00:16For too long,
00:18Thesian IV has been bereft of the Emperor's light.
00:22Like so much of our benighted Imperium, it clings on.
00:26A candle flickering in darkness.
00:29Our mission is of sacred importance.
00:34The enshrinement of our fallen Hallinus, Rhexia.
00:38She will be a beacon, a rising call to the faithful.
00:43She will mark Thesian IV as a shrine world.
00:48The Emperor's flock will come, and with their new hope,
00:53the foulness of the orcs shall be driven from this place.
00:57We shall risk everything for this.
01:02We will not fail.
01:05For to do less would be to fall short of what our Emperor demands.
01:10By fire and faith, we can...
01:25churches, or ush.
01:30ChiesShift, the free diamond make a fire.
01:31They're falling off.
01:32They're prone to heavywall angles.
01:33No.
01:46His test begins.
02:15Thank you for sparing me, so that I might be redeemed in return to the Greece, and not to the
02:20sisterhood.
02:40Are they, Imperator?
02:44Show yourself!
02:53Sister, I feared I alone had survived.
02:56Had that been so, our cause would surely have been lost.
03:00Then I am grateful to have been wrong.
03:06Keep it safe. It is worth more than your life. More than any of our lives. It must be preserved.
03:13At all costs. I know, sister. I will see it done.
03:19See that you do.
03:24The others.
03:27Silence is a virtue, Novitiate.
03:47God, Emperor. Take your just servants to thy side and guide their souls eternal.
03:55By the blessings of Saint Arabella, and the order of the sacred rose. I commit you to the glory of
04:05the golden throne.
04:12Allow me to recite the prayer of passing. Have we time? The Emperor in his grace has spared us. Our
04:19task remains urgent.
04:21You dare. Better you and I than a single wound had marred their holy flesh.
04:28Forgive me. I... I meant only...
04:31Your self-interest betrays you.
04:33Temperant sister. The Novitiate is right. We shall pay our respects, but swiftly. We cannot afford to linger here.
04:51I am sorry, Palatine Zaragoza. I only desire for us to achieve our mission.
04:58And to redeem yourself for your transgression?
05:02Of course, Palatine. It... This is my only chance to atone.
05:10Then be sure you don't waste it.
05:21This is our path. The high ground will give us the best vantage over the orcs.
05:28Forgive me, Palatine. But would this route not be faster?
05:32That's mad, Ash Novitiate. If it's deep, there may be no way to cross.
05:37Either dead or we'll sink in our armor and be easy prey for the orcs.
05:56We take the ridge and then make for the canyon road. The temple we seek is not far from here.
06:02It is fortified and well protected. We need only reach it.
06:21We will not. Put that, put that down.
06:26We will not. Get all them paths. We need em. The ship ain't gonna build itself.
06:33And we are begun to...
06:37They'll take us back to follow the Gruy
06:41So we can join the fight and follow the world!
06:58But first...
07:00The boss wants to deal with the homies!
07:21What is that?
07:23Trouble
07:39Hold back!
07:50The Emperor protects!
07:59Ventia! Stay low! Keep behind me!
08:02Look at that!
08:04Look at that!
08:10Good point!
08:21The enemy has failed!
08:31Let's go.
09:00Let's go.
09:26Menthia, keep watch.
09:33Why did you shield her?
09:34Does the Emperor not teach us that we must be shepherd and shield of our flock?
09:40Even for one so disgraced?
09:43If walking in faith were easy, sister, we would not be so blessed for our labors.
09:49The Emperor will see us through this.
09:52We must first help ourselves by getting through these damnable ashwaves.
09:57Contact!
10:00Move!
10:14Blood of the Saint.
10:18We have no choice, sisters.
10:20We must attempt the crossing.
10:24Now or never.
10:26The Emperor, preserve us.
10:52Blood of the Saint.
11:10SISTERS!
11:11How many?
11:13Too many.
11:14We cannot let her perish, Ludmilla.
11:16I'll get her, Palatine.
11:18Make for the edge.
11:43The relic.
11:45Take the relic.
11:59Shepard and shield, indeed.
12:06Hold your tank!
12:16Come on, my sisters.
12:21Saint Arabella, I beseech you.
12:24Grant me the strength that led me for you to see me through this trial.
12:29Cast upon me your mountain.
12:31It spared my flesh that it might help me carry this person.
12:55Thank you, sister.
12:57I...
13:05Merciful Ember.
13:08Merciful Ember.
13:08Your
13:10Ember Ember.
13:11How coming?
13:17Oh, dear.
13:22Income.
13:37Thanks, ì™„ì „.
