Kindred
Lineages - Prater

Evelyn Prater – Mekhet/Lancea Sanctum

The founder of the Prater brood was one of the first women to become ordained during the Second Great Awakening as a Protestant preacher. Embraced into the Mekhet, Prater continued to preach a discourse which saw all men (kindred) as equals, and while a fervent believer in the tenants of the Lancea Sanctum, she had many sympathies for the American Carthians and their struggle with the Invictus from the Old World. The lineage found its way back into Canada during the debate on slavery, which became responsible in part for the creation of the Underground Railway.

"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth."

Roslyn Beran – Mekhet/Lancea Sanctum

As a child of Evelyn Prater, Roslyn Beran was embraced into the world of the Lancea Sanctum believing that all of God’s children were due to a certain respect that the politics and realities of the 19th century was not afforded to all. Unfortunately due to her involvement with individuals like Erik Swallows, Beran was forced to leave the Domain of Toronto after the failed rebellion in 1837. She relocated to Rochester where she was able to continue her work, establishing the railroad and the last leg of the journey that would help many slaves reach Canada and find their freedom.

Isaac Tatem Hopper – Mekhet/Lancea Sanctum

During the mid-1800s Isaac, chider of Roslyn Beran, established his presence in New York City helping slaves escape the south in coordination of his sire’s activities in Rochester. In addition to this agenda he established the Prison Association to help men and women discharged from prison to find work and lead honest lives. To this day the Isaac T. Hopper Home on Second Avenue in New York still helps women who have been incarcerated, and carries on the will of the man whom it commemorates. Isaac was an outspoken advocate of religion as a means of helping correction facilities turn criminals into upstanding members of the community; believing that such individuals are lost sheep who need aid finding their way back to the proper path.