuss what it's like to go work for the government on foreign soils. They both work as contractors in stations all over the world and they gave a first hand account of how much waste goes into our imperialism. It was an interesting look into the life of a hired grunt in the middle of a war zone."

262 Cleavage Day @Gary Vider:

"Gary Vider met me in Central Park to walk around and gawk at women for Cleavage Day. Cleavage Day is the first weekend day over 70 degrees in New York. It takes place in every city that has a real winter. It's that magical day when all the skin comes out of hiding. Women are showing cleavage and legs and stomach left and right. It's just a magical time to be a heterosexual man or a homosexual woman. So come join us on our bosomy adventure in New York."

265: Knife Hits in Alaska (@DanSoder):

"Dan Soder came over to my place to tell me all about the summer he spent working in a cannery in Alaska. The people he worked with were straight deigns without even realizing it. This might be the best summer job of all time."

270: NY Pizza Party (@NotAlexis):

Alexis Guerreros took me on a pizza tour of New York. He's a standup comic but he runs these tours for extra cash and he took me on one, showing me his favorite of 3 different styles of pizza. Pizza and New York have a storied connection and Alexis explained how that all came up, the deal with 1 dollar slices, and even where pizza originated. It's an on location style podcast through the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Join us for a delicious slice. "

276: "Running" Of The Bulls (@KaiHumphries, @MiloComedy, @Daniel_Sloss):

Kai Humphries, Milo McCabe, and Daniel Sloss met me at the Abattoir comedian's bar in Edinburgh, Scotland to tell me their harrowing tale of cheating death at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. This was a super fun story! You gotta go to arithegreat.com for this one to look at the pictures. They're CRAZY. Guest appearances by random comedy people trying to distract us with booze."

277: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost (@HenryRollins):

Henry Rollins met me in a hotel cafe in Edinburgh, Scotland to talk about travel. Henry goes all over the globe. He really likes to get off the beaten path and explore new places. I thought I liked seeing things, but Rollins takes it to a whole new level. He goes places I've never even heard of, met people I didn't know existed, done things I'd be too scared to do. It was such a fun conversation and it filled me with wanderlust.

281: The Reyk (@AriEldjarn):

Ari Eldjarn and I drove around in Iceland and did a podcast about that beautiful country while we did. Ari is a comedian in Reykjavik. One of the first comedians, to be more precise. He and I hung out for 3 days while I was there and so we got on the mics in his car and I just asked him questions about his country for a while. It's one of those road trip episodes I do sometimes. So, come sit in the back, don't interrupt us, and eavesdrop on our conversation.

282: Aunt Flo (@Aiapalucci, @Stollemcache, @AmberSmelson):

Amber Nelson, Sarah Tollemache, and Adrian Iapalucci came to my apartment to tell me about periods. And I mean all about it. About the blood flow, about PMS, about cramps, about period diarrhea, all of it. It's for sure gonna make some dudes feel uncomfortable, but it was really interesting to me. But I eat my own boogers, so maybe I'm not the best judge of what's too much. Either way, it was a really funny conversation with three comics on the subject of menses.

284: #BertIsFat (@BertKreischer):

Bert Kreischer came to my apartment while he was in New York and we talked about who was fatter; him or Tom Segura. Bert made some solid cases for his side of things but most of those cases were made with a full chicken wing in between his two front teeth, so grain of salt I guess.

288: Death of a Salesman (@TimJDillon):

Tim Dillon came to my apartment to tell me about his former life in sales. He's sold everything. From mortgages to office equipment to a history of New York. Tim has hilarious stories about all of it. Fun, fun, fun podcast.

289 Tales of a Teenage Bedwetter w Mark Normand:

Mark Normand invited me to his brand new apartment to do a podcast about bedwetting. Mark and I were both very late bedwetters. So we got together and talked about what it's like to be 14 and still pissing on yourself every night. All the plastic sheets, the fear of sleepovers, what our moms had to go through. God, it was embarrassing.

290 Cave Man with John Spies:

John Spies sat down with me on the deck of the Cave Lodge in Soppong to tell me all about cave exploration and the unique life that he's built in northern Thailand. The man has lived an amazing life. And this pit stop on his way from Australia to Europe has now lasted over a quarter century.

292: Cleavage Day 2017 with Legion of Skanks:

The entire Legion of Skanks came with me on an ogling walk around Manhattan during my 2nd favorite* holiday of the year, Cleavange Day. Dave Smith, Luis J Gomez, Big Jay Oakerson and I walked as a group around the city, enjoying the rewards of the first warm day of the year. It was such a fun day! So join us on a wonderful adventure.

294 Je Zu Tin Ba De w Ryan Nanni and William Childress:

"William Childress (skip to 53:30) had me over to his homestay in Siem Reap, Cambodia to talk about Myanmar. He lived there for years. And it was the first place I went on my travels this year. So I finished seeing a temple near Angkor Wat and went to visit him so we could talk about one of my favorite countries in the world. Myanmar is amazing. See it before it gets ruined by globalism. Also, I went kind of nuts on the intro and outro. And then stay tuned after the outro because I also included a conversation I had with a 17 year old Burmese girl I met out there at a restaurant outside Inle Lake. This might be my fullest podcast ever."

298 Vagabonder w Rolf Potts:

Rolf Potts met me in Tompkins Square Park to talk to me about travel. Rolf wrote one of my favorite books of all time called Vagabonding. It's all about long term travel. It influenced the hell out of me. And I was so stoked to be able to talk about getting out there in the world with such a well worn traveler like him.

320: Take My Wife Please - Aubrey Marcus:

"Aubrey Marcus came over to my apartment and we had a really in depth discussion about open relationships. Aubrey is the most honest person I've ever met on the subject. He has truly looked inwards and examined all the angles. It's a really great discussion on the topic."

321: Let My People Go:

"Ari Shaffir comes to my apartment to tell you about Passover. All of it. Not just what you're supposed to do, but also where the holiday comes from, all the laws, the seder, what matzah tastes like. Everything. It's probably the best I've ever been in terms of not interrupting the guest. I still managed to do it a few times, but way less than normal."

323: Mitzi:

Mitzi Shore came into my life in my first 3 months of standup. I spent the next 10 years getting close with the owner of the Comedy Store. She passed away earlier this month. And I took the opportunity to share, but really to relive all the things I learned from her and all the times we had, good and terrible. She was a massive part of my development as a comedian. The most important part, really. So it's really unsettling having her gone for good. Join me as I come to terms with what Mitzi meant to me.

347: Hot tub time machine (@BertKreischer, @SteveRannazzisi, @DanishAndOneill, @MarkNorm):

Bert Kreischer, Steve Rannazzisi, Ryan O'Neill and I sat in a hot tub in Park City and talked about the past. It was the first night of a week of skiing and storytelling shows and oh what fun it was. Mark Normand joined us a couple days later and after we all got home, he and I did the intro from the Comedy Cellar in NY. It was a fun podcast and probably the least clothed 4 way podcast I've ever done. Just sitting in a jacuzzi in Utah, talking shit.

353: Modern Hippie (@Tim Ferriss):

"Tim Ferriss met me in Austin to talk about travel and art and nature and love. He's a hippie. He's what the new version of a hippie is."

361: Spange (Tall Boy):

A homeless non-binary person let me sit with her and talk about what it's like to live on the street and beg for change. Spange is a homeless term that means spare change. I think it's a verb. Anyway, that's what Tall Boy does. Spange for food money. It was interesting to hear some actual humanity from people we often see as invisible.

365: The Revolution w Adbuster Editor in Chief Kalle Lasn:

"Adbusters Editor in Chief, Kalle Lasn met me in his office at the magazine to talk to me about the revolution. I see it going down only with violence but he is far more hopeful about the ways in which we're going to change the systems in place. He's a brilliant man and it was such a treat to get to sit down with him and hear him say out loud some of the ideas he's been putting forth in Adbusters."

369: The Podfather - Brian Redban:

Brian Redban took me into his new podcast studio to talk about the early days of the podcast scene in Los Angeles. When everything was guerrilla. When it was fresh and new and nobody knew what it was gonna turn into. It was such a crazy time and Redban was right there helping form the scene. From the Joe Rogan podcast, to mine, to Segura's, and lots more, he helped build the scene from the ground up. We talked about what it was like, what podcasts have turned into, and where it's going now...

370: Troll (Milo Yiannopoulos):

Milo Yiannopoulos came over to my apartment to have one of my favorite talks ever on this podcast. It's a talk about trolling. Milo is one of the best in the world at it. This is gonna take you a week to listen to. The intro goes for 57 minutes alone. You can skip it if you want, but it's 53 minutes of content that you'll be missing about my own start in trolling. Trolls are the most maligned and misunderstood of all the world's artist. And I don't use the term "artist" lightly. Trolling is an art form. I've been looking forward to this episode for months now. And you're going to love it or ABSOLUTELY HATE IT. I hope you're the former. But if you're the latter, then we got you. You've been trolled. pWn3d.

372: ‘Roid Range (Mike Cannon):

Mike Cannon met me at Gas Digital to tell me about his old days as a total meathead who legit took steroids. I'm not even kidding. You can't believe how much of an idiot this guy was. He's normal now, but he was a juice head moron back in the day. We also talked a lot about our mutual love for underground back room poker games

405: War Stories (Jake Hanrahan):

Jake Hanrahan talked to me about conflict reporting. He goes to war zones and tries to bring back word of what's actually going on in these areas. It's crazy. He brings back tons of footage. Look at PopularFront.co and you'll see what I'm talking about. He's not even welcome in a lot of these places. Once they put him in a Turkish prison! Really interesting stuff in this one. You gotta excuse the sound a little...

407: Obsessive compulsive with Eli Sears:

Eli Sairs came over to talk to me about his OCD. He's got it bad. And it's all wrapped up with Jesus, too, which makes it even harder to deal with. The levels this guy has to go through just to make through basic life stuff is astounding. I bet he eats box really thoroughly, though. Didn't ask him about that. I wish I had.

408: The Lady With A Giant Hog (Margo Reiss @Margo_A_GoGo):

Margo Reiss came over and let me ask her all about transsexuality. I mean, super cool about it. Let me just ask anything I didn't understand and she explained what it was like to me. We got into why to chop it off or not, the bar scene, Katelyn Jenner, how hard we like to fuck, some history, and a bunch more. God, I wish you could talk to people in real life this way. We'd be so much better off as a society.

415: Baby Skeletons w/ Adrienne Iapalucci:

"We’re trying something different this week. I, Ari Shaffir, am bringing you an entire album of one of my favorite comedians in the world. For free."

438: Six Months Of Hating Men with Annie Lederman:

Annie Lederman tells me about her time as a man-hater. Annie has come out of it since then but she recounts the way she got caught up in a world of despising an entire gender and how she was able to extricate herself from that way of thinking.

and he includes the final episode

519: Talk Talk with Ron Bennington

"Ron Bennington joins me on today's episode to talk about interview style and his series Unmasked. Ron is someone whose style of interviewing I've always admired, it seemed fitting to have him on this episode."

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4. Visit the captivating ruins of Finchale Priory, nestled on the banks of the River Wear. Discover the tranquil beauty of this medieval monastery and soak in the peaceful atmosphere of its picturesque surroundings.

• Embracing Natural Splendor:

1. Immerse yourself in the breathtaking landscapes of the Durham Dales, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Explore the rugged beauty of High Force, one of England's most spectacular waterfalls, cascading into a deep gorge.
2. Take a leisurely stroll along the banks of the River Wear, where you can admire the scenic beauty of Durham's riverside walks and picturesque bridges.
3. Venture into the expansive beauty of the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with its rolling hills, heather moorland, and charming villages. Discover hidden trails, ancient stone circles, and abundant wildlife.
4. Indulge in outdoor activities at Hamsterley Forest, a sprawling woodland offering picturesque walking and cycling trails, enchanting picnic spots, and a treetop adventure course.

• Exploring Charming Towns and Villages:

1. Wander through the winding streets of Durham City, with its cobbled alleys, independent shops, and charming cafes. Admire the riverside views and soak in the vibrant atmosphere of this historic city.
2. Discover the medieval market town of Barnard Castle, home to a magnificent fortress perched above the River Tees. Explore its quaint streets, antique shops, and visit the Bowes Museum, housing a remarkable collection of art and artifacts.
3. Experience the idyllic village of Blanchland, nestled within the North Pennines. Admire its picturesque stone buildings, cozy pubs, and enjoy peaceful walks amidst its scenic surroundings.
4. Immerse yourself in the cultural ambiance of Bishop Auckland, a vibrant town with a rich heritage. Visit the majestic Auckland Castle, discover local art at The Mining Art Gallery, and explore the wonders of the Kynren outdoor live show.

Durham awaits your exploration, offering a harmonious blend of history and natural beauty. Whether you're captivated by the awe-inspiring Durham Cathedral, enchanted by the tranquil landscapes of the Durham Dales, or charmed by the picturesque towns and villages, Durham promises a journey filled with wonder and discovery. Unveil its treasures, immerse yourself in its stories, and create memories that will last a lifetime in this captivating English county.
UPCOMING POSTS:

• Wrexham: Discover the Beauty of Wales' Historic Border County
• Enchanting Kent: Heritage and Natural Splendor
• Unveiling West Lothian

