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Even Gods Bow to Her
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00:00:01Get those banners hoisted. Straighten the garlands.
00:00:04Bring the wine to the guests. Now!
00:00:09Today's a blessed day. The old gods are smiling on us.
00:00:20Whose wretched carriage is this?
00:00:22Have you any idea what day it is?
00:00:24You're blocking Lady Isabella's path on her wedding day.
00:00:28Bring me a listen.
00:00:29You dare speak his name? You're not fit to breathe the same air.
00:00:34I am Morgana. I have come to collect what is mine.
00:00:43I'll fetch him right away!
00:00:48Sixty years. You've had my eyes. Now I want them back.
00:00:53A grand day. My daughter marries a prince.
00:00:57My lord! My lord!
00:01:00Control yourself.
00:01:02A woman at the gates. She says her name is Morgana. She demands to see you. Now.
00:01:12Morgana.
00:01:14Forgive me. I didn't know you were coming. House Alistram is yours. Show us mercy.
00:01:20My lord. You are a duke. You kneel to no one but the king.
00:01:23One more word. And I'll cut it out myself.
00:01:28And I'll cut it out myself.
00:01:28My lady. Please.
00:01:47Mind the steps, my lady.
00:01:53l-
00:01:54The sky turns.
00:02:04Sixty years ago.
00:02:06I broke myself into twelve embers.
00:02:10The throne was secured.
00:02:13It is time.
00:02:19To reclaim them all.
00:02:25I assumed we were hosting royalty.
00:02:29For my husband to grovel so.
00:02:32To greet you himself.
00:02:33I simply had to see who...
00:02:44Magana, was it?
00:02:46You are a guest in my halls.
00:02:49Drink.
00:02:54Your wine, my lady.
00:02:56A blind witch.
00:02:59This shall prove to you.
00:03:09But I told them to boil it.
00:03:12Doorish vintage.
00:03:14Pity it turned to vinegar.
00:03:16Masked with heavy spice.
00:03:20Poured from the rot at the bottom of your cellar.
00:03:23Is this how House Alistair hides its decay?
00:03:26How could she possibly smell that?
00:03:28She knows.
00:03:29How could she know?
00:03:30You insolent wretch.
00:03:33Keep your filthy mouth.
00:03:38By his wits alone did Lord Alistair survive.
00:03:42Isabella, your gown.
00:03:43A tragedy.
00:03:44His bloodline rots with you.
00:03:47How dare you?
00:03:48My husband may tolerate your delusions.
00:03:51But I will not.
00:03:52You just assaulted the future crown princess.
00:03:55By royal decree, you will kneel and you will bleed for it.
00:03:58But she is a fool.
00:04:00You are worse.
00:04:02Even the gods of the underworld have yet to see me kneel.
00:04:07Why would you?
00:04:09We shall see.
00:04:12Gods, take her!
00:04:17And break her legs.
00:04:19Do it.
00:04:25Seize her!
00:04:26Now!
00:04:27Now!
00:04:41Stop!
00:04:43Stop this at once!
00:04:45Fools!
00:04:49Morgana.
00:04:50They know nothing.
00:04:52They acted out of turn.
00:04:54Spare them.
00:04:55I beg of you.
00:04:57Alistair.
00:04:58Father!
00:04:59Both of you.
00:05:00You blind, arrogant fools.
00:05:03She chose restraint.
00:05:04Or you would already be ashes upon this floor.
00:05:07On your knees.
00:05:09Beg for your lives.
00:05:12I bow to no one.
00:05:14I am the future crown princess.
00:05:16I will wear the crown.
00:05:18I will rule this realm.
00:05:22I will rule this realm.
00:05:23I am a queen.
00:05:24She is just a...
00:05:29A pity.
00:05:32No crown rests on a dead woman.
00:05:37You will die before the wedding bells ring.
00:05:55No.
00:05:58No.
00:05:58You!
00:05:59Get out of my house!
00:06:00Silence your tongue!
00:06:03Morgana, please.
00:06:04How do we stop this?
00:06:05Call off the royal wedding
00:06:08Break betrothal
00:06:12Or
00:06:13She dies
00:06:23The royal escort led by the obsidian guard
00:06:26Commander Cedric himself
00:06:28The reaper of the realm
00:06:36The prophecy is written
00:06:42And the king's edict
00:06:53Commander Cedric, you heard the prophecy
00:06:55If Isabella rides to the palace today
00:06:57It will be her funeral
00:07:00The crown
00:07:01Commands this union, Lord Alistair
00:07:03My escort is already at your gates
00:07:07You dare defy the throne over cheap politrix
00:07:11And break the royal contract
00:07:13Unless
00:07:15You doubt my ability to keep her breathing
00:07:20No, Commander
00:07:21Your blade is legendary
00:07:22Your tactics flawless
00:07:24The king trusts no other
00:07:25She is safe with you
00:07:28But
00:07:29Morgana has seen it
00:07:30She is our only hope
00:07:33Alistair
00:07:33The king's patience is not infinite
00:07:36Do not humiliate us for a blind witch
00:07:39The crown's wrath will burn this castle to the ground
00:07:42I will not let you ruin us
00:07:44She is right, father
00:07:46I am perfectly safe with the commander
00:07:49Have the carriage ready
00:07:50I will fetch my veil
00:07:57Isabella
00:07:58Let her go
00:07:59Let her go
00:08:00The hour is set
00:08:01My debt shall be claimed when the blood runs dry
00:08:11Play the prophet
00:08:13Watch her cross those gates alive
00:08:18I'll feel the blood
00:08:22Bring the oracle a horse
00:08:40I'll be right back in the middle of the castle
00:08:41I'll be right back in the middle of the castle
00:08:41I'll be right back in the middle of the castle
00:08:43I'll be right back in the middle of the castle
00:08:44I'll be right back in the middle of the castle
00:08:46I'll be right back in the middle of the castle
00:09:10Take them to the Iron Court.
00:09:13I want a name.
00:09:14Yes, Commander!
00:09:22Thank the gods Cedric was here.
00:09:25We're safe.
00:09:26He earned his coin.
00:09:31You fight well, mortal.
00:09:33Pity it changes nothing.
00:09:35I do not guess.
00:09:38The grave is dug.
00:09:41The hour is here!
00:09:42Step forward, future Empress!
00:09:51Isabella, my love, finally.
00:09:58No!
00:09:59God!
00:10:07I'm ready, Father.
00:10:09The crown is mine.
00:10:10Our legacy begins.
00:10:14My daughter.
00:10:16Our ultimate masterpiece.
00:10:20Lock it down!
00:10:21Double guards!
00:10:22Kill anything that moves.
00:10:24Nothing touched that carriage.
00:10:26Are we clear?
00:10:27Crystal clear, Captain.
00:10:28Consider it done.
00:10:29You're wasting men.
00:10:32The prophecy is spoken.
00:10:35The bride won't survive this journey.
00:10:37I am never wrong.
00:10:39Enlighten me then, Oracle.
00:10:41Give me a name.
00:10:42How exactly does she die?
00:10:44Give me real intel.
00:10:46Do that, I might believe you.
00:10:47Seeing the end requires a price.
00:10:50A transaction.
00:10:52I see the blood.
00:10:54The question is, can you afford it?
00:10:57There it is.
00:10:59The classic shakedown.
00:11:00We always get here.
00:11:01Just a beggar.
00:11:02I could watch the Duke's daughter in her wedding dress.
00:11:05Perfectly protected by your elite guards.
00:11:08Ride straight to her execution.
00:11:10Let me ride with your convoy.
00:11:12Take me.
00:11:14I'll prove you wrong.
00:11:19I see the threads.
00:11:22Every drop of blood before it falls.
00:11:25The end is written.
00:11:26You're just walking the path blind.
00:11:29Cut the riddles.
00:11:30You're in my cell now.
00:11:34If you see everything, then what happens next?
00:11:39Does the blade slip?
00:11:40Does the steel bite?
00:11:42Or maybe I'm just sick of your games and slit your throat right now!
00:11:44Did you see that?
00:11:50A seer is blind to her own end.
00:11:52That is the only law I obey.
00:11:56Then tell me how this ends.
00:11:58But you cannot kill me, Cedric.
00:12:03Let's put that to the test.
00:12:06Steel cannot touch me.
00:12:11By drawing it on me, you owe a deadly debt.
00:12:14Madness.
