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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.
00:01:06She demands to see you. Now.
00:01:11Morgana.
00:01:14Forgive me. I didn't know you were coming.
00:01:17House Alistram is yours.
00:01:19Show us mercy.
00:01:20My lord. You are a duke.
00:01:22You kneel to no one but the king.
00:01:24One more word.
00:01:25And I'll cut it out myself.
00:01:28My lady. Please.
00:01:47Mind the steps, my lady.
00:01:54The sky turns.
00:02:00The sky turns.
00:02:00The sky turns.
00:02:04Sixty years ago.
00:02:07I broke myself into twelve embers.
00:02:11The throne was secured.
00:02:13It is time.
00:02:20To reclaim them all.
00:02:21The sky turns.
00:02:26I assumed we were hosting royalty.
00:02:29For my husband to grovel so.
00:02:32To greet you himself.
00:02:34I simply had to see who...
00:02:44Magana, was it?
00:02:47You are a guest in my halls.
00:02:49Drink.
00:02:54Your wine, my lady.
00:02:56A blind witch.
00:02:59This shall prove to you.
00:03:10But...
00:03:10I told them to boil it!
00:03:12Daurish 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!
00:03:36Ah!
00:03:38By his wits alone did Lord Alistair survive.
00:03:42Isabella, your gown!
00:03:43A tragedy.
00:03:44His bloodline rots with you.
00:03:47How dare you!
00:03:48My husband may tolerate your delusions.
00:03:51But I will not!
00:03:52You just assaulted the future crown princess!
00:03:55By royal decree, you will kneel and you will bleed for it!
00:03:59She is a fool. You are worse.
00:04:02Even the gods of the underworld have yet to see me kneel.
00:04:07Why would you?
00:04:09We shall see.
00:04:12Gods, take her!
00:04:18And break her legs.
00:04:19Do it!
00:04:25Seize her!
00:04:26Now!
00:04:33Oh!
00:04:38Oh!
00:04:39Oh, brother!
00:04:41Stop!
00:04:43Stop this at once!
00:04:45Fools!
00:04:49Morgana!
00:04:51They know nothing!
00:04:52They acted out of turn!
00:04:54Spare them!
00:04:55I beg of you!
00:04:57Alistair!
00:04:58Father!
00:04:59Both of you!
00:05:00You blind, arrogant fools!
00:05:03She chose restraint!
00:05:04Or you would already be ashes upon this floor!
00:05:07On your knees!
00:05:09Beg for your lives!
00:05:12I bow to no one!
00:05:14I am the future crown princess!
00:05:17I 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.
00:05:55No!
00:05:57You!
00:05:59Get out of my house!
00:06:00Silence your tongue!
00:06:03Morgana, please!
00:06:04How do we stop this?
00:06:06Call off the royal wedding.
00:06:09Break betrothal.
00:06:10Break betrothal.
00:06:13Or...
00:06:13She dies.
00:06:23The royal escort led by the obsidian guard.
00:06:27Commander Cedric himself.
00:06:28The reaper of the realm.
00:06:36The prophecy is written.
00:06:41And the king's edict?
00:06:53Commander Cedric, you heard the prophecy.
00:06:55If 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.
00:07:07You dare defy the throne over cheap parlor tricks?
00:07:11And break the royal contract?
00:07:14Unless...
00:07:15You doubt my ability to keep her breathing.
00:07:20No, Commander.
00:07:21Your blade is legendary.
00:07:23Your tactics flawless.
00:07:24The king trusts no other.
00:07:26She is safe with you.
00:07:29But...
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.
00:07:36Do 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.
00:07:51I 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.
00:08:11To be continued...
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.
00:08:23.
00:08:26.
00:08:28.
00:08:28.
00:08:52I don't know.
00:09:10Take them to the Iron Court.
00:09:13I want a name.
00:09:14Yes, Commander!
00:09:22Thank the gods Cedric was here.
00:09:25We're safe.
00:09:26He earned his coin.
00:09:30You fight well, mortal.
00:09:33Pity it changes nothing.
00:09:35I do not guess.
00:09:38The grave is dug.
00:09:41The 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.
00:10:14My daughter.
00:10:16Our ultimate masterpiece.
00:10:21Lock 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 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?
00:11:42Or 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.
00:11:58But you cannot kill me, Cedric.
00:12:03Let's put that to the test.
00:12:06Steel cannot touch me.
00:12:11By drawing it on me, you owe a deadly debt.
00:12:14Madness.
00:12:15I serve the crown.
00:12:17I don't fear witches.
00:12:20Still believe in hard facts, Commander?
00:12:24Commander!
00:12:25Commander!
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?
00:13:02She was right there!
00:13:04The prophecy is fulfilled.
00:13:06Her blood is spilled.
00:13:08You killed my daughter!
00:13:10Your daughter's death was a tragedy.
00:13:12Eleanor, don't provoke her.
00:13:14Look at the carriage!
00:13:15The doors were sealed!
00:13:17Who else could bypass those locks?
00:13:19Enough!
00:13:20Seal the gates!
00:13:21Nobody leaves this yort yard!
00:13:23You're all suspects.
00:13:24Take them to the iron court!
00:13:31We're alone.
00:13:32Just tell me the damn truth.