May SPOIL, you've been warned.
FROM is a game between an accused witch and a Beothuk demon, recreating an event during the Age of Exploration by John Cabot's lost expedition of 1498.
The Origin Event:
Cabot was the first of three medieval European explorers to reach mainland North America before 1506. More on the other two later.
Three ships arriving / 1506, Tabitha's dream's earliest date.
Cabot’s disappeared ship (The Matthew - hint hint) is marooned at its destination: Newfoundland. The explorers shelter in the Vinland Viking ruins remaining there (The church lodge and stone circle). They land in Boyd’s Cove (hint hint - the main site where archaeologists found the remains of a Beothuk settlement). Coincidentally (or perhaps not) the show is filmed very near to Newfoundland.
Newfoundland is home to the Beothuk people, who tragically all passed away by the 1800s. The Beothuk painted themselves in red ochres (thought to be the origin of the offensive term, Red Indians), as with the red stick figures in the cave paintings. The explorers wear contemporaneous Tudor clothing with ruffs, like Ellis’s mysterious painting.
Red stick figures / Tudors holding blankets.
A woman there gives birth to a son (mirrored by Fatima's pregnancy). As things get worse, this woman is accused of being a Witch at the explorer’s camp. Inquisition-era fear of witches was common, and an Augustinian Friar came with Cabot as a missionary. Most Inquisitors were Friars.
Witch depictions and hints / Middle-aged Lady in Gray.
The witch is imprisoned in a cave while crows circle above.
Trapezoidal structure: The Witch's prison where Boyd found the talismans / An adult and child.
Historically, it is undeniable that the Beothuk people suffered atrocities at the hands of future settlers, and in similar fashion, the explorers may have attacked and tried to convert them (no bibles in Fromland).
Starvation begins as Winter approaches, just as Fromland does in Season 2, with the food shortage and the trees changing. Mutineers and blasphemers have their tongues cut out. The explorers turn to cannibalism, and the tongues are cooked in a stew (Toby’s tongue, Kevin’s tongue). The Witch would experience a brutal trial, that would involve a "drowning test" in a lake.
These may also be worms cooked in desperation.
Later, the explorers finish repairing their ships, and sail away with the Witch's son, leaving her behind to burn (see burning skeleton). The Italian, Cabot, leaves behind the Italian game of Tarocchi, the only card game to exist in that era. In despair, the Witch calls out to any Gods who will listen. She is answered by the devil of the Beothuk (a Man in Black).
The Witch makes a bet with him over a game for the return of her son. A segment of the coastline, including the ships are sucked into Fromland (or the Spiritworld) to play, taking the first of Fromland’s victims.
The Mythos:
The long extinct Beothuk religion is only known from a few fragments of text. The key aspects are worship of the Moon, the Sun, fear of a devilish Man in Black and a Sea Monster, a Spirit World, and birds that carry the souls of the dead. Only a few hundred Beothuk words are known. The word for tree in Beothuk is “Annoouee” and some native american languages insert a K to pluralise words. “Annkoouee” means “the trees”.
The Man in Black has a “Sea Monster” which the showrunners represent as a native Newfoundland Lion’s Mane Jellyfish, which are red in colour. The location where the Viking ruins were found is called L'Anse-aux-Méduses - Jellyfish Cove.
Lion's Mane Jellyfish / Church stain / Red creature painting / Beothuk talismans, From symbol & gamepiece / Church door scratches / Cave painting symbol.
The Game
This deal/bet between the Witch and the Beothuk gods involves a game using Tarot cards, but one with invented rules. Every person who enters is assigned a Tarot card to represent, resulting in 78 people/cards .
Meagan's card game / Jade flashing a pack of cards for no reason / a person trapped in a card / the cards laid out and the people they represent.
More card game hints.
The Players:
The game of Tarocchi requires two teams and four players, so the son is divided in two, creating a Moon twin (Boy in White, two dogs on the moon Tarot card) and a Sun twin. Each player is represented by an animal (moon=crows, sun=rats, demon=worms, witch=spiders). The rats eating the crow in the caves shows the two sides at war.
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Smaller wheels = Twin sons / Large wheel = Mother witch / Ribbons = Demon & Seamonster. The sculpture is an obvious clue.
CLUE highlighted here by book called CRUMBS. Left to Right: Cables = Demon & Sea Monster / Pink Witch Scarf = Mother / Black & White headphones = Moon & Sun Twins.
The “Witch” is kept from her son(s), (“I want to see my son!” Mr Tien, hearing voices in episode 1).
Witch in PINK vs Demon in BLACK / YELLOW light (Sun - trapped underground), dimmed WHITE light (Moon - above, free to roam).
The Rules:
The two teams take turns picking people from the real world who are about to die: drunk driver, (Jade, Donna), distracted driver (Matthews fam, Boyd fam), suicide (Khatri), or disease (Tilly). Common link - origins of their anchors, and feeling regret.
Black pincers picking cars off the road.
This game is played on a game-board (see chequered shirts and floors everywhere, chess board references).
Both Witch and Devil influence Fromily using voices and visions. They are also able to possess and control people with their respective animals (Four types of Monster).
The Witch influences Jade (and later, Sarah, with the "different" woman's voice). The Devil influences Boyd (see Boyd dousing his torch pointed down, and the chained man on the devil’s tarot card). He talks with him in the form of Khatri in a black cardigan, who contradicts his old self, encourages Boyd to lie and protect Sara, and smiles and when Boyd is about to succumb. Tabitha is being contacted by the dead children in white, who are telling her they live in the trees.
Fromily have lost items from their past that are anchoring/tethering them there (see Kristi’s rock, the anchors on the talismans, the wall in the church and Martin’s tattoo). Tabitha’s might be the cave dress, Jim’s is the bracelet.
Anchors (p.s. can you see the jellyfish beside the top anchor?).
In order to escape (EXIT) Fromland and end the game, Fromily must collect their anchors and defeat their reverse tarot counterparts. It is a race between the two to escape.
The wiring was adjusted to look like this by the set designer at some point during Season 1.
The Monsters:
All of the Monsters we have seen so far are possessed by the moon-crows because the moon side is winning. Martin was a devil-worm posessed Monster the sun-side had captured (see the sun-shaped winch), and Boyd was sent there to free him because the Boy in White is bad. The monsters souls return to Moon-Crows during the day to spy, when they "sleep". We never see crows at night.
The Points:
The moon team seem to collect points by causing fear and pain (walking away from Randall), filling the "Lake of Tears". The sun team collects points from hope, courage and other positive emotions and behaviours.
Donna: "Fear is something that lives inside us, just like hope, or joy, or love". Based on the disembowling, and hinted upcoming autopsy, there may be something more to this.
There are many clothes and items with blue, yellow, pink/red, or black/gray (Abby's shooting scene).
SUITCASES: Mother and her twin boys / CURTAINS: their colour-coding (Moon = Blue, Sun = Yellow, Witch = Pink).
People's reactions code them with a colour, and in certain scenes everyone wears blue in particular, such as fear when they see Sara and Kenny (below).
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Or when fear makes them turn on each other over food (see the scene above). When they act heroically, they often wear yellow (see Boyd and Ethan on walkabout). Red may mean hope.
Victor’s Timeline:
Victor has suggested he experiences a pause in the game (1978-2018) after someone betrayed the townsfolk to the monsters, and revealed all their hiding places. There are two suspects – Victor’s mother, who knew the exact night for Victor to hide somewhere new, or Christopher, who stopped smiling and was seeing the symbol.
Victor, his mother and Christopher were kept alive by the sympathetic witch (just look at the stars). Just like the witch made a deal to save her son, Victor’s mother made her own deal with the Man in Black. She agreed to betray everyone if he would delay taking his next turn and let her son live a full life (40 years).
The Boy in White kept Victor alive, as agreed, until he could fend for himself - confusing Victor about the boy's motives. Christopher survived thanks to the Witch and went to live in the Lighthouse - he is the Radio Voice.
Victor’s mother’s deal has now expired, and the game continues.
Time travel
The is ANOTHER town in a mirror version of Fromland (see mirrored talisman, Boyd and the Seductress Monster's mirrors). It is simultaneously occurring in a Civil War era timeline. This town is populated with their reverse Tarot counterparts (The Black Crook - 1866 [first US balley / about a deal with the devil], Civil War soldier -1864). It is deep underground (the spiral in the corner of Victor's map), and upsidedown (like the opening credits). Alternatively, the two time zones are two circles, joined at the edges by Martin's Prison, like the infinity cave symbol.
Side Note:
The expeditions of the Corte-Real brothers who disappeared on their way to Newfoundland in 1501 and 1502 respectively are the real villains, arriving later and then taking power from Cabot (a historic letter confirms they kidnapped 57 Beothuk before they went missing). They arrive together - represented by the two crashed cars in both Victor's time, and the Matthews' time, and the two additional ships in the cave painting.
Sara’s voices blame the people in the two cars for everyone dying - a hint at the origin story of the brothers’ two ships. This aligns with Beothuk legend that the first explorers to arrive in Newfoundland were good, and the second set bad.
The Cards:
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I have many more of these, but Reddit only allows 20 images.
The Fool – Boyd (follows dog, always carries things in bundles, even when the bag has handles)
The Magician – Ethan (wizard's staff)
The High Priestess – Tabitha (hands Khatri a copy of the bible, has visions)
The Empress – Juli (has giant hearts on her sweater in episode 7 promo)
The Emperor – Nathan (two goats)
The Heirophant – Father Khatri (religious figure, always wears open grey cardigans, seen between grey pillars/stones, church has three crosses stacked like the tarot symbol)
The Lovers – Ellis and Fatima (Garden of Eden tapestry, never far apart)
The Chariot – Bakta (Coach Driver)
Strength – Jade (Cat shirt, carries radio cables bent into shape of infinity symbol, perseverance)
The Hermit – Victor (lived alone, carries a torch in key scenes)
The Wheel of Fortune – Elgin (Name of famous watchmaker, and has prophetic dreams. Owls signify prophecy).
Justice – Unknown, Tom the barman, or Meagan's Dad.
The Hanged Man – Jim (seen around rope, halfway up trees, and seen hanging upside-down)
Death – Bing-Qian Liu (Always wears black, king, bishop and knight are chess pieces, he says “(k)night scary”.)
Temperance – Tilly (Pouring/holding two cups and wearing triangles, several scenes)
The Devil – The demon (Boyd douses torch pointed down, Martin in chains)
The Tower – the radio voice in the lighthouse. Theory: he's Christopher, who can control the weather from there (see rain and lightning on card).
The Star – The Witch (twinkle twinkle). Theory: she's Donna in secret — big role but no Tarot references, longest there other than Victor, photo with her "sister" (stole her story) has corner mysteriously ripped (to hide young Victor), photo could be taken in Fromland, gives spider related-dreamcatcher to Fatima. She may have cared for Victor all these years and taken Victor's memories.
The Moon – Boy in White (note the two dogs on the moon card)
The Sun – sun-child (unknown, likely trapped elsewhere)
Judgment – Sara (must be judged for her crimes)
The World – Martin (Circle cut into his arm)
Knight of Swords – Randall (impulsive, headstrong)
Five of Cups – Mrs Liu (cross around neck)
Two of Cups – Kristi (Caduceus symbol, heart stone, holds two cups)
Two of Wands – Kenny (holds mini-globe)
Three of Pentacles – Dale (triangle necklace, poor work ethic, apathy, no motivation)
Reverse Tarot:
The World – Ballerina (Dancer). Origin - The Black Crook - 1866 [Greatest US balley / First US musical / about a deal with the devil],
Strength – Civil War Soldier (1864ish)
More to come in later episodes.
Unresolved questions:
Why a ballerina? The World card also features a dancer, so the ballerina is Martin's dark/mirror equivalent (reversed tarot card), ready to possess him. The music box is their shared anchor. All the other characters will have a reverse self, sharing their tarot's signs and anchors.
Why the USA? Cabot came to claim new land for England and Henry VII - a loose understanding of what this land would become assigned to the USA. Alternatively, the “game” could have evolved later in a yet to be revealed way, e.g. the Jamestown colony, which the next date aligns with, made the Beothuk deities switch their attention.
What’s with the spiders? It is a natural phenomenon where spiders climb into the trees to escape floods, covering them in webs. This is a foreshadowing of an upcoming flood. Also - the Witch's animal is a spider.
What's with the trees? There is a giant tree in the top-right of Victor's Peach Truck Map. Victor says the faraway trees are temperamental and the other trees are moving closer. It's pretty clear the Boy in White knows where trees will send people. If I had to guess, the faraway trees are alternately controlled by the players. Trees contain the souls of the dead, including the Children in White, and they are getting crowded closer as more and more people die.
Why 1950s themes? The Monsters have been possessed by the moon-crows since the 1950s, and kept "alive" until now. We can presume perhaps that the Deities that rule Fromland periodically update the town based on an unknown quantity that is yet to be revealed. Perhaps, they are playing a best of five, and 1950's was the time when the last round ended, and this one began.
Why is the show called FROM?
I can't help but feel that the showrunners care deeply about the true story of North America, correcting the myth of Columbus's "discovery" with the story of the Vinland ruins, the Beothuk and Cabot in one fell-swoop.
Columbus never set foot in North America, nor sailed its shores. So he hardly should be celebrated by those who live there, even for those who prefer to disregard Columbus's atrocities against the Taino and Arawak.
Cabot was the true European "discoverer" of North America, and he's a far better man than Columbus. And I think in telling his story and that of the Beothuk — the show is telling Americans to ask themselves...where are you really FROM?
P.s. we've long known that a bunch of nameless fishermen from Bristol discovered Newfoundland first. But I'll leave that to the footnotes of history.
If you made it this far, THANKS FOR READING! I am probably very wrong, but that's my best attempt at stitching together all the clues in the show. No worries if you disagree, it's just for fun. If you liked it, I'd love to hear your opinions or things I may have missed.
^{Written as of S2E6, Last edit - Jun 4th 2023.}

With Archaon and Ghazghkull having Secret Lair cards of previously existing Legendaries I thought I’d try and do the same for each of the Primarchs. I’m aware they’d have to have Primarch in the creature type like Magnus and Mortarion but I thought it’d be fun nonetheless.
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1. Lion El’Johnson - Rafiq of the Many. The main reason being he’s a knight that hits hard and his whole isolation and being independent fits well with Exalted. Bant colours aren’t perfect but can work
2. X
3. Fulgrim - Killian, Ink Duelist/Elbrus, the Binding Blade. Fulgrim was the only Primarch I had trouble with and while Elbrus works for the Laser Blade it can’t be a commander. I went with Killian (Flavour text works replacing Dean with Emperor) as a Voltron focused WB deck worked well with Fulgrim. Open to other suggestions, however.
4. Perturabo - Graaz, Unstoppable Juggernaut. He’s the siege guy so I couldn’t really see much else fitting. Colourless also seems fitting.
5. Jaghati Khan - Urabrask the Hidden. Makes your things fast and your opponent's things slower. Pretty straightforward
6. Leman Russ - Wulfgar of Icewind Dale. He’s a Gruel barbarian with melee who makes your whole team hit harder.
7. Rogal Dorn - Doran, the Siege ToweArcades, the Strategist. I feel Doran fits better colour-wise but Dorn had to be a toughness matters style deck. Arcades works better for the duality with Perty
8. Konrad Curze- Vela the Night-Clad. Giving your creatures Intimidate is the closest thing to giving them all Fear. Marrow-Gnawer felt too narrow.
9. Sanguinius - Gisela, blade of Goldnight/Aurelia, the Warleader. RW Angel that hits hard. Take your pick
10. Ferrus Manus- Chishiro, the Shattered Blade. The Iron Hands are all about upgrading the flesh so a commander focused on buffing modified creatures felt the best fit despite the colours.
11. X
12. Angron - Moraug, Fury of Akoum. Mono-red extra combats. World Eaters incarnate.
13. Roboute Guilliman- Grand Arbiter Augustin IV. He had to Azorius and Arbiter felt like the closest thing to a bureaucrat commander we have. Plus making everyone pay their "taxes" seems too fitting.
14. Mortarion - N/A
15. Magnus - N/A
16. Horus - Tazri, Beacon of Unity. Horus had to be 5c and Tazri feels right thematically as: Cleric=Lorgar, Magnus=Wizard, Angron=Warrior, Konrad=Rogue etc. (Yes I’m aware Magnus the card isn’t a Wizard but it still works thematically)
17. Lorgar - Jerren, Corrupted Bishop. Mad religious figure trying to summon demons
18. Vulkan - Nahiri, The Lithomancer. Making soldiers and creating equipment for them just feels more like Vulkan as it’s about others first and foremost. Also being a perpetual felt like warranting a planeswalker card.
19. Corvus Corax - Yuirko, the Tiger’s Shadow/Satoru Umezawa. What says stealth tactics and infiltration more than Ninjutsu cards?
20. Alpharius/Omegon - Lazav, The Multifarious/Lazav, Dimir Mastermind. I realise a partner pairing would be the neatest way of going about them but Lazav (either one)becoming other creatures and assuming their identity is just too perfect. Dimir as well

UI mods: lefreut's UI Mod
Items:
Find it: adds approximately 30 items to Icewind Dale – some sold by merchants, others looted from chests or creatures. A fun way to add some replayability to the game.
Forge it: adds 8 craftable artifacts, scattered across the IWD, TOTL, and HOW campaigns. Like the Equalizer or Crom Faeyr, you need to find their parts before you can make them. Also contains an optional enhancement to the Icasaracht scale mail.
Quest Mods:
Unfinished Business for Icewind Dale: note that only two components (Marketh's Ring and Actual Shadows in Vale of Shadows) are compatible with IWDEE, as the others are incorporated into the base game.
Below & Below Inn: talk to the friendly writer outside the Root Cellar. The Inn offers a cozy place to rest between adventures and a few quests. Night of the Blinking Dead: Rediscovery of Kuldahar: Adds characters and minor quests and areas to Kuldahar. Related: I want to live here now. Snowytoes Hamlet: a hardy halfling settlement is under threat. Tales of Our Lady Dreamless: a small quest with a new area. The Pond of the Drowned cries out for aid – whether you bring peace or pain is another matter. Terror of the Skineater: Begins in Kuldahar: talk to Ellianh. A short quest with a new area, involving a monster that’s terrorizing the region.
I installed all of these, but at present I haven’t progressed far enough to comment on the details of their contents - and I don't want to spoil what these mods have to offer in any case. With that said, if you’ve played Infinity Engine quest mods before, you probably know Lava del’Vortel’s work already and a “this exists” is as good as an endorsement, so I'll limit my comments to a brief preview rather than anything exhaustive. “Rediscovery” adds three new areas in Kuldahar that fit seamlessly within the area’s overall design (while also being marked on the map). There’s a scout’s cave (with a friendly dog that could use your help), a worried man looking for his adventurer cousin, and a xvart who wants to sell you some unusual items (among them a wand of barkskin, a set of pipes shamans can use to harm enemies 2x/day, and an – forgive me – eyeoun stone that boosts Detect Illusions and allows the wearer to cast Seven Eyes).
The new Lower Clearing area contains some new NPCs and quests: a “star-amateur” in search of a telescope, a wizard searching for some lost pages of magical research, and a friendly jeweler with some creative items (such as a hairpin that adds +1 to an existing backstab multiplier). The stone head in this area is a particularly nice touch, though I don’t want to spoil why, and the fungus tea bar is the kind of place I would want to hang out in real life.
Overall these add a ton of life to the already-beautiful area of Kuldahar. I enjoyed the pleasantly low-stakes quests: they were a nice change of pace from the high-stakes and rather more linear main story of IWD. If you’ve played any of Lava’s quest mods before, you know the drill. Seriously nice area/item art as always.
NPC Mods:
Icewind Dale NPCs:
If you want to skip the in-depth stuff, the short version is that this mod offers a mechanically well-balanced team (including different class/kit options on install) with banters, interjections, and optional romances, and I liked them a lot.
Holvir: male human paladin of Tyr. Romanceable by human/half-elven/elven female chars (er, sort of). Extremely paladin, but he’s not unreasonable about it – more amused than judgmental towards resident rogues/loose cannons Teri and Severn. Sort of charmingly protective towards the others. Team dad. Korin: male elven ranger. Romanceable by human/half-elven/elven female chars. Slightly grumpy ex-recluse begrudgingly allowing himself to be brought out of his shell, and source of lore on all things elven and magical (there’s a reason for this). Nella: female human fighter, though her stats are designed to be dual-classed to druid or cleric. Romanceable by human/half-elven/elven male chars. Student of Arundel’s, deeply concerned with the well-being of Kuldahar and the Balance. Severn: male human bard. Moral support, source of knowledge, and occasional conscience. Teri: female half-elven fightethief. Romanceable by human/half-elven/elven male chars. I have not had the heart to play her romance - I find her flirtation with Severn too charming. Light-hearted and delightfully free of angst: she took up adventuring to follow in her parents’ footsteps.
Install options allow you to alter classes or, if applicable, add kits. Note that this doesn’t change their dialogue: Severn’s stats are well-suited to a fightemage, but his dialogue will still refer to him as a bard, for instance. Still, it’s a nice option. Level 1 NPCs (haven’t tested) and NPC_EE (have tested) also work, if you prefer to use those to modify NPCs. They come with lovely custom portraits that mesh nicely with IWD’s style and are fully-voiced, with custom soundsets and voiced first lines. The overall quality of the VO is perhaps slightly uneven, with some audio quality issues, but it’s perfectly competent.
Rather enjoyably, they all like and respect one another and generally get along, with the less-serious NPCs offering some levity to counterbalance the more sober and reserved Holvir and Korin – Nella, appropriately, is a balance between the two, and offers a nice connection to Kuldahar to boot. There’s a sense that they genuinely look out for one another, which is honestly rather endearing, though I didn’t find that it crossed the line into becoming saccharine. I found myself becoming genuinely fond of these guys – they really feel like they’ve got each other’s backs. A lovely group to venture alongside through the frozen North.
A comment regarding romances: Nella feels like the standout here, given her ties to the plot, followed by Korin. I didn’t play Teri’s in its entirety (see above), nor Holvir’s, as he tells you from the outset that he cannot make any commitment that is great than his devotion to Tyr. His is a chaste romance, almost more of a deep bond between comrades at arms – the closest parallel I can think of is Sebastian’s friend romance in Dragon Age 2 (if Sebastian were a less thoroughly unlikeable character, that is. I shouldn’t insult Holvir like that). Interesting, but those looking for more of an actual romance may be underwhelmed. However, romances here are more understated than in Baldur’s Gate: fewer lovetalks and no big dramatic moments like the graveyard abduction. They’re an optional addition that never tries to hog the spotlight, and I felt that they struck a nice balance overall. All NPCs have player-initiated dialogue menus, though you won’t really miss anything if you don’t use it.
Lava del'Vortel's NPCs:
Dendjelion: a halfling blackguard and a follower of Bhaal. He joins in Kuldahar, and features an optional player-initiated not-quite-romance (Dendjelion’s a crude sort, and he doesn’t really go in for feelings).
Dusky Crimsonwrist: a half-orc cleric/thief available in the clearing just east of Easthaven, he’s a romance option for male characters with 11+ charisma.
Ina: a female specter bard, romanceable by female characters. Recruited after completing Vale of Shadows, Ina uses the Artisan’s thematically fascinating Darkbloom Bard kit (packaged with the mod). And yes, she is classified as undead, so be careful where you point your clerics.
L’Anna: female elf paladin, romanceable by good/neutral elven males, she comes with a custom portrait, soundset, and kit: as a paladin of Mythrien Sarath, the very, very minor god of mythals, she’s a Mythseeker, which gives her a Tracking ability, +2 to saves vs spell, and some handy abilities to boost her resilience, at the cost of the nifty abilities that IWD paladins ordinarily possess. Met in Kuldahar, she reveals in her joining conversation that she’s here to investigate the Hand of the Seldarine, searching for rumors of a lost elven sword.
Oak-Maw: My notes for this guy are a whole bunch of question marks. He’s the son of the Rashemi Stag King, he’s romanceable by female or male characters (no race/alignment restrictions, so far as I can tell), and his race is given as “dark fey.” In keeping with Lava del’Vortel’s tradition of creating interesting NPCs who bend the rules a bit, he’s a ranger (stalker kit), but he’s lawful evil. He uses a custom soundset which I think is derived from Bishop in Neverwinter Nights 2. Not a criticism – the editing is seamless, and it blends in well with IWD’s soundsets.
Orra: female half-elven Kozakuran fightemage/cleric, friendship but no romance. Recruited in Easthaven. Custom kit: cleric of Hanshakami, which comes with a couple per-day innate abilities – one, at first level, which works like reflect image, and one, later on, that works like project image. I didn’t play with her long enough to get a sense for her overall story, but I found her to be curious, empathetic, and good-natured without seeming like a pushover. I liked her and plan to use her in a future playthrough.
Tipps Rattletattle: male halfling geomantic sorcerer, romanceable by halfling, gnome, or dwarf PCs. Joins after Kuldahar (must be unpetrified). Requires installation of Geomantic Sorcerer kit.
T’viy: a gnome cleric of dubious sanity, T’viy worships Urdlen, the crawler below. As a weekend project, he doesn’t have as much content as others on this list, but if you find yourself inexplicably missing Tiax… well, first of all, are you okay?
Urchin: created by a Night Hag. Comes with custom “Hag’s Varmint” kit, comparable to Wilson or Okku: cannot use most items, but his abilities increase with level. Found by touching the glowing runes in the windmill after Easthaven, which will bring you to a new (and characteristically well-executed) area. Urchin is an altraloth, a yugoloth transformed through night hag magic and ritual into a servant. However, while he is an altered fiend created by a hag, he isn’t himself evil – he’s innocent (which his low mental stats reflect) and he knows nothing of the world.
AionZ's NPCs:
Karihi: female genasi pyromancer, romanceable by male human, elven, or half-elven chars. Joins in Easthaven. She comes with a unique ring (+1 spell/level, vocalize), a +1 staff with a ranged mode, a once-per-round Scorch innate (a lesser Burning Hands), and several unique fire-themed wizard spells, starting with the lvl 1 Fiery Missile. Sharp-tongued, arrogant, clever, and clearly unaccustomed to adversity, she calls to mind Neverwinter Nights 2’s Qara; once this comparison occurred to me, I had a hard time not hearing her dialogue in Qara’s voice. Consider this more a testament to the quality of her writing than a criticism, as her comments to Pomab and Quimby immediately sold me on her. With that said, she lacks Qara’s juvenile self-absorption. Sure, she’s fond of her luxuries and loathes the cold (understandable, as her Genasi race makes her more vulnerable to cold damage), but she’s sensible, with no wish to alienate the people she fights beside. Brought low by circumstance, it will, ironically, take time for her to warm to you. She’s proud and prickly, and I found myself wanting to learn more about her. My current playthrough is with a female protagonist, so I can’t comment on her romance, but I definitely mean to try it, because what I saw of Karihi, I liked a great deal.
Minerva: female gnome fighteartificer, romanceable by chars of any race or gender. Joins in Easthaven – specifically, she’s found singing atop the fishmonger’s roof. Her kit and unique gear feature characteristically excellent item design, which make her effectively stand out without feeling unreasonably strong: her “Bracers of Knife-Throwing Excellence” allow her to create 5 “blast knives” per day (AOE fire damage + stun chance), and improve at higher levels, augmenting her dagger proficiency, ranged THAC0, and critical chance. Mechanically speaking, my only real quibble here is that her throwing-dagger focus was slightly frustrating from an inventory-management point of view, though Tweaks Anthology’s improved ammo stacks helped a great deal. With adequate ammo, she was a knife-throwing machine. As for her character? I completely adore Minerva, she’s a wonderful addition – optimistic without being naive, and worldly without being jaded. Having her around was an absolute delight, and she’ll likely be a fixture in future parties. I don’t know that I’d let her cook for me again though.
Crossmod:
IWD Crossmod Pack: install after all other NPC mods.
A note regarding crossmod chat: the IWD NPC pack are designed to chime in in response to one another in a way that may feel more organic, mimicking the style of interjections in BG2. The others are somewhat more autonomous, which may mean that you wind up with multiple dialogues which fire separately as opposed to one in which all party members interject. For instance, at the beginning of chapter 1, I had separate dialogues from Nella, Orra, and Minerva about the avalanche. Whether or not this is a downside is a matter of personal opinion. It can perhaps feel a bit clunky, which is a shame, but I understand that having them interject into one another’s dialogue would require a lot of additional checks etc. So this isn’t a criticism, just a note. Understandably, NPCs by a given mod author tend to have more to say to one another, but there are enough banters that you won’t lack for conversation.

