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00:00:00Merlin Emrys has returned to the land of the living.
00:00:09I had a vision.
00:00:11Two dragons came forth to battle one another.
00:00:14The dragons you have seen are your enemies.
00:00:17White for the Saxon horde.
00:00:19Red for the true sons of Britain, whose father you murdered for your crown.
00:00:25Vortigod!
00:00:26Vortigod!
00:00:27Vortigod!
00:00:28Vortigod!
00:00:28Vortigod!
00:00:29Vortigod!
00:00:29Thus ends the reign of Vortigod, High King of Britain.
00:00:33Take heart, you people of the island of the mighty.
00:00:36Devon?
00:00:39Merlin, to see you after all these years.
00:00:43But you have not altered a wit.
00:00:46I had this sword crafted for my father by the High King's own smith.
00:00:50Perhaps it's best to leave it here.
00:00:54You are the flower of your race.
00:00:56It is a great thing to be a king, Hork.
00:00:58But there is authority of a kind even kings must bend to.
00:01:02I've known Merlin a very long time.
00:01:04I would help you, my counsellor.
00:01:06Very well, Aurelius.
00:01:08Perhaps you have the makings of a king after all.
00:01:12David, you've come home.
00:01:17Hello, Mother.
00:01:20Merthen.
00:01:20I've never seen somebody.
00:01:25There will be no victory without the kings of Britain by our side.
00:01:29I need every single one of them to defeat Hengist.
00:01:31Lord!
00:01:34And I'll be right back.
00:01:39You'll be right back.
00:01:40details.
00:01:43AVAILABLE NOW
00:02:13You switch your locker, and I eat the turkeys.
00:02:43This nail I can. May you offend them from Harawitcha.
00:02:54Fool!
00:02:56Are you so heavy with drink that you fail to recognize the spawn of Ortigen?
00:03:02Prince Patton, forgive Alduin's impertinence, and he will be punished.
00:03:20What word from your father?
00:03:23My father is dead.
00:03:25What do you want?
00:03:31My father is dead, and I am his heir. High King of the Britons.
00:03:41And yet you ride here. Unannounced. No honor guard. No warband.
00:03:50I did not know I needed a warband at my back to meet with an ally.
00:03:54You do if you're going to watch him shit.
00:04:00The sons of Constance have murdered my father, and now they claim his crown.
00:04:08And you want me to help you take it back?
00:04:12They will not be content until they have all of Britain in their grasp.
00:04:17All of Britain.
00:04:19Even now, they turn their eyes east to the Saxon coast.
00:04:29Let us march against these usurpers before they march against you.
00:04:42Why do I need you?
00:04:47You swore to uphold my family's claim when my father let you settle these lands.
00:04:52How a pact was sealed in blood.
00:05:02You will be held to it.
00:05:04The son of Ort again is right.
00:05:19A pact sealed in blood is to be honored.
00:05:25None to death.
00:05:27None to death.
00:05:48None to death.
00:05:49You got rest.
00:05:50You owe a price.
00:05:51That's good.
00:05:52You got every power to follow.
00:05:53You wallet here.
00:05:54You get cál bule you.
00:05:55From the east of Fort capitalism.
00:05:57You pay fresh water.
00:05:58I come to hell back.
00:05:59You get get your goods back.
00:06:00You take soon.
00:06:01Take my soul.
00:06:02Ah!
00:06:03We ain't gonna eat happy.
00:06:04We don't wanna grow alive apart.
00:06:06He's getting a sicker soon.
00:07:41Hail the Fisher King.
00:08:02Merlin.
00:08:03Merlin!
00:08:07Merlin!
00:08:08Merlin!
00:08:10Merlin!
00:08:11Merlin!
00:08:12Merlin!
00:08:13Merlin!
00:08:14Merlin!
00:08:15Merlin!
00:08:16Merlin!
00:08:17Merlin!
00:08:18Merlin!
00:08:19And that's when I saw him sat on the rock by the riverbed, alone.
00:08:49Shining as bright as the dawn.
00:08:54And we are most grateful to you, Peleus.
00:08:58Even as our hopes waned, you did not give up these many years.
00:09:04My lady.
00:09:08And you, my holy friend.
00:09:11How did you come to be my grandson's company after all this time?
00:09:15Providence, great king.
00:09:18The divine hand.
00:09:20Merthen found me prisoner of High King Vortigen.
00:09:25Prisoner?
00:09:27Hmm.