00:13:34How did you reach inside a moving, heavily guarded carriage and take her head without a single sound?
00:13:41You mapped out her execution beforehand.
00:13:44Fine.
00:13:46Say you didn't swing the blade yourself.
00:13:50But you orchestrated this.
00:13:54If that comforts you.
00:13:56You 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.
00:14:34You have my word.
00:14:36I won't break it.
00:14:41Take this.
00:14:43Sew her head back on.
00:14:45You want me to mutilate a royal corpse?
00:14:47Every second you wait, she fades.
00:14:53Her soul is bleeding out.
00:14:56It's done.
00:14:58What now?
00:15:00Open the doors.
00:15:02Bring them all.
00:15:03The grieving father.
00:15:05The weeping mother.
00:15:08Bring the prince who lost his bride.
00:15:10We are going to hold a court of our own.
00:15:19Isabella!
00:15:20My baby!
00:15:21Oh God!
00:15:22Hold her back.
00:15:23Don't let her touch the body.
00:15:24Let me go!
00:15:25That's my daughter!
00:15:27Why is she here?
00:15:28Why is that blind woman in the judge's seat?
00:15:31Commander Ashworth, she 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!
00:15:43No!
00:15:44Look what they did to you, my 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.
00:16:04You 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 Alistom.
00:16:21Is your killer here?
00:16:23Is your killer here?
00:16:46Keep that thing away!
00:16:48She's bewitched!
00:16:55The crown is ours, father.
00:17:11Edmund Alistom.
00:17:13Edmund Alistom.
00:17:17Now confess.
00:17:24Edmund Alistom.
00:17:26Do you confess?
00:17:27I 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!
00:17:39This is madness!
00:17:42A father doesn't slaughter his own blood!
00:17:45Isabella was my pride!
00:17:48Why would I destroy my own future?
00:17:51See the truth!
00:17:52His own blood.
00:17:53That's true.
00:17:55But what if that girl was never your blood at all?
00:18:00Eleanor.
00:18:01Why did the Emperor betroth Isabella to Prince Kael?
00:18:05It was destiny.
00:18:07The Emperor declared it.
00:18:09They 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.
00:18:31Is it a boy?
00:18:33A girl, my lady.
00:18:35A girl?
00:18:36No!
00:18:37You're lying!
00:18:38A daughter.
00:18:39Just as I said.
00:18:40Why me?
00:18:45The Consort is waiting.
00:18:46If it's a boy,
00:18:48I'm ruined!
00:18:49Breathe, my lady.
00:18:51Panic is a luxury we can't afford.
00:18:53Duke Alistair has already arranged a solution.
00:18:55Bring the bundle inside.
00:18:57Now.
00:19:01Look closely.
00:19:03Pure Alistair blood.
00:19:05A 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.
00:19:16Duke Alistair's son, my son, my heir.
00:19:39You're telling this court I'm Duke Alistair's son?
00:19:43No, no, 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.
00:20:07You need proof to make such claims.
00:20:10This dark sorcery proves absolutely nothing.
00:20:13Lord Alistair,
00:20:14if I had to guess,
00:20:16the moment the emperor degreed Isabella's marriage,
00:20:19you realized if she entered the royal court,
00:20:21the crown would eventually discover her secret.
00:20:23So you hired a pack of mercenaries
00:20:25to stage a bandit raid on the carriage.
00:20:27But Morgana's warning put my guard on alert.
00:20:29You feared with extra men
00:20:30your 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,
00:20:37they 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
00:20:46ordered them to silence Isabella
00:20:48before she even left.
00:20:53My entire life of scheming,
00:20:57all crushed by fate's cruel hand.
00:21:01The eye you granted us
00:21:02gave House Alistair absolute power,
00:21:06unmatched wealth,
00:21:07unmatched glory,
00:21:09but the emperor still stood above me
00:21:11until that day
00:21:13when I saw,
00:21:16I saw.
00:21:22I saw the truth.
00:21:24If my son took the cradle,
00:21:27he'd rule the world.
00:21:29But the vision didn't end there.
00:21:32I saw the flaw that would kill us.
00:21:34The decree.
00:21:35The royal wedding.
00:21:37If Isabella entered that palace,
00:21:39he would see my daughter.
00:21:43He'd see the exact face of the young empress.
00:21:47He'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,
00:22:21take my life,
00:22:22but let them live.
00:22:24Granted.
00:22:25Thank you, Oracle.
00:22:28My life for theirs.
00:22:31Edmund, no!
00:22:33Edmund!
00:22:34No, Edmund!
00:22:36Edmund, please stay.
00:22:41Wake up, please.
00:22:42Don't leave me.
00:22:43Run!
00:22:44No!
00:22:50No!
00:22:52No!
00:22:53No!
00:22:55No!
00:22:57No!
00:22:58No!
00:23:16I gave them my sight. To watch the dark. Instead, they watched the throne. Built a lie. Thought they
00:23:25could cheat fate. Thought they owned me. They own nothing. I'm taking it all back. With
00:23:34blood. Mortal hands cannot hold the weight of a god. It crushes them. The Alistair debt
00:23:42is settled. My sight is mine again. Now, we move to the next house.
00:23:50Stop. 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.