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PROMPTS: Read chapter 11 as well! I actually thought CH 10 was pretty good! I liked the bit where he called out to Edward to come down.
Today's Reading, via Project Gutenberg:
And for two long summers we drove and walked through these neighbourhoods. Coming one day upon a picturesque farmhouse, and wondering who the folk might be that lived within walls as strong as a fortress, we wandered round the house, looking into the great areas. The farmer introduced us to his daughter, a pretty red-headed girl about twenty, who said they were just going to sit down to tea, and would we join them? Among other things, they spoke of a cousin from America who was coming to Ireland for a rest; he had been all through Cuba, reporting the war for the American papers. He, too, seemed typical of Ireland, and before we reached the Moat House I had begun to see him strolling about Tara, dreaming of Ireland's past, till he fell in love with the farmer's pretty daughter, sensual love bridging over, for a while, intellectual differences. And this story seeming to me representative of Irish life, I decided to include it in the collection, though in length it did not correspond with the others. Each story in the volume entitled The Unfilled Field had helped me to understand my own country, but it was while writing The Wild Goose that it occurred to me for the first time that, it being impossible to enjoy independence of body and soul in Ireland, the thought of every brave-hearted boy is to cry, Now, off with my coat so that I may earn five pounds to take me out of the country.
Every race gets the religion it deserves, I said, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, with here and there a successful lawyer. The theory of the germ cell floated into my mind: It may be that Nature did not intend them to advance beyond the stage of the herdsmen—the finest in the world! I cried, rising from the composition of The Wild Goose. They were that in the beginning, when the greater part of Ireland was forest and marsh, with great pasture lands through which long herds of cattle wandered from dawn to evening, watched over by barbarous men in kilts with terrible dogs; and since those days we have lost the civilisation that obtained in the monasteries. We have declined in everything except our cattle, and our herdsmen, the finest in the world, divining the steak in the bullock with the same certainty as the Greek divined the statue in the block of marble.
My discovery produced in me a kind of rapture, and I sat looking at my Monet for a long while, thinking that perhaps, after all, it is unnecessary for a race to produce pictures or literature or sculpture or music, for to do one thing extremely well justifies the existence of a race, and the beef-steaks that Ireland produces justify Ireland—in a way, for though the Irish have produced the finest steaks, they have never invented a sauce for the steak; and I fell to thinking that if some meditative herdsman, while leaning over a gate, had been inspired to compose a sauce whereby the steak might be eaten with relish, the Irish race would be able to hold up its head in the world. One finds excuses always for one's country's shortcomings, and it pleased me to think that if none had imagined Sauce Béarnaise it was because his attention was always needed to keep the cattle from straying. There were wolves in Ireland always lurking round the herd, ready to separate a heifer or a calf from the protection of the bulls. But to find an excuse for the monks dwelling in commodious monasteries is more difficult. The talk of the monks must have been frequently about the pleasures of the table, yet none was inspired to go to the Prior with the sacred word Béarnaise upon his lips. That word would have secured an immortality as secure as Chateaubriand, who is read no more, but is eaten every day. The intellect perishes, but the belly is always with us. Or may we acquit the race of lack of imagination, and lay the blame upon the Irish language, which is, perhaps, too harsh and bitter for such a buttery word as Béarnaise? And could a language in which there is no butter be capable of inventing a succulent sauce? It may be that the Irish language was intended for the sale of bullocks—a language that has never been to school, as John Eglinton once said. If it had only fled to the kitchen one might forgive it for having played truant—the Irish language, a language that has never been spoken in a drawing-room, only in rude towers, and very like those towers are the blocks of rough sound that a Gaelic speaker hurls at his audience when he speaks. Whereas one can hardly imagine any other language but French being spoken along the beautiful winding roads of France, lined with poplar-trees, and about the hillsides dotted with red-tiled roofs, and behind the pierced green shutters, which enchant us when we see them as the train moves on towards Paris from Amiens. The French language is implicit in the balconies, lanterns, perrons, that we see as the train nears Paris, and still more implicit in the high-pitched roofs of the chateau of Fontainebleau when allâmes and allâtes came naturally into conversation. In a trice we leave the Court of Louis XV for a fête at Melun, and there, though the past tenses are no longer in use, the language still sparkles; it foams and goes to the head, a lovely language, very like champagne. True that the English language has never been much in the kitchen nor in the vineyard, but it has been spoken in the dales and along the downs, and there is a finer breeze in it than there is in French, and a bite in it like Elizabethan ale—all the same, a declining language; thee and thou have been lost beyond hope of restoration, and many words that I remember in common use are now nearly archaic; a language wearied with child-bearing, and I pondered the endless poetry of England, and admitted English literature to be the most beautiful, Boer War or no Boer War. Whereas the Irish language, notwithstanding its declensions and its grammatical use of thee and thou, has failed. As Bergin said once to me, We did nothing with it when we had it. By this, did he mean that the Irish race was never destined to rise above the herdsman? And if he did, his instinctive judgment is important; it shows that we know ourselves. We see, I cried, the rump-steak in the animal as clearly as the Greek saw the statue in the marble, and the epigram pleased me so much that I felt I must go out at once to collogue with somebody.
But it was eleven o'clock, and no one is available at that hour but dear Edward; a few hundred yards are as nothing to one with a passion for literary conversation; and away I went down Ely Place, across Merrion Row, through Merrion Street, and as soon as the corner of Clare Street was turned, I began to look out for the light above the tobacconist's shop. The light was there! My heart was as faint as a lover's, and the serenade which I used to beguile him down from his books rose to my lips. He will only answer to this one, or to a motive from The Ring. And it is necessary to whistle very loudly, for the trams make a great deal of noise, and Edward sometimes dozes on the sofa.
On the other side is a public-house, and the serenading of Edward draws comments from the topers as they go away wiping their mouths. One has to choose a quiet moment between the trams; and when the serenade has been whistled twice, the light of Edward's candle appears, coming very slowly down the stairs, and there he is in the doorway, if anything larger than life, in the voluminous grey trousers, and over his shoulders a buff jacket which he wears in the evening. Two short flights of stairs, and we are in his room. It never changes—the same litter from day to day, from year to year, the same old and broken mahogany furniture, the same musty wallpaper, dusty manuscripts lying about in heaps, and many dusty books. If one likes a man one likes his habits, and never do I go into Edward's room without admiring the old prints that he tacks on the wall, or looking through the books on the great round table, or admiring the little sofa between the round table and the Japanese screen, which Edward bought for a few shillings down on the quays—a torn, dusty, ragged screen, but serviceable enough; it keeps out the draught; and Edward is especially susceptible to draughts, the very slightest will give him a cold. Between the folds of the screen we find a small harmonium of about three octaves, and on it a score of Palestrina. As well might one try to play the Mass upon a flute, and one can only think that it serves to give the keynote to a choir-boy. On the table is a candlestick made out of white tin, designed probably by Edward himself, for it holds four candles. He prefers candles for reading, but he snuffs them when I enter and lights the gas, offers me a cigar, refills his churchwarden, and closes his book.
What book are you reading, Edward?
I am reading Ruskin's Modern Painters, but it is very long and rather prosy, and the fifth volume is inexpressibly tedious. It doesn't seem to me that I shall ever get through it.
But if it doesn't interest you why do you read it?
Oh, I don't like to leave a book.
You prefer reading a tiresome book to my conversation.
But you live so far away.
How far, Edward? Five hundred yards.
And after dinner I like to get home to my pipe. You see, I'm at business all day; I've business relations with a great number of people. Our lives aren't the same; and I assure you that in the evening a quiet hour is a luxury to me.
But how can you find business to do all day? There is Mass in the morning and the Angelus at twelve?
I know what all that kind of talk is worth. And Edward puffed sullenly at his churchwarden while I assured him that I was thinking of his play.
All this public business, I said, leaves very little time for your work.
In the afternoon between four and seven I get a couple of hours. Yesterday I had a run; I got off thirty lines, but today I'm stuck again, and shall have to invent something to get one of the characters off the stage naturally. You see, I'm still in the pencil stage. In about two years I shall be in ink, and then I'll give you the play to read.
As my help would not be needed for the next two years, it seemed to me that I might speak of The Wild Goose, and Edward listened, giving his whole mind to the story.
But why, he asked, should Ned Carmody object to his wife suckling her baby?
He fears that it might spoil her figure.
Is that so? I didn't know. And he puffed at his pipe in silence. But do you think Ned Carmody would bother?
You think it introduces a streak of Sir Frederick Leighton? But who can say that an aesthetic aspiration may not break out even in a Celt, who is but a herdsman, the finest in the world, and I launched my epigram. But it met with no response. Edward's face deepened into monumental solemnity, and I understood that the proposition that the Irish race was not destined to rise above the herdsman was too disagreeable to be entertained. Shutting our eyes to facts will not change the facts.
In the eighth and ninth centuries—
The decline of art was coincident with the union of the Irish Church with Rome; till then Ireland was a Protestant country.
A Protestant country! St Patrick a Protestant!
Protestant in the sense that he merely preached Christianity, and the Irish Church was Protestant up to the eleventh or twelfth century; I don't know the exact date. I crossed the room to get myself another cigar; and returned, muttering something about a peasant people that had never risen out of the vague emotions of the clan.
We were talking about a very interesting question—that as soon as the Irish Church became united to Rome, art declined in Ireland. That isn't a matter of opinion, but of fact.
Edward spoke of the Penal Laws.
But the Penal Laws are not hereditary, like syphilis, and Father Tom admits that Irish Catholics have written very little.
Edward was curious to hear if I still went for bicycle rides in the country with Father Tom, and smoked cigarettes with him in his bedroom.
What can it matter how intimate my relations may or may not be with Father Tom? We are talking now on a serious subject, Edward, and I was about to tell you, when you interrupted me, that one evening, as I was walking round the green with Father Tom, I said to him: It is strange that Catholics have written so little in Ireland. It is, indeed, he answered, and Maynooth is a case in point; after a hundred years of education it has not succeeded in producing a book of any value, not even a theological work.
I don't know that Father Tom has produced anything very wonderful himself.
Very likely he hasn't. Father Tom's lack of original literary inspiration is a matter of no importance to any one except to Father Tom. The question before us is, Which is at fault—the race or Catholicism?
Edward would not admit that it could be Catholicism.
Don't you think that yourself have suffered? I said, as I went down the stairs. You burnt a volume of poems, and if Father Tom had not abandoned The Psychology of Religion he would have found himself up against half a dozen heresies before he had written fifty pages.
It seemed to me that I was on the threshold of a great discovery.

