Mocked and underestimated by everyone around him, a mysterious man known only as “Rook” quietly prepares for a comeback that will change everything. Revenge, hidden power, and emotional battles fuel this gripping short drama.
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00:01Your stance is pathetic!
00:03Did you seduce someone to pass the trials?
00:10Commander Thorn, a new asset.
00:19I don't train mutts.
00:21Good, because I don't take orders from lapdogs.
00:23My mother was a saint.
00:24My father...
00:25Well, he ate saints for breakfast.
00:27Abomination! What are you?
00:30I'm the apex predator, Commander.
00:32Best remember that.
00:35Careful, Commander.
00:36I bite back.
00:44Smells like a liar in there.
00:52A noble's hand holds a wine glass.
00:55A sterling's hand signs decrees.
00:57Mine is a weapon.
01:01I am not Valeria.
01:03I am Rook.
01:07They're breaching the perimeter.
01:09Wake the zealot!
01:14Mutiny?
01:14Massacre!
01:31Rooka!
01:42Rooka!
01:53Kaios.
01:55Do you miss me, Little Bird?
01:59Mine.
02:00I keep what I kill.
02:03You are mine.
02:05Shhh!
02:06I belong to no one.
02:07Back off, monster.
02:09Touch me again.
02:10And I slit it.
02:13Fierce. I like that.
02:21Execute the half-breed!
02:24Hold! He held the line. He is my responsibility.
02:37Such chaos. Commander Thorn, your squad lacks discipline.
02:44You will deploy immediately to the Obsidian Coast. Secure the ruins.
02:49Do not return until the land is purged.
02:52As you command, Poneth.
02:58Listen to me. If either of you show an ounce of weakness out there, I won't wait for the demons.
03:07I'll execute you myself.
03:10The Seraphis Syndicate is rising. They're slaughtering Inquisition outposts.
03:16Why wasn't High Command notified?
03:19The Pontran knows! He sent you here to die!
03:27Drink. Act like filthy salesmen. Or we're dead.
03:43Put me down, you stiff-necked bastard!
03:48Shut your mouth before I wire it shut.
03:50Father, I think your daughter is just property. A pawn to be declared dead.
03:57I'll be back. Take your crown and bury you with it.
04:15The Seraphis Syndicate
04:15Well, well.
04:16You seek the Seraphis Syndicate's flank. I give you the map.
04:20But a trade requires blood. Or truth, Commander Thorn.
04:25Speak your price.
04:28The Bastard Prince of the Abyss. Fascinating.
04:31And you...
04:33You are the greatest illusion of all.
04:35The Ponty is digging into your past, Rook.
04:36He finds it fascinating how much he resembles the late Lord Stirling's dead daughter.
04:39You're delusional, old man.
04:41Lord Stirling is a cruel man.
04:42If he knew his precious runaway pole was playing soldier in the mud,
04:44he'd burn this order to the ground to drag you back by your hair.
04:46We have what we need.
04:52Move. Now.
04:56Move. Move. Move. Move. Move.
05:06DEMON! HE'S A DEMON!
05:10Put up. Now.
05:16AHHHHH!
05:16Skin the Freak!
05:23Let me slaughter them, Commander.
05:25Keep your teeth shut!
05:31First man who moves loses his hands!
05:34By edict of the High Inquisition, this creature is property of the Holy Order.
05:39Interfere and I will declare this entire block a zone of heresy and burn it to the ash!
05:49You are a liability.
05:52You wouldn't be after little B-Axert.
05:55I am a liability.
06:12I am a liability.
06:12I am a liability.
06:17Who are you really, little girl?
06:20Scream for help, princess.
06:23Whoa!
06:38Your worst nightmare
06:47I didn't feel it
06:49It bypassed my blood ward
06:51Whatever sent this
06:52It knows exactly how to kill us
06:56We leave
06:57Now
06:58Before more come
07:10Lord Stirling requests Commander Thorn's presence at the High Keep for a banquet
07:13He specifically wishes to meet your newly acclaimed prodigy, Rook
07:19Rook
07:19We attend tonight
07:20Get yourself presentable
07:24Break my nose
07:25Disfigure my face
07:27Do it now
07:29I ruin beautiful things for pleasure, darling
07:32Not on command
07:32Find another way
07:55Are you insane?
08:07Clean the blood off
08:10You have an audience with the Lord
08:20She's dead
08:25The Lord just received word
08:27His runaway daughter
08:29Valeria is dead
08:32Butch by the Seraphist Syndicate
08:35Why do you care?