00:12:15I serve the crown.
00:12:16I don't fear witches.
00:12:20Still believe in hard facts, Commander?
00:12:24Commander!
00:12:25We have a situation.
00:12:27The prisoners from the ambush, sir.
00:12:29They took poison.
00:12:30Hidden in their teeth.
00:12:32They're all dead.
00:12:33Trails cold.
00:12:34Dead?!
00:12:34You let our only witnesses die in chains?!
00:12:37They were paid to die.
00:12:39They'd never talk.
00:12:40You want the true killer?
00:12:42Stop asking the living.
00:12:44They only lie.
00:12:45I'll make the dead speak.
00:12:58The prophecy.
00:13:00She knew.
00:13:01How?
00:13:02She was right there!
00:13:04The prophecy is fulfilled.
00:13:06Her blood is spilled.
00:13:08You killed my daughter!
00:13:10Your daughter's death was a tragedy.
00:13:12Eleanor, don't provoke her.
00:13:14Look at the carriage!
00:13:15The doors were sealed!
00:13:16Who else could bypass those locks?!
00:13:19Enough!
00:13:20Seal the gates!
00:13:21Nobody leaves this yort yard!
00:13:23You're all suspects!
00:13:24Take them to the iron court!
00:13:31We're alone.
00:13:32Just tell me the damn truth.
00:13:34How did you reach inside a moving, heavily guarded carriage
00:13:38and take her head without a single sound?
00:13:41You mapped out her execution beforehand.
00:13:44Fine.
00:13:46Say you didn't swing the blade yourself.
00:13:50But you orchestrated this.
00:13:53If that comforts you, you may use it.
00:14:01You said you could make the dead speak.
00:14:03Name your price.
00:14:05There's always a price with you.
00:14:07Always.
00:14:08Name it.
00:14:09Whatever closes this investigation.
00:14:11I want your absolute obedience.
00:14:15When I speak, you do not question.
00:14:18When I point, you do not hesitate.
00:14:21My loyalty is to the crown.
00:14:23I don't give blind trust.
00:14:24I have the killer.
00:14:26If you put the murderer in front of me,
00:14:29then you have my trust.
00:14:31Don't make a vow you can't keep, Commander.
00:14:34You have my word.
00:14:36I won't break it.
00:14:41Take this.
00:14:43Sew her head back on.
00:14:45You want me to mutilate a royal corpse?
00:14:47Every second you wait, she fades.
00:14:53Her soul is bleeding out.
00:14:56It's done.
00:14:58It's done.
00:14:59What now?
00:15:00Open the doors.
00:15:02Bring them all.
00:15:03The grieving father.
00:15:05The weeping mother.
00:15:08Bring the prince who lost his bride.
00:15:10We are going to hold a court of our own.
00:15:19Isabella!
00:15:20My baby!
00:15:21Oh God!
00:15:22Hold her back.
00:15:23Don't let her touch the body.
00:15:24Let me go!
00:15:25That's my daughter!
00:15:26Why is she here?
00:15:28Why is that blind woman in the judge's seat?
00:15:31Commander Ashworth!
00:15:32She killed her!
00:15:34She cursed my daughter and you let her sit there!
00:15:37His Royal Highness Prince Kale!
00:15:40Isabella!
00:15:41Let me through!
00:15:43Isabella!
00:15:44No!
00:15:44Look what they did to you.
00:15:46My beautiful girl.
00:15:48The audience is here.
00:15:50Let the performance end.
00:15:53Flesh to thread.
00:15:56Bone to command.
00:15:58Rise.
00:15:59Rise.
00:16:04You demanded proof, Commander.
00:16:07Behold the truth.
00:16:10You wove the crimson soul thread yourself.
00:16:14The bond is forged.
00:16:16Ask her.
00:16:19Isabella Alastom.
00:16:20Is your killer here?
00:16:29No!
00:16:46Keep that thing away!
00:16:48She's bewitched!
00:16:54The crown is ours, father.
00:16:59The crown is yours!
00:17:00The crown is yours!
00:17:12Edmund Alaston.
00:17:17Now confess.
00:17:24Edmund Alaston, Do you confess?
00:17:27I confess to nothing!
00:17:29You sick witch!
00:17:31You killed her!
00:17:33You puppeted her corpse to frame us!
00:17:36He took you in.
00:17:38You repay us with blood!
00:17:40This is madness!
00:17:42A father doesn't slaughter his own blood!
00:17:45Isabella was my pride!
00:17:48Why would I destroy my own future?
00:17:51See the truth!
00:17:52His own blood, that's true.
00:17:55But what if that girl
00:17:57was never your blood at all?
00:18:00Eleanor.
00:18:01Why did the Emperor betroth Isabella to Prince Kael?
00:18:05It was destiny.
00:18:07The Emperor declared it.
00:18:08They were born the exact same hour.
00:18:12Blessed by the gods.
00:18:15Wait!
00:18:16It's impossible!
00:18:18Edmund, tell me you didn't!
00:18:21I had to secure our bloodline.
00:18:27Give me the child I must see.
00:18:30Tell the truth.
00:18:31Is it a boy?
00:18:33A girl, my lady.
00:18:35A girl?
00:18:36No!
00:18:37You're lying!
00:18:38A daughter.
00:18:39Just as I said.
00:18:40Why me?
00:18:45The consort is waiting.
00:18:47If it's a boy, I'm ruined!
00:18:49Breathe, my lady.
00:18:51Panic is a luxury we can't afford.
00:18:53Duke Alistair has already arranged a solution.
00:18:55Bring the bundle inside.
00:18:57Now.
00:19:01Look closely.
00:19:03Pure Alistair blood.
00:19:04A flawless son.
00:19:06Yours, if you dare.
00:19:10A son!
00:19:11From now on, you are mine.
00:19:14The true heir of this house.
00:19:17My son.
00:19:19My heir.
00:19:39You're telling this court I'm Duke Alistair's son?
00:19:43No.
00:19:44No.
00:19:45No, no.
00:19:46I am the crown prince!
00:19:51It can't be.
00:19:52How could my husband do such a thing?
00:19:55This is treason!
00:19:57What could he possibly want to risk all our lives?
00:20:00What did he want?
00:20:01Your son.
00:20:02Sitting on the throne.
00:20:04That's what he wanted.
00:20:07You need proof to make such claims.
00:20:10This dark sorcery proves absolutely nothing.
00:20:13Lord Alistair, if I had to guess.
00:20:16The moment the emperor degreed Isabella's marriage,
00:20:19you realized if she entered the royal court,
00:20:21the crown would eventually discover her secret.
00:20:23So you hired a pack of mercenaries
00:20:25to stage a bandit raid on the carriage.
00:20:27But Morgana's warning put my guard on alert.
00:20:29You feared with extra men your hired killers
00:20:31wouldn't be able to finish the job,
00:20:32so you killed your own daughter before she left.
00:20:35And as for your loyal servants,
00:20:36they break much faster than paid assassins.
00:20:39Commander!
00:20:39Commander Ashworth!
00:20:40Lord Alistair's personal guard,
00:20:42they've confessed to everything.
00:20:43The signed confessions.
00:20:45They admit the duke
00:20:46ordered them to silence Isabella
00:20:48before she even left.
00:20:53My entire life of scheming!
00:20:57All crushed by fate's cruel hand.
00:21:00The eye you granted us
00:21:02gave House Alistair absolute power.
00:21:06Unmatched wealth.
00:21:07Unmatched glory.
00:21:09But the emperor still stood above me.
00:21:11Until that day,
00:21:14when I saw...
00:21:17I saw...
00:21:22I saw the truth.
00:21:24If my son took the cradle,
00:21:27he'd rule the world.
00:21:29But the vision didn't end there.
00:21:31I saw the flaw that would kill us.
00:21:34The decree.
00:21:35The royal wedding.
00:21:37If Isabella entered that palace,
00:21:39he would see my daughter.
00:21:43He'd see the exact face of the young empress.
00:21:46He's not blind.
00:21:49He'd know exactly what I did.
00:21:52I had no choice!
00:21:53You must see that!
00:21:55I had to cut the rot out.
00:21:57I had to protect my family!
00:22:00My son will be emperor!
00:22:01I had to!
00:22:07Morgana, I confess it all.
00:22:09Punish me alone.
00:22:10I beg you, look at me!
00:22:12Remember my father's loyalty!
00:22:15Spare my wife!
