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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.
00:01:49Mind the steps, my lady.
00:01:53The sky turns.
00:02:16The sky turns.
00:02:19to reclaim them all.
00:02:26I assumed we were hosting royalty
00:02:29for my husband to grovel so.
00:02:32To greet you himself,
00:02:34I 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.
00:02:57A blind witch.
00:02:59This shall prove too easy.
00:03:09But...
00:03:10I told them to boil it!
00:03:12Dorish vintage.
00:03:14Pity it turned to vinegar.
00:03:16Masked with...
00:03:17Heavy spice.
00:03:19Poured from the rot,
00:03:21at the bottom of your cellar.
00:03:23Is this...
00:03:24How House Alistair hides its decay?
00:03:26How could she possibly smell that?
00:03:28She knows.
00:03:29How could she know?
00:03:31You 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,
00:03:56you will kneel,
00:03:57and you will bleed for it!
00:03:58She 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!
00:04:24Seize her!
00:04:26Seize her!
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!
00:05:23I am a queen!
00:05:24She is just a-
00:05:30A pity.
00:05:33No crown rests on a dead woman.
00:05:37You will die before the wedding bells ring.
00:05:55No!
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?
00:06:06Call off the royal wedding.
00:06:09Break betrothal.
00:06:13Or...
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.
00:06:41The king's edict.
00:06:44The king's edict.
00:06:55The king's edict.
00:07:00The crown commands this union, Lord Alistair.
00:07:04My escort is already at your gates.
00:07:07You dare defy the throne over cheap parlor tricks?
00:07:11And break the royal contract?
00:07:14Unless...
00:07:15You doubt my ability to keep her breathing.
00:07:20No, commander.
00:07:21Your blade is legendary.
00:07:23Your tactics flawless.
00:07:24The king trusts no other.
00:07:26She is safe with you.
00:07:28But...
00:07:29Morgana has seen it.
00:07:31She is our only hope.
00:07:33Alistair.
00:07:34The king's patience is not infinite.
00:07:37Do 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.
00:07:45She is right, father.
00:07:46I am perfectly safe with the commander.
00:07:49Have the carriage ready.
00:07:51I will fetch my veil.
00:07:57Isabella!
00:07:58Let her go.
00:08:00The hour is set.
00:08:02My debt shall be claimed when the blood runs dry.
00:08:12Play the prophet.
00:08:13Watch her cross those gates alive.
00:08:18I will feel the blood.
00:08:20I will feel the blood.
00:08:22Bring the oracle a horse.
00:08:35Bring the oracle a horse.
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.
00:09:30You fight well, mortal.
00:09:33Pity it changes nothing.
00:09:35I do not guess.
00:09:38The grave is dug.
00:09:41The grave is dug.
00:09:41The hour is here.
00:09:42Step forward, future Empress.
00:09:51Isabella.
00:09:52My 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.
00:10:34The 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.
00:10:48Seeing the end requires a price.
00:10:50A transaction.
00:10:52I see the blood.
00:10:53The question is,
00:10:55can you afford it?
00:10:58There 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.
00:11:24The end is written.
00:11:27You'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,
00:11:36then what happens next?
00:11:38Does the blade slip?
00:11:40Does the steel bite?
00:11:42Or maybe I'm just sick of your games
00:11:43and slit your throat right now!
00:11:45Did you see that?!
00:11:46No.
00:11:49No.
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.
00:12:14I 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.
00:12:31They'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.
00:12:59She 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!
00:13:17Who 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 and 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, then you have my trust.
00:14:31Don't make a vow you can't keep, Commander.
00:14:34You have my word.
00:14:35I 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.
00:14:58What now?
00:15:00Open the doors.
00:15:02Bring them all.
00:15:03The grieving father.
00:15:06The 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, no.
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.
00:15:55Flesh to thread.
00:15:56Bone to command.
00:15:58Rise.
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.
00:16:18Isabella Alastom.
00:16:21Is your killer here?
00:16:46Keep that thing away!
00:16:48She's bewitched!
00:16:49Ah!
00:16:55The crown is ours, father.
00:17:11Edmund Alliston.