XI

Highly favoured, indeed, am I among authors, I said, pushing open the wicket; but before many turns had been taken up and down the greensward, I began to fear that my reading had been too particular. My heart sank at the prospect of the years I should have to spend in the National Library, for a knowledge of all the literature of the world was necessary for the writing of the article I had in my mind. Then with a rising heart I remembered that I could engage the services of some poor scholar—John Eglinton knew for certain many who had read everything without having learnt to make use of their learning. My quickest way will be to lay the nose of one of these fellows on the scent; he will run it through many literatures, and with the results of his reading before me I shall be able to deal Catholicism such a blow as has not been dealt since the Reformation.
A light breeze rustled the lilacs, and I stood for a long time, forgetful of my idea, seeking within the long, pointed leaves for the blossom breaking into purple and white, thinking that the tranquil little path under the bushes was just the one Peter would choose for philosophic meditation; but, feeling that the sunlight beguiled my mind into thought, I wandered round the garden, still thinking, but noticing all the while the changes that had come into it within the last few days. The great ash by the garden gate seems to be making some progress. The catkins are gone, and in about three weeks the plumy foliage will be fluttering in the light breezes of the summer-time. The laburnum blossom is still enclosed in grey-green ears about the size of a caterpillar, I added, with here and there a spot of yellow. And pondering on Nature's unending miracles, I walked under the hawthorns, stopping, of course, to admire the hard little leaves like the medals that Catholics wear, I said, on my way to the corner where the Solomon-seal flourishes year after year, and the blooms of the everlasting pea creep up the wall nine or ten feet, to the level of the street, hard by the rosemary, which should perfume the whole garden, but the smoke from Plunkett's chimney robs the flowers of their perfume. The little blossom freckling the dark green spiky foliage held me at gaze. Above the rosemary is thick ivy; it was clipped close a few years ago, but it is again swarming up the wall, and Gogarty, the arch-mocker, the author of all the jokes that enable us to live in Dublin—Gogarty, the author of the Limericks of the Golden Age, the youngest of my friends, full in the face, with a smile in his eyes and always a witticism on his lips, overflowing with quotation, called yesterday to ask me to send a man with a shears, saying, Your ivy is threatening my slates. A survival of the Bardic Age he is, reciting whole ballads to me when we go for walks; and when I tell him my great discovery he will say, Sparrows and sweet-peas are as incompatible as Literature and Dogma; and you will cut the ivy, won't you?
And wandering across my greensward, I came to my apple-trees, now in bridal attire; not a petal yet fallen, but tomorrow or the day after the grass will be covered with them, I said. Gogarty told me yesterday how the poet rose early to see the daisy open. He describes himself a-kneeling always till it unclosed was upon the softë, sweetë, smallë grass. But if he liked the grass so much, why did he love the daisy? For if sparrows and sweet-peas are incompatible, it may be said with equal truth that the daisy is the grass's natural enemy; and worse than daisies are dandelions. A few still remain, though poison was poured upon them last year. My flower-beds are a sad spectacle; wallflowers straggling—sad are they as Plunkett's beard. Sweet-peas once grew there; the first year a tall hedge sprung up, despite the College of Science; for the soil was almost virgin then, and it sent forth plenty of canterbury bells, columbine, poppies, and larkspur; but year by year my flowers have died, and the garden will now grow only a few lilies and pinks, carnations, larkspur, poppies. At that moment a smut fell across my knuckles, and, looking up, I saw a great black cloud issuing from the chimney of the College of Science. Isn't it a poor thing that all my flowers should die, so that a few students should be allowed the privilege of burning their eyelids for the sake of Ireland?
My garden is but a rood, and the only beauty it can boast of is its grass and its apple-trees—one tree as large as a house, under whose boughs I might dine in the summer-time were it not for the smuts from Plunkett's chimney. One of its great boughs is dying, and will have to be cut away lest it should poison the rest of the tree. My garden is but a rood, and following the walk round the square of glad grass, I am back again in a few minutes, admiring tall bushes flourishing over the high wall, and, as if to greet me, the robin sings the little roundelay that he utters all the year—a saucy little bird that will take bread from my hand in winter, but now it is easy to see he is thinking of his mate, whose nest is in the great tangle of traveller's-joy that covers the southern wall, somewhere near the bush where a thrust is sitting on her eggs—not so bold a bird as the robin. My curiosity last year drove her from her eggs; and it will be well for me to walk the other way.
Now, which will my countrymen choose—Literature or Dogma?
It is difficult to think in a garden where amorous birds are going hither and thither, so amorous that one cannot but be interested in them. If one had to think about books, one would choose to think of Gogarty's extravagances, or Gogarty's remembrances of the poets; and these would be especially pleasant while a blackbird is singing the same rich lay that he sang by a lake's edge a thousand years ago. A blackbird delighted the hermits of old time, those that were poets, and we are grateful to one for having recorded his pleasure in the bird's song, and for the adjective that defines it, and to Kuno Meyer, who discovered the old Irish poem and translated it.
My garden is an enchantment in the spring, and I sit bewitched by the sunlight and by my idea.
A man of letters goes into a garden with an idea; he and his idea spend happy days under apple-boughs in the sun; he plays with his idea as a mother with her child, chasing it about the lilac-bushes; sometimes the child cries with rage, and the mother cannot pacify her baby, but, however naughty her baby may be, she never wearies; her patience is endless, and the patience of a man of letters is endless too. His idea becomes unmanageable, but he does not weary of it; and then his idea grows up, just like the child, passing from blue smock and sash into knickerbockers, in other words into typewriting, and as every mother looks back upon the days of smocks and sashes, we authors look back upon the days when our ideas were meditated in a garden within hearing of amorous sparrows in the ivy, the soft coo—for it is nearly a coo—of the jackdaw as he passes to some disused chimney where he nests, the shrill of the starling, and the reiterated little rigmarole of the chaffinch. The swallows arrive in Dublin in the middle of May; they fly over my garden in the June evenings, and I continued to think of them coming hither over the sea—like my thoughts, I said. And while listening to the breeze in the apple-boughs, my thoughts drift unconsciously across the centuries to the beginning of Christian literature. It began well, I said, with the Confessions of that most sympathetic of saints, Augustine, who was not all theology, but began his life, and began it well, in free thought and free love; his mistress and his illegitimate child endear him to us, and the music of his prose—those beautiful pages where he and Monica, his mother, stand by a window overlooking the Tiber! We are all spirit while we read the flight of his soul and Monica's Godward, each sentence lifting them a little higher till he and she seem to dissolve before our eyes in white rapture.
I have read that Augustine owed something of the ecstasy of his style to the Alexandrian mystics—and this is not unlikely, for he came from Africa and saw the end of paganism and the beginning of Christianity.... He was Julian's contemporary, a thing which never struck anybody before. Augustine and Julian—how wonderful! Landor should have thought of the learned twain as a subject for dialogue, or Shakespeare might have taken Julian for hero. The ascetic Emperor was a subject for him ... but I am thinking casually. Shakespeare could not have done much with Julian. So perhaps it is well that one day the sudden interruption of his secretary, Ben Jonson, jerked his thoughts away from Julian, leaving the Emperor for Ibsen—two rather clumsy dramas, Emperor and Galilean, containing, however, many splendid scenes. But there was more in Julian than the bleak Norwegian could understand, and Ibsen does little more than follow the bare outline that history gave him, including, of course, the story of the old priest sitting on the steps of a fallen temple with a goose in his lap—the only trace of ancient worship that the Emperor could discover in the countries he passed through while leading his army against the Persians.
Were Gogarty here he would tell me the verses in which Swinburne includes the Emperor's last words; unable to remember them, I loiter, amused by the paraphrase of the lines from the Hymn to Proserpine that the circumstance of the moment had put into my head:
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galileo, the world has moved on since thy death,We cared hardly tuppence for Leo and on Pius we waste not our breath.
The last line is weak, I said—so weak that I must ask Gogarty to alter it, but I like The world has moved on since thy death.
I should like Ibsen's Julian better if some reason for the Emperor's opposition to Christianity were given; a mere caprice for the ancient divinities is not enough for a philosopher who might have foreseen the Middle Ages. A vision for him would have been a procession of monks, and over against them the lights of the Renaissance beginning among the Tuscan hills. I should like him to have foreseen Borgia. But which would he have liked—Alexander or Caesar? Neither. Their paganism was not at all of the kind that appealed to Julian, and the revival of Christianity with Luther at its head would have shocked him more than the gross materialism into which it had declined. He would have hated the Christian monk who said that every man likes a wife with rosy cheeks and white legs, which is true of every man except Julian, who chose for wife one whose age might be pleaded for his abstinence from her bed. Julian is one of Nature's perversities; none but Nature herself would have thought of setting up an ascetic mystic to oppose Christianity—a real believer, for he prayed at the ancient shrines, looking on the Gods not merely as symbols, like many of his predecessors, but as Divine entities.
But after his death the belief nourished like a grain of mustard seed that the secret of life and death had been discovered in a monastery; and men no longer went to the academies of arts but into the wilderness to interpret the fable according to their temperaments. Christianity was soon split up into sects, all at variance one with the other; texts which could not be explained by common sense were disputed by the theologians, till the founding of a town became less important than the meaning of a text: that one, He knew her not till she had brought forth her first-born Son, was the cause of much perplexity and comment, the opinions of the theologians being divided, many going further than the strict letter of the text, averring that nothing had ever happened under the quilt in Galilee before or after the birth of the Saviour, Joseph being a virgin even as Mary. And battles were fought and many slain because men could not agree about the meaning of the word Filioque. The world went clean mad about the new God just come over from Asia. Gods had been coming for some seven hundred years. The first, or one of the first, was Mithras, and he had obtained a very considerable following; none can say why he failed to capture Europe. He brought the Trinity with him, I think—certainly the sacraments, but he forgot the pathetic story of the Passion. Mark wrote it well, and his excellent narrative turned the scale. Mithras was many hundred years before Jesus, and he was succeeded by —— my scholar would come in useful here. He would furnish me with a list of Gods, whereas the only names that come up in my mind at the moment are Adonis, Cybele, Attis, Isis, Serapis; but there were many more. Christian heresies came like locusts from the desert—Arians, Nestorians, Donatists, Manicheans. A century or a century and a half later the Mohammedans poured out of Arabia, crying, Allah, Allah, all round Persia and Asia Minor, fighting their way along the North of Africa, crossing the Straits into Spain, getting through the Pyrenees and the South of France as far as Tours.
The French seem to have been especially created to save us from Asiatics; they defeated Attila at Châlons two hundred years before; his God would not have plagued us with theology; he was plain Mr Booty. But if it had not been for the defeat of the Arabs at Tours we might all have been Mohammedans, and the question arises whether the succeeding centuries would have been crueller under Allah than they were under Jesus. The Middle Ages were the cruellest of all the centuries, and the most ignorant. It would be difficult to choose between Byzantine mosaics and arabesques; literature disappeared after the death of Augustine. Catholicism claims the cathedrals; the claim is a valid one, and it claims Dante, born in 1265, the great anti-cleric, he, who walks before men's eyes like a figure risen from a medieval tomb pedantic, cruel, unclean, like the Middle Ages, venting his hatred on Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, priests, and on his own countrymen, hating them with the hatred of his own Asiatic God. But Dante is likewise the tremulous lover. There is the poet of the Vita Nuova and the poet of The Divine Comedy. Landor reveals both to us. The first in a love-scene in a garden between Dante and Beatrice. The lovers have wandered from some fête in progress, in the garden itself or in an adjacent house, to some quiet marble seat shaded by myrtles, and in this dialogue we see Dante pale and tremulous with passion, and Beatrice admonishing him with grave eyes and the wisdom of the seraphic doctor whom Dante met in the Paradise. One thinks of Tristan (the second act), when Beatrice begs her lover not to take her hands violently; she recognises him as heir to all eternity, and her own mission to inspire him to write the poem which will outlast all other poems and make them and their love wander for ever among the generations. Not in this dialogue, but in another, Landor sets Petrarch and Boccaccio discoursing on their great contemporary—Petrarch only saw Dante once, Boccaccio never saw him, but they talk about him as a contemporary. Landor does not seek to differentiate between Boccaccio's criticism of Dante and Petrarch's; ideas are impersonal, and every wise remark about Dante might have been uttered by either speaker. But would Petrarch have accepted the statement that less than a twentieth part of The Divine Comedy is good, as representing his own opinions? And would Boccaccio admit that he loved The Divine Comedy merely because it brought him happier dreams? It is Petrarch who says that the filthiness of some passages in The Divine Comedy would disgrace the drunkenest horse-dealer, and that the names of such criminals are recorded by the poet as would be forgotten by the hangman in six months. A little later in the dialogue Boccaccio reminds Petrarch that the scenes from the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso are little more than pictures from the walls of churches turned into verse, and that in several of these we detect the cruelty, the satire, and the indecency of the Middle Ages. Yes, and Boccaccio adds that he does not see the necessity for three verses out of six of the third canto of the Inferno, and he does not hesitate to say that there are passages in which he cannot find his way, and where he suspects the poet could not show it to him. Petrarch answers quickly that Dante not only throws together the most opposite and distant characters, he even makes Jupiter and the Saviour the same person, and in a prose lofty and hallowed the Italian poets continue their ingenious fault-finding page after page, but neither doubts the justice of placing Dante higher than any of the Latin poets.
It is disappointing that I cannot remember to whom to attribute. They have less hair-cloth about them and smell less cloisterly, yet they are only choristers. It sounds more like Boccaccio than Petrarch, and this placing of Dante above the Latin poets endears one to Landor, for he loved the Latin poets and understood them very well. He was the last of the Latinists, and we can imagine Horace reading Landor's Latin verses with a certain appreciation, saying: If he had been born in Italy he might have been amongst us. Horace would relish Landor's wisdom. But is it sure—is it certain that Landor's wisdom would not seem oppressive at times? Wisdom estranges an author from his fellows, and in no writer does the intellect shine more clearly than in Landor. His intellect enabled him to admire all that Dante owed to the Renaissance—and to forget the hair shirt. As well as I remember, neither poet refers to Dante's anti-clericalism; its importance was overlooked by Landor; but Boccaccio and Petrarch would not have overlooked it; either might have approved or disapproved, but one or the other would have mentioned it, and Petrarch might have had qualms for the faith of the next generation; he might have foreseen easily that the anti-clericalism of one generation would be followed by a pagan revival. And this is what happened. Borgia was on the throne, two hundred years later, and a reactionary priest was being told that everybody was prepared to admit in theory that Jesus was an interesting figure, but, for the moment, everybody was anxious to talk about a new torso that had been unearthed. But instead of running to see the Greek God, and contributing to the general enthusiasm by praise of the pectoral muscles, Savonarola gathered a few disciples about him and told the people that a much greater discovery would have been part of the tree on which the Saviour hung. Of course, Borgia did not like signing the order for the burning of Savonarola and his monks, but he could not allow the Renaissance to be stopped, and if he had not intervened, the Renaissance would have stopped at Fra Angelico; Pinturicchio might have been allowed to continue his little religious anecdotes, but Mantegna would have been told that his vases and draperies hark back to the heathen, before Christ was, and as likely as not Botticelli's light-hearted women might have had tears painted into their eyes. The world had had enough of the Middle Ages, and the reaction was a Pope who loved his own daughter Lucretia, and ordered the murder of his own son. Or was it Caesar who planned this murder? A wonderful day it was when he pursued the Pope's chamberlain into the Vatican and stabbed him to death in his father's arms, for such a deed attests, perhaps better than any argument, that men's thoughts had turned definitely from the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Earth had been swallowed up in theology for some eight or nine centuries, and it was the genius of the sixteenth century to disinter it, and to make merry in it without giving a thought to the super-man—the silly vanity of a Christian gone wrong. In this re-arisen kingdom were all the arts, sculpture, painting, literature, and music, and with the discovery of America the world seemed indefinitely enlarged. A hint was in the air that the world moved. Borgia sat on the Papal chair; Caesar his son might have succeeded him; and, with the genius of Italy, insurgent since 1265, behind him, it is not unlikely that he would have triumphed where Napoleon failed. Machiavelli tells us that Caesar's plans were well laid and would not have miscarried, had it not been for a certain fatal accident, his eating of the poisoned meats at a banquet which Alexander had prepared for a dozen Cardinals, his enemies. Alexander ate, too, of these meats, and being an old man, succumbed to the poison; Caesar recovered partially and, when he staggered convalescent from his bed, he was told that his father had been a fortnight in the tomb, and that a new Pope, entirely out of sympathy with the Renaissance, had been elected. Caesar had to withdraw from Rome to Neppi, where he nearly died of a second attack—of what? Of Roman fever?—for I do not believe in the story of poisoned meats. The French were on foot for Naples and, having nowhere to lay his head, he begged permission to return to Rome.
My gardener's rake ceased suddenly, and, opening my eyes, I saw him snail-hunting among the long blades of the irises.