00:22:17He's lying!
00:22:18We knew nothing!
00:22:19Please!
00:22:20I'm begging you!
00:22:21Take my life, but let them live!
00:22:24Granted.
00:22:25Thank you, Oracle.
00:22:28My life for theirs.
00:22:31Edmund!
00:22:32No!
00:22:33Edmund!
00:22:34No, Edmund!
00:22:36Edmund!
00:22:38Please stay!
00:22:41Wake up, please!
00:22:42Don't leave me!
00:22:44No!
00:22:47No!
00:22:48No!
00:22:50No!
00:22:52No!
00:22:52No!
00:22:53No!
00:22:53No!
00:22:54No!
00:22:54No!
00:22:55No!
00:22:55No!
00:22:56No!
00:22:56No!
00:23:16I gave them my sight, to watch the dark.
00:23:21Instead, they watched the throne.
00:23:24Built a lie, thought they could cheat fate.
00:23:26Thought they owned me.
00:23:29They own nothing.
00:23:31I'm taking it all back.
00:23:33With blood.
00:23:36Mortal hands cannot hold the weight of a god.
00:23:39It crushes them.
00:23:41The Alistair debt is settled.
00:23:43My sight is mine again.
00:23:47Now, we move to the next house.
00:23:51Stop!
00:23:51You can't just march in there.
00:23:53This is treason.
00:23:55I must alert the Emperor.
00:23:56There's no need to call the Emperor.
00:23:58He's already here.
00:24:05God.
00:24:06The Emperor.
00:24:11Your Majesty.
00:24:15By royal decree, Prince Kale and the Empress are hereby spankstripped of titles.
00:24:20They shall be cast into the Black Cells.
00:24:24It shall be done.
00:24:31Lady Morgana!
00:24:33Lady Morgana!
00:24:34It's you!
00:24:35Careful, sire!
00:24:37Morgana!
00:24:38Sire, wait!
00:24:39Lady Morgana!
00:24:46I wish to name you High Protector to guide the realm.
00:24:53Every mage alive will answer only to your command.
00:24:58My rule is simple.
00:25:00One shard for one question.
00:25:03You want a prophecy?
00:25:04Give me your family's ancient inheritance.
00:25:08The crown shard in exchange.
00:25:11Right.
00:25:12If you wish to reclaim the shard,
00:25:15I will gladly return it.
00:25:18After all, my family owes are thrown to you.
00:25:21Power is a debt.
00:25:22When I give and when I take,
00:25:24is my choice alone.
00:25:26Why the rush?
00:25:28Yes, you are completely right.
00:25:30Please, rest at Ashermyth Palace.
00:25:33Everything will grant her than...
00:25:35No, no!
00:25:36Higher than Imperial standards!
00:25:37No need.
00:25:39I am going to Ashworth Keep.
00:25:41Besides,
00:25:42my heart
00:25:45currently belongs to him.
00:25:53Yes, yes, of course.
00:25:55Take my royal carriage.
00:25:59Please, my lady.
00:26:00After you.
00:26:01Your Grace,
00:26:02that is the Sovereign's carriage.
00:26:03It breaks royal protocol.
00:26:05Shut your mouth!
00:26:07Lady Morgana is the law.
00:26:09Her word is absolute.
00:26:10There is no protocol in this world
00:26:11that outrants her.
00:26:13Isn't that right, my dear lady?
00:26:15Please.
00:26:17Mind the step, my lady.
00:26:18Careful now.
00:26:19Very careful.
00:26:21Commander Ashworth.
00:26:22Your Grace.
00:26:23If she suffers even a scratch,
00:26:25I swear to God,
00:26:26I will hang every last member
00:26:27of your retted house.
00:26:29Do I make myself clear?
00:26:31Crystal clear, Your Grace.
00:26:32My dear Lady Morgana,
00:26:34I have just remembered
00:26:35some urgent matters of state
00:26:37to attend to.
00:26:38I must take my leave.
00:26:44You serve Lady Morgana now.
00:26:46Farewell.
00:26:47Have a pleasant journey.
00:26:51Earlier you said
00:26:52that I had your heart.
00:26:54What the hell does that mean?
00:26:56Sixty years ago,
00:26:58my heart was carved from my chest.
00:27:01It is not with you.
00:27:04It is in your house.
00:27:06My house?
00:27:11This way, Lady Morgana.
00:27:13Thanks to your grace,
00:27:14sixty years ago,
00:27:15when you bestowed
00:27:15the Heartmen Shard upon us,
00:27:17the Ashworth name
00:27:18is now renowned
00:27:18for our healing arts.
00:27:20You see?
00:27:21These afflicted souls
00:27:22travel from the furthest corners
00:27:23of the kingdom
00:27:24seeking our aid.
00:27:26So,
00:27:27the legendary Ashworth
00:27:28healing arts
00:27:30actually came from you.
00:27:33Tell me then,
00:27:34just how old are you exactly?
00:27:37Does it matter to you?
00:27:38Please, my lord,
00:27:40save my mother!
00:27:41Wake up, Mama!
00:27:42Somebody help her!
00:27:43Have mercy!
00:27:44Please help my mother!
00:27:45I beg of you!
00:27:46This is all the coin I have.
00:27:48Please,
00:27:50show some mercy.
00:27:52A handful of dirty coppers?
00:27:54And you expect
00:27:55the Master's healing
00:27:56for that?
00:27:57Get out of here,
00:27:58now!
00:27:58Stop wasting everyone's time.
00:28:00Selina!
00:28:03Cedric!
00:28:04You're finally home!
00:28:06When I gave your family
00:28:07the Shard,
00:28:08it was to heal the Broken.
00:28:10To serve the Realm,
00:28:11not to exploit the weak.
00:28:13You have broken the Pact.
00:28:14Give the Fragment back.
00:28:16Who do you think you are?
00:28:17How dare a commoner like you
00:28:19make demands
00:28:20in Ashwild Keeps?
00:28:21Silence!
00:28:22Show her respect!
00:28:24This is Selina Frost.
00:28:26A ward
00:28:27taken in by my father.
00:28:30Selina.
00:28:31We heal the sick,
00:28:32regardless of coin.
00:28:33Have you forgotten?
00:28:34Go to the chapel.
00:28:36Pray.
00:28:37Beg her forgiveness.
00:28:38You heard him!
00:28:39To the chapel now!
00:28:42I beg your pardon, my lady.
00:28:44I had no idea
00:28:45she was extorting them.
00:28:48Rest assured,
00:28:49the Ashwilds honor your gift.
00:28:50We'd never turn away the poor.
00:28:52Most days,
00:28:53we treat all these commoners
00:28:55without asking for any money.
00:28:57I said return the Shard.
00:29:01Or do you mean to defy me?
00:29:04No, no!
00:29:05The relic is rightfully yours!
00:29:07I will return it to you immediately.
00:29:09It is just the Hartman's Shard is kept safe by my eldest, Maren.
00:29:14She's been in seclusion at a distant abbey for years.
00:29:17Once she returns from her retreat, I will present it to you myself.
00:29:20Fine.
00:29:21I will wait.
00:29:24I will wait.
00:29:27Every time I return,
00:29:29she still won't see me.
00:29:32Fifteen years.
00:29:33Fifteen years since I've laid eyes on her.
00:29:35Does she really despise me that much?
00:29:37Why do you think she treats you with such coldness?
00:29:41Because of what I did.
00:29:43She hates me.
00:29:45When I was a boy,
00:29:47I almost died.
00:29:49My sister came for me,
00:29:50and the iron drove through her right arm in my place.
00:29:53She was never the same again.
00:29:58She was a master healer.
00:30:00Those gifted hands.
00:30:02She could bring the dying back to life.
00:30:04But because of me,
00:30:05the scar on her arm never faded.
00:30:07And she was taken from me forever.
00:30:09She became a completely different person after that.
00:30:12The Hartman's Shard was hers by birthright.
00:30:15With its power,
00:30:16she became the greatest healer in the kingdom.
00:30:18And then they sent her far away,
00:30:20to a quiet abbey,
00:30:21where she could practice in peace.
00:30:23But I know the truth.
00:30:25That day
00:30:27became a thorn in her heart.
00:30:29One that will never be pulled out.
00:30:31Every time she looks at me,
00:30:32she remembers what saving me cost her.
00:30:35Everything is bound by consequence, Commander.
