The Final Push! The Gospel of Mark Chapter 1: "Trial of the 70"

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![Mark Morningstar, Prometheus of the Rainbow Flame.](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/niYoNSLjMOEqHc4HXFxyL.png?height=7200&width=5400)

## Become God.

Since April 2021, I’ve been embarking on an adventure. Slowly pulling from everything I know to build a universe so grand that I could live in it.

Since the launch of the crowdfund in December, I’ve had the immense pleasure of embarking on this journey with my friends, my team, and even had the chance to meet some new faces and delve deep into their personal stories and histories.

And still, day by day, it feels like reality is slowly splitting at the seams, revealing a gross underbelly that’s been festering for generations. Every step we take forward it feels like we march closer to the end of it all.

**However, the End of Everything only marks the beginning of something special.**

**We need developers, filmmakers, musicians, artists, myth-makers, and dreamers to join us in this grand adventure.**

We’re embarking on a great odyssey. I’ve said multiple times, in multiple spaces, that web3 is only better when we build with each other. So I ask humbly that you share this crowdfund with your peers, hop in however you can, and prepare yourself as we rewrite history, religion, and the future of collaborative storytelling, **together. 
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![ZORAfm the Big Bang, the first space highlighting the (icon) universe.](https://images.mirror-media.xyz/publication-images/mLQqBPRTxTE5mkgPd3S-1.png?height=383&width=680)

## What’s Next?

So as a preface, the additions and perks of $ICON ownership has nothing to do with utility, instead everything I’ve engineered is specifically tailored to enhance the collaborative storytelling engine that is the (icon) universe. The blueprint however, is open-source. After we are all dead and gone, the lost ideas of the Gnostic Gospels and the journey we all took together in telling this epic will be cemented permanently on-chain as modern HISTORY, and will be a building block for future creators to pull from in order to build their own universes.

This final push is to make sure that it happens in the most spectacular way possible. Here are some of the things I want to build in the next year with the (icon)DAO once it launches.

### The Seventy Elders Update & JoTM

To update everyone, we have now 21+ CONFIRMED Elders. That is CRAZY. The first cohort of Elders includes some of your Web3 faves, including Drift, Jah, Heno, Andre Oshea, Lomedia, and even some more goats not mentioned, and even still more yet to be confirmed. A star-studded cast if I do say so myself.

Starting **July 4th**, The Elder’s Project will launch officially. All Elders NFT’s will be updated according to the information given to me in our Ideation Sessions, as well as the start of ***The Journey of a Thousand Miles (JoTM),*** a live, DM-led roleplaying experience where we take the Elders through Middle America and allow them to freely explore the land as their actions and the consequences that stem from them are permanently recorded on chain *as **modern history**. (for inspo, see: Critical Role)*

If you are of Afro-American descent and would love to be a part of the first cohort of Elders, shoot me a DM on Twitter or email me at atm@blvkhvnd.com.

If you do not fit in that category but want to cement yourself in Middle America anyway, contribute to the crowdfund! I’ll be hosting meetings and events for members of the (icon)DAO to not only shape the trajectory of the Gospel of Mark, but also to pitch alternative characters that you can pilot in ***JoTM.***

### Film, Music, & Art

**“The Gospel of Mark” Comic Series**

I wont be speaking too much on this, more explicit details and options will be given to (icon)DAO members exclusively. However what I can say, is that the Gospel of Mark comic will b