00:17:18Now, confess.
00:17:24Edmund Alliston.
00:17:26Do 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!
00:17:43The Emperor 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.
00:17:53That's true.
00:17:55But what if that girl was never your blood at all?
00:18:00Elinor.
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.
00:18:46If it's a boy...
00:18:48I'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.
00:19:09A son!
00:19:11From now on you are mine.
00:19:13The 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, you realized if she entered the royal court, the crown would eventually discover
00:20:22her secret.
00:20:22So you hired a pack of mercenaries to 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 wouldn't be able to finish the job, so you killed your own
00:20:34daughter before she left.
00:20:35And as for your loyal servants, they break much faster than paid assassins.
00:20:39Commander!
00:20:39Commander Ashworth!
00:20:40Lord Alistair's personal guard, they've confessed to everything.
00:20:43The signed confessions.
00:20:44They admit the duke ordered them to silence Isabella before she even left.
00:20:53My entire life of scheming, all crushed by fate's cruel hand.
00:21:00The eye you granted us gave 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, when I saw...
00:21:17I saw...
00:21:22I saw the truth.
00:21:24If my son took the cradle, he'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, he would see my daughter.
00:21:43He'd see the exact face of the young empress.
00:21:47He's not blind.
00:21:49He'd know exactly what I did.
00:21:51I 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!
00:22:19I'm begging you!
00:22:21Take my life, but let them live!
00:22:24Granted.
00:22:25Thank you, Oracle.
00:22:27My life for theirs.
00:22:31Edmund!
00:22:32No!
00:22:33Edmund!
00:22:34No, Edmund!
00:22:36Edmund!
00:22:38Please stay!
00:22:40Wake up!
00:22:42Please don't leave me!
00:22:43Can you tell me!
00:22:44Faith!
00:22:47No!
00:22:51No!
00:22:52No!
00:22:54No!
00:22:57No!
00:22:58No!
00:23:01And no!
00:23:01No!
00:23:02No!
00:23:04No!
00:23:06No!
00:23:06No!
00:23:07No!
00:23:08No!
00:23:10No!
00:23:16I
00:23:17Gave them my sight to watch the dark
00:23:21Instead they watched the throne built a lie thought they could cheat fate
00:23:27Thought 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. It crushes them
00:23:41The Alistair debt is settled. My sight is mine again
00:23:47Now we move to the next house
00:23:50Stop you can't just march in there. This is treason. I must alert the Emperor. No need to call the
00:23:57Emperor
00:23:58He's already here
00:24:06God the Emperor
00:24:11Your Majesty
00:24:15By Royal Decree Prince Kale and the Empress are hereby spankstripped of titles. They shall be cast into the black
00:24:22cells
00:24:24It shall be done
00:24:31Lady Morgana
00:24:33Lady Morgana
00:24:34Lady Morgana, it's you
00:24:35Careful sire
00:24:36Morgana
00:24:37Sire wait
00:24:39Lady Morgana
00:24:40Oh my Lady Morgana
00:24:43Forgive me
00:24:44It's my fault
00:24:46It's my fault
00:24:47I was blind to let them trouble you
00:24:49I wish to name you High Protector
00:24:51To guide the realm
00:24:53Every mage alive
00:24:55Will 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
00:25:17After all, my family owes are thrown to you
00:25:21Power is a debt
00:25:22When I give
00:25:23And when I take
00:25:24Is my choice alone
00:25:26Why the rush?
00:25:28Ah, yes
00:25:29You are completely right
00:25:30Please
00:25:31Rest 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, that 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 that outrants her
00:26:12Isn'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 of your retted house
00:26:29Do I make myself clear?
00:26:31Crystal clear, your grace
00:26:32My dear Lady Morgana
00:26:33I have just remembered
00:26:35Some urgent matters of state to attend to
00:26:38I must take my leave
00:26:44You serve Lady Morgana now
00:26:46Farewell
00:26:46Have a pleasant journey
00:26:51Earlier you said that 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
00:27:07My house?
00:27:11This way Lady Morgana
00:27:12Thanks to your grace
00:27:13Sixty years ago
00:27:15When you bestowed the Heartmen Shard upon us
00:27:17The Ashworth name is now renowned for our healing arts
00:27:20You see?