08:36It was just a political alliance
08:37I saw her once, years ago
08:39In that court of snakes and shadows
08:42She was the only light
08:43We march west
08:44We aren't just purging demons
08:45We are going to slaughter every single member of the Seraphist Syndicate
08:48To avenge my bride
09:04My recruit needs first kill of the night
09:17Take it and leave
09:20You're paying for my time, little knight
09:23Not my absence
09:28Gods above
09:29You're a woman
09:31In Thorn's squad
09:32This is worth a lordship
09:50She screams again
09:52And I'll cut her tongue out
09:54Secrets are currency, darling
09:57But some secrets get you buried
10:00I'll say nothing
10:02I swear it
10:04I know
10:13So, the little rook is a queen
10:20Show me
10:26My name is Valeria
10:27Lord Sterling's dead daughter
10:30You lied to me
10:32I survived
10:33Like you
10:34We're the same Caius
10:35Monsters in pretty costumes
10:37This is your mask
10:38My lie
10:39Was mine
10:48You are nothing like me
10:53You are far more interesting
10:57What is this rot between you two?
11:01You'll fight
11:02No weapons
11:04Until one of you can't stand
11:22You want to protect me or own me?
11:26Does it matter?
11:28Treat me as your equal
11:32I can't
11:34I can't
11:34You're not
11:39Having trouble, rook?
11:41He's gonna snap you in half
11:43Careful
11:44He's starting to enjoy watching you lose
11:58To mourn the death of the boy you were
12:07They come from the mountain every night
12:10The Pontrit's men
12:11They just bolt the doors
12:13Where are the Seraphis?
12:14They're the only ones who fight
12:16The Inquisition here are cowards
12:18Three of them
12:19They barricade themselves in the church
12:21And pray while the rest of us get slaughtered
12:24Erskine
12:25This is Donnelly
12:26We're with the Seraphium
12:27We heard a real soldier was coming
12:30Baron Franton sends his regards
12:34They're here
12:36The Inquisition is a lost cause
12:38We don't wait for the city to scream
12:40We cut the head off the snake
12:42We meet them here
12:44Make a bottle head
12:45And burn them all
13:04My kill
13:06Too slow
13:10What is it about me they want?
13:13Maybe they smell a traitor
13:16I don't need a bodyguard
13:45Come
13:47Come, see what a real army looks like, Commander, propuping to treat it.
14:07Isn't there another way?
14:10In this war, you lose a limb or you lose your life. There is no other way.
14:19Now hold him down.
14:25We are not the Pontius' lapdogs. We are not lapdogs.
14:30We do not hide behind walls. We are the shield of the people.
14:35You're training a mob. I'm forging in an army.
14:42We have the same enemy, Thorn. Our Pontius is a liar.
14:47And our Baron is a leader. Tell your master what you have seen.
15:01Kaius!
15:15Kaius, fight it! It's me!
15:17Kaius!
15:25Kaius!
15:29Kaius!
15:33Kaius!
15:39Kaius!
15:48Kaius!
15:52Kaius!
15:54Kaius!
16:05Kaius!
16:06Kaius!
16:08Kaius!
16:14Kaius!
16:15Kaius!
16:15Kaius!
16:37Kaius!
16:47Kaius!
17:06Kaius!
17:07Kaius!
17:08Kaius!
17:10Kaius!
17:10Kaius!
17:13Kaius!
17:16Kaius!
17:29Kaius!
17:31Kaius!
17:32Kaius!
17:33Kaius!
17:49Kaius!
17:50Kaius!
17:53Kaius!
17:54Kaius!
17:56Kaius!
17:57Kaius!
17:58Kaius!
17:59Kaius!
17:59Kaius!
18:00Kaius!
18:13Don't look down, Rook!
18:15I'm not scared of a little height, Commander!
18:50No. It's a lie. He wouldn't.
18:54This is a mistake.
18:55An order is an order. Then we play their game better.
19:00Valeria will become the lure. She will shed the skin of Rook and become a noble lady once more,
19:04a damsel in distress to draw the Baron away from his guards.
19:07He'll recognize me.
19:09No, he won't. Because you won't be Valeria. You will be Bate. And Bate doesn't have a name.
19:25Perfect. Now, go break a hero's heart.
19:44To Commander Thorn, a man of honor serving a Pantit who has none.
19:49To the Pantit.
19:51Your Pantit is a cancer. He hoards knowledge while the people perish. The demons are evolving, Thorn.
19:57They are being led. I am on the verge of discovering their master.
20:04My lord! A lady in the guest wing! She claims a demon is trying to break into her room!
