Tablets of Hezekiah (artifact)

The Tablets of Hezekiah are a nearly endless collection of fifty foot stone slabs that have written upon them every known major event in history. The Tablets of Hezekiah have been the center of thousands of years of study and research, or rather what is known about them, of the Seer's and Olympian Scribes, however, their greatest mystery is that none have ever officially seen the tablets, but those that have been suspected to have not been heard from or seen ever again. They are the center of one of the many prophecies about the Son of the Mountain, specifically the Master of Knowledge prophecy, which predicts that the Chosen One would find the Tablets of Hezekiah and decipher them once and for all.

Sometime in the fifteenth century, someone managed to survive the voyage to the Caverns of Time and brought back written excerpts of what is written on the stones. It is revealed that the stones "fortunes" are actually unintelligible scribbles that do not match any written or spoken language throughout the galaxy and thus are considered incomprehensible. However sometime before the Second War of the Equilibrium, Joseph Everest VI and Reese Alvarez were marooned on the planet, Zion, and came upon the Caverns of Time. Once they entered the caverns, Joseph and Reese came upon an endless spectacle of stone slabs, realizing they had discovered the long lost Tablets of Hezekiah. Joseph then realized why the tablets were considered incomprehensible: the "unintelligible scribbles" are actually a form of Morse code, something which was not coined until the mid nineteenth century on the planet Earth. Joseph discovered that the Tablets contain not only major events, but the births and deaths of several individuals, including himself, Reese, and his parents, Sienna Guerra and Dominic Everest.

The tablets also hold, much to Joseph's horror, the dates of every major war in history, both galactic and Earth's, and that the tablets denoted how bloody each war was by the amount of red paint surrounding the date. The date that frightened Joseph the most was the date of June 19, 2007, the date that the Battle of Elysium would take place. This date was not only two years away but was covered with the most red paint, making it the most bloody conflict in over 3,000 years. During Joseph's study of the tablets, he discovered that there was a Susurro within the caverns that protected the tablets and prevented anyone from discovering too much of the future than they should, as when he frantically tried to discover Reese's date of death, the Susurro stopped him and told him it was time to turn back.