00:27:21These afflicted souls travel from the furthest corners of the kingdom seeking our aid
00:27:26So
00:27:26So
00:27:27The legendary Ashworth healing 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 the master's healing for that?
00:27:57Get out of here now!
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 the 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 in Ashwild Keep
00:28:21Silence! Show her respect!
00:28:24This is Selina Frost
00:28:26A ward
00:28:28Taken 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
00:28:36Beg her forgiveness
00:28:38You heard him!
00:28:38To the chapel now!
00:28:42I beg your pardon my lady
00:28:44I had no idea she 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!
00:29:04The relic is rightfully yours
00:29:07I will return it to you immediately
00:29:09It is just
00:29:10The Hartman Shrad
00:29:12Is kept safe by my eldest Maren
00:29:13She's been in seclusion
00:29:15At a distant abbey for years
00:29:16Once she returns from her retreat
00:29:18I will present it to you myself
00:29:20Fine
00:29:20I will wait
00:29:27Every time I return
00:29:29She still won't see me
00:29:32Fifteen years
00:29:33Fifteen years
00:29:33Fifteen years since I've laid eyes on her
00:29:34Does 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
00:29:48My 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 the 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
00:30:11The Hartman Shard was hers by birthright
00:30:15With its power she became the greatest healer in the kingdom
00:30:18And then they sent her far away
00:30:20To a quiet abbey where she could practice in peace
00:30:23But I know the truth
00:30:25That day
00:30:27Became a thorn in her heart
00:30:28One that will never be pulled out
00:30:30Every time she looks at me
00:30:32She remembers what saving me cost her
00:30:34Everything 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 honored guest
00:31:01Even Lord Ashworth had to apologize to her
00:31:03Master Cedric serves her
00:31:05People are whispering
00:31:07She might be his future bride
00:31:08His future bride?
00:31:10Look at her
00:31:12She'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 favorite
00:31:26And imperial spiced wine
00:31:29For Lady Morgana
00:31:31Halt
00:31:33Imperial spiced wine?
00:31:35A 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
00:31:57I cannot, my lady
00:31:58She 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 interfere 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
00:32:36What's doing this?
00:32:38Guards, help us!
00:32:39Get Lord Aldric!
00:32:40She's choking!
00:32:41She can't breathe!
00:32:42Lord Aldric!
00:32:43Please, hurry!
00:32:45I'm right here
00:32:45Just breathe
00:32:46She 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? Apologize!
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 Hartmann Shard
00:33:23She 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
00:33:45Let 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
00:34:07Wait 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
00:34:21She sneaked me pouches
00:34:24And every year on my name day
00:34:26When my own sister was lost to me
00:34:28She brought me warm broth
00:34:29And 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
00:34:38I 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
00:34:57Patience, my sweet girl
00:34:59I'm securing your future
00:35:02Play the game
00:35:04Let 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 Shard
00:35:13To its rightful owner
00:35:15We have heard
00:35:16When you take back what is yours
00:35:18You 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
00:35:31I will not answer this question
00:35:34Because the Hartman Shard is a fake
00:35:37What?
00:35:40A fake!
00:35:41Someone must have switched it when she wasn't looking
00:35:43I'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
00:35:53Commander Ashford
00:35:57The Emperor begs your aid
00:35:59The Empress door wager is dying
00:36:01The Royal Physicians can do nothing for her
00:36:03His Majesty demands you come at once
00:36:05Please, my lady, you are her only hope
00:36:12Lead the way
00:36:13Lead the way
00:36:14Useless fools!
00:36:16What good are you if she dies?
00:36:18Your Majesty
00:36:19Lady Morgana has arrived
00:36:25Morgana, thank the gods you have come
00:36:26Please, 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
00:36:39I can save the Empress
00:36:43Morgana
00:36:44If you can't save her, stop making pathetic excuses
00:36:48I say, you have no real power
00:36:51You're nothing but a fraudulent witch
00:36:53Selina!
00:36:55This is a royal chamber, not your playground!