Welcome to the East Riding of Yorkshire!
The term ‘Riding’ entered English from the Old Norse þriðjungr meaning ‘third part’, and the East Riding is one of the ancient divisions of Yorkshire whose origins seem to predate the Norman Conquest. And so it’s remained ever since, aside from a brief period which we prefer not to talk about when some folks down in London decided that as it was on the North Side of the river Humber, North Humberside was a more appropriate name.
Since the county was reconstituted in 1996, its politics have been dominated by the Conservatives, first as the largest block under No Overall Control and since 2007 with a simple majority. This is not a council where the winner should be in much doubt this year. A knock to Conservative dominance such that it slips into No Overall Control would be a sign the party is having a Very Bad Time; major inroads from Labour or Lib Dem in the area is the kind of thing which would cause quite some alarm in CCHQ. In 2019 the Conservative vote share was 44.3%, 12.9% above the English national vote share.
The main reason for this of course is demographic. The largest (and indeed only) urban area in the historic region is Kingston Upon Hull (or, in the local tongue, ‘Ull) which sits as its own unitary authority outwith the East Riding Council. Some suburbs of Hull are included in the East Riding, predominantly the more affluent on the city’s West. The rest of the county is extremely rural, including the few other significant settlements of Beverley (the County Town) and the market towns of Driffield and Pocklington. A small amount of industry remains around the port of Goole in the county’s south and on the outskirts of Hull, and some tourism in the coastal town of Bridlington, but this in no way counterbalances the overwhelming influence of agriculture in the area.
In summation, this is very Deep Blue Country; however as we’ll get into, they’re also not afraid to get a Little Weird With It on occasion.
Southwest Holderness, Southeast Holderness, Mid Holderness and North Holderness
Let’s look first at Holderness, a large and extremely fertile agricultural swath of land that makes up the county’s south-east. While large, it is of course getting smaller all the time. Bar North Holderness, which we’ll come to last, these are all three councillor wards and look likely to return, as they did in 2019, Conservative councillors.
The only likely exception to this is in Mid Holderness, where the county’s first Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Grove, received 31.8% of the vote in 2019 as an independent. He’s standing this year in the same ward as a Lib Dem; given the climate for the Conservatives generally it’s very easy to see him being returned, particularly with the resources of a party behind him this time.
In South West Holderness the Lib Dems are standing 3 candidates this election against the 1 they had in 2019. If this is a sign that they plan to make this a key ward for their activists to target, it’s not hard to see them taking one of the Conservative seats here, or potentially two on a bad night for the Tories.
The two councillor ward of North Holderness is as mentioned a little different. Since 2007 North Holderness has returned two independent councillors, Barbara Jefferson and John Whittle (the current council Chair). These two councillors being returned again seems like the safest bet in the county.
Beverley Rural, Minster and Woodmonsey, St Mary’s
Three very different 3 councillor wards make up the county town of Beverley. Beverley Rural, consisting of the villages to the north and west of Beverley along with the Defence School of Transport at Normandy Barracks is the type of large, rural, solidly Conservative constituency that’s archetypal of the East Riding and so can be considered something of a Bellwether. Even at the high-watermark of 2019 the Lib Dems failed to make inroads in this Blue-Yellow ward, so if it’s even close here on the night it’s the sign of a very bad showing for the Conservatives.
St Mary’s, a ward taking its name from possibly the finest example of late gothic architecture in Yorkshire and for my money a much more architecturally interesting church than Beverley Minster (fight me Perpendicular bros) was a classic example of the Yellow Wave in 2019, with 3 Lib Dem gains from the Conservatives absolutely smashing the latter into second place at >49% of vote to <27%. It would be a sign of serious reversion if the Conservatives threaten Lib Dem dominance in this ward.
Minster and Woodmansey is a much more interesting proposition, and our first CON/LAB fight. With less than 250 votes between leading Labour and leading Conservative candidate in 2019, this will be three council seats Labour will be hoping to pick up and a pretty bad sign for them if they don’t manage it.
Dale and South Hunsley
South Hunsley is dominated by the affluent Hull suburb of Swanland, and the slightly less affluent commuter village of North Ferriby. This two-member ward has been extremely safe for the Conservatives for the last two decades. However, a shock win by the Lib Dem candidate (with over 400 votes clear) in April last year has thrown this into doubt. Could South Hunsley once again become a Lib Dem stronghold as it was pre-2003? Probably not, but it’ll be fun to see if they manage it.
Dale is a large three-member constituency which last year returned two Conservatives and an Independent candidate, Terry Gill. Gill is standing once again, as is his wife Coleen who was a Lib Dem councillor for the ward until 2005. She has stood as an independent twice since then unsuccessfully, but may have a little better luck this year; the Conservatives have no other real challenger in this ward and at least one of the Gills is likely to be successful again.
Hessle, Tranby and Willerby and Kirk Ella
The first three suburbs of Hull which lie in the East riding all represent quite different pictures. Hessle is one of the few manifestations in the East Riding of the traditional Hull picture of a battle between Labour and the Lib Dems. It’s a relatively affluent commuter area for Hull where Brexit may have played a part in 2019 as the Lib Dems took two of the three council seats from Labour for an all yellow slate returned. The Lib Dems will want to hold this, Labour should be quite keen to pick it up - but if there’s any kind of tactical voting pact going on locally, this may be where you’ll see it.
Tranby is a two member ward covering the suburbs of Tranby and Anlaby which picked up one Lib Dem councillor from Conservatives in 2019, and it’s hard to see it flipping back in the current environment. Labour are fielding two candidates this year as opposed to one in 2019, and the Greens are also fielding one, but this looks very likely to go straight Yellow again.
Willerby and Kirk Ella is a three member ward in which the Conservatives held all three council seats in 2019. The Independent Candidate who grabbed 30% of the vote in 2019 is however not standing this year, making it a straight battle between the three major parties. We may see some shift here; the Conservatives will be hoping to hold on to all seats, Labour and the Lib Dems will be both be hoping to take at least one, and both did evenly well in 2019; given Labour’s performance in Hull in 2022 Labour are probably favourites to edge it.
Cottingham North and Cottingham South
Cottingham South is a two councillor ward which held Conservative in 2019 by less than 150 votes. A motivated electorate or solid campaign by Labour could very easily flip both seats in this ward, but it could well stay Conservative due to local factors (see below).
In Cottingham North, two fixtures of local politics are standing down. Ros Jump and Geraldine Mathieson have been councillors for the ward since 2007, first as Conservatives and for the last two elections winning handily as Independents. Them leaving should leave the race wide open, but a recent local scandal where former Hull University student accommodation was earmarked for redevelopment as temporary housing for asylum seekers has made immigration a live issue in the area, something the Conservative candidates will want to exploit. It will also no doubt feature in the campaign of one of the few Reform candidates standing in the East Riding this time around, Roger Hoe (honestly, why do they all have names like Viz characters?).
Goole North, Goole South and Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland
In Goole North, we encounter our first ‘Local Conservative’ council candidates, the 2023 electoral equivalent of Groucho glasses. The two councillors standing under this label in Goole North were surprise winners in 2019, gaining the seats from Labour and an Independent councillor respectively. Goole is about as close the East Riding comes to a classical ‘Red Wall’ area (with the exception of Bridlington, on which more later), so this is a fight between Labour and the Conservatives to watch.
In Goole South we have another married couple of Independent councillors. Barbara and David Jeffreys took the two council seats off Labour in 2019 after Barbara’s unsuccessful run for UKIP in 2015. Labour will be hoping to gain these, but as you may have started to see Independents are a fixture of East Riding politics that once in place are difficult to dislodge. I wouldn’t bet against the Jeffreys.
In the ward I will be referring to as Snaith and Marshland, the Conservatives, sorry Local Conservatives are likely to be returned as this rural area to the south of Goole is quite solidly blue. Despite this, the area has attracted a few more candidates than in either 2015 or 2019, including one of the two TUSC candidates in the county. God loves a trier.
Howden and Howdenshire
Seasoned politics watchers will have a bell ring at the name of these wards, given as they lie in the constituency of Tory grandee David Davis. Fun fact; Howdenshire was for many centuries not actually a part of Yorkshire, being first a property of the Bishops of Durham and part of the County Palatine and remained an exclave of County Durham until 1867.
The single councillor ward of Howden proper was a close run thing last election, with less than fifty votes between Conservative and Green in 2019 and the Lib Dems a distant third. This year there is no Green candidate, despite this being the type of ward they had success across the border in North Yorkshire last year. In 2022, the Conservative councillor, Charlie Bayram, defected to the Lib Dems, for whom he is standing at this election. The Conservatives have selected a new candidate and Bayram is running as an incumbent Lib Dem in a ward where they received 144 votes during the last election. A new independent candidate further complicates matters. I’ve put this down as a Lib Dem hold for the purposes of predictions, but my actual prediction is ‘fuck knows’.
Howdenshire is much simpler, a three seat ward with a straight race between full slates of Conservatives, Lib Dems and Labour. It will very likely stay Conservative.
Pocklington Provincial and Wolds Weighton
Pocklington Provincial takes in the towns of Pocklington and Stamford Bridge, increasingly dormitory towns for the city of York as the Airbnb effect has pushed workers out of the city in the last decade. The effect has been a steady growth in the three-member ward’s electorate and decline in the dominance of the Conservatives. Labour, Lib Dems and Greens are all fighting it out to take one or more of the council seats currently held by the Tories.
Wolds Weighton is a three member ward encompassing the town of Market Weighton and the Western edges of the Yorkshire wolds. It returned three Conservative councillors in 2019. Of these, Mike Stathers left the party in 2022, citing ‘betrayal and treachery’ after being removed as deputy leader of the Council and is now standing as an Independent, David Rudd will not be standing again after a suspension in 2020 for an email sent to the Mayor of Market Weighton ‘after two glasses of wine’ in which he asked the Yorkshire party official whether he had any Nazi ancestors, and the last has survived to fight for the Conservatives again this election.
The aforementioned Mayor, Peter Hemmerman, will be standing again for the Yorkshire Party and there’s a decent chance he gets it this time, with his main competition being the Conservative candidates and the now-independent Stathers.
Driffield and Rural and East Wolds and Coastal
And so into the Yorkshire Wolds proper, the Northernmost point of the chalk outcrop running through much of Eastern England that gives us some of our most scenic and biodiverse landscapes. The market town of Driffield calls itself ‘the capital of the Wolds’, and this three councillor ward encompassing the town and much of the higher reaches of the Wolds is a populous and historically Conservative ward. Three Conservatives were returned in 2019 followed by two Independents; one of these is standing again, but it seems likely the ward stays Conservative.
East Wolds and Coastal is likewise a very blue three member constituency. In 2019 this was a fight between three Conservatives, three Greens and two Labour candidates, with the Greens outperforming Labour by a large margin, though still with some distance to taking a council seat from the Tories. This time around, Labour and Liberal Democrats are both fielding full slates against the Conservatives, the Greens have two in the race and one Yorkshire Party and one independent round out the field. A difficult one to predict, but if the Greens are going to pick up anywhere in the county it will likely be here.
Bridlington North, Bridlington South and Bridlington Central and Old Town
Finally Bridlington, a former coastal resort town with a bad case of being a former coastal resort town. Everything you’d expect from this kind of area is true of Bridlington; highest unemployment in the county, an ageing population, a large Brexit vote and a strong historic performance for marginal right-wing parties.
Bridlington North is a three councillor constituency that in 2019 had four candidates, three Blue, one Red. The Conservatives unsurprisingly won. In 2023 we have only one Labour candidate still, joined by three Lib Dems, an Independent candidate, Malcolm Milns, a former UKIP councillor, one Reform and one SDP candidate, Joy Verda - the SDP in Bridlington are not quite as much of a joke as elsewhere as the SDP had two councillors returned in the Central ward in 2003, one of whom held his seat until his death in 2014. What this rather chaotic field might mean for the vote is difficult to say, but this will be another ward Reform fancy their chances.
Bridlington Central and Old Town in 2019 returned one Conservative and one Independent, Liam Dealtry, who had previously unsuccessfully stood as Labour candidate in 2011 and as Conservative candidate in 2003. The SDP are fielding another candidate here, Carlo Verda, who may do fairly well for the reasons outlined above. The Lib Dems are the only party fielding two candidates for this two councillor ward, with the Conservatives and Labour fielding one each. Difficult to say again what will shake out here.
Finally, Bridlington South, where the Yorkshire Party took both seats of the ward in 2019, with around 900 votes apiece, followed by the leading Conservative candidate on 742 and the leading Labour candidate on 698. They will be hoping to hold on to these two seats, but competition is fierce with two candidates each fielded by Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems, another Independent former UKIP candidate, Thelma Milns, an SDP candidate and last but certainly by no means least, Alan Thomson standing under the affiliation ‘Freedom Alliance. Stop the Great Reset’.
As you can probably tell, Bridlington is where my eyes will be most pinned on Friday morning to see what’s shaken out, but I hope that this preview (if any of you have bothered to read it) will convince you to pay some attention to the unique politics of the East Riding. Happy election-watching, UK Politics fans!
PREDICTIONS
NB : I've been moderately sceptical with this; there are enough tight races that it could be both much better and much worse for the Conservatives.
Southwest Holderness : CON, CON, LDM Southeast Holderness : CON, CON, CON Mid Holderness : CON, CON, LDM North Holderness : IND, IND Beverley Rural : CON, CON, CON St Mary’s : LDM, LDM, LDM Minster and Woodmansey : LAB, LAB, LAB South Hunsley : CON, CON Dale : IND, CON, CON Hessle : LDM, LAB, LAB Tranby : LDM, LDM Willerby and Kirk Ella : CON, CON, LDM Cottingham North : CON, CON Cottingham South : CON, CON Goole North : LAB, LAB Goole South : IND, IND Snaith, Airmyn, Rawcliffe and Marshland : CON, CON Wolds Weighton : YRK, CON, IND Pocklington Provincial : LDM, LAB, LAB Howdenshire : CON, CON Howden : LDM East Wolds and Coastal : CON, CON, GRN Driffield and Rural : CON, CON, CON Bridlington North : CON, CON, CON Bridlington Central & Old Town : IND, CON Bridlington South : YRK, YRK
CON : 34 (-15), LDM : 10 (+2), LAB : 9 (+9), IND : 7 (-1), YRK : 3 (+1), GRN : 1 (+1)
CON HOLD
USEFUL LINKS
East Riding of Yorkshire Council 2019 Elections Results : Wikipedia, Local Elections Archive

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RB. Gerald Ameln 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Sea Devils
K. Daniel Schuhmacher 🇩🇪 from Rhein Fire
CB. Dajon Owens 🇺🇸 from Stony Brook Seawolves (NCAA D-1)
DB. David Graf 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
LB. Sven Appelt 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
RB. Fabio Luis Carrara 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DL. Adrian Dula 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DL. Nico Kalterherberg 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
TE. Eric Fiedler 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
LB. Felix Födinger 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DB. Tom Kleinmann 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DB. Thomas Jacob 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
OL. Kevin Kreider 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
OL. Dominik Urich 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
WR. Joshua Wilhelm 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DL. Tim Remmerbach 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
DE. Jai Jackson 🇬🇧 from London Blitz (BAFA Premier)
OL. Carlos Carrasco-Sanz 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
OL. Rares Gheorghiu 🇷🇴 from Bucharest Rebels (CNFA)
OL. Albert Trovato 🇩🇪 from Langenfeld Longhorns (GFL2)
OL. Dean Orere 🇩🇪 from Langenfeld Longhorns (GFL2)
WR. Aril Rwantambara 🇧🇪 from Solingen Paladins (GFL2)
QB. Dylan Jacob 🇺🇸 from Rouen Leopards (ELITE D-2)

FEHERVAR ENTHRONERS

RB. Kende Rathonyi 🇭🇺 from Vienna Vikings
WR. Benjamin Plu 🇫🇷 from Barcelona Dragons
LB. Antony Rodrigues 🇫🇷 from Barcelona Dragons
OL. Connor Bolton 🇬🇧 from Berlin Thunder
OL. Albert Pekozer 🇹🇷 from Berlin Thunder
FS. Mateusz Dzioban 🇵🇱 from Istanbul Rams
WR. Jay Griffin IV 🇺🇸 from Northwestern State University (NCAA D-1)
CB. Elijah Moody 🇺🇸 from University of Nevada (NCAA D-1)
QB. Jerod Evans 🇺🇸 from Northern Arizona Wranglers (IFL)
DL. Florian Hirsch 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
QB. Mate Hegedus 🇭🇺 from Vienna Vikings (AFL)
TE. Kristof Horvath 🇭🇺 from Swarco Raiders (AFL)
WR. Marton Meszaros 🇭🇺 from Budapest Cowbells (HFL)
TE. Laszlo Boros 🇭🇺 from Budapest Cowbells (HFL)
S. Marton Nemeth 🇭🇺 from Budapest Cowbells (HFL)
LB. Bodnar Benedek 🇭🇺 from Miskolc Steelers (HFL)
DE. Almos Illes 🇭🇺 from Budapest Wolves (HFL)

FRANKFURT GALAXY

CB. Jamalcolm Liggins 🇺🇸 from Tirol Raiders
S. Tony Anderson 🇫🇷 from Tirol Raiders
WR. Niko Lester 🇩🇪 from Barcelona Dragons
OL. Matej Bencek 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
DL. Ramy Mohamed 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
RB. Samuel Shannon 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
CB. Berdale Robins 🇺🇸 from University of Nevada (NCAA D-1)
OL. Danijel Miletic 🇩🇪 from Virginia Tech University (NCAA D-1)
DE. Moubarak Djeri 🇹🇬 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL) ***
DE. Daniel Bartmann 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. David Miletic 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DL. Frank Mousel 🇩🇪 from Saarland Hurricanes (GFL)
WR. Normen Schumm 🇩🇪 from Ingolstadt Dukes (GFL)
CB. Sebastian Brandt 🇩🇪 from Marburg Mercenaries (GFL)
CB. Cedric Schmitt 🇩🇪 from Montabaur Fighting Farmers (OBERLIGA Mitte)
LB. Noah Sommer 🇩🇪 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL Junior)

HAMBURG SEA DEVILS

WR. Malik Stanley 🇺🇸 from Wroclaw Panthers
OL. Daniel Claus 🇩🇪 from Tirol Raiders
DE. Jan-Phillip Bombek 🇩🇪 from Leipzig Kings
DB. Deion Harris 🇺🇸 from Toronto Argonauts (CFL)
OL. Lucas Lavin 🇸🇪 from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (NCAA D-1)
QB. Preston Haire 🇺🇸 from Oklahoma Baptist University (NCAA D-2)
DE. Robert Lachmann 🇩🇪 from Clarion University of Pennsylvania (NCAA D-2)
DE. Moritz Hiendleder 🇦🇺 🇩🇪 from Tyler Junior College (NJCAA)
RB. Lucas Harting-Candido 🇩🇪 from College of the Canyons (SCFA)
DB. Victor Omorodion 🇩🇪 from College of the Canyons (SCFA)
OL. Gerrit Brandt 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
DB. Marvin Gesellnsetter 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
TE. Malcom Abimbola 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
DE. Jan-Niklas Makoben 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
DT. Manuel Raskopp 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
WR. Finn Appelt 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
OL. Marvin Panienka 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
RB. Jakob Michaelsen 🇩🇰 from Aalborg 89ers (DNL)
WR. Clemens Schuldt 🇩🇪 from Munster Blackhawks (GFL2)
LB. Maurice Wright Jr. 🇺🇸 from Rostock Griffins (GFL2)
CB. Gian-Luca Poerschke 🇩🇪 from Lubeck Cougars (GFL2)
WR. Keanu Morgan 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
TE. Finn Jaster 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
SS. Bjarne Sauer 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
DT. Joshua Kohnlein 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
DB. Karm Singh Garcia Heermann 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
LB. Kubindia "Kobi" Bashale 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
LB. Tim Kroll 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
LB. Emmanuel Kwakye 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Pioneers (Regionaliga Nord)
RB. Kevin Abrokwa 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Pioneers (Regionaliga Nord)
TE. Niklas Kahrau 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Black Swans (OBERLIGA Nord)
LB. Mattis Dolling 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Junior Devils (GFL U19)

HELVETIC GUARDS

DT. Tim Hanni 🇨🇭 from Hamburg Sea Devils
DT. Michael Kimpiabi 🇨🇭 from Stuttgart Surge
CB. Chaska Perron 🇫🇷 from Stuttgart Surge
FS. Maceo Beard 🇫🇷 from Berlin Thunder
WR. Anton Jallai 🇸🇪 from Leipzig Kings
OL. Gabriel Rodriguez 🇪🇸 from Barcelona Dragons
TE. Igor Maslanka 🇸🇰 from Barcelona Dragons
QB. Collin Hill 🇺🇸 from University of South Carolina (NCAA D-1)
LB. JR Tavai 🇺🇸 from Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL)
OL. Niels Meier 🇨🇭 from Washburn University (NCAA D-2)
DL. Robert Harvey 🇨🇭 from Washington and Lee Generals University (NCAA D-3)
DB. Ken Hike Jr. 🇺🇸 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
OL. Federico Ferretti 🇨🇭 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
OL. Filip Kovljenic 🇨🇭 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
DL. Philipp Leimgruber 🇨🇭 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
DE. Dominik Liechti 🇨🇭 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Andreas Buri 🇨🇭 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Timothy Schurmann 🇨🇭 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Adrian Fiedler 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL) ***
RB. Silas Nacita 🇺🇸 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
LB. Jonathan Falk 🇨🇭 from Thonon Black Panthers (ELITE)
WR. David Marty 🇩🇪 from Zurich Renegades (NLA) ***
SS. Oliver Marty 🇩🇪 from Zurich Renegades (NLA) ***
SS. Hendrik Rutishauser 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
WR. Cayman Bailey Jr 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
DT. Milos Panic 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
DE. Abdur-Rahman Elabed 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
SS. Labinot Arapi 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
OL. Timothy Schmid 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
DL. Michel Sousa 🇫🇷 from Calanda Broncos (NLA) ***
WR. Gregorio Colanego 🇮🇹 from Calanda Broncos (NLA) ***
RB. Ibony Mbungu 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
RB. Moritz Stein 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
RB. Dimitri Gfeller 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
WR. Xavier Baudraz 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
TE. Theo Stirnimann 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
OL. Jurg Stalder 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
OL. Pascal Hollenstein 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
OL. Matthias Munger 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
LB. Fabian Strahm 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
LB. Julien Conus 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
DL. Yannick Friedberg 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
SS. Dominic Mischler 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
K. Nils Jonkmans 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
WR. Timo Hager 🇨🇭 from Winterthur Warriors (NLA)
QB. Richard Wartmann 🇨🇭 from Winterthur Warriors (NLA)
DE. Jean Pierre Stadler 🇨🇭 from Winterthur Warriors (NLA)
CB. Fabian Bruhin 🇨🇭 from Basel Gladiators (NLA)
SS. Florian Ziegler 🇨🇭 from Basel Gladiators (NLA)
RB. Kevin Audetat 🇨🇭 from Neuchatel Knights (NLB)
DT. Dalibor Vuckovic 🇨🇭 from Solothurn Ducks (NLB)
WR. Colin Ceesay 🇨🇭 from Argovia Pirates (NLB)
DE. Luca Steiner 🇨🇭 from Zurich State Spartans (NLB)
OL. Raffael Wachter 🇨🇭 from Zurich State Spartans (NLB)
LB. Ludovic Vincent 🇨🇭 from Morges Bandits (NLC)

