00:09That Storm Dragon's gone mad! It can't be tamed!
00:47Vida's here!
01:05Good girl.
01:09Lord of Dragons!
01:11Lord of Dragons!
01:24Brother! I've returned with you!
01:40For a hundred years, Valkar has not seen the like of him. A true Lord of Dragons. Vidar of Valkar,
01:48my firstborn!
01:50Lord of Dragons!
01:52From now on, you shall take my place as Chieftron of Valkar.
01:56What is this, Father?
01:59Your Father's already had the field cleared. The beasts that bent the knee were taken. The ones that would not?
02:06Well, you can see the rest.
02:07A dragon that will not submit has no place among us. That is the law of Valk.
02:21This is not taming. A crown raised on slaughter is no crown of mine.
02:29Vidar! Vidar!
02:30You ought to be the Chieftain of Valkar. Would you turn your back on your own people?
02:35AVR!
02:38Turn your legs out!
02:40Go!
02:40Go!
02:51100%.
03:00All of you, move yourselves!
03:02This is the only dragon stable on the Alderwood border, and every beast in it had better be tended proper.
03:09Yes, Mr. Historian.
03:51That's General Cedric Halevan, the youngest ever to command Alderwil's Dragon Knights.
03:56Five years unbeaten, no drac has ever thrown him.
04:04They say he stands second only to the Lord of Dragons himself.
04:07With him leading the riders, Alderwen could crush anything in the sky.
04:11What's he doing in a frontier stable?
04:14Change the armor. I want it polished. Three coats of whale oil.
04:19At once, General!
04:38Vidar of Valkyra.
04:41Chieftain of the Vikings. Vidar of Valkyra. Lord of Dragons. Now calling himself Vidar Gangler.
04:50Five years gone, and I've finally found you.
04:54You've got the wrong man.
04:58Five years ago, you walked away from your place as chieftain of Valkyra and left your people behind.
05:04After that, you vanished without a trace.
05:08Vidar.
05:12I am asking you to join the Dragon Knights.
05:15I'd surrender the High Command itself to you.
05:19Everyone says I am Alderwil's great hope.
05:22But if war comes with the Valkyra, I know the truth.
05:24There is only one man alive who could lead us to victory.
05:28You.
05:32I said...
05:33I said you've got the wrong man, General.
05:48This is the High Master's Seal of Alderwil.
05:50If you change your mind, come to the Royal Fortress.
05:53I said you've got the wrong man.
06:25Has no one a free hand?
06:30I need something delivered.
06:35Word just came in.
06:36The Militia Riders are in urgent need of a saddle.
06:39Can you ride a Dragon?
06:40Not in five years.
06:41That means you can.
06:43Hurry up.
06:44They need it there at once.
06:49How fast?
06:50As fast as you can bloody make it.
07:10The Militia Riders are in urgent need of a battle.
07:13They need to be a battle.
07:14They need to be a battle.
07:14They need to be a battle.
07:14They need to be a battle.
07:15They need to be a battle.
07:16They need to be a battle.
07:18They need to be a battle.
07:19They need to be a battle.
07:27Listen well. There'll be war at the front soon enough, and war requires dragons.
07:31That militia camp ahead keeps a whole stock of them.
07:33Broken to the saddle, strong in the body, fit for supply runs, patrol and message flight.
07:37They'll serve well enough, and if they fall in the doing, they'll not be sorely mic'd.
07:41Huzzah!
07:43The camp belongs to Gareth Hort.
07:45The old wretch is stubborn, and none too eager to bend the knee.
07:48Do you truly believe he'll yield up his dragons peacefully?
07:51Rest easy, Captain. I've already laid the ground. He'll hand over the dragons.
07:59Blast the knights! First man there has first choice of the stock!
08:11Your hand has grown finer, Corrin. There are few in the Royal Dragon Knights who could match your seat now.
08:20There's a rider gaining on us.
08:22Gaining on us? Don't be absurd.
08:29That's an old pack, Dake. Blind in one eye.
08:32How in God's name is such a beast keeping pace with us?
08:35A blind old carrier thinks to overtake me.
08:49You're in the way.
08:54You're in the way.
08:56Corrin! Go on!
08:59Too late!
09:11He's a madman!
09:13How in God's name did he do that?
09:16What sort of beast is that?
09:18How in God's name did he do that?
09:20What sort of beast is that?