00:36:57Your Grace, I can heal her
00:36:59On my life, Selina Frost
00:37:01You should know
00:37:02Cedric knows it well
00:37:04My prophecies are never wrong
00:37:07Care to make a wager then?
00:37:09On what?
00:37:10If I win, I want the Emperor
00:37:12To decree my marriage to Cedric
00:37:14And I want your head severed from your neck
00:37:18Your Grace
00:37:19Madness, this is absolute madness
00:37:21Gods!
00:37:22Drag this mad woman away
00:37:24I accept
00:37:30Very well
00:37:31Give it a try
00:37:33If you truly cure my mother
00:37:35I will grant your every wish
00:37:44So you stole the Hartmann's schnaz?
00:37:47Cedric
00:37:48I'll be a master healer
00:37:50Just like your sister
00:37:51Then you'll finally see
00:37:53I'm the only one for you
00:37:56Forcing fate
00:37:57Only brings ruin
00:37:59If you insist on this path
00:38:02You alone will choke on the ashes
00:38:06Save your cheap parlour tricks
00:38:08Healing the sick is God's work
00:38:09There's no price for that
00:38:13By the old blood I 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!
00:38:34Wake!
00:38:35Wake up!
00:38:41What's happening?
00:38:43It burns!
00:38:45It burns!
00:38:46It burns!
00:38:47It burns!
00:38:48It burns!
00:38:48Oh God!
00:38:53Water!
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?
00:39:12You stole my magic
00:39:14But you never asked
00:39:16When the spell steals a 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, you're mistaken
00:39:36She's not Maren
00:39:38She's just an old crone
00:39:39Nothing more
00:39:40My lord!
00:39:41Get out!
00:39:42Yes, my lord!
00:39:48I'm nobody
00:39:50Just an old crone
00:39:51Nobody of importance
00:39:53Just a servant
00:39:55This is the inner sanctum
00:39:56Only the bloodline
00:39:57Only the heartman shard bearer
00:39:59Can come here
00:40:02Let me see you
00:40:12That scar
00:40:14Where did this scar come from?
00:40:17Only Maren bore this mark
00:40:21Maren?
00:40:24Why didn't you tell me?
00:40:29Who's life did you think you were spending?
00:40:31The Ashworth Empire isn'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 costs you a month
00:40:42A fatal wound
00:40:45Strips the youth right off your bones
00:40:48Sick Empress was already dead
00:40:50Her time was up
00:40:52Give her every hour you have left
00:40:54It won't buy her a single day
00:40:57Then what about Maren?
00:40:59Explain Maren!
00:41:00She bore the shard for 30 years
00:41:02Pulled thousands from the grave
00:41:05Then she should be dust!
00:41:07She should be a 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
00:41:22You believe she hid from you for 10 years
00:41:25It never crossed your mind
00:41:27That the woman she became
00:41:29Was standing right in front of you
00:41:32And you looked right through her
00:41:34Stop!
00:41:36What does that mean?
00:41:37You're a commander
00:41:38Open your eyes
00:41:40Every year on your birthday
00:41:42That old servant
00:41:43The only one who still cooks for you
00:41:45Who is she Cedric?
00:41:50Lord Cedric
00:41:51Lord Cedric wait!
00:41:52You can't go in!
00:41:53My lord! She said no visitors!
00:41:55My lord!
00:41:55My lord!
00:41:56My lord!
00:41:56My lord!
00:42:04Gods!