00:30:37You see only the branches above the soil,
00:30:40but you are blind to the roots below.
00:30:43What is that supposed to mean?
00:30:44You will know soon enough.
00:30:50My knees are hurting.
00:30:52I'll fetch the salve.
00:30:55Cedric just got back,
00:30:56and he's already screaming at me because of her!
00:30:59She's an honoured guest.
00:31:01Even Lord Ashworth had to apologise to her.
00:31:03Master Cedric serves her.
00:31:05People are whispering.
00:31:07She might be his future bride.
00:31:09His future bride?
00:31:10Look at her.
00:31:11She's a freak.
00:31:13With that filthy black rags.
00:31:15She doesn't deserve Cedric.
00:31:21Crone.
00:31:22What is that?
00:31:24Honey cakes.
00:31:25Master Cedric's favourite.
00:31:27And imperial spiced wine for Lady Morgana.
00:31:31Halt!
00:31:33Imperial spiced wine?
00:31:34A gift from the Emperor himself.
00:31:36It's worth a fortune.
00:31:38You really know how to grovel.
00:31:41Give it here.
00:31:44Healers always keep the best poisons.
00:31:47This widow's kiss is lethal.
00:31:50No taste, no cure.
00:31:53Drink up, Morgana.
00:31:55Go, take it to her.
00:31:56I cannot, my lady.
00:31:59She is Master Cedric's guest.
00:32:03Know your place.
00:32:05Without Ashfield Charity,
00:32:07a useless old crone
00:32:08would be rotting in the gutter.
00:32:11Pathetic.
00:32:16I am disciplining a servant.
00:32:18Since when does a blind freak
00:32:20interfere with Ashfield affairs?
00:32:22If your tongue serves only to offend,
00:32:25then you should not speak at all.
00:32:29Morgana.
00:32:31You little piece of...
00:32:33My lady, what is it?
00:32:34My lady, what's wrong?
00:32:35Please, say something!
00:32:37What's doing this?
00:32:38Guards, help us!
00:32:40Get Lord Aldric, she's choking!
00:32:41She can't breathe!
00:32:42Lord Aldric, please, hurry!
00:32:45I'm right here.
00:32:46Just breathe.
00:32:47She suddenly lost her voice.
00:32:49Selene is just a foolish girl.
00:32:51She didn't mean to offend you.
00:32:53I will make her apologize to you at once.
00:32:55What are you waiting for?
00:32:56Apologize!
00:32:57Now!
00:32:58Are you deaf?
00:32:59Do you want to be mute forever?
00:33:05My lady.
00:33:07I don't want your apology.
00:33:09Kneel to the one you truly wronged.
00:33:12Please, no!
00:33:13I'm nobody!
00:33:14A lady cannot kneel to me!
00:33:16I'm just a servant!
00:33:17Silence!
00:33:18Just be grateful!
00:33:20Every brick in this house
00:33:21rests on the Hartman Shard.
00:33:24She built our legacy.
00:33:26Oracle, I beg you.
00:33:28She's terrified.
00:33:30Let it be enough, please.
00:33:32Have mercy.
00:33:39Your mercy is boundless, my lady.
00:33:41I will discipline the girl at once.
00:33:44Come, my lady.
00:33:46Let us go.
00:33:50Are you hurt?
00:33:52I am fine, my lord.
00:33:55You've grown so thin.
00:33:57The northern winds have been cruel to you.
00:33:59You must stay longer this time.
00:34:01Your name day is soon.
00:34:03I knitted you a pair of thick winter gloves.
00:34:06Let me fetch them for you.
00:34:08Wait right here for me.
00:34:10That old woman.
00:34:12Her devotion to you is genuine.
00:34:15It is.
00:34:16She has been here since I was a boy.
00:34:19Always kind to me.
00:34:20When I was injured as a boy,
00:34:22she sneaked me pouches.
00:34:24And every year on my name day,
00:34:25when my own sister was lost to me,
00:34:28she brought me warm broth and fresh bread.
00:34:31With her,
00:34:32I almost remember what having a sister felt like.
00:34:35If that is true,
00:34:36you should show her more grace while you can.
00:34:39I have seen the shadow on her.
00:34:41She has but a few days left.
00:34:44Do not wait until tomorrow
00:34:46to realize what you have lost.
00:34:51Listen to me, child.
00:34:53Never cross paths with Morgana again.
00:34:56She thinks she owns us.
00:34:58Patience, my sweet girl.
00:35:00I'm securing your future.
00:35:02Play the game.
00:35:03Let her think she's win.
00:35:06Soon, everything will be yours.
00:35:08Lady Morgana,
00:35:10Lady Ashfield has sent me
00:35:12to return the Hartman's shard
00:35:13to its rightful owner.
00:35:15We have heard
00:35:16when you take back what is yours,
00:35:19you offer a reading in return.
00:35:21Lady Ashworth has written her question
00:35:23right here on this parchment.
00:35:26Take it, Cedric.
00:35:32I will not answer this question
00:35:34because the Hartman's shard is a fake.
00:35:37What?
00:35:39A fake!
00:35:41Someone must have switched it
00:35:42when she wasn't looking.
00:35:44I'll get to the bottom of this.
00:35:45Tonight.
00:35:46Don't.
00:35:48What is mine
00:35:49will always return to my hands.
00:35:52Lady Morgana!
00:35:54Commander Ashford!
00:35:57The Emperor begs your aid.
00:35:59The Empress' door wager is dying.
00:36:01The Royal Physicians
00:36:02can do nothing for her.
00:36:04His Majesty demands
00:36:04you come at once.
00:36:05Please, my lady,
00:36:06you are her only hope.
00:36:12Lead the way.
00:36:14Useless fools!
00:36:16What good are you if she dies?
00:36:18Your Majesty,
00:36:20Lady Morgana has arrived.
00:36:25Morgana, thank the gods you have come.
00:36:27Please, you must help her.
00:36:28Mother is...
00:36:29Her flame has burned out.
00:36:31Her time is over.
00:36:33Prepare the crypt.
00:36:34Lies!
00:36:35That is a lie!
00:36:36Your Majesty,
00:36:40I can save the Empress.
00:36:43Morgana,
00:36:44if you can't save her,
00:36:46stop making pathetic excuses.
00:36:49I say,
00:36:50you have no real power.
00:36:51You're nothing but a fraudulent witch.
00:36:53Selina!
00:36:54This is a royal chamber,
00:36:56not your playground!
00:36:57Your Grace,
00:36:58I can heal her.
00:36:59On my life.
00:37:00Selina Frost,
00:37:02you should know.
00:37:03Cedric knows it well.
00:37:04My prophecies
00:37:05are never wrong.
00:37:07Care to make a wager, then?
00:37:09On what?
00:37:10If I win,
00:37:11I want the Emperor
00:37:12to decree my marriage to Cedric.
00:37:14And I want your head
00:37:16severed from your neck.
00:37:18Your Grace.
00:37:19Madness.
00:37:20This is absolute madness.
00:37:21Guards!
00:37:22Drag this madwoman away!
00:37:24I accept.
00:37:30Very well.
00:37:31Give it a try.
00:37:33If you truly cure my mother,
00:37:36I will grant your every wish.
00:37:44So you stole
00:37:46the Hartmann's schnaz?
00:37:47Cedric.
00:37:48I'll be a master healer,
00:37:50just like your sister.
00:37:52Then you'll finally see
00:37:53I'm the only one for you.
00:37:56Forcing fate
00:37:57only brings ruin.
00:38:00If you insist on this path,
00:38:02you alone will choke on the ashes.
00:38:06Save your cheap parlor tricks.
00:38:08Healing the sick is God's work.
00:38:10There's no price for that.
00:38:13By the old blood,
00:38:14I command the vessel.
00:38:16Take the living spark.
00:38:18Feed the dying flame.
00:38:22Awaken.
00:38:26Wake up!
00:38:30Wake!
00:38:41What's happening?
00:38:43It burns!
00:38:45It burns!
00:38:46It burns!
00:38:47It burns!
00:38:48Oh God!
00:38:52Water!
00:38:54Please!
00:39:00Mother!
00:39:01Mother!
00:39:02Wake up!
00:39:06My face!
00:39:07No!
00:39:09How did this happen?
00:39:13You stole my magic,
00:39:14but you never asked
00:39:16when the spell steals
00:39:17a living spark,
00:39:18whose spark
00:39:20does it take?