00:09:28A king who holds hostage, a servant of the Most High, gambles with his life.
00:09:34Gamble Vortgen lost.
00:09:36Hmm.
00:09:37King Avalak, I have been remiss.
00:09:40May I present to you, Uther, the second son of Constance and his older brother Aurelius.
00:09:46Sons of Constance.
00:09:47I see.
00:09:48Forgive me.
00:09:49My brother and I were loath to interrupt your happy reunion.
00:09:51Aurelius has defeated the usurper of Vortigen.
00:09:54He is by right of lineage and victory High King of Enos Pridin.
00:09:59If I do not fall to the Axis Saxon first.
00:10:01All the ambitions of a petty king.
00:10:02My brother surely meant no disrespect.
00:10:03King Avalak.
00:10:04And yet he speaks truly.
00:10:06This land is in a welter of confusion.
00:10:09There are more kings than sheep.
00:10:10More princes than crows on a battlefield.
00:10:28There are more kings than sheep,
00:10:31more princes than crows on a battlefield,
00:10:36all seeking to snatch what they can, when they can,
00:10:40without a care for who suffers.
00:10:43Until this island is ruled by one who wields both justice
00:10:49and mercy, there will be no peace.
00:10:52Aurelius's life is in danger until the kings of Britain
00:10:56recognizes claim.
00:10:59It is my hope he could find sanctuary here
00:11:03while I ride to rally what friends we have left.
00:11:05While we ride to rally your friends.
00:11:08Uther.
00:11:09To ensure Merlin is not remiss
00:11:13pushing your claim in other courts.
00:11:16Right, Merlin?
00:11:18Very well, Uther.
00:11:20If you prefer knights in the saddle
00:11:22to the comfort of Avalaic's palace.
00:11:25You will not be staying then.
00:11:28I'm sorry, Mother.
00:11:30My people have seen enough of war and death.
00:11:34The High King of Britain will be safe within these walls.
00:11:40To a future of peace.
00:11:44To a future of peace.
00:11:45To a future of peace.
00:11:48So for the best of peace.
00:11:49Beattie Baby.
00:11:50To a future of maybe anopod is realised
00:11:54that I have a beautiful home.
00:11:55Can bruise?
00:11:56To a future of peace.
00:11:57To a future of peace.
00:11:58To a future of peace.
00:12:00To a future of peace.
00:12:01Please.
00:12:02Can bruise.
00:12:03To a future of peace.
00:12:05Theiny excited lady.
00:12:06OUGHTEL ключÃ.
00:12:06We've got peace.
00:12:07When we areologÃa,
00:12:08to bewater within an eagle is away.
00:12:09I may get ahead to work.
00:12:10To a future of peace.
00:12:11To a future of peace.
00:12:11To a future of peace.
00:12:13Don't remember what they did to me, my love.
00:12:33You fuss over me like a child.
00:12:36Other men call me immortal.
00:12:43A Fisher King's sword.
00:13:04Your sword.
00:13:09I thought it lost.
00:13:13And yet it has been here, waiting for you, the sword of a high king.
00:13:25Aurelius has a sword, a sword of Britain.
00:13:28I do not offer it to Aurelius.
00:13:31Aurelius, a thousand years later.
00:13:39Aurelius, a thousand years later.
00:13:44Aurelius, a thousand days later.
00:13:46I'm sorry, Mother, but I cannot accept it.
00:14:07Whatever the future may hold, I cannot take up that sword again.
00:14:16Then I will pray you have the strength to keep your vow.
00:14:34I wish you were not leaving so soon.
00:14:38Besides, the fish are always on their best behavior when you are here.
00:14:46What was it like, Merlin?
00:14:49To be insane.
00:14:51To be alone with God.
00:14:55Is that who you think I was alone with?
00:14:58Who else?
00:15:01I would dearly love to spend but a moment in my Lord's presence.
00:15:07You are fortunate among men, Merlin.
00:15:09Go.
00:15:14I have been greedy with your time.
00:15:18We will discuss these things again when you return.
00:15:24You fear for your sins, Grandfather.
00:15:27For surely your sins are no greater than any other man's.
00:15:30I had forgotten how much you see with those golden eyes, Hork.
00:15:41Yet in truth, my sins are too numerous to count.
00:15:48And I gave life to Morgann.
00:15:50I have seen her.
00:16:04Morgan.
00:16:07In the fire.
00:16:09In the stars.