00:42:04It's really you
00:42:09why all these years why didn't you tell me every time i used the shard it stole a year of
00:42:17my life
00:42:17burned away then one morning i looked in the glass white hair hands shaking like a crone
00:42:25mauren let me in my lord no get off i want my sister let me go mauren i couldn't let
00:42:35you see a monster
00:42:36no stop it don't ever say that look at me you are mauren the bravest person i know but i
00:42:45abandoned
00:42:46you you gave me your entire life and i was blind i didn't see my own sister i'm sorry
00:42:53oh my brave little brother it's all right now
00:43:05cedric tomorrow is your name day i haven't made your broth yet mauren please just rest
00:43:13you made it for me every year my whole life tomorrow i'll make it for you
00:43:24this is my fault i looked right at her and saw nothing she hid her hands traded her life away
00:43:30and i just stood there he used the heart men's shard to drain her year by year while i watched
00:43:35and called it nothing she made a choice the shard needed a vessel she offered herself she healed them
00:43:43she gave them time she gave you time that was all she ever wanted i looked right past her for
00:43:50years
00:43:52thank you for stripping away every excuse i had i have her back whatever it cost you i swear on
00:43:59my
00:43:59blade i will repay that debt she hasn't eaten in days i made this for her i don't know if
00:44:04she'll
00:44:04want it but i need to give her something i'm gonna take it to her now wait something wrong
00:44:11it's nothing go to her i won't be long
00:44:30the scale always balances
00:44:35get away from me
00:44:37don't touch me i want my sister
00:44:42get away
00:44:43where is she
00:44:49i want my sister
00:44:52cedric
00:44:53i'm here look at me
00:44:56don't touch me you old witch
00:45:02she's dead isn't she she left me everyone always leaves but i'm staying
00:45:09to a legion i'm not going anywhere i'm here
00:45:16right here i've got you
00:45:23lord ashworth she saved my family she saved so many
00:45:27we had to come
00:45:30everyone knew how much she meant to you my lord her loss leaves a wound in all of us
00:45:35she gave everything
00:45:37healed strangers
00:45:39never once asked for 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
00:45:51day 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 maron's hands
00:46:08every 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
00:46:19oracle 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
00:46:28you cannot just walk in here
00:46:30and spread lies about my family
00:46:35if you took no coin
00:46:36then tell me what you've been hiding in the dark
00:46:40every transaction
00:46:41every name
00:46:42every debt you buried
00:46:59these are property deeds
00:47:00hundreds of them
00:47:01the ash house fled the high lords dry
00:47:03in secret
00:47:04they traded healing for mansions
00:47:06for land
00:47:07we thought you were a saint oldrick
00:47:10you're nothing but a leech
00:47:12a parasite
00:47:12you stole my sister's life
00:47:15you drained maron 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
00:47:23into your crown
00:47:24that is not the whole of his sin
00:47:26when maron's face withered
00:47:28from what he forced on her
00:47:29he turned away from her
00:47:31he took a lover in secret
00:47:34a secret mistress
00:47:36a hidden life
00:47:37there 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
00:47:43you 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
00:48:07if there was money
00:48:08missing from the patients
00:48:10maron did it herself
00:48:12plain greed
00:48:13she used the sick
00:48:14to 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
00:48:41you are a parasite
00:48:45my sister is dead
00:48:48she died a ruined servant under your roof
00:48:51and 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
00:49:05you 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 the roof over her head
00:49:20she owed this family her service
00:49:22it 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
00:49:32it 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
00:49:46you wanted the ember's power for yourself
00:49:49you 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
00:50:30no get off me
00:50:33i am the lord of this
00:50:35no
00:50:38no
00:50:40no
00:50:51every year he stole from marin
00:50:54Maren, they 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?
00:52:03Where do you go?
00:52:09That's not how she looks.
00:52:11I've got to hear it.
00:52:16Let's see you.
00:52:19How are you?
00:52:22Please! 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.
00:52:44Her face still carries what the years cost her, but the 30 years Aldric took from her have been stripped
00:52:51from 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.
00:53:06Oracle, you didn't owe us this. I will carry this mercy until my last breath.
00:53:17You gave my sister back her life. My life is no longer my own. It belongs to you.
00:53:23Every breath I draw belongs to your cause. I 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. Did the exorcism drain you? Are you hurt?
00:53:43I am not hurt. When 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. A 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. Look into your prophecy, Morgana.
00:54:15Did my sister's sacrifice mean anything? Tell me.
00:54:20Your sister asked what waits for you in the north. I didn't lie to her. So I'll tell you exactly
00:54:25what I saw.
00:54:26There is a line drawn across your fate. A terminal point.
00:54:30If you follow me to Ironwall, if you walk into Ravencrest at my side, you will stand before someone and
00:54:36bleed until there is nothing left.