00:24:06God. The Emperor.
00:24:11Your Majesty.
00:24:15By royal decree, Prince Kale and the Empress are hereby spankstripped of titles. They
00:24:21shall be cast into the black cells. It shall be done.
00:24:31Lady 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. I wish
00:24:50to name you High Protector. To guide the realm. Every mage alive will answer only to your command.
00:24:58My rule is simple. One shard for one question. You want a prophecy? Give me your family's
00:25:06ancient inheritance. The crown shard in exchange.
00:25:12Right. If you wish to reclaim the shard, I will gladly return it. After all, my family
00:25:20owes are thrown to you. Power is a debt. When I give and when I take, is my choice alone.
00:25:26Why the rush? Yes, you are completely right. Please, rest at Ashermyth Palace. Everything
00:25:34will grant her than- No, no! Higher than Imperial standards! No need. I am going to Asherwith
00:25:41Keep. 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. Shut your mouth!
00:26:07Lady Morgana is the law. Her word is absolute. There is no protocol in this world that outrants
00:26:12her. Isn't that right, my dear Lady? Please. Mind the step, my Lady.
00:26:18Careful now. Very careful. Commander Ashworth. Your Grace. If she suffers even a scratch, I swear
00:26:25to God, I will hang every last member of your retted house. Do I make myself clear?
00:26:31Crystal clear, Your Grace. My dear Lady Morgana, I have just remembered some urgent matters of
00:26:37state to attend to. I must take my leave.
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
00:27:16Shard upon us, the Ashworth name is now renowned for our healing arts. You see? These afflicted
00:27:22souls travel from the furthest corners of the kingdom, seeking our aid. So, the legendary Ashworth
00:27:28healing 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!
00:27:46This 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,
00:27:58now! Stop wasting everyone's time.
00:28:00Selina!
00:28:03Cedric! You're finally home! When I gave your family the Shard, it was to heal the broken,
00:28:10to serve the realm, not to exploit the weak. You have broken the pact. Give the Fragment
00:28:15back. Who do you think you are? How dare a commoner like you make demands in Ashwild
00:28:21keep! Silence! Show her respect! This 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
00:28:37forgiveness. You heard him! To the chapel now! I beg your pardon, my lady. I had no idea she
00:28:46was extorting them. Rest assured, the Ashwilds honor your gift. We'd never turn away the poor.
00:28:53Most days, we treat all these commoners without asking for any money.
00:28:57I said return the Shard. Or do you mean to defy me?
00:29:04No! No! The relic is rightfully yours! I will return it to you immediately. It is just,
00:29:10the Hartman's Shard. The Hartman's Shard is kept safe by my eldest Maren. She's been in seclusion
00:29:15at a distant abbey 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.
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, 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.
00:30:25That day became a thorn in her heart.
00:30:29One 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.
00:30:37You see only the branches above the soil, but you are blind to the roots below.
00:30:43What is that supposed to mean?
00:30:44You will know soon enough.
00:30:50My knees are hurting. 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.
00:31:12She's a freak.
00:31:13With that filthy black rags.
00:31:15She doesn't deserve Cedric.
00:31:21Crone.
00:31:22What is that?
00:31:24Honey cakes.
00:31:25Master Cedric's favorite.
00:31:27And imperial spiced wine for Lady Morgana.
00:31:31Halt!
00:31:33Imperial spiced wine?
00:31:35A gift from the Emperor himself.
00:31:36It's worth a fortune.
00:31:38You really know how to grovel.
00:31:41Give it here.
00:31:44Healers always keep the best poisons.
00:31:47This widow's kiss is lethal.
00:31:50No taste, no cure.
00:31:53Drink up, Morgana.
00:31:55Go, take it to her.
00:31:57I cannot, my lady.
00:31:59She is Master Cedric's guest.
00:32:03Know your place!
00:32:05Without Ashfield Charity, a useless old crone would be rotting in the gutter.
00:32:11Pathetic.
00:32:16I am disciplining a servant.
00:32:19Since 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?
00:32:35Please, say something!
00:32:37What's doing this?
00:32:38Guards!
00:32:39Help us!
00:32:40Get Lord Aldric!
00:32:41She's choking!
00:32:41She can't breathe!
00:32:42Lord Aldric!
00:32:43Please, hurry!
00:32:45I'm right here.
00:32:46Just breathe.
00:32:47She suddenly lost her voice.
00:32:49Selene is just a foolish girl.
00:32:51She didn't mean to offend you.
00:32:53I will make her apologize to you at once.
00:32:55What are you waiting for?
00:32:56Apologize!
00:32:57Now!
00:32:58Are you deaf?
00:32:59Do you want to be mute forever?
00:33:05My lady.
00:33:07I don't want your apology.
00:33:10Kneel to the one you truly wronged.
00:33:12Please, no!
00:33:13I'm nobody!
00:33:14A lady cannot kneel to me!
00:33:16I'm just a servant!
00:33:17Silence!
00:33:18Just be grateful!
00:33:20Every brick in this house rests on the Hartman Shard.
00:33:24She built our legacy.
00:33:26Oracle, I beg you.
00:33:28She's terrified.
00:33:30Let it be enough, please.
00:33:32Have mercy.
00:33:39Your mercy is boundless, my lady.
00:33:42I will discipline the girl at once.
00:33:44Come, my lady.
00:33:46Let us go.
00:33:50Are you hurt?
00:33:52I am fine, my lord.
00:33:55You've grown so thin.
00:33:57The northern winds have been cruel to you.
00:33:59You must stay longer this time.
00:34:01Your name day is soon.
00:34:03I knitted you a pair of thick winter gloves.
00:34:06Let me fetch them for you.
00:34:08Wait right here for me.
00:34:10That old woman, her devotion to you is genuine.
00:34:15It is.
00:34:16She has been here since I was a boy.
00:34:19Always kind to me.
00:34:20When I was injured as a boy, 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.
00:34:51Listen to me, child.
00:34:53Never cross paths with Morgana again.
00:34:56She thinks she owns us.
00:34:58Patience, my sweet girl.
00:35:00I'm securing your future.
00:35:02Play the game.
00:35:04Let her think she's win.
00:35:06Soon, everything will be yours.
00:35:08Lady Morgana.
00:35:10Lady 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.
00:35:43I'll get to the bottom of this.
00:35:45Tonight.
00:35:46Don't.
00:35:48What is mine will always return to my hands.
00:35:52Lady 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!
00:36:06Please, 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!
00:36:19Lady 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, stop making pathetic excuses.
00:36:49I say, you have no real power.
00:36:51You're nothing but a fraudulent witch.
00:36:54Selina!
00:36:55This is a royal chamber, not your playground!
00:36:57Your Grace.
00:36:58I can heal her.
00:36:59On my life.
00:37:00Selina Frost.
00:37:02You should know.
00:37:03Cedric knows it well.
00:37:04My prophecies 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!
00:37:20This is absolute madness!
00:37:21Gods!
00:37:22Drag 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.
00:37:45So you stole the Hartmann Schnarr?
00:37:47Cedric.
00:37:48I'll be a master healer, just like your sister.
00:37:52Then you'll finally see, I'm the only one for you.
00:37:56Forcing fate only brings ruin.
00:38:00If you insist on this path, you 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!
00:38:35Wake!
00:38:41What's happening?
00:38:43It burns!
00:38:45It burns!
00:38:46It burns!
00:38:47It burns!
00:38:48It burns!
00:38:48Oh God!
00:38:52Water!
00:38:54Please!
00:39:01Mother!
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.
00:39:34Maren.
00:39:34My lord, you're mistaken.
00:39:36She's not Maren.
00:39:37She's just an old crone.
00:39:39Nothing more.
00:39:40My lord.
00:39:41Get out.
00:39:42Yes, my lord.
00:39:48My lord.
00:39:49I'm nobody.
00:39:50Just an old crone.
00:39:52Nobody of importance.
00:39:54Just a servant.
00:39:55This is the inner sanctum.
00:39:57Only the bloodline.
00:39:58Only the Hartmann Shard-bearer can come here.
00:40:02Let me see you.
00:40:12That scar.
00:40:15That 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?
00:40:31The Ashworth Empire isn't built on medicine.
00:40:34It's built on a parasite.
00:40:36It trades your years for theirs.
00:40:40A simple fever costs you a month.
00:40:42A fatal wound.
00:40:45Strips the youth right off your bones.
00:40:48Sick Empress was already dead.
00:40:51Her 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!
00:41:00She 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, my life!
00:41:17Why 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 was 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, that old servant, the 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?
00:42:10Why?
00:42:10All these years, why didn't you tell me?
00:42:13Every time I used the shard, it stole a year of my life.
00:42:18Burned away.
00:42:19Then one morning, I looked in the glass.
00:42:22White hair.
00:42:23Hands shaking like a crone.
00:42:25Maren, let me in!
00:42:27My lord, no!
00:42:28Get off!
00:42:29I want my sister!
00:42:31Let me go!
00:42:33Maren!
00:42:34I couldn't let you see a monster.
00:42:37No.
00:42:37Stop it.
00:42:39Don't ever say that.
00:42:40Look at me.
00:42:41You are Maren.
00:42:43The bravest person I know.
00:42:45But I abandoned you.
00:42:47You 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 alright 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, I'll make it for you.
00:43:24This is my fault.
00:43:25I looked right at her and saw nothing.
00:43:27She hid her hands, traded her life away, and I just stood there.
00:43:31He used the Heartmen Shard to drain her year by year while 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 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, but 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.
00:44:24Maren!
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!
00:44:42Cedric!
00:44:42Get away!
00:44:45Where is she?
00:44:49I want my sister!
00:44:52Cedric.
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.
00:45:05Everyone 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.
00:45:18I've got you.
00:45:23Lord Ashworth.
00:45:24Lord Ashworth.
00:45:25She 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, I'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.
00:46:27We 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.
00:46:54Every day.
00:46:56Every day.
00:46:56Every day.
00:46:57Every day.
00:47:01The Ashworth fled the Highlords dry, in secret.
00:47:04They traded healing for mansions.
00:47:06For land.
00:47:08We thought you were a saint, Aldrich.
00:47:10You're nothing but a leech, 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.
00:47:24That is not the whole of his sin.
00:47:26When 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! You are lying!
00:47:41The child you had with her has been living under this very roof.
00:47:44You call her your ward. You let her do as she pleases.
00:47:48Do you deny that Selene is your blood?
00:47:52You gave Selene full run of this house.
00:47:55Is she your bastard?
00:47:57Is that why you let her destroy my sister?
00:48:00Oracle.
00:48:02I have always bowed to your vision.
00:48:04You cannot lay this at my feet.
00:48:06I am innocent if there was money.
00:48:09Missing from the patients.
00:48:10Marin did it herself.
00:48:12Plain greed.
00:48:13She used the sick to line her own pockets.
00:48:23Look out! Get back!
00:48:26That's gold.
00:48:27He hid it in the tablet.
00:48:32The heavens don't care for your lies.
00:48:35But I do.
00:48:36You built a dynasty on stolen breath.
00:48:39You are no heir to what I left here.
00:48:41You are a parasite.
00:48:45My sister is dead.
00:48:48She died a ruined servant under your roof.
00:48:52And 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.
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.
00:49:20She owed this family her service.
00:49:23It was her duty to plead for us!
00:49:25A lie.
00:49:27I forged the healer's grace.
00:49:28I wrote its laws.
00:49:30It does not choose by blood or gender.
00:49:33It chooses by the will to sacrifice.
00:49:35It rejected you because it looked inside your chest and 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.
00:49:49You wanted it all.
00:49:53Very well.
00:49:57Let us see how much of it you can bear.
00:50:04Very well.
00:50:31No!
00:50:32Get off me!
00:50:33I am the lord of this!
00:50:37No!
00:50:39No!
00:50:51Every year he stole from Maren.
00:50:54They just ripped it back.
00:51:08You came back.
00:51:14Maren!
00:51:15Can you hear me?
00:51:16Look at me!
00:51:19You...
00:51:20You came back.
00:51:27Remember your oath.
00:51:42The Hartman Shard.
00:51:44It's time it returned to you.
00:51:46You took another piece of your power straight into yourself.
00:51:49Will you absorb this one too?
00:51:50Oh...
00:52:17I don't believe...
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. I still owe you bread and broth.
00:52:39I'll make it myself. Just don't close your eyes again. Promise me that.
00:52:44Her face still carries what the years cost her, but the 30 years Aldric took from her have been stripped
00:52:51from his bones.
00:52:52They're hers now. Her hand is healed. The debt is paid.
00:52:57She will never serve in the dark again. She lives. The transaction is complete.
00:53:06Oracle, you didn't owe us this. I will carry this mercy until my last breath.
00:53:17You gave my sister back her life. My life is no longer my own. It belongs to you.
00:53:23Every breath I draw belongs to your cause. I am your shield. Your blade. Point me at your enemies.
00:53:30Wherever you walk, I walk with you. Until my blood runs cold.
00:53:38Talk to me. Did the exorcism drain you? Are you hurt?
00:53:43I am not hurt. When I pulled the heartman's shard from your sister, I absorbed 30 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.
00:54:01One ember. One question.
00:54:04Maren gave her whole youth to keep me alive.
00:54:07She never got to ask her question.
00:54:10Maren.
00:54:11So I'll ask it for her. Look into your prophecy, Morgana.
00:54:15Did my sister's sacrifice mean anything? Tell me.
00:54:20Your sister asked what waits for you in the north.
00:54:22I didn't lie to her. So I'll tell you exactly what I saw.
00:54:26There is a line drawn across your fate.
00:54:28A terminal point.
00:54:30If you follow me to Ironwall,
00:54:32if you walk into Ravencrest at my side,
00:54:35you will stand before someone and bleed until there is nothing left.
00:54:39And 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.
00:55:37Let them come.
00:55:37I will survive it.
00:55:39And I will walk you out of Ironwall myself.
00:55:44You must think I'm completely useless with a blade.
00:55:47I've been sickly since childhood.
00:55:49My sister-in-law handles the killing.
00:55:51She lets me read instead.
00:55:52I apologize for the gate.
00:55:54It's just lately.
00:55:56The moment the sun sets, the dead walk.
00:55:58Vesta fears the undead soldiers breaching the walls, slaughtering our people.
00:56:03Please forgive the locked gates, my lady.
00:56:05These undead outside your walls.
00:56:07What is their origin?
00:56:08We don't know.
00:56:09Not since my grandfather fell.
00:56:11They don't discern friend from foe.
00:56:13They just butcher.
00:56:14For six months, we've been trapped here.
00:56:16Powerless.
00:56:17Thorn 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.
00:56:28Finn!
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?
00:56:46Vesper, wait.
00:56:48This is Lady Morgana.
00:56:49Grandfather foresaw this.
00:56:50He said a woman named Morgana would come for the Shard.
00:56:53We must show her absolute respect.
00:56:55The Patriarch is dying.
00:56:57He needs silence, not scavengers chasing fairy tales.
00:57:00Commander Vesper.
00:57:02Even the Emperor bows to Lady Morgana.
00:57:05I suggest you mind your tone.
00:57:07Before I cut out your tongue.
00:57:10Damn your southern king!
00:57:11Here, we follow north laws.
00:57:14Your laws.
00:57:15Tell me.
