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Bow to 10-Year-Old Archmage Aldric
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00:01At three, I had no voice. House Malvern cast me as a magicless wretch along with my sick mother.
00:14Yet today, you call me back.
00:16Young master, we've arrived.
00:18A mute heir to a magic house. No wonder he was thrown away.
00:26As a thousand-year house of magic, we have no place for a magicless wretch who can't cast a single
00:33spell.
00:35Get out!
00:37Last year, illness took mother from me.
00:40You and my cowardly father just stood by.
00:43Now you use bloodline to falsely reel me in.
00:47You think I'm still that dumb kid?
00:49Queen Victoria's banquet is in two days.
00:51The Malverns need full attendance to escape punishment.
00:54That's why I'm really here.
00:57After a seven-year absence.
00:59Could you show me the way to the main hall?
01:00I'm lost.
01:01What are you waving for, little mute cull?
01:03I don't get mute signs.
01:12Insolent fool.
01:14I've killed countless before.
01:16I'm sorry, young master, that the main hall is straight ahead.
01:19I see a mute wretch, but my soul is the dark sorcerer dreaded by all demons, Mar-Logos.
01:25Come on.
01:29Let that light focus.
01:31A man makes no longer fire.
01:33Go!
01:48Come on.
01:50Who has heard this?
01:51Go!
02:15The Abyssal Curse has found me.
02:18There is no escape.
02:28To regain my past prime.
02:31I started the Silence Curse at three.
02:34It left me mute, unable to cast ordinary spells.
02:37Aldrich, say, Grandpa.
02:40Congenital muteness.
02:45I planned to break Mother's dying wish and stay away.
02:49But since I'm here, I'll make you all kneel and repent at my mother's grave.
03:03Silent freak.
03:04What gives you the nerve to keep us waiting?
03:07Come here and apologize.
03:11How have you been all these years?
03:13Grandpa, why bother?
03:14He is mute.
03:15Are we keeping a maid here just to read his hands?
03:20The Queen's banquet nears.
03:22If our coldness shames this house, none of us will escape the consequences.
03:27I...
03:29Father, please.
03:30They're mad.
03:31Child, I know the family failed you and your mother.
03:37But Grandpa will set things right now.
03:48You are a Malvin, and you shall never wander again.
03:53Grandpa, have you lost your senses?
03:55He's a wretch who can't even chant.
03:57Keeping him will shame us all.
03:59Enough!
04:00My decision is final.
04:01Aldrich, thank your grandpa.
04:03Quickly!
04:11You threw me away like refuse.
04:13Now you call this mercy?
04:15What does he mean?
04:17He says you threw him away like refuse.
04:21Aldrich, how could you say that?
04:23Refute.
04:23At least the wretch knows his place.
04:25I offered you a second chance for the sake of our bloodline.
04:28I saved you from wandering like a stray.
04:31House Malvern was never worthy of me.
04:34I returned to make you kneel at mother's grave.
04:37What is all that?
04:40What is it?
04:42The young master said he's not settled in yet.
04:45That's all.
04:45Please, Master Aldrich.
04:47I'm just trying to keep my job.
04:49Not so fast.
04:50There's something you must do first.
05:01The Queen's invitation is inside.
05:03It opens only with every family member's mark.
05:07So that's why you brought me back.
05:09Don't waste your breath, Grandpa.
05:11A mute cannot chant.
05:13No chant, no spell.
05:15He is useless.
05:18If he can't chant, I'll teach him signal casting.
05:21No chant needed.
05:22I will demonstrate only once.
05:25Watch carefully.
05:28Did you see that?
05:31Aldrich, perhaps I could explain the magical flow itself.
05:34Good Lord.
05:34Even infants grasp signal casting faster than him.
05:43Good boy.
05:50That little bastard does not deserve the Queen's banquet.
05:55Once he leaves his seal,
05:57kill him.
06:07It worked!
06:10No!
06:25They really know the ancient forbidden magic.
06:30The Thornheart curse?
06:32Not even an archmast would dare act under that curse.
06:35One struggle,
06:36and the body tears itself apart.
06:39Father,
06:41Eldrich is only ten.
06:42That kind of attitude deserves punishment.
06:45He stays here to reflect on his actions.
06:51Once the silence curse is complete,
06:54every one of you shall beg for death.
06:58Huh?
06:58What's this?
07:01Ruth.
07:02Oh, wow.
07:02So this is what your mother left you.
07:05Look at that!
07:07The mute's so desperate,
07:09he's nearly speaking.
07:12All right.
07:13Here you go.
07:21Dying for a useless little freak like you?
07:24Your mother was truly pathetic.
07:30Eldrich!
07:32Come on!
07:33Go to the street!
07:38Eldrich!
07:39Stop at once!
07:39Your body will be torn apart!
07:41Eldrich!
07:42Please don't!
07:44Oh!
07:45Oh!
07:46Oh!
07:47Oh!
07:50Oh!
07:54Oh!
08:02Prepare to die!
08:06To die!
08:17He broke through the Thornheart curse.
08:20Aldrich, was this your true power all along?
08:33The silence curse remains incomplete, forcing this much power out is still too taxing.
08:42So that power came from a high mage after all?
08:46Exactly, he's still nothing but a useless mutt freak.
08:55Lady Emery, House Malven welcomes your arrival.
08:59So this is the mute failure you wished me to train?
09:03The Queen's invitation has been destroyed.
09:06I can take you to the banquet myself.
09:11Aldrich, I shall overlook your actions this once. Go to your room and rest.
09:15Young Master, follow me.
09:43Silence curse mutes me to forge my core.
09:47Two more days.
09:48I will get my power back.
10:06What kind of power is this?
10:20A Supreme Maget is channeling nearby.
10:22If I continue, my mana will collapse.
10:28Master Merlin!
10:29Her Majesty suffered a mana backlash.
10:32She's coughing blood!
10:39what?
10:41What?
10:47What?
10:48A grand archmice, still alive at this age.
10:55heavens i have seen such crushing power manor like this from the forgotten malvin estate
11:04whoever he is he could swallow a city how could a fallen minor house deserve such a master
11:11before him i am nothing i dare not seek him out
11:17i'd give up the crown for a master like that
11:24just one more step to refining my core now my voice can reach their minds
11:38so you're the mute reject i'm emery your grandfather hired me to teach you basic magic
11:43only bloodline keeps him in this house who does he think he is
12:04seven hardest grimators pick one memorize it in a day i'll only guide you three times
12:09children's primers and she calls them difficult i am well aware your mind is empty and you have
12:15never known such high arts but choose now
12:26magic most evil
12:31what is this supposed to mean
12:34are you refusing to study any of them all seven who do you think you are a god of magic
12:40these take decades to master not hours
12:47worthless wretch are you mocking me i am a high mage of
12:51every spell in these seven books i had mastered them all by the age of three
12:56telepathy even an archmace would need decades
12:59he is ten how have you lost your voice as well
13:04fine you have some talent but mastering these at three absurd
13:11prove it
13:14use all that spellcraft you read in those ancient books
13:17jewel me
13:22a stick you mean to impress a high majus with that
13:28impossible
13:38what is happening is the earth splitting apart
13:49no earthquake a mage is casting powerful spell
13:53to the courtyard now
13:54i'm right
14:01oh i like this
14:19god's above
14:20this power
14:22it is incomprehensible
14:26do your worst
14:27what the hell
14:29has the sky fallen
14:34it's far beyond the grinnacles
14:35but that's all
14:37isn't it
14:38you little shit
14:44no no no
15:03aldrich
15:17madame emery
15:18what happened
15:19say nothing
15:20i am not ready for them to know
15:22it was nothing more than a demonstration
15:25i was madame emery
15:27for a moment i thought this magicless ret had caused all that noise
15:32if that is all we shall leave you to your lesson
15:40all right your magic's strong
15:41but don't act like my ruin magic's inferior
16:06is that madame emery's true power magnificent
16:09damn emery's rune magic is beyond anything i have seen
16:14no it was not from emery
16:21i must see it myself
16:28does this mastery of the array satisfy you
16:31a storm trick
16:33nothing more
16:46water
16:48water
16:48now
16:57curse it
16:58is madame emery showing off again
17:00all this for a mute boy
17:01meaningless
17:06enough
17:06aldrich stop
17:07your strength
17:08is far beyond my expectations
17:10i beg you
17:11stay your hand
17:18aldrich i apologize
17:20i have no right to be your master
17:21but
17:22i have one request
17:24please
17:25accept me as your disciple
17:26the curse upon my tongue
17:28is not yet broken
17:29not yet time
17:30maybe
17:33thank you master
17:36i shall not fail you
17:40master
17:41the queen victoria's banquet tomorrow
17:43you must be there
17:45alderak did not fail the high master
17:47keeping him in was a fair decision
17:50aldrich's talent is boundless
17:52his power shall soon dazzle the whole of theros
17:57dazzle will his name truly around after tomorrow's royal banquet
18:07chronomages such talent for a ten year old could it be he was never truly a mute
18:13record every mark lock it in the library's core vault no one touch it
18:17my lord is it truly that valuable more valuable than everything in our faults fail me and you answer with
18:25your life understood my lord
18:37at last the silence curse is shattered even at ten no one could match me
18:44behold
18:46behold
18:46marlagos the dark dread is here
18:56where is aldrich
18:58the queen is waiting grandpa
19:00why delay for a magicless wretch
19:02theros elite will be there father
19:03bringing that rude mute will make us a laughing stock
19:07aldrich comes with us
19:08that is final
19:11the talent he has shown these past days
19:14it is utterly terrifying
19:16aldrich's talent is boundless
19:18his power shall soon dazzle the whole of theros
19:22if he shines before the queen house malvern may rise again
19:31all our present set forth to the royal palace
19:42the royal palace will see what house malvern discarded
19:48cailin all the great houses are here tonight
19:51this is your chance to honor the malverns
19:55seize it
19:55i will father
19:56i've waited years
19:58tonight i will show them house malvern has a true prodigy
20:05aldrich your cousin cailin will surely impress the queen tonight
20:08and receive her favor
20:09just stay humble and serve him
20:11he'll go easy on you
20:13i bow to no one
20:14and i follow no man
20:15how can you be so stubborn
20:17i am only trying to protect
20:20you spoke
20:22what are you doing
20:23you'll know soon enough
20:29seriously emre
20:30a ten-year-old mastodarts even you cannot rival
20:34a mute child who can't chant
20:36impossible
20:37presenting
20:37the noble house of malva
20:39if you doubt my eyes
20:41come
20:41witness the miracle of this millennium for yourselves
20:45then let us see what this boy truly is
20:49the petty malvins
20:51why would three high majots greet a minor house
20:55it must be for cailin
20:56they say he has some talent
20:59cailin
21:00he's a mere pretender not worthy of their gaze
21:05cailin
21:14cailin
21:15look
21:15three high mages
21:17all of theris must know your name
21:19my son
21:20you have brought glory to us
21:22missing only her majesty
21:24they came from me
21:34master merlin
21:35what troubles you
21:36your majesty
21:37the mana is shifting
21:39the grand archmist is near
21:42truly
21:43then we must hasten
21:44i must see myself
21:46you honor our name today masters
21:48by coming to receive us in person
21:50just as i thought
21:51they are all here for me
21:58what what is the meaning of this
21:59they were not here for cailin
22:03here he comes
22:10such an oppressive aurora
22:14we have awaited your arrival
22:16aldrich
22:17these the exiled kin of house malwin
22:19three high mages gathered to welcome a mute wretch
22:22pure madness
22:24your majesty
22:27aldrich
22:28on your knees
22:29do not be insolent
22:32we're doomed
22:33this mute wretch is getting us all executed
22:35bringing him was a goddamn mistake
22:38he has ruined us all
22:54so you're queen victoria
22:57so you're queen victoria
22:59i thought he was a mute
23:00he can talk
23:01how is he speaking
23:02he was never mute
23:04this is impossible
23:08this is impossible
23:09your majesty
23:09on your knees
23:16stand down
23:17your majesty
23:19please forgive aldrich
23:20your majesty
23:21that outcast is not a member of house malvern
23:22a reject
23:23children often speak without thinking
23:26it's fine
23:26rise
23:27your majesty
23:28i heard several high mages came for a ten year old boy
23:31naturally i wanted to see him myself
23:33indeed your majesty
23:35i'm here solely for aldrich
23:36oh
23:36what makes this child so exceptional
23:39aldrich knows more magic than most seasoned maces
23:46he's a prodigy
23:47a ten year old prodigy
23:49emory you've finally gone crazy
23:51he's only ten
23:53he's not even an apprentice
23:54go run back to your mummy
23:55oh that's right
23:56his mummy's gone
23:59you asked for this
24:05enough
24:06forget his age
24:07he's the strongest mage alive
24:13the strongest mage
24:14seriously
24:22gavin
24:23is emory telling the truth
24:25about your exceptionally powerful grandson
24:27your majesty
24:28your majesty
24:29my cousin is all show
24:31emory must have fallen for some cheap trick
24:33you know nothing
24:34if you had a tenth of his power
24:35alan malrond would already be the greatest in theros
24:37a tenth
24:38has she gone completely mad
24:40absurd
24:41how can a spellless freak compare to my son
24:44he's a real prodigy
24:47words are cheap boy
24:48if emory thinks so highly of you
24:50represent house malvern in tomorrow's royal trial
24:53and prove yourself
24:54house malvern doesn't deserve me
24:56no i don't accept this
24:58he's a useless mute
25:00i'm the future of house malvern
25:02i've trained for years
25:03how can he take my place
25:05silence kaelin
25:06no
25:07i was meant to be the one
25:21a high mage has spoken
25:23your power isn't even a tenth of his
25:25grandpa
25:26you will understand
25:28after tonight
25:33everyone
25:33let us proceed to the banquet
25:41please be seated
25:42your majesty
25:50i saw the mark you left in the courtyard
25:53child your manner is unlike anything ordinary
26:01house malvern has wronged you and your mother
26:04we need you aldrich
26:06house malvern's been looked down on for years
26:09help us prove them wrong tomorrow
26:11i'm not a malvern
26:12why should i fight for strangers
26:17blood is law
26:18you are aldrich malvern
26:19your name is your legacy
26:23from now on there is no aldrich malvern
26:25call me mar-logas
26:32sir the registration scroll for tomorrow's trial
26:35please sign here
26:49grandpa is begging you
26:51one condition
26:52name it
26:53i shall grant whatever you say
26:54after my mother and i were cast out
26:57we suffered more than you could ever know
26:59i survived
27:00yet my mother was swallowed by disease and died
27:03i'm not here to rejoin this family
27:06i'm here to get justice for my mother
27:08if i win tomorrow
27:09you'll all kneel at my mother's grave
27:12and admit you were wrong about us
27:16you bastard
27:17how dare you say that
27:19you
27:20you
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