00:54:39And you will die. That is the end of it.
00:54:42In front of who? Who 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. It doesn't matter.
00:55:00You are ordered to stay behind.
00:55:02I walk into Ironwall alone. I 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.
00:55:50She lets me read instead.
00:55:52I apologize for the gate.
00:55:54It's just...
00:55:55Lately.
00:55:56The moment the sun sets, the dead walk.
00:55:58Vesta fears the undead soldiers breaching the walls, slaughtering 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.
00:56:17Thorne 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.
00:56:47This 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 before 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!
00:58:01Where are they?
00:58:12Ring of steel!
00:58:13Protect Morgana!
00:58:21Ash to ash.
00:58:23Darkness breaks.
00:58:26Sand.
00:58:27Burn!
00:58:45This malice.
00:58:47I know it.
00:58:48She broke them!
00:58:49Who goes there?
00:58:51Morgana.
00:58:52Lady Morgana!
00:58:54Forgive me.
00:58:56My grandfather speaks of you often.
00:58:58And 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.
00:59:54He will not die.
00:59:56Playing with time!
01:00:13Well fought.
01:00:15Your form is decent.
01:00:17But you fight like you fear death.
01:00:19Always leaving room to retreat.
01:00:21Remember, 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?
01:00:59I am still breathing.
01:01:00If you had truly defied my vision.
01:01:04Now that will 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.
01:01:19The 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.
01:01:58What?
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.
01:03:04You 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, swallowing him whole.
01:03:27How many healers have you called?
01:03:29All of them.
01:03:30None could break it.
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.
01:04:19What kind of nightmare could be powerful enough to breed an entire army of corpses?
01:04:32What is happening?
01:04:38The 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, 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,
01:05:13if the dead breach the line,
01:05:16or if you are overrun,
01:05:18do not die for me.
01:05:20Leave.
01:05:20My orders stand.
01:05:23You are my charge.
01:05:25I 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,
01:05:49reduced to stone.
01:05:55Veil lift.
01:05:56Flesh bind.
01:05:59Awaken.
01:06:02Thorn.
01:06:05Ashworth!
01:06:06Her magic broke!
01:06:07She's bleeding!
01:06:32Finn, what are you doing?
01:06:34I'm done pretending, Commander.
01:06:37Commander.
01:06:37Did you honestly think Vesper was the one who crippled my grandfather?
01:06:39It was me who left the gate wide open.
01:06:43So, you're the rat.
01:06:45They butchered your parents,
01:06:47slaughtered your own brothers,
01:06:48they bled Frostbear dry,
01:06:50and you sold us out to the monsters?
01:06:53Sold us out?
01:06:55Monsters?
01:06:55Better 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.
01:07:03But because they got different shards,
01:07:04some get to rule the capital,
01:07:06some get the gold.
01:07:07And 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?
01:07:38It's right.
01:08:08Yes.
01:08:10I remember the vow.
01:08:13I gave you my word
01:08:15to hold this fortress,
01:08:17to bleed for the innocent.
01:08:21But the dead are here.
01:08:23The wolves are at the gates.
01:08:26I dare not leave.
01:08:28Enough, Thorn.
01:08:30You have bled enough.
01:08:33Your bloodline.
01:08:35Your men.
01:08:38What?
01:08:39Oh, my God.
01:09:11Let the Obsession die.
01:09:15You must go.
01:09:18Whatever my sister commands, Thorne will always obey.
01:09:25But before I return the Shard, Morgana, may I ask you one question?
01:10:06Oh, my God.
01:10:16Oh, my God.
01:10:19Oh, my God.
01:10:24Wait.
01:10:34Sis.
01:10:36You came.
01:10:38Sister, I...
01:10:39What is happening to me?
01:10:42Where are we?
01:10:43Your 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, alone in the dark, were you all right, Morgana?
01:11:35You won't touch her.
01:11:39I was fine.
01:11:45That is good.
01:11:57That is good.
01:12:24Witch.
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.
01:12:50Take back what is yours.
01:13:07Again?
01:13:09I make no grand claims.
01:13:12But I swear, I will help you take it all back.
01:13:33Monster.
