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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? Have you any idea what day it is?
00:00:24You're blocking Lady Isabella's path on her wedding day.
00:00:28Bring 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. She demands to see you. Now.
00:01:12Morgana.
00:01:14Forgive me. I didn't know you were coming.
00:01:17House Alistrim 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.
00:01:31My lady. Please.
00:01:47Mind the steps, my lady.
00:01:49Mind the steps, my lady.
00:01:54The sky turns.
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.
00:02:26I assumed we were hosting royalty.
00:02:29For my husband to grovel so.
00:02:32To greet you himself.
00:02:34I simply had to see who...
00:02:44Meghana was pueda.
00:02:47You are a guest in my halls.
00:02:49Drink.
00:02:54Your wine, my lady.
00:02:57A blind witch.
00:02:59This shall prove to you.
00:03:05Whistling
00:03:10But... I told them to boil it!
00:03:12Dorish vintage. Pity it turned to vinegar. Masked with heavy spice.
00:03:20Poured from the rot at the bottom of your cellar.
00:03:23Is this how House Alistair hides its decay?
00:03:26How could she possibly smell that? She knows. How could she know?
00:03:31You insolent wretch!
00:03:33Keep your filthy mouth!
00:03:36Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
00:03:39By his wits alone did Lord Alistair survive.
00:03:42Isabella, your gown!
00:03:43A tragedy. His bloodline rots with you.
00:03:47How dare you?
00:03:48My husband may tolerate your delusions, but I will not!
00:03:52You just assaulted the future Crown Priestess.
00:03:55By royal decree, you will kneel and you will bleed for it!
00:03:59She is a fool. You are worse.
00:04:01Even the gods of the Underworld have yet to see me, Niel.
00:04:07Why would you?
00:04:09We shall see.
00:04:12Gods, take her!
00:04:17And break her legs.
00:04:20Do it.
00:04:25Seize her!
00:04:26Now!
00:04:41Stop!
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.
00:04:56I beg of you.
00:04:57Alistair, father!
00:04:59Both of you, you blind, arrogant fools.
00:05:03She chose restraint, or you would already be ashes upon this floor.
00:05:08On your knees, beg 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.
00:05:19I will rule this realm.
00:05:22I am a queen.
00:05:24She is just a...
00:05:29A pity.
00:05:32No crown rests on a dead woman.
00:05:37You will die before the wedding bells ring.
00:05:58You!
00:05:59Get out of my house!
00:06:01Silence your tongue!
00:06:03Morgana, please.
00:06:04How do we stop this?
00:06:06Call off the royal wedding.
00:06:09Break betrothal.
00:06:13Or...
00:06:14She dies.
00:06:23The royal escort, led by the obsidian guard.
00:06:27Commander Cedric himself.
00:06:29The reaper of the realm.
00:06:36The prophecy is written.
00:06:42And the king's edict.
00:06:53Commander Cedric, you heard the prophecy.
00:06:56If Isabella rides to the palace today, it will be her funeral.
00:07:00The crown commands this union, Lord Alistair.
00:07:04My escort is already at your gates.
00:07:08You dare defy the throne over cheap politics?
00:07:11And break the royal contract?
00:07:14Unless...
00:07:16You doubt my ability to keep her breathing.
00:07:20No, Commander.
00:07:21Your blade is legendary.
00:07:23Your tactics flawed.
00:07:24The king trusts no other.
00:07:26She is safe with you.
00:07:29But...
00:07:29Morgana has seen it.
00:07:31She is our only hope.
00:07:33Alistair.
00:07:34The king's patience is not infinite.
00:07:37Do not humiliate us for a blind witch.
00:07:39The crown's wrath will burn this castle to the ground.
00:07:42I will not let you ruin us.
00:07:45She is right, father.
00:07:46I am perfectly safe with the commander.
00:07:49Have the carriage ready.
00:07:51I will fetch my veil.
00:07:57Isabella!
00:07:59Let her go.
00:08:00The hour is set.
00:08:02My debt shall be claimed when the blood runs dry.
00:08:12Play the prophet.
00:08:13Watch her cross those gates alive.
00:08:18I'll feel the blood.
00:08:22Bring the oracle a horse.
00:08:27And...
00:08:41The way.
00:08:46They shall be raised by the subtitles.
00:08:48They shall be raised with us.
00:08:49They shall be asked...
00:08:50They shall be raised with us.
00:08:51They shall be raised before us.
00:08:52Feel the oracle a horse.
00:09:11Take them to the iron court.
00:09:13I want a name.
00:09:14Yes, commander!
00:09:23Thank the god Cedric was here.
00:09:25We're safe.
00:09:26He earned his coin.
00:09:31You fight well, mortal.
00:09:33Pity it changes nothing.
00:09:35I do not guess.
00:09:39The grave is dug.
00:09:41The hour is here!
00:09:43Step forward, future empress!
00:09:51Isabella, my love, finally.
00:09:58No!
00:09:59God!
00:10:07I'm ready, father.
00:10:09The crown is mine.
00:10:11Our legacy begins.
00:10:15My daughter.
00:10:16Our ultimate masterpiece.
00:10:21Lock it down!
00:10:22Double guards!
00:10:23Kill anything that moves.
00:10:24Nothing.
00:10:25Touch that carriage.
00:10:26Are we clear?
00:10:27Crystal clear, captain.
00:10:28Consider it done.
00:10:29You're wasting men.
00:10:33The prophecy has 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.
00:10:54The question is, can 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, then what happens next?
00:11:39Does the blade slip?
00:11:40Does the steel bite?
00:11:41Or maybe I'm just sick of your games and 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, you 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.
00:12:41You want the true killer?
00:12:42Stop asking the living.
00:12:44They only lie.
00:12:45I'll make the dead speak.
00:12:58The prophecy.
00:13:00She knew.
00:13:01How?
00:13:02She was right there.
00:13:04The prophecy is fulfilled.
00:13:06Her blood is spilled.
00:13:08You killed my daughter!
00:13:10Your daughter's death was a tragedy.
00:13:12Eleanor, don't provoke her.
00:13:14Look at the carriage!
00:13:15The doors were sealed!
00:13:17Who 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.
00:13:35How did you reach inside a moving, heavily guarded carriage and take her head without a single sound?
