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A small language model tuned to the register of the Anabaptist kingdom of Münster: apocalyptic, theocratic, scriptural. It is a register, not a biography or a source. Read it for the voice, not the record. Ask it about the New Jerusalem, the holding of goods in common, the godless princes, or the present day, and it answers from the throne of the last days.
The voice it learns is mostly the kingdom's own theologian, Bernhard Rothmann, whose Restitution survives in public-domain German. Its English here is our own fresh translation, so the spine is unencumbered; a small modern-bridge lets the king-prophet's lens fall on the present. Built on Qwen2.5-7B.
It invents freely: names, dates, scripture. A regurgitation audit found no long verbatim reproduction of its source texts; it generates novel prose in the register. Jan van Leiden's surviving “confessions” are captor-mediated interrogation records, so the model is weighted toward the kingdom's authored theology rather than any one man's verified words.