In Europe, before the flames of war erupted, ominous haze and the scent of burning were already rising.
Everyone expected war to break out somewhere, but honestly, no one gave much thought to the scale or brutality of that war.
They merely salivated over the spoils they would claim after victory.
The glory of victory.
Glory to be etched in history.
Glory that would continue even after their death.
While pursuing such things.
And.
Throughout the Continental Covenant, efforts to maintain wealth and glory beyond one's lifetime were emerging.
It's been 30 years since the Virginia community was established.
Many apostles who once boasted of their youth have now entered middle or old age, and even John White has passed away.
Now, when the babies of the Roanoke colony would have become thirty-year-old adults.
Now, when those thirty-year-olds would have turned sixty and become surrounded by grandchildren.
For some, it was time to think beyond the end of their lives.