00:16:10I do not know if God was with me in California for all these many years, Grandfather.
00:16:20But I know Morgan was.
00:16:24Trust in Jesus, Hork.
00:16:28He is the only hope for men like us.
00:16:35If hope we have.
00:17:06Oh, my God.
00:17:37Sir, tell me about this place, Maradunum.
00:17:44Built by the Romans in the heart of a plentiful valley, not far from the sea.
00:17:49Your steward has a nasty habit of speaking on your behalf, Merlin.
00:17:54If you were mine, I would have him flogged for impertinence.
00:18:00Peleus speaks as he serves, of his own free will.
00:18:03So you would have him believe.
00:18:08Are you suggesting the Emerus has me spellbound?
00:18:12Your words, boy? Not mine.
00:18:15You surprised me, Uther.
00:18:17I didn't take you for one who believed in magic.
00:18:21When a man catches the gaze of a beautiful woman, is that not a form of magic?
00:18:26I want a king who, cunning and deceit, rests fealty from his people.
00:18:34Is that not a sorcery of a kind?
00:18:37I know.
00:18:38Neither of you nor Jesus.
00:18:39I see you.
00:18:59I see you.
00:19:00Merlin, I'm here.
00:19:01Come find me.
00:19:02Why don't you ask me?
00:19:04Let me leave you.
00:19:05Why don't you ask me?
00:19:07You only lead the world.
00:19:09No.
00:19:09Why do you hesitate?
00:19:11You just need to.
00:19:12You know what you must do.
00:19:14Master?
00:19:17What is it?
00:19:18You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:43Yeah.
00:19:43You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:44You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:45You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:46You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:47You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:48You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:49You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:50You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:51You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:52You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:53You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:54You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:55You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:56You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:57You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:58You want to go and keep it covered?
00:19:59You want to go and keep it covered?
00:20:00You want to go and keep it covered?
00:20:01You want to go and keep it covered?
00:20:03You want to go and keep it covered?
00:20:04Delightful place.
00:20:34What is your business here?
00:20:36I've come to seek a home I once knew.
00:20:41What home is that?
00:20:43The last time I was here, Pendara and the Red Sword was king.
00:20:51Myrthyn.
00:20:56Let them in at once.
00:20:57See to their horses.
00:21:04The same raid that took Melus took the town.
00:21:16Tifat, my father tried to say what he could,
00:21:18but there wasn't much left.
00:21:20And that was but the beginning of our troubles.
00:21:24Same story is told throughout these lands.
00:21:28I fear greater threat is coming.
00:21:30Yes, it's a different world since, well,
00:21:34since you've been away.
00:21:37Will you sit at our table, my lord?
00:21:42Most kind.
00:21:48Why does your friend the king sit?
00:21:50Because Merlin is the rightful king of Marathon.
00:21:58Allow me to fill your cup, my lord.
00:22:04Bring me my cup.
00:22:17This beast led me deep into the hills, but I could not give up the chase.
00:22:22These days, it's rare when I get occasion to knock an arrow.
00:22:35A fine prize, Merrig at Taldryg.
00:22:39Sun, meet our guests.
00:22:42Uther, Peleus, and Myrthyn Emryth.
00:22:48I must say, the brewer's art has reached new heights since I last held a cup such as this.
00:23:02This draught is worthy of any king.
00:23:05You shall have a better bit to take with you.
00:23:07Yes, when you have concluded your business here.
00:23:14What is your business?
00:23:16Perhaps our business is best discussed in the light of day.
00:23:19We are here to garner support for my brother, Aurelius, the High King of Britain.
00:23:26High King.
00:23:27High King.
00:23:28High King.
00:23:29Vortigern has already claimed that title.
00:23:31Vortigern no longer has need of it.
00:23:36Well, I congratulate you on your victory.
00:23:46Over an old man already exhausted and sore beset.
00:23:50The greater challenge lies ahead.
00:23:54The Saxons.
00:23:55And a host of lesser kings who think themselves eminently qualified to bear the crown.
00:24:02And they will have no choice but to fall in line.
00:24:11Won't they?
00:24:15Hear me, Taldryg.
00:24:17The Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty.
00:24:23And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.
00:24:28And he will have it.
00:24:30If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him.
00:24:35We have arms.
00:24:37We have horses.
00:24:38And men who can use them.
00:24:40May you reek.
00:24:42Am I not the commander of our army?
00:24:44Yes.
00:24:45An honor you insist on squandering at every turn.