LEIPZIG KINGS

WR. Noah Bomba 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
TE. Jens Walter 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
TE. Domenik Rofalski 🇩🇪 from Rhein Fire
RB. Leander Carstensen 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 from Rhein Fire
WR. Kelian Mathis Mouliom 🇩🇪 from Berlin Thunder
WR. Luis Moreno 🇪🇸 from Frankfurt Galaxy ***
OL. Dominik Behrens 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Sea Devils
DB. Dominic Yaw Aboagye-Duah 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Sea Devils
LB. Lars Bardenhagen 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Sea Devils
RB. Steve McShane 🇺🇸 from Houston Roughnecks (XFL)
DT. Nico Koch 🇩🇪 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL)
OL. Austin Igba Ujene 🇳🇬 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL) ***
QB. Kenyatte Allen Jr. 🇺🇸 from Allgau Comets (GFL)
S. Devan Burrell 🇺🇸 from Allgau Comets (GFL)
DE. Carlo Reimann 🇩🇪 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
DB. Rene Merkel 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
FB. Niklas Ritter 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
LB. Niels Schroedter 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
RB. Maurice Baker 🇩🇪 from NFL Academy UK (NFL UK)
DL. Felix Delgado 🇨🇺 from Hamburg Pioneers (Regionaliga Nord) ***
WR. Leander Winter 🇩🇪 from Reutlinger Eagles (Regionaliga Sudwest)
TE. Al Mustafa Almakki 🇩🇪 from Bristol Academy Pride (Premier BUCS UK)
OL. Joel Coenes 🇩🇪 from Diamond Football Academy (CFG Tour)
CB. Zil Jalaal Issac-Turea 🇩🇪 from Pennridge Bears (High School PA-USA)
LB. Eric Bauroth 🇩🇪 from Suhl Gunslingers (Verbandsliga Mittel)
OL. Max Kohler 🇩🇪 from Suhl Gunslingers (Verbandsliga Mittel)
DL. Paul Meischter 🇩🇪 from Suhl Gunslingers (Verbandsliga Mittel)

MILANO SEAMEN

OL. Thomas Fileccia 🇫🇷 from Wroclaw Panthers
OL. Francesco Runco 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Galaxy
WR. Jean Constant 🇺🇸 from Hamburg Sea Devils
OL. Lewis Thomas 🇬🇧 from Hamburg Sea Devils
RB. Modeste Pooda 🇮🇹 from Vienna Vikings
K. Giorgio Tavecchio 🇮🇹 from Barcelona Dragons
CB. Marquise Manning 🇺🇸 from Washburn University (NCAA D-2)
WR. Tamsir Seck 🇮🇹 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
WR. Andrea Serra 🇮🇹 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
RB. Ali Khalife 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
DB. Dejvion Steward 🇺🇸 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
OL. Domenico Carroli 🇮🇹 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
QB. Nicholas Dalmasso 🇮🇹 from Turin Jaguars (IFL)
LB. Diego Rinaldi 🇮🇹 from Firenze Guelfi (IFL)
LB. Tiberio Calbucci 🇮🇹 from Bologna Warriors (IFL)
K. Matteo Felli 🇮🇹 from Parma Panthers (lFL)
DL. Giacomo Insom 🇮🇹 from Lazio Ducks (IFL)
OL. Francesco Virlinzi 🇮🇹 from Lazio Ducks (IFL)
RB. Luca Assemian 🇮🇹 from Milano Rhinos (IFL)
TE. Daniel Marshall 🇬🇧 from Silesia Rebels (PFL)
OL. Harry Sayer 🇬🇧 from Hildesheim Invaders (GFL2)
RB. Cristiano Mancini 🇮🇹 from Milano Rams (IFL-CIF9)

MUNICH RAVENS

WR. Marvin Rutsch 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Galaxy
RB. Justin Rodney 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Galaxy
CB. Darius Robinson 🇺🇸 from Wroclaw Panthers
DE. Dominic Siegel 🇩🇪 from Vienna Vikings
CB. Fabrizio Umetelli 🇮🇹 from Rhein Fire
OL. Philip Weinzierl 🇩🇪 from Rhein Fire
OL. Marco Fischer 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
OL. Nathan Kalemba 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
FS. Junior Nkembi 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
SS. Julian Ludwig-Mayorga 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
DB. Moritz Scharr 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
WR. Moritz Riedinger 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
WR. Markell Castle 🇺🇸 from Milano Seamen
OL. Roman Wahrheit 🇩🇪 from Towson University (NCAA D-1)
LB. Amin Black 🇺🇸 from Marburg Mercenaries (GFL)
WR. Sebastian Kurrer 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Marvin Biegert 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
CB. Rachid Ali-Tagba 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DE. Leon Weber 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DL. Jose Matias Ricco 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Thomas Schmidt 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
OL. Tobias Vorreiter 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
OL. Thomas Heller 🇧🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL) ***
WR. Jannik Nowak 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
WR. Luca Salvo 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
TE. Marlon Malki 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
RB. Alexander Braunsperger 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
LB. Kevin Titz 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
LB. Leon Nieper 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
DL. Tizian Vogl 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
DL. Patrick Roth 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
CB. Joschka Bartz 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
FS. Enis Kaser 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
QB. Lukas Von Stumpfeldt from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
K. Robert Werner 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
OL. Dominik Ondra 🇩🇪 from Straubing Spiders (GFL)
OL. Jan Eberl 🇩🇪 from Straubing Spiders (GFL)
WR. Jan Hochschild 🇩🇪 from Straubing Spiders (GFL)
DL. Johannes Zirngibl 🇩🇪 from Straubing Spiders (GFL)
DL. Robin Rogoss 🇩🇪 from Straubing Spiders (GFL)
LB. Patrick Engelhardt 🇩🇪 from Straubing Spiders (GFL)
FS. Alexander Weissbeck 🇩🇪 from Straubing Spiders (GFL)
WR. Sixten Dragan 🇩🇪 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
DL. Johannes Brau 🇩🇪 from Ingolstadt Dukes (GFL)
RB. Tomiwa Oyewo 🇮🇪 from Allgau Comets (GFL)
LB. Nic Haritonenko 🇩🇪 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
QB. Chad Jeffries 🇺🇸 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
SS. Milos Ilic 🇩🇰 from Aalborg 89ers (DNL)
WR. Jason Sanders 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 from Sheffield Giants (BAFA Premier) ***
DL. Bilal Mawuena 🇩🇪 from Fursty Razorbacks (GFL2)
WR. Lukas Anzeneder 🇩🇪 from Kirchdorf Wildcats (GFL2)
DB. Jonas Gurntke 🇩🇪 from Rosenheim Rebels (Bayernliga Sud)
OL. Lukas Stingl 🇩🇪 from Konigsbrun Ants (Landesliga)
RB. Raphael Kalhofer 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys U19 (GFL U19)

PARIS SAINTS

DT. Mamadou Sy 🇫🇷 from Frankfurt Galaxy
WR. Cheikhow Sow 🇫🇷 from Frankfurt Galaxy
QB. Zach Edwards 🇺🇸 from Barcelona Dragons
WR. Kyle Sweet 🇺🇸 from Barcelona Dragons
DT. Edwin Elio 🇫🇷 from Barcelona Dragons
C. Celestin Ngimbi 🇪🇸 from Barcelona Dragons
OL. Eduardo Sanchez Gonzalez 🇪🇸 from Barcelona Dragons
RB. Jason Aguemon 🇫🇷 from Rhein Fire
OL. Fabian Kratz 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
DE. Anthony "Randy" Abandzounou 🇫🇷 Istanbul Rams
DE. Stanley Zeregbe 🇫🇷 from Berlin Thunder
FS. Amir Kilani 🇫🇷 from Berlin Thunder
LB. Rayan Khefif 🇫🇷 from Berlin Thunder
TE. Adria Botella 🇪🇸 from Vienna Vikings
CB. Maxime Roger 🇫🇷 from Tirol Raiders
DL. Vincent Buffet 🇫🇷 from Tirol Raiders
DL. Giovanni Nanguy 🇫🇷 from Hamburg Sea Devils
LB. Paul Veritas 🇫🇷 from Stuttgart Surge
DB. Cam Hilton 🇺🇸 from University of Missouri (NCAA D-1)
LB. Digaan Gomis Katchanga 🇫🇷 from Bishop's University (U SPORTS)
RB. Meril Zero 🇫🇷 from Berlin Rebels (GFL)
OL. Mamadou Doumbouya 🇫🇷 from Berlin Rebels (GFL)
OL. Wally Camara 🇫🇷 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL)
CB. Ibel Ahidazan 🇫🇷 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
CB. Khefil Osseni 🇫🇷 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
S. Kenny Floret 🇫🇷 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
WR. Remi Bartellin 🇫🇷 from Thonon Black Panthers (ELITE)
WR. Mickael Doukoure 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
WR. Florian Larose 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
DT. Averdie Mizius 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
LB. Djilan Eustache 🇫🇷 La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
CB. Said Wadjihe 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
DB. Davidson Larochel 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
DB. Vincent Lemoine 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
K. Benjamin Bona 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
OL. Ryan Iguedjtal 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
OL. Sébastien Jallier 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
OL. Nyohor Badiane 🇫🇷 from La Courneuve Flash (ELITE)
OL. Max Gaye 🇫🇷 from Spartiates D'Amiens (ELITE)
DL. Jack Loew 🇦🇺 from Brisbane Rhinos (SQLD)
LB. Dauson Dales 🇺🇸 from Parma Panthers (IFL)
CB. Felix Proulx 🇮🇹 from Parma Panthers (IFL)
RB. Stephen Yepmo 🇫🇷 from Elmshorn Fighting Pirates (GFL2)
TE. Brandon Camara 🇫🇷 from Stuttgart Scorpions (GFL2)
DL. Willem Dendele 🇫🇷 from Elancourt Templiers (ELITE D-2)
OL. Nabil Marzougui 🇫🇷 from Meteores Fontenay Sous Bois (ELITE D-2)

PRAGUE LIONS

OL. Josef Fuksa 🇨🇿 from Tirol Raiders
DL. James Brooks 🇺🇸 from IBM Big Blue (X-LEAGUE)
RB. Adam Zouzelka 🇨🇿 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
DE. Zaire Ugapo 🇳🇿 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
WR. Victor Wharton 🇺🇸 from Saarland Hurricanes (GFL)
DE. Jakub Smutny 🇨🇿 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
OL. Zbyněk Kyslika 🇨🇿 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
SS. Ales Drhlik 🇨🇿 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
WDB/R. Brandon Butler 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 from Frankfurt Universe (GFL)
CB. Rogria Lewis 🇺🇸 from Znojmo Knights (AFL)
DE. Jan Stary 🇨🇿 from Znojmo Knights (AFL)
DE. Marek Danik 🇨🇿 from Znojmo Knights (AFL)
DB. Aleksandar Borkovic 🇷🇸 from Znojmo Knights (AFL)
OL. Miroslav Kysilka 🇨🇿 from Prague Black Panthers (AFL)
OL. Michal Knotek 🇨🇿 from Prague Black Panthers (AFL)
CB. Jan Krs 🇨🇿 from Prague Black Panthers (AFL)
K. Marek Hrubon 🇨🇿 from Prague Black Panthers (AFL)
WR. Nicolas Karnik 🇨🇿 from Prague Black Panthers (AFL)
WR. Aymeric Nicault 🇫🇷 from Helsinki Roosters (MAPLE LEAGUE)
OL. Jan Raus 🇨🇿 from Kuopio Steelers (MAPLE LEAGUE)
LB. Emmanuel Falola 🇬🇧 from Bristol Aztecs (BAFA Premier)
TE. Eden Thiede-Palmer 🇬🇧 from Durham Saints (BAFA Premier)
RB. David Kilian 🇨🇿 from Brno Alligators (CAAF)
WR. Pavel Sevecek 🇨🇿 from Brno Sigrs (CAAF)

RHEIN FIRE

RB. Glen Toonga 🇬🇧 from Hamburg Sea Devils
RB. Giacomo De Pauli 🇩🇪 from Berlin Thunder
DE. Alejandro Fernandez 🇪🇸 from Barcelona Dragons
WR. Leon Kusterer 🇩🇪 from Leipzig Kings
WR. Jannik Lorcks 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
WR. Justin Schlesinger 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
TE. Laurin Wiegand 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
DB. Max Richter 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
LB. Flamur Simon 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
LB. Marius Kensy 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
DE. Julian Volker 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
OL. Leander Wiegand 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
OL. Jan Hendrik Koch 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
OL. Kevin Foitzik 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
OL. Joachim Christensen 🇩🇰 from Frankfurt Galaxy
DB. Benjamin Barnes 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
WR. Anthony Mahoungou 🇫🇷 from Ottawa Redblacks (CFL)
DB. TJ Morrison 🇺🇸 from Saskatchewan Roughriders (CFL)
RB. Sergej Kendus 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
LB. Lino Schroter 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
WR. Jakob Neugebauer 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DT. Samuel Kargel 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
DT. Shamgar Owosu 🇩🇪 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL)
QB. Jan Leuker 🇩🇪 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL)
OL. Yasir Raji 🇩🇪 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
DB. Philip Stegemann 🇩🇪 from Berlin Rebels (GFL)
WR. Noah Gehring 🇩🇪 from Solingen Paladins (GFL2)
WR. Leon Holtker 🇩🇪 from Coesfeld Bulls (Landesliga NRW)
OL. Bemigho Eyimofe 🇩🇪 from Cologne Falcons (Regionaliga NRW)
RB. Tobias Reglinski 🇩🇪 from Oberhausen Tornados (Aufbauliga NRW)

STUTTGART SURGE

WR. Louis Geyer 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
WR. Yannick Mayr 🇦🇹 from Tirol Raiders
TE. Philip Eichhorn 🇩🇪 from Leipzig Kings
LB. Sasan Jelvani 🇩🇪 from Leipzig Kings
LB. Majan Jelvani 🇩🇪 from Rhein Fire
DB. Goran Zec 🇷🇸 from Wroclaw Panthers
S. Konstantin Katz 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Galaxy
RB. Kai Hunter 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Galaxy
LB. Lorenzo Deiana 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 from Hamburg Sea Devils
LB. Khaylan Kearse Thomas 🇺🇸 from Winnipeg Blue Bombers (CFL)
RB. Asnnel Robo 🇫🇷 from Toronto Argonauts (CFL)
DB. Lasse Engel 🇩🇪 from San Diego State University (NCAA D-1)
TE. Emmanuel Hafele 🇩🇪 from Marshall University (NCAA D-1)
WR. Emil Rabin 🇩🇪 from Graceland University (NAIA)
QB. Reilly Hennessey 🇺🇸 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
WR. Bryce Nunnelly 🇺🇸 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
CB. Mitch Fettig 🇺🇸 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
WR. Moritz Bohringer 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
WR. Aurieus Minton 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
WR. Joshua Hass 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Alessandro Vergani 🇮🇹 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Lukas Maier 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Robert Hager 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DE. Simon Butsch 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DT. Alexander Kress 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DT. Raphael Zistler 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Benjamin Spiess 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Giuseppe Della Vecchia 🇮🇹 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Thomas Frach 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Luis Bach 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Sascha Beck 🇩🇪 from Saarland Hurricanes (GFL)
WR. Florian Lengauer 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
K. Lenny Krieg 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
FB. Maximilian Merwarth 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
CB. Martin Korber 🇩🇪 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
DE. Ville Valasti 🇫🇮 from Helsinki Wolverines (MAPLE LEAGUE)
S. Kai Singer 🇩🇪 from Reuttlingen Eagles (REGIONALIGA SW)
OL. Luca Jokiel 🇩🇪 from Heidelberg Hunters (OBERLIGA BW)
DL. Maximilian Dommermuth 🇩🇪 from Heidelberg Hunters (OBERLIGA BW)
LB. Lukas Storz 🇩🇪 from Heidelberg Hunters (OBERLIGA BW)
LB. Jan Bender 🇩🇪 from Heidelberg Hunters (OBERLIGA BW)
RB. Levin Liebenow 🇩🇪 from Mannheim Bandits (OBERLIGA BW)
LB. Luca Siebert 🇩🇪 from Leonberg Alligators (OBERLIGA BW)
OL. Markos Dubravkic 🇩🇪 from Leonberg Alligators (OBERLIGA BW)
CB. Thiago Siebert 🇩🇪 from Leonberg Alligators (OBERLIGA BW)
DE. Alexander Christoph Hofer 🇩🇪 from Kit Sc Engineers (OBERLIGA BW)

TIROL RAIDERS

LB. Sebastian Huber 🇦🇹 from Vienna Vikings
OL. Toby Lettman 🇬🇧 from Vienna Vikings
DB. Ja'Len Embry 🇺🇸 from Frankfurt Galaxy
OL. Basil Weber 🇨🇭 from Frankfurt Galaxy
LB. Precious Ogbevoen 🇦🇹 from Stuttgart Surge
RB. Sandro Platzgummer 🇦🇹 from New York Giants (NFL)
DB. Divine Buckrham 🇺🇸 from San Antonio Brahmas (XFL)
OL. Steven Nielsen 🇩🇰 from Edmonton Elks (CFL)
QB. Christian Strong 🇨🇦 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
WR. Jarvis McClam 🇺🇸 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DT. Stanley Aronokhale 🇦🇹 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
WR. Jessey Mensah 🇦🇹 from Swarco Raiders (AFL)
OL. Tobias Haslehner 🇦🇹 from Traun Steelsharks (AFL)
DB. Clemens Voit 🇦🇹 from Modling Rangers (AFL)
TE. Richard Weber 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
DB. Matthias Rebl 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
DB. Fabian Raunig 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
OL. Robert Wittmann 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
DE. Joel Maddock 🇦🇺 from Bayside Ravens (GQ)

VIENNA VIKINGS

OL. Thomas Schaffer 🇦🇹 from Tirol Raiders
QB. Chris Helbig 🇺🇸 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
RB. Karri Pajarinen 🇫🇮 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
WR. Radim Kalous 🇨🇿 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
TE. Robert Schuller 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
DE. Valentin Leutgeb 🇦🇹 from Traun Steelsharks (AFL)
DE. JaMarcus Henderson 🇺🇸 from Kotka Eagles (MAPLE LEAGUE)
DB. Elmeri Laalo 🇫🇮 from Helsinki Wolverines (MAPLE LEAGUE)
DE. Kalechi Dyke 🇬🇧 🇦🇹 from London Warriors (BAFA Premier)
LB. Matthias Stadlmann 🇦🇹 from WU Tigers (ACSL)

