00:01By the birth of a storm, Europe reeled in the aftermath of revolutions.
00:08Thrones fell like dying stars.
00:12Old empires fractured, the lodges whispered, the shadows stirred.
00:18Into this chaos a child was born on a remote island.
00:22Small, ambitious, fierce, Napoleon Bonaparte.
00:26To the world he would become a military genius, a liberator, a tyrant, an emperor.
00:34To the children of light he would become a sign.
00:37To the children of darkness he would become a vessel.
00:41For the shadow does not always choose kings, sometimes it chooses the men who create them.
00:49The making of the shadow's favorite.
00:52Napoleon rose through the ranks like fire through dry grass, gifted, relentless, unstoppable.
00:59He seized opportunities others feared.
01:02He turned defeats into victories.
01:04He turned chaos into order.
01:06He turned republic into empire.
01:09But the children of light recognize the pattern.
01:12A will too strong, a vision too consuming, a destiny too unnatural.
01:19The destructive image watched him closely.
01:22Here is a man who will reshape nations, it hissed.
01:26Here is a man whose ambition can be guided.
01:29It did not need to possess him.
01:31It only needed to whisper a Napoleon hungry for greatness.
01:35Listen to every whisper of glory.
01:42The rise of the shadow emperor.
01:45He crowned himself emperor in 1804.
01:48A deliberate act, a symbolic insult to Europe's monarchs.
01:52A declaration that destiny was no longer inherited.
01:56It was taken.
01:57The children of darkness rejoiced.
01:59For Napoleon's empire was not born of divine order.
02:03It was born of ambition.
02:06Conquest, manipulation, charisma, and the chaos seeded by the lodgers.
02:11Yet he brought reforms, justice, modernization.
02:14Light and shadow mingled in him.
02:16Just as they had in James, Vlad, and rulers before him.
02:20But Napoleon leaned toward the shadow.
02:23Power became his scripture.
02:24Conquest became his prayer.
02:26War became his language.
02:29I've Europe set ablaze.
02:31Napoleon did not merely fight battles.
02:34He reshaped the continent.
02:36Austria fell.
02:37Prussia bowed.
02:38Italy transformed.
02:39Spain trembled.
02:40Russia awakened.
02:42Entire nations were carved like clay.
02:44Borders erased.
02:45Kings replaced.
02:47Laws rewritten.
02:48The children of darkness whispered strategies into each campaign.
02:52Not for France's glory, but for Europe's destabilization.
02:57For if the continent tore itself apart, new systems could rise in the ruins and the lodges were ready.
03:04Be the war against the light.
03:06Napoleon's greatest campaigns were not against nations, but against the spiritual backbone of Europe.
03:12He shattered ancient monarchies, humiliated popes, seized church lands, exalted reason over revelation, enthroned himself above divine authority.
03:25The children of light fought to preserve truth, but the destructive image gloated.
03:31Let him tear down the old.
03:33We will build the new.
03:37Napoleon believed the world bent to his will.
03:40He never realized.
03:42He bent to another's.
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04:14Knack
04:21The Turning of the Tide
04:24In 1812, Napoleon launched the largest army Europe had ever seen toward Russia.
04:33Take the East. No one can stop you.
04:38But ambition is the shadow's favorite trap.
04:41Napoleon marched millions into a frozen grave.
04:47Moscow burned. Winter devoured the Grand Armée. Survivors limped home, broken.
04:54The children of darkness withdrew their whispers.
04:58The children of light intervened, for even the shadow abandons its pawns when their downfall serves a greater plan.
05:07Moscow marked the beginning of Napoleon's end.
05:16Of the Emperor, coalitions formed. Nations united. Battles turned. Napoleon was defeated. Exiled.
05:25Returning only briefly for one final blaze of chaos. Waterloo extinguished him. His star collapsed. His empire crumbled. But the
05:35shadow was not defeated. It simply moved on for the destruction Napoleon left behind.
05:41Fractured maps, weakened monarchies, ideological aftershocks was exactly what the children of darkness desired. A new world was coming. A
05:50world of republics, ideologies, financial empires and industrial power.
05:55Napoleon had cleared up. Napoleon had cleared the board. Being the legacy of the shadow emperor, the children of light
06:03recorded Napoleon's tale as a warning.
06:05A man driven by ambition becomes easy prey. A world driven by ambition becomes easy to rule. He was neither
06:14wholly evil nor wholly misguided. He was a tool.
06:18A storm used by the shadow to reshape nations. And the aftermath of his conquest paved the way for...
06:25Rising banking dynasties. The birth of nationalism. Revolutions across continents. Industrial power. New secret networks of influence. Napoleon fell.
06:39But the shadow empire he unintentionally forged was only beginning to rise.
06:46I toured the next great shift. The children of light braced themselves for what followed Napoleon would be subtler. More
06:54global. The world would no longer be shaped by emperors.
06:57But by systems, ideologies, alliances and shadows that move without crowns. The war was entering a new age. And the
07:05chronicles turned their gaze toward the next great transition.
07:09The freedom of the unseen architects. Who would build the modern world from behind the throne.
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