00:24:47What choice to have a new orbit tied by...
00:24:48STAILENCE!
00:24:56The day grows long.
00:24:58And I am not a young man.
00:25:03If we may presume upon your hospitality a while longer.
00:25:06Yes, I shall prepare some rooms for you and your men.
00:25:10Perhaps the emirist would prefer to stay in his old quarters.
00:25:14The king's quarters?
00:25:17Yes, should he wish to.
00:25:21We insist.
00:25:22Thank you, my lady.
00:25:23Thank you, my lady.
00:25:53Mervyn.
00:25:56Well then, win me a kingdom.
00:26:14Who's that?
00:26:19Do you take me for a fool?
00:26:20I do not.
00:26:22Then perhaps you should stop treating me as one.
00:26:26I have promised to raise an army for your brother, Uther.
00:26:30How I conduct my own affairs is not your concern.
00:26:33You may have swayed my brother,
00:26:35but your powers of persuasion will not work with me.
00:26:38Of that, I have no doubt.
00:26:50I have no doubt.
00:26:53I have no doubt.
00:26:56I am not afraid.
00:26:59I do not.
00:27:05I am.
00:27:10I am not afraid to disappear.
00:27:15I don't mind.
00:27:33Hurry in.
00:27:41There you are, my darling.
00:27:43You must hurry along to your studies with Callius.
00:27:46I don't want to study.
00:27:48You must, if you are to advance in your learning.
00:27:52Remember, Arian.
00:27:54Your mother knows what's best for you.
00:28:00Off with you.
00:28:01No one seeks our cancer.
00:28:02Or our aid.
00:28:03All because we live on these destined, godforsaken shores.
00:28:07The greater part of Britain could burn, and we'd been on the wiser.
00:28:10Let it burn.
00:28:11What difference does it make?
00:28:12We are alone and undefended, Father.
00:28:13Should we not seek alliances for the welfare of our kingdom?
00:28:14If we were to appeal to Vortigern.
00:28:15Vortigern is dead.
00:28:16His tower fell to the sons of Constance not two weeks ago.
00:28:17How do you know this?
00:28:18How do you know this?
00:28:19No doubt, Aurelius will claim the throne for himself.
00:28:20The soil of these lands is so peculiar.
00:28:21The greater part of Britain could burn, and we'd been on the wiser.
00:28:23Let it burn.
00:28:24What difference does it make?
00:28:26We are alone and undefended, Father.
00:28:28Should we not seek alliances for the welfare of our kingdom?
00:28:31If we were to appeal to Vortigern.
00:28:33Vortigern is dead.
00:28:39His tower fell to the sons of Constance not two weeks ago.
00:28:43How do you know this?
00:28:45No doubt, Aurelius will claim the throne for himself.
00:28:47The soil of these lands is soaked in the blood of would-be kings.
00:28:52Perhaps we should consider pledging our support to Aurelius.
00:29:01My dear lord,
00:29:03have you forgotten the deal we made with the Saxon chief?
00:29:07How could I forget, mother,
00:29:10when I so strongly opposed our alliance with those savages?
00:29:14Is Angus the savage?
00:29:18He fights for the interests of his kind, just as Aurelius does.
00:29:22But we are Britons.
00:29:24We should support our people.
00:29:26Are they?
00:29:28Our people.
00:29:30Emily, a moment ago you were bemoaning the fact that we were all but forgotten by them.
00:29:34But what do I know of these things?
00:29:38I'm merely a wife.
00:29:40And a mother.
00:29:42Still, I cannot help but wonder if there is not a greater strategic advantage for you in the current arrangement.
00:29:47You could be a most valuable ally to Hengist, to Saxon.
00:30:00The future is Saxon.
00:30:01The future is Saxon.
00:30:02The future is Saxon.
00:30:12I trust you slept well with a soldier who sleeps upon Ireland.
00:30:18That sounds inconvenient.
00:30:19It's not as inconvenient as a knife in the back.
00:30:22Come, we're all friends here.
00:30:25Not many an enemy there came in the guise of a friend, Merlin.
00:30:28Ah, my Lord Merthin.
00:30:30I wonder if I might have a word with you.
00:30:35In private.
00:30:37Of course.
00:30:40Do keep Uther out of trouble.
00:30:51Shall we seek out a morsel to eat?
00:30:59No problem.
00:31:00I don't know.
00:31:01I'm sorry.
00:31:02No problem.