01:13:34Monster, you godless monster!
01:13:38Monster.
01:13:41Monster.
01:13:50This world is sick.
01:13:58Finn.
01:13:59Why would you do this?
01:14:02My brother, he died because the crown...
01:14:05Because 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.
01:14:16Not truly.
01:14:17I was so close.
01:14:20Just a little more.
01:14:22And I could have taken you.
01:14:25Away 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... I 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.
01:15:24So 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.
01:16:02But of course, fate 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.
01:16:23I've faced death more times than I can count.
01:16:27But 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.
01:17:27To save this world.
01:17:30Sixty years have passed.
01:17:32My students took that power.
01:17:33And forged twelve great bloodlines.
01:17:37And now.
01:17:38There 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.
01:17:52Your 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.
01:18:26Was 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 I'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 defying the gods themselves?
01:18:50Taking the heart back was a mistake.
01:18:59Morgana.
01:18:59Morgana.
01:19:04Morgana.
01:19:22unfairly.
01:19:24My lady.
01:19:26Forgive me.
01:19:28Assassins.
01:19:44this southern blood magic they say one puppet butchers ten men and i tore them apart before
01:19:50they could even blink i feel like i could rip through solid iron you were bleeding to death
01:19:56no medicine could save you so i bound a fraction of my shard to your fading heart
01:20:01tethered your life to mine with my power in your veins no mortal man can stand against you
01:20:07you could have run you chose to stay you accepted my gift from now on you are bound to my
01:20:16will are we
01:20:18clear so i am no better than these husks i'm just your puppet
01:20:24do not compare yourself to such pathetic trash they are nothing like you
01:20:34you you are my masterpiece
01:20:49farewell be wary without the primordial crown's shard the horde will show no mercy
01:20:57i know the risks but i command this gate shard or no shard the ravencrest will hold this line
01:21:05to the last breath
01:21:09the horde is at our walls i ride with the vanguard godspeed
01:21:26why didn't you tell her about the warding spikes you planted the wards are nothing compared to the
01:21:33primordial blood still boiling in their veins they will survive
01:21:40what's happening are you all right i feel a disturbance a forbading sensation
01:21:46i have looked ahead i wish i had not the road before us is dark
01:22:07we must push forward wherever you go i will follow where to next south to the scarlet lands i want
01:22:17to
01:22:17meet the fool who thought they could kill me
01:22:22my lady please rest inside i will bring it to you myself it is exactly where you left it my
01:22:29lady
01:22:30untouched you give it up so easily it was never mine to keep you know what it built your entire
01:22:37dynasty hundreds years of power titles the crown's favor the gift of seeing into men's hearts without
01:22:45it you are nothing but a blind man stumbling in the dark the blood covenant my grandfather sworn
01:22:51binds every generation after him house alistair owes you everything it has and everything it is
01:22:57you have my word i will honor the pact willingly
01:23:04the old man bred well an obedient heir
01:23:13since when does my father kneel for peasants
01:23:18the iris ember my lady
01:23:21a covenant is a trade i take back what is mine
01:23:24and i leave you one truth
01:23:27the old laws demand it
01:23:30ask your question
01:23:32my lady
01:23:33in a few days isabella weds the crown prince
01:23:37i need to
01:23:39i need to know what waits for her
01:23:41you want to know if she lives
01:23:43without my ember watching over her
01:23:45what her crown will cost
01:23:47yes please tell me her fate
01:23:51bring the girl to me
01:23:54mother
01:23:55the night before my royal wedding
01:23:57some blind woman in funeral rags walks into our home
01:24:01and father knelt for her
01:24:03tell me the truth
01:24:05is she one of his lowborn mistresses
01:24:07crawling here to beg for coin
01:24:10if we allow that woman to stand in our halls
01:24:14without putting her on her knees
01:24:16she will believe
01:24:17she belongs here
01:24:19and we cannot have that
01:24:21then let's remind her
01:24:23how this house
01:24:24treats beggars
01:24:26well
01:24:26what
01:24:26i
01:24:27because
01:24:27i
01:24:27however
01:24:27i
01:24:27i
01:24:28you
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