00:13:40You mapped out her execution beforehand.
00:13:44Fine.
00:13:47Say 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.
00:14:08Name it.
00:14:09Whatever closes this investigation.
00:14:11I want your absolute obedience.
00:14:15When I speak, you do not question.
00:14:18When I point, you do not hesitate.
00:14:21My loyalty is to the crown.
00:14:23I don't give blind trust.
00:14:25I have the killer.
00:14:26If you put the murderer in front of me, then you have my trust.
00:14:32Don't make a vow you can't keep, Commander.
00:14:35You 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!
00:15:33She killed her!
00:15:34She cursed my daughter and you let her sit there!
00:15:37His royal highness, Prince Kale!
00:15:41Isabella!
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.
00:15:54Flesh to thread.
00:15:55Bone to command.
00:15:58Bone to command.
00:15:59Rise.
00:16:05You demanded proof, Commander.
00:16:08Behold 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.
00:16:21Is your killer here?
00:16:24Isabella Alastom is your killer here.
00:16:25Is your killer here?
00:16:46Keep that thing away!
00:16:48She's bewitched!
00:16:49Ah!
00:16:55The crown is ours, father.
00:17:12Edmund Alaston.
00:17:24I confess to nothing!
00:17:30You sick witch!
00:17:31You killed her!
00:17:33You puppeted her corpse to frame us!
00:17:36He took you in.
00:17:38You repay us with blood!
00:17:40This is madness!
00:17:42A father doesn't slaughter his own blood!
00:17:46Isabella was my pride!
00:17:48Why would I destroy my own future?
00:17:51See the truth!
00:17:52His own blood.
00:17:53That's true.
00:17:55But what if that girl was never your blood at all?
00:18:00Eleanor.
00:18:02Why did the Emperor betroth Isabella to Prince Kale?
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!
00:18:17It's impossible!
00:18:18Edmund, tell me you didn't!
00:18:21I had to secure our bloodline.
00:18:27Give me the child I must see.
00:18:30Tell the truth.
00:18:32Is it a boy?
00:18:33A girl, my lady.
00:18:35A girl?
00:18:36No!
00:18:37You're lying!
00:18:38A daughter.
00:18:39Just as I said.
00:18:40Why me?
00:18:45The consort is waiting.
00:18:47If it's a boy, I'm ruined!
00:18:50Breathe, my lady.
00:18:51Panic is a luxury we can't afford.
00:18:53Duke Alistair has already arranged a solution.
00:18:56Bring the bundle inside.
00:18:57Now.
00:19:01Look closely.
00:19:03Pure Alistair blood.
00:19:05A flawless son.
00:19:06Yours, if you dare.
00:19:10A son!
00:19:11From now on you are mine.
00:19:14The true heir of this house.
00:19:17My son.
00:19:19My heir.
00:19:39You're telling this court I'm Duke Alistair's son?
00:19:43No, 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!
00:19:57What could he possibly want to risk all our lives?
00:20:00What did he want?
00:20:01Your son sitting on the throne.
00:20:04That's what he wanted.
00:20:08You need proof to make such claims.
00:20:10This dark sorcery proves absolutely nothing.
00:20:13Lord Alistair, if I had to guess.
00:20:16The moment the Emperor degreed Isabella's marriage,
00:20:19you realized if she entered the royal court,
00:20:21the Crown would eventually discover her secret.
00:20:23So you hired a pack of mercenaries to stage a bandit raid on the carriage.
00:20:27But Morgana's warning put my guard on alert.
00:20:29You feared with extra men your hired killers wouldn't be able to finish the job.
00:20:33So you killed your own daughter before she left.
00:20:35And as for your loyal servants, they break much faster than paid assassins.
00:20:39Commander!
00:20:40Commander Ashworth!
00:20:41Lord Alistair's personal guard.
00:20:42They've confessed to everything.
00:20:43The signed confessions.
00:20:45They admit the Duke ordered them to silence Isabella before she even left.
00:20:53My entire life of scheming.
00:20:57All crushed by fate's cruel hand.
00:21:01The eye you granted us gave House Alistair absolute power.
00:21:06Unmatched wealth.
00:21:07Unmatched glory.
00:21:09But the Emperor still stood above me.
00:21:11Until that day when I saw...
00:21:17I saw.
00:21:22I saw the truth.
00:21:24If my son took the cradle, he'd rule the world.
00:21:29But the vision didn't end there.
00:21:32I saw the flaw that would kill us.
00:21:34The decree.
00:21:35The royal wedding.
00:21:37If Isabella entered that palace, he would see my daughter.
00:21:43He'd see the exact face of the young Empress.
00:21:46He's not blind.
00:21:49He'd know exactly what I did.
00:21:52I had no choice.
00:21:53You must see that.
00:21:55I had to cut the rot out.
00:21:57I had to protect my family.
00:22:00My son will be Emperor.
00:22:02I had to.
00:22:07Morgana, I confess it all.
00:22:09Punish me alone.
00:22:10I beg you, look at me.
00:22:12Remember my father's loyalty.
00:22:15Spare my wife.
00:22:17He's lying.
00:22:18We knew nothing.
00:22:19Please.
00:22:20I'm begging you, take my life, but let them live.
00:22:24Granted.
00:22:25Thank you, Oracle.
00:22:28My life for theirs.
00:22:31Edmund, no.
00:22:33Edmund!
00:22:35No, Edmund!
00:22:37Edmund!
00:22:38Please stay!
00:22:41Wake up, please.
00:22:43Don't leave me.
00:22:45No!
00:22:48No!
00:22:51No!
00:22:53No!
00:22:53No!
00:22:55No!
00:22:57No!
00:22:58No!
00:22:58No!
00:23:17I gave them my sight
00:23:18To watch the dark
00:23:21Instead
00:23:22They watched the throne
00:23:23Built a lie
00:23:25Thought they could cheat fate
00:23:27Thought they owned me
00:23:29They own nothing
00:23:31I'm taking it all back
00:23:34With blood
00:23:36Mortal hands cannot hold the weight of a god
00:23:38It crushes them
00:23:41The Alistair debt is settled
00:23:43My sight is mine again
00:23:47Now
00:23:48We move to the next house
00:23:50Stop
00:23:51You can't just march in there
00:23:53This is treason
00:23:55I must alert the emperor
00:23:56No need to call the emperor
00:23:58He's already here
00:24:05God
00:24:06The emperor
00:24:11Your majesty
00:24:15By royal decree
00:24:17Prince Kale and the empress
00:24:19Are hereby spankstripped of titles
00:24:20They shall be cast into the black cells
00:24:23It shall be done
00:24:31Lady Morgana
00:24:33Lady Morgana
00:24:34It's you
00:24:35Careful sire
00:24:36Morgana
00:24:38Sire wait
00:24:39Lady Morgana
00:24:40Oh my lady Morgana
00:24:43Forgive me
00:24:44It's my fault
00:24:46I was blind to let them trouble you
00:24:49I wish to name you High Protector
00:24:52To guide the realm
00:24:53Every mage alive
00:24:55Will answer only to your command
00:24:59My rule is simple
00:25:00One shard
00:25:02For one question
00:25:03You want a prophecy
00:25:04Give me your family's
00:25:06Ancient inheritance
00:25:08The crown shard in exchange
00:25:12Right
00:25:12If you wish to reclaim the shard
00:25:16I will gladly return it
00:25:18After all
00:25:19My family owes are thrown to you
00:25:21Power is a debt
00:25:22When I give and when I take
00:25:24Is my choice alone
00:25:26Why the rush?
00:25:28Yes
00:25:29You are completely right
00:25:30Please
00:25:31Rest at Ashermyth palace
00:25:33Everything will grant her than
00:25:35No no
00:25:36Higher than imperial standards
00:25:37No need
00:25:38I am going to Ashwith keep
00:25:41Besides
00:25:42My heart
00:25:45Currently belongs to him
00:25:53Yes yes of course
00:25:55Take my royal carriage
00:25:59Please my lady
00:26:00After you
00:26:01Your grace
00:26:02That is the sovereign's carriage
00:26:04It breaks royal protocol
00:26:05Shut your mouth
00:26:07Lady Morgana is the law
00:26:09Her word is absolute
00:26:10There is no protocol in this world
00:26:12That outrants her
00:26:13Isn't that right my dear lady
00:26:15Please
00:26:17Mind the step my lady
00:26:18Careful now
00:26:19Very careful
00:26:21Commander Ashworth
00:26:23Your grace
00:26:23If she suffers even a scratch
00:26:25I swear to god
00:26:26I will hang every last member
00:26:27Of your wretted house
00:26:28Do I make myself clear?
00:26:31Crystal clear your grace
00:26:32My dear lady Morgana
00:26:34I have just remembered
00:26:36Some urgent matters of state
00:26:38To attend to
00:26:38I must take my leave
00:26:44You serve Lady Morgana now
00:26:46Farewell
00:26:47Have a pleasant journey
00:26:51Earlier you said
00:26:52That I had your heart
00:26:54What the hell does that mean?
00:26:56Sixty years ago
00:26:58My heart was carved from my chest
00:27:01It is not with you
00:27:04It is in your house
00:27:07My house?
00:27:11This way Lady Morgana
00:27:12Thanks to your grace
00:27:14Sixty years ago
00:27:15When you bestowed
00:27:16The Heartmen Shard upon us
00:27:17The Ashworth name
00:27:18Is now renowned
00:27:19For our healing arts
00:27:20You see?
00:27:21These afflicted souls
00:27:22Travel from the furthest
00:27:23Corners of the kingdom
00:27:24Seeking our aid
00:27:26So
00:27:27The legendary Ashworth healing arts
00:27:30Actually came from you
00:27:33Tell me then
00:27:34Just how old are you exactly?
00:27:37Does it matter to you?
00:27:39Please my lord
00:27:40Save my mother
00:27:41Wake up mama
00:27:42Somebody help her
00:27:43Have mercy
00:27:44Please help my mother
00:27:45I beg of you
00:27:46This is all the coin I have
00:27:48Please
00:27:50Show some mercy
00:27:52A handful of dirty coppers
00:27:54And you expect the master's healing
00:27:56For that
00:27:56Get out of here
00:27:58Now
00:27:58Stop wasting everyone's time
00:28:00Selina
00:28:03Cedric
00:28:04You're finally home
00:28:05When I gave your family the shard
00:28:08It was to heal the broken
00:28:10To serve the realm
00:28:11Not to exploit the weak
00:28:13You have broken the pact
00:28:14Give the fragment back
00:28:16Who do you think you are?
00:28:18How dare a commoner like you
00:28:20Make demands in Ashwild Key
00:28:21Silence
00:28:22Show her respect
00:28:24This is Selina Frost
00:28:26A ward
00:28:27Taken in by my father
00:28:30Selina
00:28:31We heal the sick
00:28:32Regardless of coin
00:28:33Have you forgotten?
00:28:35Go to the chapel
00:28:36Pray
00:28:37Beg her forgiveness
00:28:38You heard him
00:28:39To the chapel now
00:28:42I beg your pardon my lady
00:28:44I had no idea she was extorting them
00:28:48Rest assured
00:28:49The Ashwilds honor your gift
00:28:51We'd never turn away the poor
00:28:52Most days
00:28:53We treat all these commoners
00:28:55Without asking for any money
00:28:58I said return the shard
00:29:02Or do you mean to defy me?
00:29:04No, no
00:29:04The relic
00:29:06Is rightfully yours
00:29:07I will return it to you immediately
00:29:09It is just
00:29:10The Hartman's shard
00:29:12Is kept safe
00:29:13By my eldest Marin
00:29:14She's been in seclusion
00:29:15At a distant abbey for years
00:29:17Once she returns from her retreat
00:29:18I will present it to you myself
00:29:20Fine
00:29:21I will wait
00:29:27Every time I return
00:29:29She still won't see me
00:29:32Fifteen years
00:29:33Fifteen years since I've laid eyes on her
00:29:35Does she really despise me that much?
00:29:37Why do you think she treats you
00:29:39With such coldness?
00:29:42Because of what I did
00:29:44She hates me
00:29:45When I was a boy
00:29:47I almost died
00:29:49My sister came for me
00:29:50And the iron drove through her right arm in my place
00:29:53She was never the same again
00:29:58She was a master healer
00:30:00Those gifted hands
00:30:02She could bring the dying back to life
00:30:04But because of me
00:30:05The scar on her arm never faded
00:30:07And she was taken from me forever
00:30:09She became a completely different person after that
00:30:12The Hartman's shard was hers by birthright
00:30:15With its power
00:30:16She became the greatest healer in the kingdom
00:30:18And then they sent her far away
00:30:20To a quiet abbey
00:30:21Where she could practice in peace
00:30:23But I know the truth
00:30:25That day
00:30:27Became a thorn in her heart
00:30:28One that will never be pulled out
00:30:30Every time she looks at me
00:30:32She remembers what saving me cost her
00:30:34Everything is bound by consequence, Commander
00:30:37You see only the branches above the soil
00:30:40But you are blind to the roots below
00:30:43What is that supposed to mean?
00:30:45You will know soon enough
00:30:51My knees are hurting
00:30:52I'll fetch the salve
00:30:55Cedric just got back
00:30:56And he's already screaming at me because of her
00:30:59She's an honored guest
00:31:00Even Lord Ashworth had to apologize to her
00:31:03Master Cedric serves her
00:31:04People are whispering
00:31:06She might be his future bride
00:31:09His future bride?
00:31:10Look at her
00:31:11She's a freak
00:31:13With that filthy black rags
00:31:15She doesn't deserve Cedric
00:31:21Crone
00:31:22What is that?
00:31:24Honey cakes
00:31:25Master Cedric's favorite
00:31:27And Imperial Spiced Wine
00:31:29For Lady Morgana
00:31:30Halt
00:31:33Imperial Spiced Wine?
00:31:35A gift from the Emperor himself
00:31:36It's worth a fortune
00:31:38You really know how to grovel
00:31:41Give it here
00:31:44Healers always keep the best poisons
00:31:47This widow's kiss is lethal
00:31:50No taste, no cure
00:31:53Drink up, Morgana
00:31:55Go, take it to her
00:31:56I cannot, my lady
00:31:59She is Master Cedric's guest
00:32:03Know your place
00:32:04Without Ashfield Charity
00:32:07A useless old crone
00:32:08Would be rotting in the gutter
00:32:11Pathetic
00:32:16I am disciplining a servant
00:32:18Since when does a blind freak
00:32:21Interfere with Ashfield affairs?
00:32:22If your tongue serves only to offend
00:32:25Then you should not speak at all
00:32:30Morgana
00:32:31You little piece of
00:32:33My lady, what is it?
00:32:35My lady, what's wrong?
00:32:36Please, say something
00:32:37What's doing this?
00:32:38Guards, help us!
00:32:40Get Lord Aldric, she's choking
00:32:41She can't breathe
00:32:42Lord Aldric, please hurry
00:32:44I'm right here
00:32:46Just breathe
00:32:47She suddenly lost her voice
00:32:50Selene is just a foolish girl
00:32:51She didn't mean to offend you
00:32:53I will make her apologize to you at once
00:32:55What are you waiting for?
00:32:57Apologize!
00:32:57Now!
00:32:58Are you deaf?
00:32:59Do you want to be mute forever?
00:33:05My lady
00:33:07I don't want your apology
00:33:09Kneel to the one you truly wronged
00:33:12Please, no!
00:33:14I'm nobody!
00:33:15A lady cannot kneel to me!
00:33:16I'm just a servant!
00:33:18Silence!
00:33:19Just be grateful!
00:33:20Every brick in this house
00:33:21Rests on the Hartman Shard
00:33:24She built our legacy
00:33:26Oracle, I beg you
00:33:28She's terrified
00:33:30Let it be enough
00:33:32Please, have mercy
00:33:39Your mercy is boundless, my lady
00:33:41I will discipline the girl at once
00:33:45Come, my lady
00:33:46Let us go
00:33:51Are you hurt?
00:33:52I am fine, my lord
00:33:55You've grown so thin
00:33:57The northern winds have been cruel to you
00:33:59You must stay longer this time
00:34:01Your name day is soon
00:34:03I knitted you a pair of thick winter gloves
00:34:06Let me fetch them for you
00:34:07Wait right here for me
00:34:11That old woman
00:34:13Her 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
00:34:22She sneaked me pouches
00:34:24And every year on my name day
00:34:26When my own sister was lost to me
00:34:28She brought me warm broth and 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
00:34:38I have seen the shadow on her
00:34:41She has but a few days left
00:34:44Do not wait until tomorrow
00:34:46To realize what you have lost
00:34:52Listen 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
00:35:03Let her think she's win
00:35:05Soon, everything will be yours
00:35:09Lady Morgana
00:35:10Lady Ashfield has sent me
00:35:12To return the Hartman Shard
00:35:14To its rightful owner
00:35:15We have heard
00:35:16When you take back what is yours
00:35:18You offer a reading in return
00:35:21Lady Ashworth has written her question
00:35:23Right here on this parchment
00:35:25Take it, Cedric
00:35:32I will not answer this question
00:35:34Because 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
00:35:43I'll get to the bottom of this
00:35:45Tonight
00:35:46Don't
00:35:48What is mine
00:35:49Will always return to my hands
00:35:52Lady Morgana
00:35:53Commander Ashford
00:35:57The Emperor begs your aid
00:35:59The Empress door wager is dying
00:36:01The Royal Physicians can do nothing for her
00:36:03His Majesty demands you come at once
00:36:06Please, my lady
00:36:07You are her only hope
00:36:12Lead the way
00:36:15Useless 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
00:36:34Lies!
00:36:35That is a lie!
00:36:36Your Majesty
00:36:40I can save the Empress
00:36:43Morgana
00:36:44If you can't save her
00:36:46Stop making pathetic excuses
00:36:48I say
00:36:50You have no real power
00:36:51You're nothing but a fraudulent witch
00:36:54Selina!
00:36:55This is a royal chamber
00:36:56Not your playground
00:36:57Your Grace
00:36:58I can heal her
00:36:59On my life
00:37:00Selina Frost
00:37:01You should know
00:37:03Cedric knows it well
00:37:04My prophecies
00:37:06Are never wrong
00:37:07Care to make a wager then?
00:37:09On what?
00:37:10If I win
00:37:11I want the Emperor
00:37:12To decree my marriage to Cedric
00:37:14And I want your head
00:37:17Severed from your neck
00:37:18Your Grace
00:37:19Madness
00:37:20This is absolute madness
00:37:21Gods!
00:37:22Drag this madwoman away!
00:37:24I accept
00:37:30Very well
00:37:31Give it a try
00:37:33If you truly cure my mother
00:37:36I will grant your every wish
00:37:45So you stole the Hartman's schnaz
00:37:47Cedric
00:37:48I'll be a master healer
00:37:50Just like your sister
00:37:52Then you'll finally see
00:37:54I'm the only one for you
00:37:56Forcing fate
00:37:58Only brings ruin
00:37:59If you insist on this path
00:38:02You alone will choke on the ashes
00:38:06Save your cheap parlor tricks
00:38:08Healing the sick is God's work
00:38:10There's no price for that
00:38:13By the old blood
00:38:14I command the vessel
00:38:16Take the living spark
00:38:18Feed the dying flame
00:38:22Awaken
00:38:27Wake up!
00:38:31Wake!
00:38:35Wake up!
00:38:41Wake up!
00:38:42What's happening?
00:38:43It burns!
00:38:45It burns!
00:38:46It burns!
00:38:47It 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 no how did this happen
00:39:13you stole my magic but you never asked when the spell steals a living spark whose spark does it
00:39:21take move along get out move before i drag you out know who stands before you my lord
00:39:32i did not know marin my lord you're mistaken she's not marin she's just an old crone
00:39:39nothing more my lord get out yes my lord
00:39:48my lord i'm nobody just an old crone nobody of importance just a servant this is the inner
00:39:56sanctum only the bloodline only 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 only marin bore this mark
00:40:23marin why didn't you tell me
00:40:29whose life did you think you were spending the ashworth empire isn't built on medicine
00:40:34it's built on a parasite it trades your years for theirs
00:40:39a simple fever costs you a month a fatal wound strips the youth right off your bones
00:40:49sick empress was already dead her time was up
00:40:52give her every hour you have left it won't buy her a single day
00:40:58then what about marin explain marin
00:41:00she bore the shard for 30 years pulled thousands from the grave
00:41:05then she should be dust she should be a rotting corpse
00:41:09why is she flawless why not her look at me it took everything
00:41:14my my skin my life why just me
00:41:19you said she was perfect
00:41:22cedric you believe she hid from you for 10 years
00:41:25it never crossed your mind that the woman she became
00:41:29was standing right in front of you and you looked right through her
00:41:35stop what does that mean
00:41:37you're a commander open your eyes
00:41:41every year on your birthday that old servant
00:41:43the only one who still cooks for you
00:41:46who is she cedric
00:41:51lord cedric wait you can't go in
00:41:53my lord she said no visitors my lord
00:42:02marin
00:42:04gods
00:42:05it's really you
00:42:09why all these years why didn't you tell me
00:42:13every time i used the shard it stole a year of my life
00:42:17burned away
00:42:19then one morning i looked in the glass white hair
00:42:23hands shaking like a crone
00:42:25marin let me in
00:42:27my lord no
00:42:27get off
00:42:29i want my sister
00:42:31let me go
00:42:33marin
00:42:34i couldn't let you see a monster
00:42:37no stop it
00:42:38don't ever say that
00:42:40look at me
00:42:41you are marin
00:42:42the 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 tomorrow is your name day
00:43:08i haven't made your broth yet
00:43:10marin please
00:43:12just rest
00:43:13you made it for me every year
00:43:15my whole life
00:43:16tomorrow
00:43:18i'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
00:43:32he used the heartmen shard to drain her year by year
00:43:35while i watched and called it nothing
00:43:37she made a choice
00:43:38the shard needed a vessel
00:43:40she offered herself
00:43:42she healed them
00:43:43she gave them time
00:43:45she gave you time
00:43:47that was all she ever wanted
00:43:49i looked right past her for years
00:43:52thank you
00:43:53for stripping away every excuse i had
00:43:56i have her back
00:43:57whatever it costs you
00:43:58i swear on my blade i 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 going to take it to her now
00:44:08wait
00:44:09something wrong
00:44:12it's nothing
00:44:13go to her
00:44:14i won't be long
00:44:30the scale always balances
00:44:36get away from me
00:44:38don't touch me
00:44:40i want my sister
00:44:42i want my sister
00:44:54i'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
00:45:05she left me
00:45:06everyone always leaves
00:45:08but i'm staying
00:45:10to a legion
00:45:13i'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
00:45:55i'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 marron's hands
00:46:08every year carved from her face
00:46:11he arranged all of it
00:46:14her life meant nothing to him
00:46:15he only cared about the gold
00:46:18the price her dying breath could buy
00:46:20oracle please
00:46:22everyone here knows the ashworth name
00:46:24we heal the sick
00:46:26we never ask for coin
00:46:27we serve the people
00:46:29you cannot just walk in here
00:46:31and spread lies about my family
00:46:35if you took no coin
00:46:37then tell me what you've been hiding in the dark
00:46:40every transaction
00:46:42every name
00:46:43every debt you buried
00:46:54and
00:46:55these are property deeds
00:47:01hundreds of them
00:47:02the ash house fled the high lord's dry
00:47:04in secret
00:47:04they traded healing for mansions
00:47:07for land
00:47:08we thought you were a saint
00:47:10oldrick
00:47:10you're nothing but a leech
00:47:12a parasite
00:47:13you stole my sister's life
00:47:15you drained marrin dry to build your filthy empire
00:47:18and left her to rot in the dirt
00:47:20she gave everything
00:47:21and you ground her bones into your crown
00:47:24that is not the whole of his sin
00:47:27when marrin's face withered from what he forced on her
00:47:30he turned away from her
00:47:32he took a lover in secret
00:47:35a secret mistress
00:47:37a hidden life
00:47:38there is no one
00:47:39you are lying
00:47:40the child you had with her
00:47:42has been living under this very roof
00:47:44you call her your ward
00:47:45you let her do as she pleases
00:47:48do you deny that selene is your blood
00:47:52you gave selene full run of this house
00:47:56is 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
00:48:05you cannot lay this at my feet
00:48:06i am innocent if there was money missing from the patients
00:48:10marron did it herself plain greed
00:48:13she used the sick to line her own pockets
00:48:23look out get back
00:48:26that's gold he hid it in the tablet
00:48:32the heavens don't care for your lies
00:48:34but i do
00:48:37you built a dynasty on stolen breath
00:48:39you are no heir to what i left here
00:48:41you are a parasite
00:48:46my 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 be reasonable look at what she had become
00:49:00who could look at that face and not be sickened
00:49:03you are no blood of mine
00:49:06you are nothing to me
00:49:08is this my fault i would have taken the burden on myself
00:49:11i swear it but the healer's grace it binds only to the women
00:49:15it rejected me it was never my choice
00:49:17we kept her fed kept the 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 i forged the healer's grace
00:49:28i wrote its laws it 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
00:49:38and found nothing at all
00:49:40you 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 get off me
00:50:33i am the lord of this
00:50:37no
00:50:51every year he stole from marin
00:50:54they just ripped it back
00:51:13i am the lord of this
00:51:15marin can you hear me look at me
00:51:19you you came back
00:51:27remember your oath
00:51:42the hartman's shard
00:51:44it's time it returned to you
00:51:45you took another piece of your power straight into yourself
00:51:49will you absorb this one too
00:51:55you
00:52:00you
00:52:06you
00:52:07you
00:52:22Please! Help us! Have mercy!
00:52:28You're breathing. I watched you stop. I thought you were gone.
00:52:33You're shaking. Your birthday is soon.
00:52:37I 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.
00:52:53They're hers now. Her hand is healed. The debt is paid.
00:52:57She will never serve in the dark again. She lives. The transaction is complete.
00:53:06Oracle. You didn't owe us this. I will carry this mercy until my last breath.
00:53:17You gave my sister back her life. My life is no longer my own. It belongs to you. Every breath
00:53:24I draw belongs to your cause. I am your shield. Your blade. Point me at your enemies.
00:53:29Wherever you walk, I walk with you. Until my blood runs cold.
00:53:38Talk to me. Did the exorcism drain you? Are you hurt?
00:53:43I am not hurt. When I pulled the Hartman Shard from your sister, I absorbed thirty years of her memories.
00:53:49Every single day she spent trapped in that house.
00:53:53There's an echo now. A pressure in my chest.
00:53:56You have a rule. You reclaim a piece of your power. You owe the bloodline one truth. One ember. One
00:54:03question.
00:54:04Maren gave her whole youth to keep me alive. She never got to ask her question.
00:54:10Maren.
00:54:11So I'll ask it for her. Look into your prophecy, Morgana. Did my sister's sacrifice mean anything? Tell me.
00:54:20Your sister asked what waits for you in the north. I didn't lie to her. So I'll tell you exactly
00:54:25what I saw.
00:54:26There is a line drawn across your fate. A terminal point.
00:54:31If you follow me to Ironwall, if you walk into Ravencrest at my side, you will stand before someone and
00:54:36bleed until there is nothing left.
00:54:39And you will die. That is the end of it.
00:54:42In front of who? Who do I bleed for?
00:54:45Me.
00:54:47Knowing this. Knowing that every step north is a step towards your own grave.
00:54:53And you still want to come with me. Forget it. It doesn't matter.
00:55:00You are ordered to stay behind. I walk into Ironwall alone. I don't need a shield.
00:55:06I swore an oath to you. I stand between you and whatever comes. I'm going.
00:55:17I told you how this ends. Are you not afraid?
00:55:22I lead the Obsidian Guard. I 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. Let them come. I will survive it. And I will walk you out of
00:55:40Ironwall myself.
00:55:44You must think I'm completely useless with a blade.
00:55:47I've been sickly since childhood. My sister-in-law handles the killing. She lets me read instead.
00:55:53I apologize for the gate. It's just...
00:55:55Lately. The moment the sun sets, the dead walk.
00:55:58Vesta fears the undead soldiers breaching the walls, slaughtering our people.
00:56:03Please forgive the locked gates, my lady.
00:56:04These undead outside your walls. What is their origin?
00:56:08We don't know. Not since my grandfather fell.
00:56:11They don't discern friend from foe. They just butcher.
00:56:14For six months we've been trapped here. Powerless.
00:56:17Thorn was injured?
00:56:19Yes.
00:56:20Ambushed by the dead weeks ago. He hasn't woken since.
00:56:25Take me to him.
00:56:27Of course.
00:56:28Finn!
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?
00:56:47Vesper, wait. This is Lady Morgana.
00:56:49Grandfather foresaw this. He said a woman named Morgana would come for the Shard.
00:56:54We must show her absolute respect.
00:56:56The Patriarch is dying. He needs silence, not scavengers chasing fairy tales.
00:57:00Commander Vesper.
00:57:02Even the Emperor bows to Lady Morgana.
00:57:05I suggest you mind your tone before I cut out your tongue.
00:57:10Damn your southern king! Here, we follow north laws!
00:57:14Your laws.
00:57:16Tell me.
00:57:17What does the north demand?
00:57:20You want to see him?
00:57:21Bleed for it.
00:57:23Best me in combat.
00:57:24Win, and you get your audience.
00:57:26And your precious shard.
00:57:28Lose, and you crawl back south.
00:57:31Frostbite does not serve the weak.
00:57:33I'll gladly test your iron, Commander.
00:57:36Good. A real man.
00:57:38Bring me my steel.
00:57:49Hold the gate!
00:57:51I am Cedric Ashworth, Commander of the Obsidian Guards. Hold the gates.
00:57:55Guards.
00:57:55They're here!
00:57:56Fall back! Bar the gates!
00:58:02Go on they!
00:58:12Ring of steel!
00:58:14Ring of steel!
00:58:14Protect Morgana!
00:58:22Ash to ice.
00:58:24Darkness great.
00:58:26Gone.
00:58:45This malice.
00:58:47I know it.
00:58:48She broke them! Who goes there?
00:58:51Morgana.
00:58:52Lady Morgana!
00:58:55Forgive me.
00:58:56My grandfather speaks of you often.
00:58:59And you are?
00:59:00Finn Ravenkest, my lady.
00:59:02Grandson to Patriarch Thorne.
00:59:04Morgana.
00:59:06Smile for me.
00:59:07You look best when you smile.
00:59:09Foolish.
00:59:10Thanks.
00:59:12Thanks.
00:59:19Morgana.
00:59:20Morgana.
00:59:20My sister-in-law is a monster on the battlefield.
00:59:23She holds the true bloodline.
00:59:25No one beats her.
00:59:26Is this it, then?
00:59:28The day you foreseen I would die.
00:59:50He's hurt he will not die
01:00:14Well fought. Your form is decent, but you fight like you fear death, always leaving room to retreat.
01:00:23Remember, a real enemy won't give you quarter. The only way to outlive them is to care less about dying.
01:00:30Mother! Mother!
01:00:35There's my little bird.
01:00:37You promised me we'd practice archery today.
01:00:41I know. Go grab your bow, I'm coming.
01:00:44Okay.
01:00:47When you have something you can't leave behind, then teach me to fight. Tomorrow I will grant you an audience
01:00:54of the Patriarch.
01:00:58You see, I am still breathing.
01:01:00If you had truly defied my vision, now that would be interesting.
01:01:09Two years ago at the Bloodwater Siege, Vesta's husband begged the Emperor for reinforcements.
01:01:16But the Royal Court was busy preparing the Emperor's Jubilee. The army never marched. Her husband died in the mud,
01:01:21left her and the child alone.
01:01:24Vesta has every reason to hate the crown. She struck a deal with the enemy.
01:01:30You are wrong.
01:01:33You said we were seeing the Patriarch. Why bring us to a crypt?
01:01:36Whatever you see in there, hold your nerve.
01:01:39My grandfather, rest inside. Please, this way.
01:01:57What?
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 sherd 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.
01:03:05You barter with the boy because you are certain that Vesta will not surrender the shard.
01:03:14Is this?
01:03:16It is Thorn.
01:03:17Yes. Since the ambush six months ago, this crust began to form. It started around his wounds. Then it spread.
01:03:26Swallowing him whole.
01:03:27How many healers have you called?
01:03:29All of them. None could break it.
01:03:31I wish.
01:03:47This isn't a sickness is it? It 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
01:04:03here he refuses to pass on and the shard buried within him gave his wrath a
01:04:09physical form spawning the dead that batter your gates while this stone shell
01:04:15devours his remaining soul the undead they came from my grandfather's own
01:04:21mind what kind of nightmare could be powerful enough to breed an entire army
01:04:28of corpses
01:04:37the dead are marching in daylight I'll hold the line gather the men my lady I'm
01:04:46begging you save frostbite take the shard back she's right there in his chest
01:04:51please just take it I beg you yes but the shard must be freely given even I cannot
01:05:00carve it out by force I will pull thorn back from the dark do not let them
01:05:05interrupt me this pennant will hold the dead plant it beyond the gates it will
01:05:09find me time if the ward fails if the dead breach the line or if you are overrun do
01:05:19not die for me leave my orders stand you are my charge I do not break the line
01:05:42I remember a boy one who chased my shadow always begging for stories now reduced to stone
01:05:54veil lift flesh bind awaken
01:06:00awaken
01:06:02thorn
01:06:04ashworth her magic broke she's bleeding
01:06:20shit
01:06:32finn what are you doing I'm done pretending commander did you honestly think that I'm
01:06:38Vesper was the one who crippled my grandfather it was me who left the gate wide open so
01:06:44you're the rat they butchered your parents slaughtered your own brothers they bled
01:06:49frost bear dry and you sold us out to the monsters
01:06:52ha ha ha ha sold us out monsters better than being the crown's lapdog why should we bleed for
01:06:59them our ancestors all followed Morgana we were equals once but because they got different shards some
01:07:05get to rule the capital some get the gold and what did the rain creeps get three generations
01:07:09rotting in this frozen wasteland bleeding out in the ice just another name on a tombstone waiting
01:07:15to be wiped out I won't let it end like this I'm going to tear frost fire down break the
01:07:22chains
01:07:22the sins 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
01:07:40FRIKE
01:07:40FRIKE
01:07:41QUESTER
01:08:10Yes, I remember the vow.
01:08:13I gave you my word. To hold this fortress. To bleed for the innocent. But the dead are here. The
01:08:24wolves are at the gates. I... I dare not leave.
01:08:29Enough, Thorn. You have bled enough. Your bloodline. Your men.
01:08:43I have bled enough.
01:08:55I have bled enough.
01:09:12Let the obsession die. You must go.
01:09:18Whatever my sister commands, Thorn will always obey. But before I return the Shard, Morgana, may I ask you one
01:09:33question?
01:09:33osh
01:10:03You
01:10:17Oh
01:10:21Wait
01:10:35Sis
01:10:36You came
01:10:38Sister I
01:10:39What is happening to me
01:10:41Where are we
01:10:43Your mortal life is ended
01:10:45But your obsession anchored you here
01:10:48Your soul was twisted by inner demons and the shard
01:10:53You are nothing but a lingering phantom now
01:11:08What did you want to ask
01:11:12All these years
01:11:16Alone
01:11:16In the dark
01:11:20Were you alright Morgana
01:11:36You won't touch her
01:11:40I was fine
01:11:46That is good
01:12:04I
01:12:19I
01:12:20I
01:12:20I
01:12:20I
01:12:20I
01:12:20I
01:12:20I
01:12:26I
01:12:38I
01:12:38So this is the death
01:12:40You saw for me
01:12:42You are never wrong
01:12:46Morgana
01:12:46It seems I won't be here to help you
01:12:50Take back what is yours
01:13:07Oh
01:13:08Again
01:13:10I
01:13:10Make no grand claims
01:13:12But I swear
01:13:14I will help you take it all back
01:13:16I
01:13:18I
01:13:32I
01:13:33I
01:13:34I
01:13:34I
01:13:34Monster
01:13:35Monster
01:13:36Monster
01:13:50This world
01:13:52Is 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
01:14:07Because the crown never sent reinforcements
01:14:10He bled out in the snow
01:14:12And ever since then
01:14:14I haven't seen you smile
01:14:15Not 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
01:14:32Frostspire
01:14:32Frostspire is now prison
01:14:34Look at the people behind these walls
01:14:36The thousands we pulled from the slaughter
01:14:38The 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
01:14:52Frostspire
01:14:53Frostspire is my home Finn
01:14:54And I will defend it
01:14:56Until I break
01:15:00I thought
01:15:01I thought you hated the crown
01:15:05I only wanted to break your chains
01:15:08I only wanted to break your chains
01:15:12I do hate the crown
01:15:14But I love the north
01:15:15I love our people
01:15:17I am holding this line for your brother
01:15:19So the children here
01:15:21So my own daughter
01:15:23Can sleep without fear of the slaughter
01:15:25So it was just me
01:15:27I was the only one who couldn't let go
01:15:32Take me away
01:15:34I will
01:15:35I'll take you south
01:15:37I want to sleep beneath the roses
01:15:47Sixty years ago
01:15:48To buy this realm a breath of life
01:15:52I gave my own flesh and soul to the forge
01:15:55No attachments
01:15:58No desires
01:15:59I told you to run
01:16:02But of course
01:16:03Fate demands its due
01:16:14Would you still draw your blade for me?