00:31:03I'm sorry.
00:31:04No problem.
00:31:15Watch this.
00:31:16Cheers.
00:31:29A cup of your famous mead, friend.
00:31:33We have no mead here, only wine.
00:31:36Then a cup of your famous wine.
00:31:43They water it down, the Roman way.
00:31:48But in good measure, it serves its purpose.
00:31:59This is a war band of meridunums
00:32:05spend all its days drinking rather than training.
00:32:10But you see, we are training,
00:32:12right here in the darkness of this hovel,
00:32:15with nothing to slake our thirst
00:32:17but this sorry excuse for wine, eh?
00:32:22To your safe return after such a long absence.
00:32:29Forgive me if I know not how to receive you.
00:32:37This is your realm, and rightly so,
00:32:39but I have been king here these many years.
00:32:41And your father and his father before you?
00:32:44Yes.
00:32:45And your son is next in line to the throne.
00:32:50Merrick is more interested in hunting and drinking
00:32:52than in the affairs of our kingdom.
00:32:54And yet he is your battle chief.
00:32:57It is a wonder how he has time for leisure,
00:33:01given the frequency of the raids.
00:33:07Yours is a fruitful land, Taldrigg.
00:33:10Yet your fields are stripped, your walls are broken,
00:33:13provisions are strained even at the king's table.
00:33:17At whose hand do you suffer this injustice?
00:33:20Not the Saxon, surely.
00:33:23For you would not have lived to tell the tale.
00:33:30Mokans of the Belgae.
00:33:32He's been bleeding the neighboring lands of grain and cattle
00:33:35for the better part of a year.
00:33:37Like a ravenous bear, Tenton,
00:33:39slumbering through the long winter.
00:33:41But why?
00:33:43He knows war with the Saxon is coming.
00:33:47And he intends to wait it out with ample provisions to spare.
00:33:53And you allow him to take from you?
00:33:55His men outnumber us two to one.
00:33:57So you let your people starve?
00:33:59I am not willing to lead my people to destruction.
00:34:02It is because you're not willing to lead them
00:34:04that the destruction is at hand.
00:34:07We cannot fight him.
00:34:09But fight him we would!
00:34:11Hey!
00:34:12We'd rather suffer the sword opposing that snake
00:34:15than let him take what's rightfully ours!
00:34:19You've told your father as much?
00:34:22My father's too proud to heed our counsel.
00:34:26I'm ashamed, Murthy.
00:34:28I admit it.
00:34:29I saw no other way.
00:34:38I often question whether I'm worthy to wear the talk.
00:34:44If I am a king,
00:34:48I'm not a very good one.
00:34:52Well, your father must have good reason
00:34:54to let this insult go unanswered.
00:34:56No king would suffer such humiliation, Miley.
00:35:01But whatever his reason,
00:35:02it would not matter for long.
00:35:04My family has ruled this kingdom
00:35:06for the last three generations.
00:35:09Now, Murthy returns to claim his throne,
00:35:13and we can hardly stand in his way.
00:35:16He is but one man.
00:35:17What?
00:35:18Do you not know?
00:35:24Do you not know?
00:35:40Painted by a fairy woman many years ago.
00:35:44Well, so the story is told.
00:35:49They say Murthy slew seventy men with his own hands
00:35:52within these very gates.
00:35:54At Gathe...
00:35:56At Gathe, he slew five hundred.
00:35:59No man is capable of such a thing.
00:36:04No mortal man.
00:36:06They say when the Arwen falls upon him,
00:36:08he is given strength from heaven.
00:36:11The world stops.
00:36:14None can stand before him.
00:36:17I can assure you, friends,
00:36:20that the only thing that matters in battle
00:36:23is brute strength.
00:36:26Magic is for druids and bored women.
00:36:33Perhaps.
00:36:36But he is legend in these lands.
00:36:40He is more than a king.
00:36:43He is nearly an otherworldly being.
00:36:48He will take the talk from my father
00:36:51and declare himself high king before he is through.
00:36:55And neither you nor the Saxons nor all the armies
00:36:59of Britain and Amorica can hinder him.
00:37:03Unless we stop him here...
00:37:07and now.
00:37:12He must listen to me, Uther.
00:37:30Out of my way.
00:37:32Stuart.
00:37:36I bested you once before.
00:37:39Don't make me do it again.
00:37:40Don't make me do it again.
00:37:41You're the aluminum surprise before.
00:37:44Not this time.