WROCLAW PANTHERS

QB. Nik Rango 🇺🇸 from Virginia Armada (MLFB)
DE. Solomon Brown 🇺🇸 from Charleston Southern University (NCAA D-1)
WR. Brenton Martin 🇺🇸 from UMHB Crusaders (NCAA D-3)
RB. Norman Ossohou 🇫🇷 from Bishops University (U SPORTS)
DB. Artevius Smith 🇺🇸 from Omaha Beef (CIF)
DL. Oskar Romaniuk 🇵🇱 from Krakow Kings (PFL)
TE. Dominik Niedziela 🇵🇱 from Tychy Falcons (PFL)
OL. Konrad Orzechowski 🇵🇱 from Bialystok Lowlanders (PFL)
LB. Timi Nuikka 🇫🇮 from Porvoo Butchers (MAPLE LEAGUE)
DT. Artur Pinheiro 🇪🇸 from Seinajoki Crocodiles (MAPLE LEAGUE)
OL. Otavio Amorim 🇧🇷 from Galo FA (Superliga Nacional)
DT. Leo Krafft 🇳🇴 from Koc University (SUPERLEAGUE)
LB. Stanislaw ldziak 🇵🇱 from Prague Lions (CAAF)
K. Jakub Aldas 🇵🇱 from Kicking Derby (Combine)

FT: Oxford United 1-1 Portsmouth

Oxford United scorers: Sam Long (37')
Portsmouth scorers: Marlon Pack (26')
Venue: The Kassam Stadium
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LINE-UPS
Oxford United
Simon Eastwood, Stuart Findlay, Elliott Moore, Ciaron Brown, Sam Long, Marcus Browne, Cameron Brannagan, Marcus McGuane, Gatlin O'Donkor (Billy Bodin), Kyle Joseph (Yanic Wildschut), Tyler Goodrham (Djavan Anderson).
Subs: Edward Mcginty, Brandon Fleming, Oisin Smyth, Tyler Smith.
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Portsmouth
Matt Macey, Di'Shon Bernard, Sean Raggett, Connor Ogilvie, Joseph Rafferty, Marlon Pack, Tom Lowery (Joe Pigott), Ryan Tunnicliffe (Louis Thompson), Colby Bishop, Michael Jacobs (Recco Hackett-Fairchild), Paddy Lane (Owen Dale).
Subs: Clark Robertson, Dane Scarlett, Josh Oluwayemi.
MATCH EVENTS via ESPN
20' Paddy Lane (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card.
26' Goal! Oxford United 0, Portsmouth 1. Marlon Pack (Portsmouth) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner.
33' Di'Shon Bernard (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
37' Goal! Oxford United 1, Portsmouth 1. Sam Long (Oxford United) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Cameron Brannagan with a cross following a corner.
43' Tom Lowery (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
45' Sean Raggett (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
52' Cameron Brannagan (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
62' Substitution, Portsmouth. Owen Dale replaces Paddy Lane.
69' Joe Rafferty (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
70' Substitution, Portsmouth. Reeco Hackett-Fairchild replaces Michael Jacobs.
70' Substitution, Portsmouth. Louis Thompson replaces Ryan Tunnicliffe.
76' Substitution, Oxford United. Yanic-Sonny Wildschut replaces Kyle Joseph.
83' Substitution, Oxford United. Billy Bodin replaces Gatlin O'Donkor.
84' Substitution, Oxford United. Djavan Anderson replaces Tyler Goodrham.
90' Substitution, Portsmouth. Joe Pigott replaces Tom Lowery.
90'+2' Louis Thompson (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
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*** Homegrown players
BARCELONA DRAGONS
QB. Conor Miller 🇺🇸 from Leipzig Kings
WR. Austin Duke 🇺🇸 from New York Guardians (XFL)
DE. Darius Slade 🇺🇸 from University of South Florida (NCAA D-1)
DB. Luke Glenna 🇺🇸 from University of St. Thomas Minnesota (NCAA D-1)
LB. Manuel Fernandez 🇪🇸 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
WR. Melvin Palin 🇫🇷 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL)
LB. Hugo Dyrendhal 🇸🇪 from Telfs Patriots (AFL)
WR. Theodor Landstrom 🇸🇪 from Telfs Patriots (AFL)
TE. Raul Cernuda 🇪🇸 from Badalona Dracs (LNFA)
RB. Eduard Molina 🇪🇸 from Badalona Dracs (LNFA)
QB. Pol Singleton 🇪🇸 from Badalona Dracs (LNFA)
P. Samuel Higgins 🇦🇺 from Badalona Dracs (LNFA) ***
WR. Alejandro García 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
DT. Daniel Lopez 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
DT. Diego Irles 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
OL. David Culebras 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
OL. Diego Varela 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
DE. Diego Paz 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
CB. Julio Aguado 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
S. Hugo Minguez 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
DE. Leo Rovesti 🇪🇸 from Alcobendas Cavaliers (LNFA)
DE. Francisco Olivas 🇪🇸 from Mallorca Voltors (LNFA)
DE. Rodrigo Sanz 🇪🇸 from Osos Rivas (LNFA)
WR. Eduardo Pérez 🇪🇸 from Osos Rivas (LNFA)
QB. Adrian Moreno 🇪🇸 from L'Hospitalet Pioners (LNFA)
S. Brayan Colome 🇪🇸 from L'Hospitalet Pioners (LNFA)
CB. Iker González 🇪🇸 from L'Hospitalet Pioners (LNFA)
CB. Ivan Garcia 🇪🇸 from Camioneros Coslada (LNFA)
OL. Ben Dixon 🇬🇧 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
OL. Ivan Rodriguez 🇪🇸 from Granada Lions (LNFA B)
OL. Carlos Guillén 🇪🇸 from Riudoms Rebels (LNFA B)
RB. Samuel Arias 🇪🇸 from Terrassa Reds (LNFA B)
DT. Mamadou Ka Thiobane 🇪🇸 from Terrassa Reds (LNFA B)
WR. Alex García 🇪🇸 from Alicante Sharks (LNFA B)
CB. Pascal Sendelbach 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 from Dragons Academy (LNFA Jr)
RB. Marc Mesa 🇪🇸 from Dragons Academy (LNFA Jr)
WR. Pau Tomás 🇪🇸 from Dragons Academy (LNFA Jr)
OL. Enzo Biasizzo 🇪🇸 from Dragons Academy (LNFA Jr)
LB. Mario Ruiz 🇪🇸 from Dragons Academy (LNFA Jr)
BERLIN THUNDER
OL. Felix Lepper 🇩🇪 from Leipzig Kings
WR. Bais Kouanda 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Sea Devils
DE. Emil Hovde 🇸🇪 from Mercer University (NCAA D-1)
QB. Donovan Isom 🇺🇸 from Berlin Rebels (GFL)
WR. Aaron Jackson 🇺🇸 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
WR. Max Zimmermann 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
WR. Maurice Rothenburg 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
FB. Bola Moussa 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
LB. Simon Sperner 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
LB. Moritz Teuchert 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
LB. Giancarlo Boone 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
LB. Rick Baunacke 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
OL. Malik Ahmad 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
RB. Ahmad Khalife 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
DB. Alex Spillum 🇺🇸 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
CB. Jonas Gacek 🇩🇪 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
LB. Nic Klopsch 🇩🇪 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
DT. Christer Berg 🇫🇮 from Helsinki Roosters (MAPLE LEAGUE)
DB. Viljo Lempinen 🇫🇮 from Stockholm Mean Machines (SUPERSERIEN)
CB. Rico Geyer 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Universe (GFL2)
LB. Fery Bogard 🇩🇪 from Lubeck Cougars (GFL2)
OL. Philipp Weltzien 🇩🇪 from Rostock Griffins (GFL2)
OL. Max Locke 🇩🇪 from Rostock Griffins (GFL2)
OL. Daniel Binternagel 🇩🇪 from Berlin Bullets (OBERLIGA Ost)
WR. Oliver Schmidt 🇩🇪 from Berlin Bullets (OBERLIGA Ost)
DL. Fabian Tchuda 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Pioneers (Regionaliga Nord)
COLOGNE CENTURIONS
LB. Zachary Blair 🇺🇸 from Istanbul Rams
WR. Terryon Robinson 🇺🇸 from Istanbul Rams
WR. Kris Wedderburn 🇬🇧 from Istanbul Rams
DE. Tim Gockus 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Galaxy
DT. Tim Wustefeld 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Galaxy
RB. Gerald Ameln 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Sea Devils
CB. Dajon Owens 🇺🇸 from Stony Brook Seawolves (NCAA D-1)
DB. David Graf 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
LB. Sven Appelt 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
RB. Fabio Luis Carrara 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DL. Adrian Dula 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DL. Nico Kalterherberg 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
TE. Eric Fiedler 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
LB. Felix Födinger 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DB. Tom Kleinmann 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DB. Thomas Jacob 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
OL. Kevin Kreider 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
OL. Dominik Urich 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
WR. Joshua Wilhelm 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DL. Tim Remmerbach 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
DE. Jai Jackson 🇬🇧 from London Blitz (BAFA Premier)
OL. Carlos Carrasco-Sanz 🇪🇸 from Las Rozas Black Demons (LNFA)
OL. Rares Gheorghiu 🇷🇴 from Bucharest Rebels (CNFA)
OL. Albert Trovato 🇩🇪 from Langenfeld Longhorns (GFL2)
OL. Dean Orere 🇩🇪 from Langenfeld Longhorns (GFL2)
WR. Aril Rwantambara 🇧🇪 from Solingen Paladins (GFL2)
QB. Dylan Jacob 🇺🇸 from Rouen Leopards (ELITE D-2)
FEHERVAR ENTHRONERS
RB. Kende Rathonyi 🇭🇺 from Vienna Vikings
WR. Benjamin Plu 🇫🇷 from Barcelona Dragons
LB. Antony Rodrigues 🇫🇷 from Barcelona Dragons
OL. Connor Bolton 🇬🇧 from Berlin Thunder
OL. Albert Pekozer 🇹🇷 from Berlin Thunder
FS. Mateusz Dzioban 🇵🇱 from Istanbul Rams
WR. Jay Griffin IV 🇺🇸 from Northwestern State University (NCAA D-1)
CB. Elijah Moody 🇺🇸 from University of Nevada (NCAA D-1)
QB. Jerod Evans 🇺🇸 from Northern Arizona Wranglers (IFL)
DL. Florian Hirsch 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
QB. Mate Hegedus 🇭🇺 from Vienna Vikings (AFL)
TE. Kristof Horvath 🇭🇺 from Swarco Raiders (AFL)
WR. Marton Meszaros 🇭🇺 from Budapest Cowbells (HFN)
TE. Laszlo Boros 🇭🇺 from Budapest Cowbells (HFN)
S. Marton Nemeth 🇭🇺 from Budapest Cowbells (HFN)
LB. Bodnar Benedek 🇭🇺 from Miskolc Steelers (HFN)
DE. Almos Illes 🇭🇺 from Budapest Wolves (HFN)
FRANKFURT GALAXY
CB. Jamalcolm Liggins 🇺🇸 from Tirol Raiders
S. Tony Anderson 🇫🇷 from Tirol Raiders
WR. Niko Lester 🇩🇪 from Barcelona Dragons
OL. Matej Bencek 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
DL. Ramy Mohamed 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
RB. Samuel Shannon 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
CB. Berdale Robins 🇺🇸 from University of Nevada (NCAA D-1)
OL. Danijel Miletic 🇩🇪 from Virginia Tech University (NCAA D-1)
DE. Moubarak Djeri 🇹🇬 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL) ***
DE. Daniel Bartmann 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. David Miletic 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DL. Frank Mousel 🇩🇪 from Saarland Hurricanes (GFL)
WR. Normen Schumm 🇩🇪 from Ingolstadt Dukes (GFL)
CB. Sebastian Brandt 🇩🇪 from Marburg Mercenaries (GFL)
CB. Cedric Schmitt 🇩🇪 from Montabaur Fighting Farmers (OBERLIGA Mitte)
LB. Noah Sommer 🇩🇪 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL Junior)
HAMBURG SEA DEVILS
WR. Malik Stanley 🇺🇸 from Wroclaw Panthers
OL. Daniel Claus 🇩🇪 from Tirol Raiders
DB. Deion Harris 🇺🇸 from Toronto Argonauts (CFL)
OL. Lucas Lavin 🇸🇪 from University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (NCAA D-1)
QB. Preston Haire 🇺🇸 from Oklahoma Baptist University (NCAA D-2)
DE. Robert Lachmann 🇩🇪 from Clarion University of Pennsylvania (NCAA D-2)
DE. Moritz Hiendleder 🇦🇺 🇩🇪 from Tyler Junior College (NJCAA)
RB. Lucas Harting-Candido 🇩🇪 from College of the Canyons (SCFA)
DB. Victor Omorodion 🇩🇪 from College of the Canyons (SCFA)
OL. Gerrit Brandt 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
DB. Marvin Gesellnsetter 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
TE. Malcom Abimbola 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
DE. Jan-Niklas Makoben 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
DT. Manuel Raskopp 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
WR. Finn Appelt 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
OL. Marvin Panienka 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
RB. Jakob Michaelsen 🇩🇰 from Aalborg 89ers (DNL)
WR. Clemens Schuldt 🇩🇪 from Munster Blackhawks (GFL2)
LB. Maurice Wright Jr. 🇺🇸 from Rostock Griffins (GFL2)
CB. Gian-Luca Poerschke 🇩🇪 from Lubeck Cougars (GFL2)
WR. Keanu Morgan 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
TE. Finn Jaster 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
SS. Bjarne Sauer 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
DT. Joshua Kohnlein 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
DB. Karm Singh Garcia Heermann 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
LB. Kubindia "Kobi" Bashale 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
LB. Tim Kroll 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Huskies (GFL2)
LB. Emmanuel Kwakye 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Pioneers (Regionaliga Nord)
RB. Kevin Abrokwa 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Pioneers (Regionaliga Nord)
TE. Niklas Kahrau 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Black Swans (OBERLIGA Nord)
LB. Mattis Dolling 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Junior Devils (GFL U19)
HELVETIC GUARDS
DT. Tim Hanni 🇨🇭 from Hamburg Sea Devils
DT. Michael Kimpiabi 🇨🇭 from Stuttgart Surge
CB. Chaska Perron 🇫🇷 from Stuttgart Surge
FS. Maceo Beard 🇫🇷 from Berlin Thunder
WR. Anton Jallai 🇸🇪 from Leipzig Kings
OL. Gabriel Rodriguez 🇪🇸 from Barcelona Dragons
TE. Igor Maslanka 🇸🇰 from Barcelona Dragons
QB. Collin Hill 🇺🇸 from University of South Carolina (NCAA D-1)
LB. JR Tavai 🇺🇸 from Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL)
OL. Niels Meier 🇨🇭 from Washburn University (NCAA D-2)
DB. Ken Hike Jr. 🇺🇸 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
OL. Amos Laoye 🇧🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
OL. Federico Ferretti 🇨🇭 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
OL. Filip Kovljenic 🇨🇭 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
DL. Philipp Leimgruber 🇨🇭 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
WR. Pascal Ruegg 🇨🇭 from Allgau Comets (GFL)
LB. Fabio Rothmund 🇨🇭 from Allgau Comets (GFL)
DE. Dominik Liechti 🇨🇭 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Andreas Buri 🇨🇭 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Timothy Schurmann 🇨🇭 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Adrian Fiedler 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL) ***
RB. Silas Nacita 🇺🇸 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
DL. Emmanuel Kabengele 🇨🇩 from Swarco Raiders (AFL) ***
LB. Jonathan Falk 🇨🇭 from Thonon Black Panthers (ELITE)
WR. David Marty 🇩🇪 from Zurich Renegades (NLA) ***
SS. Oliver Marty 🇩🇪 from Zurich Renegades (NLA) ***
SS. Hendrik Rutishauser 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
WR. Cayman Bailey Jr 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
DT. Milos Panic 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
DE. Abdur-Rahman Elabed 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
SS. Labinot Arapi 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
OL. Timothy Schmid 🇨🇭 from Zurich Renegades (NLA)
DL. Michel Sousa 🇫🇷 from Calanda Broncos (NLA) ***
WR. Gregorio Colanego 🇮🇹 from Calanda Broncos (NLA) ***
RB. Ibony Mbungu 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
RB. Moritz Stein 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
RB. Dimitri Gfeller 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
WR. Xavier Baudraz 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
TE. Theo Stirnimann 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
OL. Jurg Stalder 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
OL. Pascal Hollenstein 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
OL. Matthias Munger 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
LB. Fabian Strahm 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
LB. Julien Conus 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
DL. Yannick Friedberg 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
SS. Dominic Mischler 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
K. Nils Jonkmans 🇨🇭 from Bern Grizzlies (NLA)
WR. Timo Hager 🇨🇭 from Winterthur Warriors (NLA)
QB. Richard Wartmann 🇨🇭 from Winterthur Warriors (NLA)
DE. Jean Pierre Stadler 🇨🇭 from Winterthur Warriors (NLA)
CB. Fabian Bruhin 🇨🇭 from Basel Gladiators (NLA)
SS. Florian Ziegler 🇨🇭 from Basel Gladiators (NLA)
RB. Kevin Audetat 🇨🇭 from Neuchatel Knights (NLB)
DT. Dalibor Vuckovic 🇨🇭 from Solothurn Ducks (NLB)
WR. Colin Ceesay 🇨🇭 from Argovia Pirates (NLB)
DE. Luca Steiner 🇨🇭 from Zurich State Spartans (NLB)
OL. Raffael Wachter 🇨🇭 from Zurich State Spartans (NLB)
LB. Ludovic Vincent 🇨🇭 from Morges Bandits (NLC)
LEIPZIG KINGS
WR. Noah Bomba 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
TE. Jens Walter 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
TE. Domenik Rofalski 🇩🇪 from Rhein Fire
RB. Leander Carstensen 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 from Rhein Fire
WR. Kelian Mathis Mouliom 🇩🇪 from Berlin Thunder
WR. Luis Moreno 🇪🇸 from Frankfurt Galaxy ***
OL. Dominik Behrens 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Sea Devils
DB. Dominic Yaw Aboagye-Duah 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Sea Devils
LB. Lars Bardenhagen 🇩🇪 from Hamburg Sea Devils
RB. Steve McShane 🇺🇸 from Houston Roughnecks (XFL)
DT. Nico Koch 🇩🇪 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL)
OL. Austin Igba Ujene 🇳🇬 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL) ***
QB. Kenyatte Allen Jr. 🇺🇸 from Allgau Comets (GFL)
S. Devan Burrell 🇺🇸 from Allgau Comets (GFL)
DE. Carlo Reimann 🇩🇪 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
DB. Rene Merkel 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
FB. Niklas Ritter 🇩🇪 from Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (GFL)
LB. Niels Schroedter 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
RB. Maurice Baker 🇩🇪 from NFL Academy UK (NFL UK)
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WR. Leander Winter 🇩🇪 from Reutlinger Eagles (Regionaliga Sudwest)
TE. Al Mustafa Almakki 🇩🇪 from Bristol Academy Pride (Premier BUCS UK)
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OL. Max Kohler 🇩🇪 from Suhl Gunslingers (Verbandsliga Mittel)
DL. Paul Meischter 🇩🇪 from Suhl Gunslingers (Verbandsliga Mittel)
MILANO SEAMEN
OL. Thomas Fileccia 🇫🇷 from Wroclaw Panthers
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WR. Jean Constant 🇺🇸 from Hamburg Sea Devils
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DL. Jose Matias Ricco 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Thomas Schmidt 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
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TE. Adria Botella 🇪🇸 from Vienna Vikings
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RB. Meril Zero 🇫🇷 from Berlin Rebels (GFL)
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DL. Willem Dendele 🇫🇷 from Elancourt Templiers (ELITE D-2)
OL. Nabil Marzougui 🇫🇷 from Meteores Fontenay Sous Bois (ELITE D-2)
PRAGUE LIONS
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RB. Adam Zouzelka 🇨🇿 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
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WR. Victor Wharton 🇺🇸 from Saarland Hurricanes (GFL)
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SS. Ales Drhlik 🇨🇿 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
WDB/R. Brandon Butler 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 from Frankfurt Universe (GFL)
CB. Rogria Lewis 🇺🇸 from Znojmo Knights (AFL)
DE. Jan Stary 🇨🇿 from Znojmo Knights (AFL)
DE. Marek Danik 🇨🇿 from Znojmo Knights (AFL)
DB. Aleksandar Borkovic 🇷🇸 from Znojmo Knights (AFL)
OL. Miroslav Kysilka 🇨🇿 from Prague Black Panthers (AFL)
OL. Michal Knotek 🇨🇿 from Prague Black Panthers (AFL)
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WR. Nicolas Karnik 🇨🇿 from Prague Black Panthers (AFL)
WR. Aymeric Nicault 🇫🇷 from Helsinki Roosters (MAPLE LEAGUE)
OL. Jan Raus 🇨🇿 from Kuopio Steelers (MAPLE LEAGUE)
LB. Emmanuel Falola 🇬🇧 from Bristol Aztecs (BAFA Premier)
TE. Eden Thiede-Palmer 🇬🇧 from Durham Saints (BAFA Premier)
RB. David Kilian 🇨🇿 from Brno Alligators (CAAF)
WR. Pavel Sevecek 🇨🇿 from Brno Sigrs (CAAF)
RHEIN FIRE
RB. Glen Toonga 🇬🇧 from Hamburg Sea Devils
RB. Giacomo De Pauli 🇩🇪 from Berlin Thunder
DE. Alejandro Fernandez 🇪🇸 from Barcelona Dragons
WR. Leon Kusterer 🇩🇪 from Leipzig Kings
WR. Jannik Lorcks 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
WR. Justin Schlesinger 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
TE. Laurin Wiegand 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
DB. Max Richter 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
LB. Flamur Simon 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
LB. Marius Kensy 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
DE. Julian Volker 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
OL. Leander Wiegand 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
OL. Jan Hendrik Koch 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
OL. Joachim Christensen 🇩🇰 from Frankfurt Galaxy
DB. Benjamin Barnes 🇩🇪 from Stuttgart Surge
WR. Anthony Mahoungou 🇫🇷 from Ottawa Redblacks (CFL)
DB. TJ Morrison 🇺🇸 from Saskatchewan Roughriders (CFL)
RB. Sergej Kendus 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
LB. Lino Schroter 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
WR. Jakob Neugebauer 🇩🇪 from Cologne Crocodiles (GFL)
DT. Samuel Kargel 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
DT. Shamgar Owosu 🇩🇪 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL)
QB. Jan Leuker 🇩🇪 from Dusseldorf Panthers (GFL)
OL. Yasir Raji 🇩🇪 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
DB. Philip Stegemann 🇩🇪 from Berlin Rebels (GFL)
WR. Noah Gehring 🇩🇪 from Solingen Paladins (GFL2)
WR. Leon Holtker 🇩🇪 from Coesfeld Bulls (Landesliga NRW)
OL. Bemigho Eyimofe 🇩🇪 from Cologne Falcons (Regionaliga NRW)
RB. Tobias Reglinski 🇩🇪 from Oberhausen Tornados (Aufbauliga NRW)
STUTTGART SURGE
WR. Louis Geyer 🇩🇪 from Cologne Centurions
WR. Yannick Mayr 🇦🇹 from Tirol Raiders
TE. Philip Eichhorn 🇩🇪 from Leipzig Kings
LB. Sasan Jelvani 🇩🇪 from Leipzig Kings
LB. Majan Jelvani 🇩🇪 from Rhein Fire
DB. Goran Zec 🇷🇸 from Wroclaw Panthers
S. Konstantin Katz 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Galaxy
RB. Kai Hunter 🇩🇪 from Frankfurt Galaxy
LB. Lorenzo Deiana 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 from Hamburg Sea Devils
LB. Khaylan Kearse Thomas 🇺🇸 from Winnipeg Blue Bombers (CFL)
RB. Asnnel Robo 🇫🇷 from Toronto Argonauts (CFL)
DB. Lasse Engel 🇩🇪 from San Diego State University (NCAA D-1)
TE. Emmanuel Hafele 🇩🇪 from Marshall University (NCAA D-1)
WR. Emil Rabin 🇩🇪 from Graceland University (NAIA)
QB. Reilly Hennessey 🇺🇸 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
WR. Bryce Nunnelly 🇺🇸 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
CB. Mitch Fettig 🇺🇸 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
WR. Aurieus Minton 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
WR. Joshua Hass 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Alessandro Vergani 🇮🇹 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Lukas Maier 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Robert Hager 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DE. Simon Butsch 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DT. Alexander Kress 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
DT. Raphael Zistler 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Benjamin Spiess 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Giuseppe Della Vecchia 🇮🇹 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Thomas Frach 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
LB. Luis Bach 🇩🇪 from Schwabisch Hall Unicorns (GFL)
OL. Sascha Beck 🇩🇪 from Saarland Hurricanes (GFL)
WR. Florian Lengauer 🇩🇪 from Munich Cowboys (GFL)
K. Lenny Krieg 🇩🇪 from Berlin Adler (GFL)
FB. Maximilian Merwarth 🇩🇪 from New Yorker Lions (GFL)
CB. Martin Korber 🇩🇪 from Ravensburg Razorbacks (GFL)
DE. Ville Valasti 🇫🇮 from Helsinki Wolverines (MAPLE LEAGUE)
S. Kai Singer 🇩🇪 from Reuttlingen Eagles (REGIONALIGA SW)
OL. Luca Jokiel 🇩🇪 from Heidelberg Hunters (OBERLIGA BW)
DL. Maximilian Dommermuth 🇩🇪 from Heidelberg Hunters (OBERLIGA BW)
LB. Lukas Storz 🇩🇪 from Heidelberg Hunters (OBERLIGA BW)
LB. Jan Bender 🇩🇪 from Heidelberg Hunters (OBERLIGA BW)
RB. Levin Liebenow 🇩🇪 from Mannheim Bandits (OBERLIGA BW)
LB. Luca Siebert 🇩🇪 from Leonberg Alligators (OBERLIGA BW)
OL. Markos Dubravkic 🇩🇪 from Leonberg Alligators (OBERLIGA BW)
CB. Thiago Siebert 🇩🇪 from Leonberg Alligators (OBERLIGA BW)
DE. Alexander Christoph Hofer 🇩🇪 from Kit Sc Engineers (OBERLIGA BW)
TIROL RAIDERS
LB. Sebastian Huber 🇦🇹 from Vienna Vikings
OL. Toby Lettman 🇬🇧 from Vienna Vikings
DB. Ja'Len Embry 🇺🇸 from Frankfurt Galaxy
OL. Basil Weber 🇨🇭 from Frankfurt Galaxy
LB. Precious Ogbevoen 🇦🇹 from Stuttgart Surge
RB. Sandro Platzgummer 🇦🇹 from New York Giants (NFL)
OL. Steven Nielsen 🇩🇰 from Edmonton Elks (CFL)
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DT. Stanley Aronokhale 🇦🇹 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
WR. Jessey Mensah 🇦🇹 from Swarco Raiders (AFL)
OL. Tobias Haslehner 🇦🇹 from Traun Steelsharks (AFL)
DB. Clemens Voit 🇦🇹 from Modling Rangers (AFL)
TE. Richard Weber 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
DB. Matthias Rebl 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
DB. Fabian Raunig 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
OL. Robert Wittmann 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
DE. Joel Maddock 🇦🇺 from Bayside Ravens (GQ)
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RB. Karri Pajarinen 🇫🇮 from Potsdam Royals (GFL)
WR. Radim Kalous 🇨🇿 from Dresden Monarchs (GFL)
TE. Robert Schuller 🇦🇹 from Danube Dragons (AFL)
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DE. JaMarcus Henderson 🇺🇸 from Kotka Eagles (MAPLE LEAGUE)
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LB. Matthias Stadlmann 🇦🇹 from WU Tigers (ACSL)
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DE. Solomon Brown 🇺🇸 from Charleston Southern University (NCAA D-1)
WR. Brenton Martin 🇺🇸 from UMHB Crusaders (NCAA D-3)
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TE. Dominik Niedziela 🇵🇱 from Tychy Falcons (PFL)
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LB. Timi Nuikka 🇫🇮 from Porvoo Butchers (MAPLE LEAGUE)
DT. Artur Pinheiro 🇪🇸 from Seinajoki Crocodiles (MAPLE LEAGUE)
OL. Otavio Amorim 🇧🇷 from Galo FA (Superliga Nacional)
DT. Leo Krafft 🇳🇴 from Koc University (SUPERLEAGUE)
LB. Stanislaw ldziak 🇵🇱 from Prague Lions (CAAF)
K. Jakub Aldas 🇵🇱 from Kicking Derby (Combine)