00:39:23Move along.
00:39:24Get out.
00:39:26Move!
00:39:26Before I drag you out!
00:39:29Know who stands before you.
00:39:31My lord,
00:39:32I did not know.
00:39:33Maren.
00:39:34My lord,
00:39:35you're mistaken.
00:39:36She's not Maren.
00:39:37She's just an old crone.
00:39:39Nothing more.
00:39:40My lord!
00:39:41Get out.
00:39:42Yes, my lord!
00:39:48My lord,
00:39:49I'm nobody.
00:39:50Just an old crone.
00:39:52Nobody of importance.
00:39:54Just a servant.
00:39:55This is the inner sanctum.
00:39:56Only the bloodline.
00:39:58Only the Hartman's shard bearer
00:39:59can come here.
00:40:02Let me see you.
00:40:12That scar.
00:40:15Where did this scar come from?
00:40:17Only Maren bore this mark.
00:40:20Maren?
00:40:24Why didn't you tell me?
00:40:29Whose life did you think
00:40:30you were spending?
00:40:31The Ashworth Empire
00:40:32isn't built on medicine.
00:40:34It's built on a parasite.
00:40:36It trades your years for theirs.
00:40:39A simple fever
00:40:41costs you a month.
00:40:42A fatal wound
00:40:45strips the youth
00:40:46right off your bones.
00:40:48Sick Empress was already dead.
00:40:51Her time was up.
00:40:52Give her every hour
00:40:53you have left.
00:40:54It won't buy her
00:40:56a single day.
00:40:57Then what about Maren?
00:40:59Explain Maren!
00:41:01She bore the shard
00:41:01for thirty years.
00:41:03Pulled thousands
00:41:04from the grave.
00:41:05Then she should be dust!
00:41:07She should be
00:41:07a rotting corpse!
00:41:09Why is she flawless?
00:41:11Why not her?
00:41:12Look at me!
00:41:13It took everything!
00:41:15My skin!
00:41:16My life!
00:41:17Why just me?
00:41:19You said she was perfect.
00:41:22Cedric,
00:41:23you believed
00:41:23she hid from you
00:41:24for ten years.
00:41:25It never crossed your mind
00:41:27that the woman
00:41:28she became
00:41:29was standing
00:41:30right in front of you.
00:41:32And you looked
00:41:32right through her.
00:41:34Stop.
00:41:36What does that mean?
00:41:37You're a commander.
00:41:39Open your eyes.
00:41:41Every year
00:41:41on your birthday.
00:41:42That old servant.
00:41:43The only one
00:41:44who still cooks for you.
00:41:46Who is she, Cedric?
00:41:51Lord Cedric, wait!
00:41:52You can't go in!
00:41:53My lord!
00:41:54She said no visitors!
00:41:55My lord!
00:41:55My lord!
00:42:02Maren.
00:42:03Gods.
00:42:05It's really you.
00:42:09Why?
00:42:10All these years,
00:42:11why didn't you tell me?
00:42:13Every time I used the shard,
00:42:15it stole a year of my life.
00:42:18Burned away.
00:42:18Then one morning,
00:42:20I looked in the glass.
00:42:22White hair.
00:42:23Hands shaking like a crone.
00:42:25Maren, let me in!
00:42:27My lord, no!
00:42:28Get off!
00:42:29I want my sister!
00:42:31Let me go!
00:42:33Maren!
00:42:33I couldn't let you see a monster.
00:42:37No.
00:42:37Stop it.
00:42:39Don't ever say that.
00:42:40Look at me.
00:42:41You are Maren.
00:42:43The bravest person I know.
00:42:45But I abandoned you.
00:42:46You gave me your entire life,
00:42:49and I was blind.
00:42:51I didn't see my own sister.
00:42:53I'm sorry.
00:42:54Oh, my brave little brother.
00:42:56It's all right now.
00:43:05Cedric,
00:43:06tomorrow is your name day.
00:43:08I haven't made your broth yet.
00:43:10Maren, please.
00:43:12Just rest.
00:43:13You made it for me every year.
00:43:15My whole life.
00:43:16Tomorrow,
00:43:17I'll make it for you.
00:43:24This is my fault.
00:43:25I looked right at her and saw nothing.
00:43:27She hid her hands,
00:43:29traded her life away,
00:43:30and I just stood there.
00:43:31He used the Heartmen Shard
00:43:33to drain her year by year
00:43:34while I watched and called it nothing.
00:43:36She made a choice.
00:43:38The Shard needed a vessel.
00:43:40She offered herself.
00:43:42She healed them.
00:43:43She gave them time.
00:43:45She gave you time.
00:43:47That was all she ever wanted.
00:43:49I looked right past her for years.
00:43:52Thank you
00:43:53for stripping away every excuse I had.
00:43:56I have her back.
00:43:57Whatever it cost you,
00:43:58I swear on my blade,
00:43:59I will repay that debt.
00:44:01She hasn't eaten in days.
00:44:02I made this for her.
00:44:03I don't know if she'll want it,
00:44:04but I need to give her something.
00:44:06I'm going to take it to her now.
00:44:07Wait.
00:44:09Something wrong?
00:44:12It's nothing.
00:44:13Go to her.
00:44:14I won't be long.
00:44:24Maren!
00:44:26Maren!
00:44:27Maren, wake up!
00:44:27No, no, please!
00:44:29Maren!
00:44:31The scale always balances.
00:44:35Get away from me!
00:44:38Don't touch me!
00:44:40I want my sister!
00:44:42Get away!
00:44:44Where is she?
00:44:49I want my sister!
00:44:52Cedric.
00:44:53I'm here.
00:44:55Look at me.
00:44:56Don't touch me,
00:44:57you old witch!
00:45:02She's dead, isn't she?
00:45:04She left me.
00:45:05Everyone always leaves.
00:45:08But I'm staying
00:45:09to a legion.
00:45:12I'm not going anywhere.
00:45:15I'm here.
00:45:16Right here.
00:45:17I've got you.
00:45:23Lord Ashworth,
00:45:24she saved my family.
00:45:26She saved so many.
00:45:28We had to come.
00:45:30Everyone knew how much
00:45:31she meant to you, my lord.
00:45:32Her loss leaves a wound
00:45:33in all of us.
00:45:35She gave everything.
00:45:37Healed strangers.
00:45:39Never once asked
00:45:40for anything in return.
00:45:41Even when it broke her.
00:45:44Even when it cost her.
00:45:46Her life.
00:45:48I watched her disappear.
00:45:50Day by day.
00:45:52If the gods would take me instead,
00:45:54I'd go willingly.
00:45:55And yet you stood there.
00:45:58Every scar on her body,
00:46:00every year taken from her.
00:46:02His hands did that.
00:46:04All of it.
00:46:06Every shriveled vein on Maren's hands.
00:46:09Every year carved from her face.
00:46:11He arranged all of it.
00:46:13Her life meant nothing to him.
00:46:15He only cared about the gold.
00:46:17The price her dying breath could buy.
00:46:20Oracle, please.
00:46:22Everyone here knows the Ashworth name.
00:46:24We heal the sick.
00:46:26We never ask for coin.
00:46:27We serve the people.
00:46:29You cannot just walk in here
00:46:30and spread lies about my family.
00:46:35If you took no coin,
00:46:37then tell me what you've been hiding in the dark.
00:46:40Every transaction,
00:46:41every name,
00:46:43every debt you buried.
00:46:59These are property deeds.
00:47:01Hundreds of them.
00:47:02The Ashhouse fled the Highlords dry.
00:47:04In secret.
00:47:04They traded healing for mansions.
00:47:06For land.
00:47:08We thought you were a saint, Aldrich.
00:47:10You're nothing but a leech.
00:47:12A parasite.
00:47:12You stole my sister's life.
00:47:15You drained Maren dry
00:47:16to build your filthy empire
00:47:18and left her to rot in the dirt.
00:47:20She gave everything
00:47:21and you ground her bones into your crown.
00:47:24That is not the whole of his sin.
00:47:26When Maren's face withered
00:47:28from what he forced on her,
00:47:30he turned away from her.
00:47:32He took a lover in secret.
00:47:34A secret mistress.
00:47:36A hidden life.
00:47:38There is no one.
00:47:39You are lying.
00:47:40The child you had with her
00:47:42has been living under this very roof.
00:47:44You call her your ward.
00:47:45You let her do as she pleases.
