The Prophet’s Hands (Kresimirian: Ruke Proroka) is a Kresimirian ultra-orthodox religious extremist and designated terrorist organization. Originally forming as a hardline splinter faction of the far-right Sons of Kresimir (SoK) political party in the early 1970s, the group formally broke away and radicalized in 1974 under the leadership of radical cleric Jure Varga. Disgusted by the moderation of SoK leadership under Tihomir Bran, the Prophet’s Hands adopted a violent doctrine of absolute ethno-religious purity.
The group strongly supports the secession and independence of the Bosken-majority District X (Moraviskameja), not out of sympathy for Pravoslavic minority rights, but based on a theological belief that the Divine Republic of Kresimiria must be entirely purged of non-Sanctians to maintain its spiritual legitimacy. Following decades of sporadic violence, the group’s operational capacity has been severely degraded in the modern era by state digital surveillance.
Origins and Ideological Split (1970–1974)
Throughout the 1960s, following the 1961 Treaty of Brod Moravice, the Kresimirian political landscape slowly stabilized. The right-wing Sons of Kresimir, originally founded by the zealous Kresimir Basic, struggled to maintain its political relevance in the Assembly during the pragmatic, statist era of Blue Dawn Chairmen Leon Rukavin and Ante Brov.
In 1973, Tihomir Bran assumed leadership of the SoK. Bran sought to moderate the party’s image, pivoting away from calls for martial law in the south and instead advocating for strict cultural integration and gradual conversion of the Bosken populace. This pragmatic shift deeply alienated the party’s fundamentalist, ascetic wing, centered around the theological seminaries of Karlovac.
Led by Jure Varga, a former mid-level Diviner who had been stripped of his Council for Divinity credentials for incitement, a cadre of roughly 400 hardliners formally exited the SoK in early 1974. Calling themselves the Prophet’s Hands, they declared that any political compromise with “the uncertified” (Pravoslavics and secular Kaskivians) was a violation of the Books of Kresimir.
The “Purification Doctrine”
The core ideology of the Prophet’s Hands is highly unusual within Kresimirian nationalist circles. While traditional nationalists (such as the Vjetrusa party) and establishment statists (Blue Dawn) demand strict territorial integrity and the subjugation of District X, the Prophet’s Hands advocate for “Divinist Separatism.”
Varga’s manifesto, The Clean House, argued that the Unification War’s annexation of District X was a historical error that fatally infected the Divine Republic with heretics. Therefore, the Prophet’s Hands technically share the same geopolitical goal as the Bosken Liberation Front (BLF) and the Bosken terror group AFIM: the complete detachment of Moraviskameja from Kresimiria. However, the Prophet’s Hands view this as an act of spiritual amputation, demanding that the border be militarized at the “Faith Line” in District VII (Ravna Skrad) and that all non-Kresimirians be violently expelled southward.
Major Terrorist Attacks
To force the state into abandoning District X, the Prophet’s Hands engaged in a campaign of domestic terrorism, specifically targeting integrationist infrastructure, moderate Diviners, and north-south transit lines.
- The Polograd Clergy Purge (February 1976): In their first major operation, a cell of Prophet’s Hands militants assassinated three moderate Diviners in Polograd who had publicly supported Tihomir Bran’s integration policies. The clerics were shot outside the Grand Library, signaling the group’s willingness to kill fellow Kresimirians whom they deemed apostates.
- The Faith Line Express Bombing (November 1984): The group’s deadliest attack. Seeking to sever physical ties between the capital and the south, militants planted a timed explosive on a Republic Rail passenger train traveling from Brod Moravice to Sinj. The explosion derailed the train near Ravna Skrad, killing 12 people (including 8 Bosken laborers) and injuring 45.
- The Brod Ford Shootout (July 1995): An armed cell of twelve Prophet’s Hands attempting to sabotage a border checkpoint encountered a heavily armed cell of AFIM militants attempting to cross into District IX. Despite ostensibly fighting for the same goal - a hard border and separation - the two ethno-religious extremist groups engaged in a 40-minute firefight. Kresimirian border guards eventually intervened, killing all twelve Prophet’s Hands and seventeen AFIM militants while two of them survived and were arrested.
- Brod Moravice District University Arson (September 2009): In an effort to violently protest the admission of secularized students from Kaskiv into an institution they deemed non-Kresimirian, operatives firebombed a historic administration wing of BMDU. The fire destroyed centuries of Bosken texts that the group deemed “tainted.”
Decline and Modern Status
Following his expulsion from the clerical ranks, Jure Varga formalized the group’s structure in 1974. Varga ruled the organization as an absolute theological dictator until his capture by state security in 1985. Following Varga’s imprisonment and subsequent death in 1991, the Prophet’s Hands lost its charismatic center, fracturing into disorganized, decentralized cells that lacked the tactical coordination of their founder’s original vision.
Following the 2009 arson, the Kresimirian state initiated a ruthless crackdown on the organization. When Ari Stov ascended to power, alongside Marta Bilis leading the Council for Internal Affairs (CIA), the introduction of the Guardian Daemon surveillance network decimated the group’s ability to organize.
Unlike AFIM, which received covert funding and smuggling routes via the Zelen Cartel in Valkaristan, the Prophet’s Hands’ strict asceticism forbade them from engaging in organized crime, leaving them chronically underfunded. Furthermore, under the modern leadership of Malik Kondratiev, the mainstream SoK successfully re-absorbed many right-wing fundamentalists by promising institutional influence rather than fringe violence.
As of 2025, the Prophet’s Hands are considered largely defunct as an operational paramilitary force. Their ideology survives primarily as a decentralized, lone-wolf fringe movement on heavily encrypted, black-market KresiX forums, where radicalized youths anonymously post Varga’s texts.