00:37:46You thought that was my only surprise?
00:37:47You would attack an unarmed man.
00:37:53not this time.
00:37:54You would attack an unarmed man.
00:37:55You were the it-
00:37:56you'd attack an unarmed man.
00:38:09not this time.
00:38:21Stop this, Uther!
00:38:51You risk ruining the Emrys' work!
00:38:54That is exactly what I did to do!
00:39:13Uther!
00:39:21Stand up, King Tawdry.
00:39:35You are right that you have failed your people.
00:39:40You've let fear rule your heart and govern your actions,
00:39:43and I do indeed have every right to reclaim my kingship
00:39:46and take back what is lawfully mine.
00:39:51But I deem it best to let my claim lapse.
00:39:56Too many years have passed for me to take back my throne.
00:40:01Merthen will not be king again in Maradunum,
00:40:06provided you pledge your support to Aurelius.
00:40:08You have my word.
00:40:22Are you quite well, Uther?
00:40:28It is short of wrath, it all.
00:40:29My warband will not fight for Aurelius
00:40:37while Morkhant threatens our homes.
00:40:40Well, then it's a good thing we have the battle chief of Britain
00:40:42to bring the Belgae to heel.
00:40:46I'm...
00:40:46afraid I must decline.
00:40:51Uther?
00:40:51I will join a fight against the Morkhant.
00:40:56However,
00:40:58only as a simple soldier.
00:41:01A cunning strategy, Uther,
00:41:03if we survive it.
00:41:05There's nothing like a brisk ride
00:41:07to revive a man.
00:41:21Aesu, receive your own with mercy.
00:41:46Who are they?
00:41:49Britons.
00:41:51From the villages along our eastern border.
00:41:58The Saxon move south and west.
00:42:02Killing and plundering.
00:42:05They rarely leave survivors.
00:42:07But when they do,
00:42:07we do what we can to lend aid.
00:42:10Care for the dying.
00:42:13When you could prevent the death.
00:42:16You did what you could.
00:42:18No.
00:42:19No, no, you could have fought.
00:42:22What strength you think we have
00:42:24is an illusion.
00:42:27Each year,
00:42:29our numbers decline.
00:42:30Not a child has been born to us since.
00:42:37Our people are not long for this world.
00:42:41You have weapons like none have seen.
00:42:44Armor to stop the fiercest Saxon blade.
00:42:46As king,
00:42:48my duty is to my people.
00:42:53I cannot fight your war for you, Aurelius.
00:42:57No matter how just the cause.
00:43:01We are too few.
00:43:02Where are the Saxon now?
00:43:27Lord is in line for the throne, after all.
00:43:30And a fine king will make my son.
00:43:36But,
00:43:37who are we,
00:43:39if not people of our word?
00:43:45I say,
00:43:46Angus makes his men fight to the death for his amusement.
00:43:49You must not believe everything you hear.
00:43:54Aurelius,
00:43:55on the other hand,
00:43:57is of noble blood.
00:43:59A diplomat.
00:44:01The Lord has a point.
00:44:03Is Aurelius not more fit to lead?
00:44:05Who knows who will rule these lands when all is said and done.
00:44:16But if it is your desire to break faith with the Saxons,
00:44:19then he'll might oppose you.
00:44:22But I admit,
00:44:25I do worry how he will receive you,
00:44:28if word comes to him of your dealings with Hengist.
00:44:31Yes.
00:44:33Yes, we must not have him taking you for a traitor.
00:44:36A traitor?
00:44:38I had not thought of that.
00:44:40Surely anyone suspected of conspiring with the Saxons would be shown no mercy.
00:44:45I'm sure you'll make the right decision.
00:45:04Pray to your God, Merlin.
00:45:08It isn't much of a plan.
00:45:10My God hears the prayers of all who call on his name.
00:45:15If something happened to your eye...
00:45:20Something happened to your eye?
00:45:45You would ride to the village's aid alone.
00:45:51I would try.
00:45:53You are a good man, son of Constance.
00:45:56But foolish.
00:45:58What would you have me do?
00:46:00What kind of king would I be if I let my people be slaughtered?
00:46:03A king who knows his limitations.
00:46:06There will be other battles, Aurelius.
00:46:08You are one man.
00:46:12You don't even know the country.
00:46:18I'm not above asking you to point me in the right direction.
00:46:25I have only one thing to offer my people.
00:46:30Everything.
00:46:30Everything.