20:09An excellent opportunity, Baron. Let us see how the famed Seraphis handle a single, terrified demon.
20:24What is the matter? Valeria, what is the matter?
20:31Easy, my lady. You're safe now.
20:50A poor welcome, Commander!
20:52My apologies, Baron. My orders are absolute.
21:08I will not make you a traitor to your order, Thorn. Even if it is to save you from it.
21:28Going somewhere, Commander? Valeria. Move.
21:43You cannot change what has happened, Thorn. Release him, Thorn. This is your only warning.
21:48I follow my orders. Then you will die following them. Stand down, Erskine! That is a direct order! Let them
21:55pass!
22:02He's a good man, your commander. A pity he is so blind.
22:07He still doesn't know who you really are, does he, little Rook?
22:11Or should I say, Lady Valeria Sterling?
22:19Valeria?
22:24Liars! I betrayed my oath for a lie! I fight a war for a ghost!
22:30And you, you watched me. You let me play the fool.
22:38Was it amusing, Rook? Was my honor a good joke?
22:43A true god does not demand blind obedience, Commander.
22:47Only a tyrant does. Which does your pontman resemble?
22:59Thork! Snap out of it! What is this place?
23:02The Abatora.
23:07Where my faith was born.
23:11A demon raid hit this village. They butchered every villager.
23:15Tore my family apart.
23:18I was a boy.
23:20I hid beneath a floorboard, listening.
23:25And where was the Inquisition's righteous fire that night, Thorn?
23:28Where was your pontus, while your family screamed?
23:32Your order didn't save you. They left you to rot.
23:55I'm coming for you!
24:03Not today!
24:09Not today!
24:09Thorn, you fool! Kill it!
24:11That is not your sister!
24:12It's a parasite, wearing her skin!
24:16Milia?
24:19Useless zealot!
24:22Kill it!
24:54I will not serve Aliyah.
24:56But I cannot join you. My atonement is my own. Redemption is a lonely road, Commander.
25:04You just released the Inquisition's most wanted man.
25:07Simus will have you executed.
25:14Let him try.
25:24By the Pontart's judgment, Commander Thorn is excommunicated.
25:27Declared heretic traitor to be killed on sight.
25:29He has one week to deliver Franston.
25:31His assets, Rook and Chaos, will be executed as accomplices if they do not abandon him.
25:34Go. Save yourselves.
25:36No. You're a mad dog, Thorn, but you're our mad dog.
25:38We don't leave our own to be put down.
25:42Besides, I have always wanted to kill an Inquisitor.
25:48Then we go to the Diamond Coast. It's time to Pomp and answer it for his sins.
26:10Cain! The Ponton sends his regards.
26:13He commanded us to deliver your head in a box.
26:17You'll have to take it from me, little brother.
26:25I'll enjoy breaking you, little boy.
26:53Traitor! Die, brother!
26:57You picked the wrong target.
27:02This is for everything you took from me!
27:05You picked the wrong target.
27:11I am simply removing the distraction.
27:39You picked the wrong target.
27:42I failed to protect you.
27:45My name is Rook, and I chose this.
27:49I am not your redemption.
28:10This alliance is treason, Sterling.
28:12The Pontic will burn your lands to the ground.
28:14Heywood is already ash.
28:17I'm here to salt the earth where my enemy stands.
28:39I never taught you how to be a daughter.
28:41And I never learned.
28:41But I learned how to be a ruler.
28:43Your flank is exposed, give me the command.
28:46Or we all die.
28:50It's not a war.
28:52It's a harvest.
28:54In three months, on the night of the Crimson Eclipse,
28:58Cymus will perform a ritual.
29:00He will sacrifice every living soul in the kingdom to fuel his ascension into godhood.
29:20Who are you?
29:21He forged our bloodline as a chalice for his power.
29:24We are born to be devoured.
29:30I know your blood.
29:32Silas created your royal line to be living batteries.
29:34Each generation he harvests the strongest.
29:36You.
29:36You are the culmination.
29:37The perfect your power for his ascension.
29:39To break the brank is a siphon.
29:40You cannot kill the parasite.
29:42You must become the host.
29:43Claim the source of his power.
29:44The primordial fire seed.
30:00My lady!
30:01The gate is failing!
30:02The Pontist is on the field!
30:04Rain hell on that bastard!
30:06Archers!
30:10Arrrgh!
30:12Arrrgh!
30:14Arrrgh!
30:15Let's go!
30:58Impossible! You have bonded with the Fire Seed!