00:57:17What does the north demand?
00:57:19You want to see him?
00:57:21Bleed for it.
00:57:22Best me in combat.
00:57:23Win, and you get your audience.
00:57:26And your precious shard.
00:57:28Lose, and you crawl back south.
00:57:31Frostbite does not serve the weak.
00:57:33I'll gladly test your iron, Commander.
00:57:35Good!
00:57:36A real man!
00:57:37Bring me my steel!
00:57:48Hold the gate!
00:57:50I am Cedric Ashworth, Commander of the Obsidian Guards.
00:57:54Hold the gates!
00:57:55Gods!
00:57:55They're here!
00:57:56Fall back!
00:57:57Bar the gates!
00:58:02They've gone, Ray!
00:58:12Ring of steel!
00:58:13Protect Morgana!
00:58:22Ash to ash.
00:58:23Darkness breaks.
00:58:26Gone.
00:58:45This malice.
00:58:47I know it.
00:58:48She broke them.
00:58:49Who goes there?
00:58:51Morgana.
00:58:52Lady Morgana!
00:58:54Forgive me.
00:58:56My grandfather speaks of you often.
00:58:59And you are?
00:59:00Finn Ravenkest, my lady.
00:59:02Grandson to Patriarch Thorne.
00:59:04Morgana.
00:59:05Smile for me.
00:59:07You look best when you smile.
00:59:09Foolish.
00:59:19Morgana.
00:59:20My sister-in-law is a monster on the battlefield.
00:59:23She holds the true bloodline.
00:59:25No one beats her.
00:59:26Is this it, then?
00:59:28The day you've foreseen I would die.
00:59:33Come on!
00:59:50He's hurt.
00:59:51He will not die.
00:59:56Playing with time!
01:00:03I'm sorry.
01:00:03I'm sorry.
01:00:03I'm sorry.
01:00:05I'm sorry.
01:00:06I'm sorry.
01:00:06I'm sorry.
01:00:08I'm sorry.
01:00:09I'm sorry.
01:00:13I'm sorry.
01:00:14Well fought.
01:00:15Your form is decent.
01:00:17But you fight like you fear death.
01:00:20Always leaving room to retreat.
01:00:22Remember.
01:00:23A real enemy won't give you quarter.
01:00:26The only way to outlive them
01:00:27is to care less about dying.
01:00:30Mother!
01:00:31Mother!
01:00:35There's my little bird.
01:00:37You promised me
01:00:38we'd practice archery today.
01:00:41I know.
01:00:42Go grab your bow.
01:00:43I'm coming.
01:00:43Okay.
01:00:47When you have something
01:00:48you can't leave behind,
01:00:50then teach me to fight.
01:00:52Tomorrow,
01:00:53I will grant you an audience
01:00:54with a patriarch.
01:00:58You see?
01:00:59I am still breathing.
01:01:00If you had truly defied my vision.
01:01:04Now that
01:01:05will be interesting.
01:01:09Two years ago
01:01:10at the Bloodwater Siege,
01:01:12Vesta's husband
01:01:13begged the Emperor
01:01:14for reinforcements.
01:01:15But the Royal Court
01:01:17was busy preparing
01:01:17the Emperor's Jubilee.
01:01:19The army never marched.
01:01:20Her husband died in the mud,
01:01:21left her and the child alone.
01:01:24Vesta has every reason
01:01:25to hate the crown.
01:01:27She struck a deal
01:01:28with the enemy.
01:01:29You are wrong.
01:01:32You said we were
01:01:33seeing the Patriarch.
01:01:34Why bring us to a crypt?
01:01:35Whatever you see in there,
01:01:37hold your nerve.
01:01:39My grandfather rests inside.
01:01:41Please, this way.
01:01:58What?
01:02:02My lady,
01:02:03the North is freezing.
01:02:04I brought you
01:02:05these heavy furs.
01:02:06Your concern is noted, boy.
01:02:08But she has no need
01:02:10for such common scraps.
01:02:11These are royal pelts from...
01:02:16Gods.
01:02:18What in the world is this?
01:02:20It's so soft.
01:02:22It doesn't even feel like wool.
01:02:23It feels like water.
01:02:25These deep red shapes here.
01:02:27What kind of flower is this?
01:02:29A rose.
01:02:30The sovereign of flowers.
01:02:32A rose.
01:02:33It's beautiful.
01:02:35I can't even imagine it.
01:02:36So this is what the South grows.
01:02:39Here in Frostspike,
01:02:41the winter never ends.
01:02:42The ground is iron.
01:02:43Nothing this fragile
01:02:44could ever survive the frost.
01:02:47If it pleases you, boy,
01:02:49help us reclaim the sherd
01:02:50from your keep.
01:02:51And this mantle
01:02:52is yours to keep.
01:02:54Truly?
01:02:55You swear on your honor?
01:02:57On my blood.
01:03:00Done.
01:03:00I'll get ready.
01:03:04You barter with the boy
01:03:06because you are certain
01:03:07that Vesta
01:03:08will not surrender
01:03:09the shard.
01:03:14Is this?
01:03:15It is Thorn.
01:03:17Yes.
01:03:18Since the ambush
01:03:19six months ago,
01:03:20this crust
01:03:21began to form.
01:03:22It started around
01:03:23his wounds,
01:03:24then it spread,
01:03:25swallowing him whole.
01:03:27How many healers
01:03:28have you called?
01:03:29All of them.
01:03:30None could break it.
01:03:47This isn't a sickness,
01:03:49is it?
01:03:49It is his own madness.
01:03:51His madness?
01:03:52Thorn's natural life
01:03:54ended in the snow
01:03:56six months ago.
01:04:00But his fury
01:04:01anchored him here.
01:04:04He refuses to pass on.
01:04:05And the shard
01:04:06buried within him
01:04:07gave his wrath
01:04:09a physical form,
01:04:10spawning the dead
01:04:11that batter your gates,
01:04:13while this stone shell
01:04:15devours his remaining soul.
01:04:17The undead?
01:04:19They came from
01:04:20my grandfather's own mind?
01:04:23What kind of nightmare
01:04:24could be powerful enough
01:04:26to breed an entire
01:04:28army of corpses?
01:04:32What is happening?
01:04:38The dead are marching
01:04:39in daylight.
01:04:42I'll hold the line!
01:04:43Gather the men!
01:04:45My lady,
01:04:46I'm begging you!
01:04:47Save Frostbike!
01:04:48Take the shard back!
01:04:49It's right there
01:04:50in his chest!
01:04:51Please, just take it!
01:04:52I beg you!
01:04:55Yes,
01:04:56but the shard
01:04:57must be freely given.
01:04:59Even I cannot
01:05:00carve it out by force.
01:05:01I will pull Thorn
01:05:03back from the dark.
01:05:04Do not let them
01:05:05interrupt me.
01:05:06This pennant
01:05:07will hold the dead.
01:05:08Plant it beyond the gates.
01:05:09It will buy me time.
01:05:11If the ward fails,
01:05:13if the dead
01:05:14breach the line,
01:05:16or if you are overrun,
01:05:18do not die for me.
01:05:20Leave.
01:05:20My orders stand.
01:05:23You are my charge.
01:05:25I do not break the line.
01:05:41I remember a boy.
01:05:44One who chased my shadow,
01:05:46always begging for stories.
01:05:48Now,
01:05:50reduced to stone.
01:05:55Veil lift.
01:05:56Flesh bind.
01:05:59Awaken.
01:06:02Thorn.
01:06:05Ashworth!
01:06:06Her magic broke!
01:06:07She's bleeding!
01:06:08She's bleeding!
01:06:19Shit.
01:06:32Finn,
01:06:33what are you doing?
01:06:34I'm done pretending, Commander.
01:06:36Did you honestly think Vesper was the one who crippled my grandfather?
01:06:40It was me who left the gate wide open.
01:06:43So, you're the rat.
01:06:45They butchered your parents, slaughtered your own brothers,
01:06:48they bled Frostbear dry, and you sold us out to the monsters?
01:06:54Sold us out? Monsters? Better than being the Crown's lapdog.
01:06:58Why should we bleed for them?
01:06:59Our ancestors all followed Morgana. We were equals once.
01:07:02But because they got different shards, some get to rule the capital,
01:07:06some get the gold, and what did the Raincreeps get?
01:07:08Three generations rotting in this frozen wasteland,
01:07:11bleeding out in the ice.
01:07:12Just another name on a tombstone, waiting to be wiped out.
01:07:17I won't let it end like this.
01:07:19I'm going to tear Frostfire down, break the chains they put on us.
01:07:25I saw Morgana use this.
01:07:27It commands the dead.
01:07:30I hold the power now.
01:07:32hard work.
01:07:37Isn't that right?
01:07:39Run!
01:07:41Run!
01:07:45Run!
01:07:48Run!
01:07:50Run!
01:07:52Run!
01:07:55Run!
01:07:56Run!
01:08:10Yes, I remember the vow.
01:08:13I gave you my word to hold this fortress, to bleed for the innocent.
01:08:21But the dead are here.
01:08:23The wolves are at the gates.
01:08:26I... I dare not leave.
01:08:29Enough, Thorn.
01:08:30You have bled enough.
01:08:33Your bloodline.
01:08:35Your men.
01:08:38You have...
01:08:39Your men.
01:08:48Let's go.
01:09:11Let the Obsession die.
01:09:15You must go.
01:09:18Whatever my sister commands,
01:09:22Thorn will always obey.
01:09:25But before I return the Shard,
01:09:30Morgana, may I ask you one question?
01:09:46Let's go.
01:09:47Let's go.
01:09:55Let's go.
01:09:55Let's go.
01:09:55Let's go.
01:10:02Let's go.
01:10:04Let's go.
01:10:10Let's go.
01:10:39Let's go.
01:10:42Where are we?
01:10:43Your mortal life is ended,
01:10:45but your obsession anchored you here.
01:10:48Your soul was twisted by inner demons and the Shard.
01:10:53You are nothing but, you are nothing but, you are nothing but, you are nothing but a lingering phantom now.
01:11:09What did you want to know.
01:11:12All these years
01:11:15Alone in the dark
01:11:20Were you alright, Morgana?
01:11:36You won't touch her
01:11:38I was fine
01:11:45That is good
01:12:15I was fine
01:12:25Witch
01:12:38So this is the death you saw for me
01:12:41You are never wrong
01:12:45Morgana, it seems I won't be here to help you
01:12:50Take back what is yours
01:13:08I make no grand claims
01:13:12But I swear
01:13:14I will help you take it all back
01:13:33Monster
01:13:35Monster, you godless monster
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
01:14:13I haven't seen you smile
01:14:16Not truly
01:14:18I was so close
01:14:21Just a little more
01:14:23Than 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
01:14:38The 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
01:14:52Frostfire is my home, Finn
01:14:54And I will defend it
01:14:56Until I break
01:15:00I thought
01:15:01I thought you hated the crown
01:15:05I 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 hear
01:15:21So my own daughter
01:15:22Can sleep without fear of the slaughter
01:15:24So it was just me
01:15:27I was the only one who couldn't let go
01:15:32Take me away
01:15:34I will
01:15:35I'll take you south
01:15:37I want to sleep
01:15:40Beneath
01:15:40The roses
01:15:47Sixty years ago
01:15:48To buy this realm
01:15:50A breath of life
01:15:52I gave my own flesh and soul
01:15:54To 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
01:16:14Would 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
01:16:28And 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
01:17:10The 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
01:17:33And forged twelve great bloodlines
01:17:37And now
01:17:38There is peace
01:17:40Now I take back what is mine
01:17:44Morgana
01:17:44What else are you missing?
01:17:46You never change your boots
01:17:47I've never seen you eat
01:17:49Or sleep for that matter
01:17:51Your hair turned white
01:17:53Silence
01:18:02Morgana
01:18:05I 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
01:18:25Was torn from my own veins
01:18:29A single drop of my heart's blood
01:18:34I never thought you would waste such a priceless piece of yourself on me
01:18:38I never thought I'd even be alive
01:18:40My lady
01:18:41You always said your prophecies are absolute
01:18:44Never wrong
01:18:45To give me the shard
01:18:46To force me to live
01:18:47Isn't this defying the gods themselves?
01:18:50Taking the heart back was a mistake
01:18:59Morgana
01:19:24My lady
01:19:25Forgive me
01:19:26Assassins
01:19:43This southern blood magic
01:19:46They say one puppet butchers ten men
01:19:49And I tore them apart before they could even blink
01:19:51I feel like I could rip through solid iron
01:19:54You were bleeding to death
01:19:56No medicine could save you
01:19:57So I bound a fraction of my shard to your fading heart
01:20:01Tethered your life to mine
01:20:02With my power in your veins
01:20:04No 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
01:20:15You are bound to my will
01:20:17Are we clear?
01:20:20So I am no better than these husks
01:20:22I'm just your puppet
01:20:25Do not compare yourself to such pathetic trash
01:20:28They are nothing like you
01:20:33You
01:20:35You are my masterpiece
01:20:49Farewell
01:20:50Be wary
01:20:52Without the primordial crown's shard
01:20:55The horde will show no mercy
01:20:57I know the risks
01:20:59But I command this gate
01:21:00Shard or no shard
01:21:02The 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
01:21:28About the warding spikes you planted
01:21:30The wards are nothing
01:21:32Compared to the primordial blood
01:21:34Still boiling in their veins
01:21:36They will survive
01:21:40What's happening?
01:21:42Are you alright?
01:21:42I feel a disturbance
01:21:44A forbading sensation
01:21:46I have looked ahead
01:21:47I wish I had not
01:21:49The road before us is dark, Cedric
01:22:07We must push forward
01:22:09Wherever you go
01:22:10I will follow
01:22:12Where to next?
01:22:14South
01:22:15To the Scarlet Lands
01:22:17I want to meet the fool
01:22:18Who thought they could kill me
01:22:22My lady, please
01:22:23Rest inside
01:22:24I will bring it to you myself
01:22:27It is exactly where you left it, my lady
01:22:30Untouched
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
01:22:38Hundreds 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
01:22:48Stumbling in the dark
01:22:49The blood covenant
01:22:50My grandfather sworn
01:22:51Binds every generation after him
01:22:53House Alistair
01:22:54Owes you everything it has
01:22:56And everything it is
01:22:57You 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
01:23:13Since when does my father kneel for peasants?
01:23:18The Iris Ember, my lady
01:23:20A covenant is a trade
01:23:22I take back what is mine
01:23:24And I leave you one truth
01:23:27The old laws demand it
01:23:30Ask your question
01:23:32My lady
01:23:34In 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
01:24:03Tell me the truth
01:24:05Is she one of his lowborn mistresses
01:24:08Crawling here to beg for coin?
01:24:10If we allow that woman to stand in our halls
01:24:14Without putting her on her knees
01:24:16She will believe
01:24:17She belongs here
01:24:19And we cannot have that
01:24:21Then let's remind her
01:24:23How this house
01:24:24Treats beggars
01:24:26Please
01:24:26Join me
01:24:26Give a
01:24:26Let's
01:24:26Hoε
01:24:26Ho
01:24:26Z
01:24:26Ho
01:24:26Ho
01:24:26Ho
01:24:27Ho
01:24:27Ho
01:24:27Ho
01:24:27Ho
01:24:29Ho
01:24:29Ho
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