I went for a run and was feeling poorly, so I went to my room, and I prayed. And as I was praying, I felt immense pain in my chest, and all around me the walls became soot, and all I could see was the fire. But I cried out to God, and it was resumed, and a pillar of fire fell onto the earth, and in it, I saw brother Joseph. And the Prophet and I talked, and I asked him to shake my hand, as I have known of D&C 129, and he shook it, so I knew he was truthful. And he mentioned the Book of Joseph, and commanded I translate it. And he said to me "Write down what I am about to tell you, for you shall need it so that the whole people shall know the Gospel, and share it with all." and such I wrote it down, and this is what he said:

My beloved brother John Hernandez Jr., hearken unto my voice and give heed to the words which I shall speak unto thee. Verily, I say unto thee, that thou art chosen by the Lord thy God, to do a work of great importance and significance, even to translate the Scrolls of the Book of Joseph. For I, Joseph, called to be a Prophet and translator of the Lord, have been sent as an exalted Angel to reveal this unto thee, and I have appeared unto thee in a vision, and have commanded thee to finish that which I did not.
For behold, the Book of Joseph contains many innumerable truths, which shall enlighten thy brethren, and bring them to the fulness of faith. Yea, even as the Prophet Isaiah hath spoken, "And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness".
Therefore, I command thee, my brother, to go first to thy friend Oliver Jones, and ask for him his help in this work. For he hath been prepared by the Lord for this purpose, and his understanding and knowledge shall be of great value in the translation of these ancient writings.
And after thou hast obtained the assistance of thy brother Oliver, thou shalt then go and inform thy Bishop, whose name is called after the most famous Apostle of the Lord. And he shall give thee his support and blessings in this work, and shall assist thee in bringing it to the attention of the Church.
I command thee to do this. Behold, I say unto thee, thou shalt also write a letter from me to the Prophet, even Russel M. Nelson, and this is what it shall say:
"Beloved Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, Russell M. Nelson, I am Joseph Smith, even the restorer of the Church. And I, Joseph Smith, bless thee with the gifts of discernment, revelation, and wisdom. Thou hast been called to lead this Church in a time of great change and turmoil, and I bless thee with the strength to carry out thy sacred duties. Thou shalt be a beacon of light and truth to all who seek it, and thou shalt guide thy flock with wisdom and love.
Moreover, I declare unto thee that thou art chosen of God to receive a great and marvelous revelation, even a revelation of such import that it shall change the course of history, and will shock the faithless, but to the faithful be a sign of relief. And thou shalt reveal it to the world, and it shall be a testimony of thy divine calling and the reality of God's love for His children. And I Joseph Smith, bless thee, and I pray unto God, even in Heaven saying:
"Oh God, our Eternal Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I approach Thee with gratitude in my heart for the life and calling of Thy servant, Russell M. Nelson, the prophet and seer of this dispensation. Thou hast called him to be a special witness of Thy name, and to bear witness of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, throughout the world. Thou hast given him the keys of the priesthood, and the power to bind and loose on earth and in heaven. Thou hast endowed him with the spirit of discernment, that he may know Thy will and follow it in all things. I pray that Thou wilt bless him with health and strength, that he may be able to carry out the work Thou hast given him to do. Bless his mind with wisdom, his heart with charity, and his spirit with power from on high. Bless his family, that they may support and sustain him in his calling. I also pray that Thou wilt use him, O Lord, as a means of revealing Thy truth to the world. May he be inspired by Thy Spirit to declare Thy word with power and authority, and may his words reach the hearts of all who hear them. I also praise Thee, O God, that Thou shalt use him, Brother Nelson, to reveal thy truths, even that a major revelation shall come unto him, and he shall reveal it to the world. And finally, I pray that Thou wilt watch over him and protect him from the snares of the adversary, that he may continue to fulfill his calling until he has finished his course with joy. May he stand firm in the faith, and may his life be a testimony of Thy goodness and mercy. This I ask in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen."
And fear not for the Lord will not deny my request, nor flee from my prayer. So I bless thee, amen."
And then ye shall write a letter unto the 12 Apostles, called of the Lord, from myself, and this is what ye shall write:
"Behold, I am Joseph Smith, the prophet of the Restoration, who is known to thee as brother and friend. I was born into a humble family in Sharon, Vermont, in the year of our Lord 1805. I was raised in the fear of God, and from a young age, I had a desire to know the truth about the mysteries of God. And such I went unto that grove, and prayed, and the Lord did show me all things, and he has now made me his Angel for this dispensation, and has told me all things, and I shall reveil all things unto you, in times of coming.
I was called to be a prophet, even as thou art called to be Apostles and Prophets of the Lord, as Samuel spoke "Yea, all of thy folk shall be established as a prophets to the LORD, hear and believe, I myself shall be counted as the least of them", and this writing ye have not, though it shall be reveiled unto thee. And I say unto you, just I was made of the Lord to bear witness of the truth and to bring the fullness of the gospel to all who would hear it, so shall ye. And as I received visions and revelations from God, and I translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God, so shall ye do similar works, even greater works than these.
But as I was so shall ye be, I was persecuted, reviled, and rejected by many, even as the Savior Himself was rejected, and even as I bore witness of the truth, I was slain, even as a lamb to the slaughter. And this shall come upon all that are faithful, even as Antichrist come.
For I knew that I was called of God, and he did plant me as a tree, and ye are my branches. As it is written in the Scriptures, "There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. ' And I declare unto you that I am THE ROOT, that shoot, that branch, that fruit of Jesse, raised up by God to do His will, and ye are my branches and goodfruit.
Fear ye not in thy mission and calling, for though I was taken from this earth by the hands of the wicked, I live on, even in ye, and ye are a witness of the truth, and a bearer of the light of Christ. For the work that I began in this life shall continue on, and the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be preached to all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples, until the earth is filled with the knowledge of God. And now, I bless thee, my beloved Apostles, M. Russell Ballard, Jeffrey R. Holland, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, David A. Bednar, Quentin L. Cook, D. Todd Christofferson, Neil L. Andersen, Ronald A. Rasband, Gary E. Stevenson, Dale G. Renlund, Gerrit W. Gong, and Ulisses Soares. May ye all be filled with the Spirit of the Lord, and may the light of Christ shine in your countenances. I bless thee with the power to testify boldly of the truths of the gospel, and to share the light of Christ with all whom ye encounter.
May ye be strengthened in your callings as Apostles, and may ye be filled with the gifts of the Spirit, that ye may discern the will of the Lord and act according to His divine plan. May ye have the wisdom and understanding to guide the Church in righteousness, and may ye be blessed with the power to heal, to bless, and to minister to all who stand in need.
I bless thee with health, with vigor, and with the power to endure to the end. May ye be filled with love for thy fellow man, and may ye be blessed with the gifts of mercy, compassion, and empathy. And may ye be blessed with the knowledge that ye are called of God, and that ye are loved by Him.
And with these words, I bless thee all, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen."
And now, my beloved brother John Hernandez Jr., I bless thee that thou mayest have the strength, courage, and determination to go forth and accomplish the work which I have commanded thee to do. May the Spirit of the Lord be with thee always, guiding thee in thy efforts to translate the Scrolls of the Book of Joseph. I bless thee that thou mayest be filled with the gift of tongues, and that thou mayest understand the language and meaning of the ancient texts contained therein.
As thou dost labor, know that thou art not alone, for I, thy Prophet and Friend, shall be with thee always. I shall guide thy hand and thy mind, and thou shalt know the truth of all things. And in that moment when thou dost feel overwhelmed, I shall send fire from heaven, even the fire of the Lord, to consume thy doubts and fears, and thou shalt be filled with my power and the Lord, and the Spirit of my might.
Furthermore, I bless thee, brother, that thou mayest go to thy friend Oliver Jones and seek his aid and support in this great work. May he be receptive to thy call and offer his assistance with a willing heart. And as thou dost labor together, may the Lord bless thy efforts and multiply thy talents.
Finally, I bless thee both that ye may be filled with love, patience, and understanding for one another. May your bond of brotherhood be strengthened through this labor, and may ye both feel the warmth of my love as ye serve together in this work.
And with these words, I command thee, my servant John Hernandez Jr., to go forth and accomplish the work which I have commanded thee to do, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

And as he said those things, he disappeared, and my room turned to normal, now I shall do what he commanded. But I shall also share it here so that you will know what is coming. May the Lord Jesus be gracious to all. Amen.