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− | '''The Resistance''' is a movement | + | '''The Resistance''' is a movement started by a group of twelve former [[Hymn of One]] members, including [[Jonas's parents]], which is dedicated to "unearthing [[[the Order]]'s dark history and destorying its unholy practices" ([[#Mission Statement|We Who Fight]]). Many years later, when Jonas believed his parents to be dead, he and [[TAAG|his friends]] began calling themselves by this term. |
==The Original Members== | ==The Original Members== |
Revision as of 12:58, 3 July 2008
The Resistance is a movement started by a group of twelve former Hymn of One members, including Jonas's parents, which is dedicated to "unearthing [[[the Order]]'s dark history and destorying its unholy practices" (We Who Fight). Many years later, when Jonas believed his parents to be dead, he and his friends began calling themselves by this term.
The Original Members
The twelve original members, Kenneth Perry Harlan, Damon Lindsey Lambien, George Thomas Kiel, Oswald Matthew Angie, Michael Byron Carruthers, Theresa Cunningham McManus, Joseph Carmichael Naglen, Penny Samson Rayborne, Desiree Thoreux Alcott, Christopher Raymond Nance, and Susan Bethany Campbell, belonged to the Hymn of One (evidenced by their decision to renounce it in their Mission Statement) before deciding to break away and fight against it as the Resistance. In My Hand Hurts, Jonas found a scrapbook that his Aunt Alex had compiled with information about them. He learned that the members had included a human rights lawyer, an economics professor, a rabbi, an ambassador, a publishing heiress, a radio station owner, a regenerative medical specialist, and a former CIA director. He also found an article about each and every one of their deaths or disappearances under mysterious circumstances.
Mission Statement
In Going Down, Jonas found The Resistance's Mission Statement, which reads as follows: