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