00:47:48Do you deny that Selene is your blood?
00:47:52You gave Selene full run of this house.
00:47:55Is she your bastard?
00:47:57Is that why you let her destroy my sister?
00:48:00Oracle.
00:48:02I have always bowed to your vision.
00:48:04You cannot lay this at my feet.
00:48:06I am innocent if there was money
00:48:08missing from the patients.
00:48:10Maren did it herself.
00:48:12Plain greed.
00:48:13She used the sick to line her own pockets.
00:48:23Look out!
00:48:24Get back!
00:48:26That's gold.
00:48:27He hid it in the tablet.
00:48:32The heavens don't care for your lies.
00:48:34But I do.
00:48:36You built a dynasty on stolen breath.
00:48:39You are no heir to what I left here.
00:48:42You are a parasite.
00:48:45My sister is dead.
00:48:48She died a ruined servant under your roof.
00:48:52And you dare stand over her coffin
00:48:54and call her a thief?
00:48:56I will cut you apart right here.
00:48:58Cedric, be reasonable.
00:48:59Look at what she had become.
00:49:00Who could look at that face
00:49:02and not be sickened?
00:49:03You are no blood of mine.
00:49:06You are nothing to me.
00:49:07Is this my fault?
00:49:09I would have taken the burden on myself.
00:49:11I swear it!
00:49:12But the healer's grace,
00:49:13it binds only to the women.
00:49:15It rejected me.
00:49:16It was never my choice.
00:49:17We kept her fed.
00:49:19Kept a roof over her head.
00:49:20She owed this family her service.
00:49:23It was her duty to plead for us.
00:49:25A lie.
00:49:26I forged the healer's grace.
00:49:28I wrote its laws.
00:49:30It does not choose by blood or gender.
00:49:33It chooses by the will to sacrifice.
00:49:35It rejected you
00:49:36because it looked inside your chest
00:49:38and found nothing at all.
00:49:40You let a child wither in your place
00:49:43and called it fate.
00:49:44You said you wished to carry the burden.
00:49:47You wanted the Ember's power for yourself.
00:49:50You wanted it all.
00:49:53Very well.
00:49:57Let us see
00:49:58how much of it you can bear.
00:50:04Very well.
00:50:31No!
00:50:32Get off me!
00:50:33I am the lord of this!
00:50:37No!
00:50:39No!
00:50:40No!
00:50:41No!
00:50:51Every year he stole from Maren.
00:50:54They just ripped it back.
00:51:14Maren! Can you hear me? Look at me!
00:51:20You... you came back.
00:51:27Remember your oath.
00:51:42The Hartman Shard.
00:51:44It's time it returned to you.
00:51:45You took another piece of your power straight into yourself.
00:51:49Will you absorb this one too?
00:51:50I don't know.
00:51:52I don't know.
00:52:18So, let's go.
00:52:23Please help us! Have mercy!
00:52:28You're breathing. I watched you stop. I thought you were gone.
00:52:32You're shaking. Your birthday is soon. I still owe you bread and broth.
00:52:39I'll make it myself. Just don't close your eyes again. Promise me that.
00:52:45Her face still carries what the years cost her.
00:52:48But the 30 years Aldric took from her have been stripped from his bones.
00:52:52They're hers now. Her hand is healed. The debt is paid.
00:52:57She will never serve in the dark again. She lives. The transaction is complete.
00:53:05Oracle. You didn't owe us this. I will carry this mercy until my last breath.
00:53:16You gave my sister back her life. My life is no longer my own.
00:53:22It belongs to you. Every breath I draw belongs to your cause.
00:53:25I am your shield. Your blade. Point me at your enemies.
00:53:30Wherever you walk, I walk with you. Until my blood runs cold.
00:53:38Talk to me.
00:53:40Did the exorcism drain you? Are you hurt?
00:53:43I am not hurt.
00:53:45When I pulled the Hartman Shard from your sister, I absorbed 30 years of her memories.
00:53:49Every single day she spent trapped in that house.
00:53:52There's an echo now.
00:53:54A pressure in my chest.
00:53:56You have a rule. You reclaim a piece of your power. You owe the bloodline one truth.
00:54:00One ember. One question.
00:54:04Maren gave her whole youth to keep me alive.
00:54:07She never got to ask her question.
00:54:10Maren.
00:54:11So I'll ask it for her.
00:54:13Look into your prophecy, Morgana.
00:54:15Did my sister's sacrifice mean anything?
00:54:17Tell me.
00:54:20Your sister asked what waits for you in the north.
00:54:22I didn't lie to her.
00:54:23So I'll tell you exactly what I saw.
00:54:26There is a line drawn across your fate.
00:54:28A terminal point.
00:54:30If you follow me to Ironwall.
00:54:32If you walk into Ravencrest at my side.
00:54:35You will stand before someone and bleed until there is nothing left.
00:54:38And you will die.
00:54:40That is the end of it.
00:54:42In front of who?
00:54:43Who do I bleed for?
00:54:45Me.
00:54:47Knowing this.
00:54:49Knowing that every step north is a step towards your own grave.
00:54:53And you still want to come with me.
00:54:55Forget it.
00:54:56It doesn't matter.
00:55:00You are ordered to stay behind.
00:55:02I walk into Ironwall alone.
00:55:04I don't need a shield.
00:55:06I swore an oath to you.
00:55:08I stand between you and whatever comes.
00:55:11I'm going.
00:55:16I told you how this ends.
00:55:19Are you not afraid?
00:55:22I lead the Obsidian Guard.
00:55:24I have walked into the dark more times than I can count.
00:55:28Every time they said I wouldn't walk out.
00:55:32Every time they said the odds were broken.
00:55:34And I am still standing here.
00:55:37Let them come.
00:55:37I will survive it.
00:55:38And I will walk you out of Ironwall myself.
00:55:44You must think I'm completely useless with a blade.
00:55:47I've been sickly since childhood.
00:55:49My sister-in-law handles the killing.
00:55:51She lets me read instead.
00:55:52I apologize for the gate.
00:55:54It's just...
00:55:55Lately.
00:55:55The moment the sun sets.
00:55:57The dead walk.
00:55:58Vesta fears the undead soldiers.
00:56:00Breaching the walls.
00:56:01Slaughtering our people.
00:56:03Please forgive the locked gates, my lady.
00:56:05These undead outside your walls.
00:56:07What is their origin?
00:56:08We don't know.
00:56:09Not since my grandfather fell.
00:56:11They don't discern friend from foe.
00:56:13They just butcher.
00:56:14For six months we've been trapped here.
00:56:16Powerless.
00:56:17Thorn was injured?
00:56:19Yes.
00:56:20Ambushed by the dead weeks ago.
00:56:22He hasn't woken since.
00:56:25Take me to him.
00:56:27Of course.
00:56:27Finn!
00:56:34You dare test me, boy?
00:56:37Who authorized you to breach the protocol?
00:56:40Who gave you leave to welcome stray vagras into my fortress?
00:56:44Do Frost Stokes' laws mean nothing to you?
00:56:46Vesper, wait.
00:56:48This is Lady Morgana.
00:56:49Grandfather foresaw this.
00:56:50He said a woman named Morgana would come for the Shard.
00:56:53We must show her absolute respect.
00:56:56The Patriarch is dying.
00:56:57He needs silence, not scavengers chasing fairy tales.
00:57:00Commander Vesper.
00:57:02Even the Emperor bows to Lady Morgana.
00:57:05I suggest you mind your tone.
00:57:07Before I cut out your tongue.
00:57:09Damn your southern king!
00:57:11Here, we follow north laws.
00:57:14Your laws.
00:57:15Tell me.
00:57:17What does the north demand?
00:57:19You want to see him?
00:57:21Bleed for it.
00:57:22Best me in combat.
00:57:24Win, and you get your audience.
00:57:26And your precious shard.
00:57:28Lose, and you crawl back south.
00:57:31Frostbite does not serve the weak.
00:57:33I'll gladly test your iron, Commander.
00:57:35Good!
00:57:36A real man!
00:57:37Bring me my steel!
00:57:48Hold the gate!
00:57:50I am Cedric Ashworth, commander of the Obsidian Guards.
00:57:54Hold the gates!
00:57:55Guards!
00:57:55They're here!
00:57:56Fall back!
00:57:57Bar the gates!
00:58:02Go on, mate!
00:58:12Ring of steel!
00:58:13Protect Morgana!
00:58:22Ash to ash.
00:58:24Darkness breaks.
00:58:26Burn.
00:58:29Burn!
00:58:30Burn!
00:58:30Burn!
00:58:31Burn!
00:58:31Burn!
00:58:31Burn!
00:58:32Burn!
00:58:33Burn!
00:58:33Burn!
00:58:36Burn!
00:58:45This malice.
00:58:47I know it.
00:58:48She broke them!
00:58:49Who goes there?
00:58:50Morgana.
00:58:52Lady Morgana!
00:58:54Forgive me.
00:58:56My grandfather speaks of you often.
00:58:59And you are?
00:59:00Finn Ravenkest, my lady.
00:59:02Grandson to Patriarch Thorn.
00:59:04Morgana.
00:59:05Smile for me.
00:59:07You look best when you smile.
00:59:09Foolish.
00:59:19Morgana.
00:59:20My sister-in-law is a monster on the battlefield.
00:59:23She holds the true bloodline.
00:59:25No one beats her.
00:59:26Is this it, then?
00:59:28The day you foreseen I would die.
00:59:50He's hurt!
00:59:51He will not die.
00:59:55Playing with time!
01:00:13Well fought.
01:00:15Your form is decent, but you fight like you fear death, always leaving room to retreat.
01:00:22Remember, a real enemy won't give you quarter.
01:00:26The only way to outlive them is to care less about dying.
01:00:30Mother!
01:00:31Mother!
01:00:35There's my little bird.
01:00:37You promised me we'd practice archery today.
01:00:41I know.
01:00:42Go grab your bow.
01:00:43I'm coming.
01:00:43Okay.
01:00:47When you have something you can't leave behind, then teach me to fight.
01:00:52Tomorrow, I will grant you an audience for the Patriarch.
01:00:58You see, I am still breathing.
01:01:00If you had truly defied my vision, now that would be interesting.
01:01:09Two years ago, at the Bloodwater Siege, Vesta's husband begged the Emperor for reinforcements.
01:01:15But the Royal Court was busy preparing the Emperor's Jubilee.
01:01:18The army never marched.
01:01:20Her husband died in the mud, left her and the child alone.
01:01:24Vesta has every reason to hate the Crown.
01:01:27She struck a deal with the enemy.
01:01:29You are wrong.
01:01:32You said we were seeing the Patriarch.
01:01:34Why bring us to a crypt?
01:01:35Whatever you see in there, hold your nerve.
01:01:39My grandfather rests inside.
01:01:41Please, this way.
01:01:43This way.
01:01:58What?
01:02:02My lady, the North is freezing.
01:02:04I brought you these heavy furs.
01:02:06Your concern is noted, boy.
01:02:08But she has no need for such common scraps.
01:02:11These are royal pelts from...
01:02:16Gods.
01:02:18What in the world is this?
01:02:20It's so soft.
01:02:22It doesn't even feel like wool.
01:02:23It feels like water.
01:02:25These deep red shapes here.
01:02:27What kind of flower is this?
01:02:29A rose.
01:02:30The sovereign of flowers.
01:02:32A rose.
01:02:33It's beautiful.
01:02:35I can't even imagine it.
01:02:36So this is what the South grows.
01:02:39Here in Frostspike, the winter never ends.
01:02:42The ground is iron.
01:02:43Nothing this fragile could ever survive the frost.
01:02:47If it pleases you, boy, help us reclaim the shard from your keep.
01:02:51And this mantle is yours to keep.
01:02:54Truly?
01:02:55You swear on your honor?
01:02:57On my blood.
01:02:59Done.
01:03:00I'll get ready.
01:03:05You barter with the boy because you are certain that Vesta will not surrender the shard.
01:03:14Is this?
01:03:15It is Thorn.
01:03:17Yes.
01:03:18Since the ambush six months ago, this crust began to form.
01:03:22It started around his wounds.
01:03:24Then it spread.
01:03:25Swallowing him whole.
01:03:27How many healers have you called?
01:03:29All of them.
01:03:30None could break it.
01:03:32None.
01:03:39None.
01:03:47This isn't a sickness, is it?
01:03:49It is his own madness.
01:03:51His madness?
01:03:52Thorn's natural life ended in the snow six months ago.
01:04:00But his fury anchored him here.
01:04:03He refuses to pass on.
01:04:05And the shard buried within him gave his wrath a physical form, spawning the dead that batter your gates.
01:04:13While this stone shell devours his remaining soul.
01:04:17The undead?
01:04:19They came from my grandfather's own mind?
01:04:23What kind of nightmare could be powerful enough to breed an entire army of corpses?
01:04:32What is happening?
01:04:37The dead are marching in daylight.
01:04:42I'll hold the line.
01:04:43Gather the men.
01:04:45My lady, I'm begging you.
01:04:47Save Frostbike.
01:04:48Take the shard back.
01:04:49It's right there in his chest.
01:04:51Please, please, just take it.
01:04:52I beg you.
01:04:55Yes, but the shard must be freely given.
01:04:59Even I cannot carve it out by force.
01:05:01I will pull Thorn back from the dark.
01:05:04Do not let them interrupt me.
01:05:06This pennant will hold the dead.
01:05:08Plant it beyond the gates.
01:05:09It will buy me time.
01:05:11If the ward fails, if the dead breach the line,
01:05:16or if you are overrun,
01:05:18do not die for me.
01:05:20Leave.
01:05:21My orders stand.
01:05:23You are my charge.
01:05:25I do not break the line.
01:05:27I do not break the line.
01:05:41I remember a boy.
01:05:44One who chased my shadow,
01:05:46always begging for stories.
01:05:48Now,
01:05:50reduced to stone.
01:05:54Veil lift
01:05:56Flesh bind
01:05:58Awaken
01:06:02Thorn
01:06:04Ashworth
01:06:06Her magic broke
01:06:07She's bleeding
01:06:19Shit
01:06:32Finn, what are you doing?
01:06:34I'm done pretending, Commander
01:06:36Did you honestly think Vesper was the one who crippled my grandfather?
01:06:40It was me, who left the gate wide open
01:06:43So, you're the rat
01:06:45They butchered your parents, slaughtered your own brothers
01:06:48They bled Frostbear dry
01:06:50And you sold us out to the monsters?
01:06:53Sold us out? Monsters?
01:06:56Better than being the crown's lapdog
01:06:57Why should we bleed for them?
01:06:59Our ancestors all followed Morgana
01:07:01We were equals once
01:07:02But because they got different shards
01:07:04Some get to rule the capital
01:07:05Some get the gold
01:07:06And what did the rain creeps get?
01:07:08Three generations rotting in this frozen wasteland
01:07:10Bleeding out in the ice
01:07:12Just another name on a tombstone
01:07:14Waiting to be wiped out
01:07:16I won't let it end like this
01:07:19I'm going to tear Frostfire down
01:07:21Break the chains they put on us
01:07:25I saw Morgana use this
01:07:27It commands the dead
01:07:29I hold the power now
01:07:37Isn't that right?
01:07:38Run!
01:07:41Run!
01:07:46Run!
01:07:49Run!
01:07:52Run!
01:07:53Run!
01:07:54Run!
01:07:56Run!
01:07:58Run!
01:07:58Run!
01:08:02Run!
01:08:03Run!
01:08:06Run!
01:08:07Run!
01:08:08Run!
01:08:08Yes. I remember the vow. I gave you my word to hold this fortress, to bleed for the innocent. But
01:08:21the dead are here. The wolves are at the gates. I dare not leave.
01:08:28Enough, Thorn. You have bled enough. Your bloodline. Your men.
01:08:38Ah.
01:08:41Ah.
01:08:46Ah.
01:08:55Ah.
01:08:58Ah.
01:08:59Ah.
01:09:00Ah.
01:09:01Ah.
01:09:11let the obsession die
01:09:15you must go
01:09:17whatever my sister commands
01:09:22Thorn will always obey
01:09:25but before I return the shard
01:09:30Morgana
01:09:31may I ask you one question
01:10:16oh
01:10:34sis you came
01:10:38sister I what is happening to me
01:10:41where are we
01:10:42your mortal life is ended
01:10:45but your obsession anchored you here
01:10:48your soul was twisted by inner demons and the shard
01:10:53you are nothing but a lingering phantom now
01:11:08what did you want to ask
01:11:12all these years
01:11:15alone in the dark
01:11:20were you alright Morgana
01:11:35you won't touch her
01:11:38I was fine
01:11:45that is good
01:12:16酷
01:12:25The witch.