09:22The beast is nothing uncommon.
09:25The rider is something extraordinary.
09:32Leave it.
09:34We've worked to do.
09:41Hold it down!
09:42That's Sercorin's high-grade dragon in our camp!
09:45It needs to get out in one piece today!
09:47One slip and the whole camp's in ruins!
09:49It's too strong!
09:51The chains won't hold!
09:52Where's the saddle?
09:53Why isn't it here yet?
09:55The stable's sending it across the Silent Gorge!
09:57Dangerous route!
09:58Even at full speed will take at least half an hour!
10:01I just released the messenger pigeon ten minutes ago!
10:05That sound!
10:07It's the old blind dragon from the base!
10:09The saddle has arrived?
10:10Impossible!
10:11That old beast has fought alongside me for years!
10:13Nobody can tame it!
10:16Wait!
10:16It really isn't!
10:35You rode this one?
10:37Aye.
10:39How'd you get here so fast?
10:43Well, I-I-I took a shortcut.
10:47Didn't know there's any shortcut through the gorge.
10:49Interesting.
10:53Step back, stable hand!
10:54Alara!
10:55Tighten it!
10:56Sercorin's knights will be here any moment!
10:58We can't let them see their dragon in a frenzy!
11:04Stop staring her down.
11:05In a rage, dragons see that as a threat.
11:08You'll get thrown off.
11:09One wrong move and those chains could shred her wings.
11:11Silence!
11:12What would a hoof filer know of dragon work?
11:15I'm a militia rider.
11:16I was trained for this.
11:46I was trained for this.
11:47dragon. What is this? That is a high war drack of the royal dragon knights. Is this how you
11:55mudblood villagers tend what is entrusted to you? You'll make restitution for that.
12:00Sir Corrin, it was an accident. Spare me your crannle. My dragon is worth a fortune. You
12:14will make restitution. Your dragon went savage itself. Enough. However it happened, the beast
12:21was injured in our camp. The dead is ours. Name your price. You maimed my dragon. Then
12:27you pay me in dragons. Dragons? Father, no. Those dragons are all that stands between this
12:34village and the Valkyraids. How many? All of them. What? Never!
12:48This is a high-ranked war drath. Your whole yard of low-bred creatures is not worth a single
12:52span of his wing. And that says nothing of his bloodline, his royal commission, or his worth
12:57to the war ahead. I ask for your dragons, and I am already showing mercy. The upper wing
13:02is unbroken. The frame is sound. The shoulder joint and outer wing bone are true military
13:08stock. The wing alone is rare enough, and he has only just come of age. He has ten hard
13:13years of service in him yet. Commander Holt, if I remember rightly, you are master of this
13:19frontier dragon yard. Then pay what is owed. Bullshit! This was a set-up. The grooming was
13:27only a pre-tent. You came for our stock. Nothing more. The royal dragon knights have no shame
13:33left at all. Hold your tongue! The royal knights have never spared a thought
13:37for the border villages. You may take this camp and never look back, but the Valkyr have
13:42raided all year, without our dragons. How are we meant to keep our people safe?
13:47And what concern is that of mine? Hand them over!
13:52That blind pack drath. The very one we saw in the gorge.
13:56The man who rode him must be here. Find that rider and bring him into the dragon knights,
14:00and he would be worth more than ten dragons taken in leathery. Enough.
14:16Is that one yours?
14:18It is.
14:20So, Melitta Dragonriders, right?
14:24Since you are riders as well,
14:27I will offer you another road.
14:29Compete with us. Three trials.
14:32Best two of three.
14:34Win, and the matter of compensation is ended.
14:39Captain,
14:40why waste words on them?
14:42We can take the lot by force.
14:44I have greater need of riders
14:46who know how to master a dragon than just of dragons.
14:50Father, don't!
14:51The royal dragon knights
14:53stand second only to the lord
14:55of dragons himself.
14:56They are formally trained,
14:58and they ride high-ranked dragons.
15:00This would be slaughter!
15:02We've flown those gulges for ten years,
15:05and now we're meant to fear
15:06a pack of high-born riders
15:08raised in comfort.
15:09If it's a contest they want,
15:11then a contest they shall have.
15:13Let it be a contest!
15:15Do not look down on militia riders!
15:18Well, Commander,
15:19we are all dragon riders here.
15:21No one could call it unfair.
15:27Very well.
