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