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The Disciples of Marduk were a group of four Babylonian high priests and skilled magicians, living during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, entrusted with each taking one of the four removable but essential pieces of the Infernal Machine and scattering them all across the world. The mission of the Disciples was to conceal and guard these four parts of the Machine, which each possessed awesome but devastating powers all on their own, but without which the Infernal Machine as a whole could not operate.

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rdfs:comment	The Disciples of Marduk were a group of four Babylonian high priests and skilled magicians, living during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, entrusted with each taking one of the four removable but essential pieces of the Infernal Machine and scattering them all across the world. The mission of the Disciples was to conceal and guard these four parts of the Machine, which each possessed awesome but devastating powers all on their own, but without which the Infernal Machine as a whole could not operate.
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abstract	The Disciples of Marduk were a group of four Babylonian high priests and skilled magicians, living during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, entrusted with each taking one of the four removable but essential pieces of the Infernal Machine and scattering them all across the world. The mission of the Disciples was to conceal and guard these four parts of the Machine, which each possessed awesome but devastating powers all on their own, but without which the Infernal Machine as a whole could not operate. There are two possible theories about the Disciples' motivations that may be interpreted from the ancient writing that archaeologist Indiana Jones discovered thousands of years later in 1947 at the ruins of Babylon. Either (1) the Disciples followed orders from King Nebuchadnezzar, who was himself inspired by the god Marduk, or (2) they followed orders directly and only from Marduk, while betraying Nebuchadnezzar. The uncertainty comes from the ambiguity of the writing, which states: "it was Nebuchadnezzar, in heed of the writing that Marduk made appear unto him, who builded the great engine. Having no understanding, the rabble hath thrown down his work, but four trusted disciples are scattered upon the face of the earth, and the relics go with them." The writing, thus, does not state to whom the Disciples are "trusted" by. The first theory appears to be the more probable, though, since the writing reads as though the common people defied Nebuchadnezzar (and so, by extension, Marduk as well), by refusing to complete construction of "the great engine." It logically follows that the Disciples wished to continue the work of completing the machine, and therefore took the four pieces of the engine to far-reaching lands to keep under careful protection, ensuring that they would be preserved in order to be some day be reunited and reassembled in Babylon. The individual Disciples included: * Urgon, who fled to Shambala Sanctuary (in modern-day Kazakhstan) * Taklit, who fled to a volcanic temple on the island of Palawan (Philippines) * Azerim, who fled to live among the Olmec people in Teotihuacan (Mexico) * Nub, the who fled to Meroë in the Nubian desert (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan)

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