The Prophet's movement was revitalized, and founded a small city in the oasis that attracted new adherents from across the land. There, the followers began building a tomb for the Prophet, but it was then that he miraculously returned to life. Trinity returned west and reported that they had succeeded in their mission, while the distraught survivors of the Prophet's followers conveyed the Prophet's corpse to an oasis outside Beroea, or modern-day Aleppo. Trinity knights caught up to the Prophet's procession and massacred many, including the Prophet.
The Order of Trinity was sent by the Roman Catholic Church to pursue the Prophet and his followers, and execute them for their blasphemy. In 977 AD, fearing persecution from the Roman Catholic Church, the Prophet and his followers fled Constantinople for Syria in the dark of night. This was tolerated for a time under reigning Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimiskes, but when he died, his successor Basil II revoked that protection. The Prophet had discovered the Divine Source, an object that granted immortality, and leveraged it to gain a religious following among the people of Constantinople. According to Lara Croft's investigation, Kitezh's origins lie in the Deathless Prophet of Constantinople, a prophet and purported miracle-worker who rose to prominence in the Byzantine Empire in the late 10th century.