31:02Silas, I've come to collect your debt.
31:20Did you miss me?
31:46Welcome back.
31:52Let's burn them all.
31:57Look at my fallen Lapbad. Betraying your god for a monster and a whore.
32:03You were never my god. And today, I am your judge.
32:12He's consolidating his power. Caius needs time. I'll buy it.
32:28I failed you once. I will not fail again.
33:05You will not touch him.
33:10Let it all burn! I will build my throne upon the skull of this world!
33:17You will have no world to rule.
33:59I cannot lead a broken realm. It is yours now, my fierce daughter.
34:05Hold it with an iron grip.
34:08A woman cannot inherit the duchty! Haywood needs a strong hand!
34:12Not a grieving girl who only won a war, hiding on a man's coattails!
34:18My rule begins with culling trash. Does anyone else have an opinion and tradition?
34:25The old age is over. Obey or die.
34:28Your Grace! A rider from the East!
34:30The demon plague from the Pontart's magic wasn't just a dying curse.
34:34It's a living contagion, and it is spreading rapidly through our eastern water supply.
35:01You will become Caius's ghost. You will seduce her. Break her mind.
35:08And make her a puppet. Her throne will be mine.
35:15She is emotionally vulnerable. She lives for a ghost.
35:19We will give her one, and she will cling to it like a drowning woman.
35:24Once she is seen fanning over a pretty boy, her iron grip will inevitably rust.
35:29Rest!!
35:32Let's fight, let's fight, let's fight, let's fight!
35:34Rest!
35:34I don't know.
36:08Your name is Lovedead Power.
36:29Your grace.
36:37You are a very good actor.
36:40But you are mimicking a god of fire.
36:45And I am the only one who ever walked through his flames without getting burned.
36:50My spies tell me you spent three weeks hiding in Lord Bromlin's estate before joining the guard.
36:54Tell me, Leanne, who sent you?
36:56It was Bromlin.
36:57Lord Bromlin sent me.
36:58He planned everything.
36:58The dagger, the sparring, all of it.
37:00Please, your grace, mercy.
37:01Take this.
37:02The performance isn't over.
37:03You will help me set the final stage.
37:17You played your part exceptionally well.
37:20Now, take your gold and run before they kill you, too.
37:32To the new age.
37:35Jesus!
37:35Does anyone else have an opinion on my reign?
37:52Does anyone else have an opinion on my reign?
38:10The rod has finally cut out, your grace.
38:12It is.
38:13My decree will be signed by Dorne.
38:15It is.
38:18I fought for Rock, not for the Iron Queen.
38:21I am taking the Dawnblades to the eastern border.
38:23The Demon Plague is spreading rapidly through the rivers.
38:25That is where I am needed most.
38:28Goodbye, Valeria.
38:30Then go, Ranger.
38:31May the wilds treat you well.
38:41Found it in the eastern ash-wests.
38:43The power didn't completely die.
38:46He might still be out there.
38:52You promised.
39:01And the strict plague quarantines for the western province, your grace,
39:05are proving highly effective, but financially costly.
39:08Approved.
39:11Next.
39:15Any word?
39:16Nothing, your grace.
39:18The cult of the fire god vanished entirely after their civil war.
39:21No credible sightings of him.
39:23Find more spies.
39:25Burn the whole damn continent for coin if you have to.
39:28I want to know.
39:34Look at what I built for you.
39:36A kingdom we want.
39:40And all it cost was you.
39:52Your grace, we have found him.
39:54I'm sorry.
40:09He doesn't severe.
40:12And all he was dead, the murders, the murders, the news, the murders, the murders, the murders.
40:37My apologies.
40:41I mistook you for someone else entirely.
40:45Duchess.
40:51Still a fierce little bird, I see.
41:12The Fire Seed is a jealous god.
41:15It took my demonic power, my scales and my shadows.
41:19It made me a mere mortal.
41:22But it couldn't take you.
41:29I had to see if your heart won peace held.
41:35I had to be absolutely sure I wouldn't be just another monster for you to fight.
41:45Valea Sterling, Queen of Hayward.
41:46I am a man with no name, no title and no power.
41:49I have nothing left to offer you but the rest of my life.
41:52Will you have me?
41:57Get up, you fool.
42:00My consort doesn't kneel.
42:03I have nothing left to ask.
42:10Ah...
42:12...
42:16Talking to David.
42:40Gord yet, little bird?
42:43I fought a brutal war for this boredom.
43:08I fought a brutal war for this boredom.
43:15The waterborne demon plague, it has mutated.
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