00:46:30Our soldiers cannot ride with you to Riantha.
00:46:43But perhaps they will escort their princess on a ride through our easternmost holdings.
00:46:49My lady...
00:46:49But we cannot leave our territory, Aurelius.
00:46:52If you choose to engage the Saxon,
00:46:54you do it alone.
00:46:56Aurelius.
00:47:23Aurelius.
00:47:23Aurelius.
00:47:23Aurelius.
00:47:24Aurelius.
00:47:25What is your business here?
00:47:54You Belgae grow fat from the grain plundered from the fields of Maradonum!
00:48:01And?
00:48:02And we're taking it back.
00:48:12No one need die today.
00:48:15Tell your king Merthen-Emrys demands an audience.
00:48:18My king is not so easily summoned.
00:48:21I do not intend to make it easy.
00:48:24S.O.A!
00:48:28S.O.A!
00:48:29S.O.A!
00:48:29I'm not getting out!
00:48:32S.O.A!
00:48:34S.O.A!
00:48:35Oh, my God.
00:49:05Oh, my God.
00:49:35Oh, my God.
00:50:05Oh, my God.
00:50:35Oh, my God.
00:51:05Oh, my God.
00:51:07Oh, my God.
00:51:35Oh, my God.
00:51:37Oh, my God.
00:52:05Oh, my God.
00:52:07Oh, my God.
00:52:09Oh, my God.
00:52:13Oh, my God.
00:52:15Oh, my God.
00:52:17Oh, my God.
00:52:19Oh, my God.
00:52:25Oh, my God.
00:52:27Oh, my God.
00:52:29Oh, my God.
00:52:31Oh, my God.
00:52:33Oh, my God.
00:52:37Oh, my God.
00:52:39Oh, my God.
00:52:41Oh, my God.
00:52:43Oh, my God.
00:52:45Oh, my God.
00:52:47Oh, my God.
00:52:49Oh, my God.
00:52:51Oh, my God.
00:53:53Thank you, milady.
00:54:08Don't thank me yet.
00:54:11By the time this night is through,
00:54:13we may both be banished from the summerlands.
00:54:23Whoever you are,
00:54:41you've chosen a rather inopportune time to visit.
00:54:44I'm enjoying my supper.
00:54:49You know very well who I am, Malkind.
00:54:53I know who you claim to be.
00:54:56But why should I take your word for it?
00:54:59I come with an offer of peace from Uther,
00:55:03battle chief of Britain and brother of High King Aurelius himself.
00:55:08There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.
00:55:12Or until the kings of Britain are united as one.
00:55:17If you are the son of Taliesin,
00:55:21your wisdom is exaggerated.
00:55:25You ride with a force half the size of my own
00:55:27against a fortified position.
00:55:29My men will cut down your army in short order.
00:55:34If they have not already.
00:55:36You make war against your brother kings
00:55:38while the Saxon threatens the doom of our people.
00:55:42Who is my brother?
00:55:44Who are my people?
00:55:50I'm king of the Belgae.
00:55:53No one else is my concern.
00:55:55And how will you defend the Belgae
00:55:57when the Saxon horde marches across your fields?
00:56:01When was the last time you stood with a naked blade in your hand
00:56:04under the blast of the Saxon warhorn
00:56:07while a whole host of Saxon berserkers
00:56:10flew toward you over the battleground?
00:56:14I will be well supplied
00:56:18after I march across every kingdom
00:56:21deserted by kings
00:56:23anxious to fight alongside your battle chief Uther
00:56:26and his fool brother
00:56:29in their fool war.
00:56:32That is where you are wrong.
00:56:36There is to be no war.
00:56:38Uther himself has determined not to engage the Saxon
00:56:45until you return what you have plundered
00:56:47and pledge fealty to Aurelius.
00:56:50If Aurelius does not engage the Saxon
00:56:59he will be high king of nothing.
00:57:06Already this day Uther rides against you.
00:57:09He's the leader of this attack.
00:57:12There is no battle chief to be feared.
00:57:14Uther does not command Taldrigg's warband.
00:57:21He rides today a simple soldier.
00:57:26Indistinguishable from any other.
00:57:28You bluff.
00:57:35I do hope your men haven't killed him already.
00:57:40Aurelius slew the high king himself
00:57:42to avenge the death of his father.
00:57:45One can only imagine
00:57:46what he might do to you.
00:57:48Stay our archers.
00:57:58Call our warriors back behind the walls.