13:47I don't know.
14:14I don't know.
14:38I don't know.
15:08I don't know.
15:14I don't know.
15:49I don't know.
16:15I don't know.
16:41What is this place?
16:42Did you not read the mission background, novitiate?
16:47Perhaps I should not be surprised by your lack of diligence.
16:50Oh, have grace, Ludmilla.
16:54Oh, have grace, Ludmilla.
17:29I don't know.
17:31I don't know.
17:32I don't know.
17:32I don't know.
17:32But go on.
17:37I wish I possessed your benevolence, yet all I see is a liability.
17:42She lost the relic.
17:46She lost the relic.
17:46And did she not then find it?
17:48A blessed feat in that storm.
17:51Wouldn't you agree?
17:53Perhaps.
17:55Still, given its importance, the relic should stay with you or I as a precaution.
18:00No.
18:02No.
18:03Every soul must be afforded the opportunity for redemption.
18:08This is Venthyr's act of atonement.
18:13My mind is decided.
18:28Search the storeroom and see if there's anything amongst this mess we can put to use.
18:34Let us hope the saint smiles upon us still.
18:37At once, Palatine.
18:40But first, I would ask something of you.
18:46Was it Faith?
18:47The light in the storm?
18:49Did we do that?
18:51Did I?
18:53Perhaps.
18:55It was ordained.
18:56I cannot say.
18:57All we can do is accept this blessing and strive to be worthy of it.
19:03I...
19:04In the storm...
19:06I thought we were lost.
19:10We were.
19:11tokens of trionos called vencia.
19:21Vencia.
19:23It is only the lost who can ever truly find him.
19:28It is in accepting this, that we begin to find the path he would have us walk.
19:37As you counsel, sister palatine.
20:00I miss your guidance, Rexilla.
20:05I fear we have found wanting in your absence.
20:10I have tried to lead them as best I can.
20:14Ludmilla has courage and fervor, but it leaves her blind to certain truths.
20:23And Saint, judge me.
20:26I see potential in Venthia, as you once saw in me, but I have been wrong before.
20:37Perhaps our reunion at the Emperor's side will not be as long in coming as either of us thought.
20:45I hope my faith guides me to you.
20:51I believe it will.
20:56We have toyed long and hard to bring Canoness Rexilla to the rest, but we are not done.
21:03What have you found?
21:05Demolition charges and a pair of magnoculars, still functional.
21:10And this, a pain suppressor.
21:11I would meet the Emperor, clear-minded.
21:17Sit with me.
21:21Rexilla was my old palatine before she became Canoness.
21:27I've never met a braver and more faithful servant of the God Emperor.
21:34She saw something in me that I could not see in myself.
21:39I was far from the model novitiate.
21:42I made mistakes.
21:44Yes.
21:46She offered me a chance at redemption.
21:50Forged me into a better warrior.
21:54A leader.
21:56Strength does not lie in the absence of weakness, but in the act of purging it.
22:05Rexilla taught me that.
22:08I saw her in the storm.
22:12Canoness Rexilla?
22:13No.
22:15At least I don't think so.
22:18Isabel, then?
22:24Then perhaps you will not face the trials ahead alone.
22:53God Emperor, I beseech you.
22:57Guide palatine Saragossa to thy side.
23:00And guard her soul and venom.
23:15O God Emperor, I beseech thee.
23:19Take your faithful servant into your embrace.
23:23Hold her up in glory everlasting.
23:27Saint Arabella, I commit her soul to you.
23:33May it find safe harbor by your guiding light.
23:53I am carrying on.
23:55Either you are with me, or I take the relic from you and go alone.
24:01Make your choice.
24:08All them keeps leaving.
24:10And so should we.
24:12The whole world is cooling.
24:15Some of the boys have already wondered up.
24:20Deserters, I say we hunt you me first, we hunt you me first.
24:27The thinking, they might be right, Snazog.
24:32I don't want to miss you on the biggest fight ever.
24:35You want to be stuck in some stinking ship's belly, chewing on croc bones?
24:42Defense, right here.
25:00I am his Redisimor, a willing servant for his lord.
25:04Show us the way, O venerated Emperor.
25:08Guide us, O Emperor. Be our shield and our beacon.
25:12Sister, we cannot simply wonder and hope. We need to find our bearings.
25:16A willing servant for his lord. Show us the way, O venerated Emperor.
25:22We passed that rock, not a mile back.
25:25Sister, Ludmilla, please, we are turning in circles.
25:34You are found wanting, not a shit. Weak.
25:38The Emperor has no need of the weak. Only faith will grant us the strength to mature.
25:43I have faith, sister. I also cannot deny the evidence of my eyes. We shall die here, our task unfulfilled
25:50if we carry on like this.
25:52Your sin is why we fail. Why this world taunts us.
25:57I never understood what Zaragoza saw in you.
26:00I see you for what you are.
26:03I did not...
26:04Training all or not.
26:06It is still the blood of a sister you spilled.
26:10Was your pride worth Isabel's life?
26:12I have faith.
26:42What?!
26:43Floor!
26:47Get down!
26:52Shit!
26:57Irreth.
27:01Death.
27:02Ice.
27:03Nooo!
27:21In this dark hour, keep my soul anchored true.
27:28Guide my way that I may carry his light through this darkness and be a portion of your ways to
27:32choose.
27:45Canterous breed.
27:53Don't you are too scrawny to be an orc?
27:56Let me help you.
28:08Please, sister.
28:11Saragoza gave her life for this, and I know I am not worthy of that sacrifice.
28:16But we are all that is left.
28:18We cannot let pride get in the way.
28:22Ours is a sacred task.
28:28Very well.
28:29You can help me walk, Novichit.
29:00There.
29:02Is that...
29:09Deliverance, sister.
29:11Praise the Emperor.
29:13There.
29:33We're almost there.
29:34We are almost there.
29:53This time she'll make us...
30:13We have to go!
30:26Prove. Me. Wrong.
30:30On your feet!
30:31No!
30:32Give me the charge.
30:35Now!
30:43Be worthy of the sacrifice.
30:54Run!
31:26For Saint Arabella!
31:42For my sisters.
32:04The saints carry you home.
32:07The saints carry you home.
32:24Amen.
32:41I praised your師.
32:44Come for us.
32:49Something that hopefully will be shared to you.
32:53This panel is a detail.
32:53I am Novitiate Venthia of the Sacred Rose. I come on holy pilgrimage, bearing the remains of Canoness Rexilla of
33:02my order. I ask for admittance to your temple, so that I may enshrine her.
33:23...
33:27...
33:39...
34:06Ave Imperator.
34:08Ave Imperator.
34:11Ave Imperator.
34:17Didn't think anyone was making out that rubble.
34:23The ship's ready.
34:25It's time to.
34:28They are bowling.
34:30All the boys.
34:32The moi is calling.
34:35He is calling.
34:37Gaskell.
34:39The big boss.
34:41Biggest of all the bosses.
34:44We're headed to the war world.
34:47Back to Armageddon.
34:51Not you though.
34:57I said you took too long.
35:00No.
35:01No.
35:15No.
35:22No.
35:24No.
35:28No.
35:34No.
35:36No.
35:38Praise the Emperor, sisters. We are blessed.
35:41An Ovissian.
35:43At prayer within the temple.
35:48After so many cycles, we had begun to wonder if our message had been lost to the Void.
35:54Your Novissian, Sister Venthia, she has been a blessing on this temple.
36:00Since her coming, we have seen nothing of the Orc menace.
36:04We did not know how much longer we could hold out and then gone.
36:10It's a miracle.
36:12Careful, priest. Damned is the soul lost to falsehood.
36:22Oh, praise him! You're here! My sisters, welcome.
36:32Forgive me, Sister Superior. Truly, this is a blessed day.
36:47This is authentic. This is the skull of the Canoness Rexilla.
36:53Of course. It is-
36:55Take her.
36:57W-what?
36:59No. Wait!
37:01Honored sister, I don't understand. The relic was delivered.
37:05Canoness Rexilla enshrined! All is right!
37:20C'mon!
37:21Sisters! Please! I beg of you! What is this?
37:28I have fulfilled my vow! I am redeemed!
37:36No, Emperor, no. I am no Repentia. I did not flee in battle. I did not commit a cardinal sin.
37:44Please, God, do not put me in there. Do not shuttle me to that machine. Please.
37:50Do not deserve it. This is wrong. No. Palatine Zaragoza said I would be forgiven.
37:56Final. Sister Zaragoza is dead. I never agreed with her assessment of your character, Benthia, and she cannot stand before
38:05us and speak of your atonement.
38:08Zaragoza was among the best of us, yet here you stand in her place.
38:13Punishment is due. For the killing of a fellow novitiate. For the sin of pride that led to this death.
38:20For your failure to martyr yourself here alongside your fellow sisters. For these great crimes, you are condemned.
38:29Your efforts have saved you from death. And you are blessed to be able to serve the God Emperor still,
38:35as all the faithful must.
38:38But you will know pain for your transgressions.
38:42No. No. No. No! No!
38:49No! No! No!
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