01:12:38So, this is the death you saw for me?
01:12:42You are never wrong.
01:12:45Morgana, it seems I won't be here to help you take back what is yours.
01:13:09Morgana, I make no grand claims, but I swear I will help you take it all back.
01:13:33Monster.
01:13:34Monster, you godless monster!
01:13:37Monster.
01:13:38Monster.
01:13:50This world is sick.
01:13:57Finn, why would you do this?
01:14:02My brother, he died because the crown, because the crown never sent reinforcements.
01:14:09He bled out in the snow.
01:14:12And ever since then, I haven't seen you smile.
01:14:15Not truly.
01:14:17I was so close.
01:14:20Just a little more.
01:14:22And I could have taken you away from this prison.
01:14:28You foolish boy.
01:14:32Frostfire is now prison.
01:14:34Look at the people behind these walls.
01:14:36The thousands we pulled from the slaughter.
01:14:39The soldiers I trained with my own hands.
01:14:41Every block of black stone,
01:14:43every frozen inch of the north,
01:14:45holds my blood.
01:14:47Nothing has ever trapped me.
01:14:49This is the line I chose to hold.
01:14:52Frostfire is my home, Finn.
01:14:54And I will defend it.
01:14:56Until I break.
01:15:00I thought...
01:15:01I thought you hated the crown.
01:15:04I only wanted to break your chains.
01:15:12I do hate the crown.
01:15:14But I love the north.
01:15:15I love our people.
01:15:17I am holding this line for your brother.
01:15:19So the children here.
01:15:21So my own daughter can sleep without fear of the slaughter.
01:15:25So it was just me.
01:15:27I was the only one who couldn't let go.
01:15:32Take me away.
01:15:34I will.
01:15:35I'll take you south.
01:15:37I want to sleep beneath the roses.
01:15:47Sixty years ago,
01:15:48to buy this realm a breath of life.
01:15:52I gave my own flesh and soul to the forge.
01:15:55No attachments.
01:15:57No desires.
01:15:59I told you to run.
01:16:01But of course,
01:16:03fate demands its due.
01:16:14Would you still draw your blade for me?
01:16:17Knowing it will only lead to your grave.
01:16:19I am going.
01:16:21I've commanded the Vanguard for years.
01:16:24I've faced death more times than I can count.
01:16:26But I have never lost.
01:16:29And I will not lose this time either.
01:16:47Why the Frost Spire?
01:16:49Why Thorn Ravencrest?
01:16:50My youngest student.
01:16:52Still breathes.
01:16:53I need to see him.
01:16:56And the Ravencrest piece of the crown.
01:16:58What is it exactly?
01:17:00A drop of my own blood.
01:17:01The Undying Spark.
01:17:03Your blood?
01:17:04No wonder your skin is like ice.
01:17:06Morgana.
01:17:07How did you lose your eyes?
01:17:09Sixty winters ago.
01:17:11The realm was drowning in its own blood.
01:17:14To buy them a dawn.
01:17:17I offered my own flesh and soul.
01:17:20I stripped everything away.
01:17:22Bound it to the obsidian.
01:17:24Twelve fragments.
01:17:25Given to twelve disciples.
01:17:28To save this world.
01:17:30Sixty years have passed.
01:17:32My students took that power.
01:17:34And forged twelve great bloodlines.
01:17:37And now, there is peace.
01:17:40Now I take back what is mine.
01:17:44Morgana.
01:17:44What else are you missing?
01:17:46You never change your boots.
01:17:48I've never seen you eat.
01:17:49Or sleep, for that matter.
01:17:51Your hair turned white.
01:17:53Silence.
01:18:02Morgana.
01:18:04I will help you get it all back.
01:18:08Every last piece.
01:18:10You have my word.
01:18:13No matter what it takes.
01:18:16No matter the cost.
01:18:23That shard of the crown.
01:18:25Was torn from my own veins.
01:18:29A single drop of my heart's blood.
01:18:34I never thought you would waste such a priceless piece of yourself on me.
01:18:38I never thought...
01:18:39I'd even be alive.
01:18:41My lady.
01:18:42You always said your prophecies are absolute.
01:18:44Never wrong.
01:18:45To give me the shard.
01:18:46To force me to live.
01:18:47Isn't this...
01:18:48Defying the gods themselves?
01:18:50Taking the heart back...
01:18:51Was a mistake.
01:18:59Morgana.
01:19:24My lady.
01:19:26Forgive me.
01:19:28Assassins!
01:19:44This...
01:19:44Southern blood magic.
01:19:46They say one puppet butchers ten men.
01:19:49And I tore them apart before they could even blink.
01:19:51I feel like I could rip through solid iron.
01:19:54You were bleeding to death.
01:19:56No medicine could save you.
01:19:57So I bound a fraction of my shard to your fading heart.
01:20:01Tethered your life to mine.
01:20:02With my power in your veins, no mortal man can stand against you.
01:20:07You could have run.
01:20:09You chose to stay.
01:20:11You accepted my gift.
01:20:14From now on, you are bound to my will.
01:20:17Are we clear?
01:20:20So I am no better than these husks?
01:20:23I'm just your puppet?
01:20:25Do not compare yourself to such pathetic trash.
01:20:29They are nothing like you.
01:20:34You...
01:20:35You are my masterpiece.
01:20:49Farewell.
01:20:50Be wary.
01:20:52Without the Primordial Crown's shard, the Horde will show no mercy.
01:20:57I know the risks.
01:20:59But I command this gate.
01:21:00Shard or no shard.
01:21:02The Ravencrest will hold this line.
01:21:05To the last breath.
01:21:09The Horde is at our walls.
01:21:11I ride with the Vanguard.
01:21:13Godspeed.
01:21:26Why didn't you tell her about the warding spikes you planted?
01:21:30The wards are nothing.
01:21:32Compared to the Primordial blood.
01:21:34Still boiling in their veins.
01:21:36They will survive.
01:21:40What's happening?
01:21:41Are you alright?
01:21:42I feel a disturbance.
01:21:44A forbading sensation.
01:21:46I have looked ahead.
01:21:47I wish I had not.
01:21:49The road before us is dark, Cedric.
01:22:07We must push forward.
01:22:09Wherever you go, I will follow.
01:22:12Where to next?
01:22:14South.
01:22:15To the Scarlet Lands.
01:22:17I want to meet the fool who thought they could kill me.
01:22:22My lady, please.
01:22:23Rest inside.
01:22:24I will bring it to you myself.
01:22:27It is exactly where you left it, my lady.
01:22:29Untouched.
01:22:31You give it up so easily.
01:22:33It was never mine to keep.
01:22:34You know what it built.
01:22:36Your entire dynasty.
01:22:38Hundreds years of power.
01:22:40Titles.
01:22:41The Crown's favour.
01:22:42The gift of seeing into men's hearts.
01:22:45Without it, you are nothing but a blind man stumbling in the dark.
01:22:49The blood covenant my grandfather sworn binds every generation after him.
01:22:53House Alistair owes you everything it has.
01:22:56And everything it is.
01:22:58You have my word.
01:22:59I will honour the pact.
01:23:01Willingly.
01:23:04The old man bred well.
01:23:06An obedient heir.
01:23:08Mei.ääääääää
01:23:1313 Sicher Vlogi.
01:23:14Since when does my
01:23:14father kneel for peasants? The Iris Ember,
01:23:19my lady. A covenant is a trade,
01:23:23I take back what is mine. And I leave you one truth.
01:23:27The old laws demand it. Ask
01:23:30your question.
01:23:32My lady, in a few days, Isabella weds the crown prince.
01:23:37I need to... I need to know what waits for her.
01:23:41You want to know if she lives, without my ember watching over her, what her crown will cost.
01:23:48Yes. Please, tell me her fate.
01:23:52Bring the girl to me.
01:23:54Mother, the night before my royal wedding, some blind woman in funeral rags walks into our home.
01:24:01And father knelt for her.
01:24:03Tell me the truth. Is she one of his lowborn mistresses, crawling here to beg for coin?
01:24:10If we allow that woman to stand in our halls, without putting her on her knees, she will believe she
01:24:18belongs here.
01:24:19And we cannot have that.
01:24:21Then let's remind her how this house treats beggars.
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