00:58:00Now!
00:58:06Your plundering is at an end, Morgant.
00:58:09You've abused your power.
00:58:12And now it is time for you to make amends.
00:58:14If you do not,
00:58:17Aurelius will continue to raise his army.
00:58:20But it will not be the Saxon he rides against.
00:58:39My daughter has long had a mind of her own.
00:58:44And I have all but given up,
00:58:47attempting to restrain it.
00:58:49But you,
00:58:51who mean to make yourself high king,
00:58:53should know better.
00:58:55If I do not allow my conscience to guide me,
00:58:59I am unworthy of the crown.
00:59:02You put my people at risk.
00:59:05Your people are at risk already, King Everlag.
00:59:07And we'll be as long as the Saxon
00:59:09have a foothold in this land.
00:59:10Father,
00:59:11the Britons that survived the raid
00:59:12have been brought to the palace.
00:59:14I'm needed.
00:59:14I'm needed.
00:59:25You cannot deliver your people from this threat
00:59:28if you throw your own life away, Aurelius.
00:59:32A king must sometimes make terrible choices.
00:59:36It was foolish.
00:59:40I know.
00:59:41In truth,
00:59:42I'm not ready for what is ahead.
00:59:44The battle against Vorting was...
00:59:46short.
00:59:47short.
00:59:47Decisive.
00:59:51I have little enough experience with war.
00:59:54That is abundantly clear.
00:59:56In truth.
00:59:59It was your daughter who saved my life.
01:00:03Yes.
01:00:06She has a way of doing that.
01:00:08You showed great courage today
01:00:19and a great love for the people you would rule.
01:00:25And my God tells me there is no greater love
01:00:29than the willingness to die for others.
01:00:41Keep that up.
01:00:43And you might just become high king after all.
01:00:45A man of his word is King Taldrigg.
01:01:02Two more western kings have pledged their fealty to Aurelius.
01:01:06The war bands ride eastward as we speak.
01:01:08Aurelius' legend grows.
01:01:10Aye.
01:01:11As does your army.
01:01:12Now you must return to your brother.
01:01:15Aurelius and I ride north to Gothay.
01:01:17We must ride alone.
01:01:20I have not proven myself to be a pleasant enough traveling companion?
01:01:24Uther, you have proven yourself a cunning strategist
01:01:26and fiercely loyal to your brother.
01:01:29But you must take caution.
01:01:32Your loyalty could be your undoing.
01:01:35More riddles.
01:01:37Perhaps when we next see each other
01:01:39we can pick up from where we left off.
01:01:41I do admit I did underestimate you, steward.
01:01:46I still think you should be a flog for our petalance.
01:02:05It is not safe for you in Guston at all.
01:02:16There must be another way.
01:02:24There is no other way.
01:02:25There is no other way.
01:02:25There is no other way.
01:02:26There is no other way.
01:02:27There is no other way.
01:02:28There is no other way.
01:02:29There is no other way.
01:02:30There is no other way.
01:02:31There is no other way.
01:02:32There is no other way.
01:02:33There is no other way.
01:02:34There is no other way.
01:02:35There is no other way.
01:02:36There is no other way.
01:02:37There is no other way.
01:02:38There is no other way.
01:02:39There is no other way.
01:02:40There is no other way.
01:02:41There is no other way.
01:02:42There is no other way.
01:02:43There is no other way.
01:02:44There is no other way.
01:02:45There is no other way.
01:02:46There is no other way.
01:02:47There is no other way.
01:02:48There is no other way.
01:02:49There is no other way.
01:02:50There is no other way.
01:02:51I don't know.
01:03:21I will set off at once for the Saxon's camp.
01:03:48That is what you wish.
01:03:51It is.
01:03:52Hold on.
01:03:55Wait to you.
01:04:21A gift for Angist.
01:04:24Save travels, my son.
01:04:42A gift for Angist.
01:06:53We are outmatched five to one.
01:06:57There is to be a new High King.
01:06:59They are the ones who would oppose the Saxons now.
01:07:03How many men are left for them to call upon?
01:07:05Those boys are on their own.
01:07:07I will not send the sons of my lords to die behind two undisciplined and untrained boys.
01:07:16I have come to ask the Northern Lords to join with them.
01:07:20Are you not the mighty Merlin?
01:07:23Terrible to meet on the field of battle.
01:07:26I've seen what you can do.
01:07:29I've seen what you can do.
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