01:16:17Knowing it will only lead to your grave
01:16:19I am going
01:16:21I've commanded the vanguard for years
01:16:23I'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?
01:16:51My youngest student
01:16:52Still breathes
01:16:53I need to see him
01:16:56And the Ravencrest piece of the crown
01:16:58What is it exactly?
01:17:00A drop of my own blood
01:17:01The undying spark
01:17:02Your blood?
01:17:04No wonder your skin is like ice
01:17:06Morgana
01:17:07How did you lose your eyes?
01:17:09Sixty winters ago
01:17:11The realm was drowning in its own blood
01:17:14To buy them a dawn
01:17:16I offered my own flesh and soul
01:17:19I stripped everything away
01:17:22Bound it to the obsidian
01:17:24Twelve fragments
01:17:25Given to twelve disciples
01:17:27To save this world
01:17:29Sixty years have passed
01:17:31My students took that power
01:17:34And forged twelve great bloodlines
01:17:37And now
01:17:38There is peace
01:17:40Now I take back what is mine
01:17:44Morgana
01:17:44What else are you missing?
01:17:46You never change your boots
01:17:47I've never seen you eat
01:17:49Or sleep for that matter
01:17:51Your hair turned white
01:17:53Silence
01:18:00...inwanza
01:18:02Morgana
01:18:05I will help you get it all back
01:18:08Every last piece
01:18:11You have my word
01:18:14No matter what it takes
01:18:16No matter the cost
01:18:23that shard of the crown was torn from my own veins a single drop of my heart's blood
01:18:34i never thought you would waste such a priceless piece of yourself on me i never thought
01:18:39i'd even be alive my lady you always said your prophecies are absolute never wrong to give me
01:18:46the shard to force me to live isn't this defying the gods themselves taking the heart back was a mistake
01:18:59morgana
01:19:24my lady forgive me assassins
01:19:44this southern blood magic they say one puppet butchers ten men and i tore them apart before
01:19:51they could even blink i feel like i could rip through solid iron you were bleeding to death
01:19:56no medicine could save you so i bound a fraction of my shard to your fading heart
01:20:01tethered your life to mine with my power in your veins no mortal man can stand against you
01:20:07you could have run you chose to stay you accepted my gift from now on you are bound to my
01:20:17will
01:20:17are we clear
01:20:20so i am no better than these husks i'm just your puppet
01:20:25do not compare yourself to such pathetic trash they 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 shard or no shard
01:21:02the raven crests will hold this line
01:21:05to the last breath
01:21:10the horde is at our walls
01:21:11i ride with the vanguard
01:21:13godspeed
01:21:27why didn't you tell her about the warding spikes you planted
01:21:30the wards are nothing compared to the primordial blood
01:21:34still boiling in their veins
01:21:36they will survive
01:21:41what's happening are you all right
01:21:42i feel a disturbance
01:21:44a forbading sensation
01:21:46i have looked ahead
01:21:47i wish i had not
01:21:49the road before us is dark
01:22:07we must push forward
01:22:09wherever you go i will follow
01:22:12where to next
01:22:14south
01:22:14to the scarlet lands
01:22:17i want to meet the fool who thought they could kill me
01:22:22my lady please rest inside
01:22:24i will bring it to you myself
01:22:27it is exactly where you left it my lady
01:22:30untouched
01:22:31you give it up so easily
01:22:33it was never mine to keep
01:22:34you know what it built
01:22:36your entire dynasty
01:22:39hundreds years of power
01:22:40titles
01:22:41the crown's favor
01:22:42the gift of seeing into men's hearts
01:22:45without it
01:22:46you are nothing but a blind man stumbling in the dark
01:22:49the blood covenant my grandfather sworn
01:22:51binds every generation after him
01:22:53house alistair
01:22:55owes you everything it has
01:22:56and everything it is
01:22:58you have my word
01:22:59i will honor the pact
01:23:01willingly
01:23:04the old man bred well
01:23:06an obedient heir
01:23:14since when does my father kneel for peasants
01:23:18the iris ember
01:23:19my lady
01:23:20a covenant is a trade
01:23:23i take back what is mine
01:23:24and i leave you one truth
01:23:28the old laws demand it
01:23:29ask your question
01:23:32my lady
01:23:34in a few days
01:23:35isabella weds the crown prince
01:23:37i need to
01:23:39i need to know what waits for her
01:23:41you want to know if she lives
01:23:44without my ember watching over her
01:23:46what her crown will cost
01:23:48yes
01:23:48please
01:23:49tell me her fate
01:23:52bring the girl to me
01:23:54mother
01:23:55the night before my royal wedding
01:23:57some blind woman in funeral rags
01:23:59walks into our home
01:24:01and father knelt for her
01:24:04tell me the truth
01:24:05is she one of his lowborn mistresses
01:24:08crawling here to beg for coins
01:24:11if we allow that woman to stand in our halls
01:24:14without putting her on her knees
01:24:16she will believe
01:24:17she belongs here
01:24:19and we cannot have that
01:24:21then let's remind her
01:24:23how this house
01:24:24treats beggars
01:24:26much what is one of my
01:24:27what is she having to do
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