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00:00:01Get those banners hoisted. Straighten the garlands.
00:00:04Bring the wine to the guests. Now!
00:00:09Today's a blessed day. The old gods are smiling on us.
00:00:20Whose wretched carriage is this?
00:00:22Have you any idea what day it is?
00:00:24You're blocking Lady Isabella's path on her wedding day.
00:00:27Bring me Alistair.
00:00:29You dare speak his name? You're not fit to breathe the same air.
00:00:34I am Morgana. I have come to collect what is mine.
00:00:43I'll fetch him right away!
00:00:49Sixty years. You've had my eyes. Now I want them back.
00:00:53A grand day. My daughter marries a prince.
00:00:57My lord! My lord!
00:01:00Control yourself.
00:01:02A woman at the gates. She says her name is Morgana. She demands to see you. Now.
00:01:12Morgana.
00:01:14Forgive me. I didn't know you were coming.
00:01:17House Alistair is yours. Show us mercy.
00:01:20My lord. You are a duke. You kneel to no one but the king.
00:01:24One more word. And I'll cut it out myself.
00:01:28My lady. Please.
00:01:30My lady. Please.
00:01:48Mind the steps, my lady.
00:01:53The sky turns.
00:02:04Sixty years ago.
00:02:07I broke myself into twelve embers.
00:02:11The throne was secured.
00:02:13My lord. It is time.
00:02:20To reclaim them all.
00:02:26I assumed we were hosting royalty.
00:02:29For my husband to grovel so.
00:02:32To greet you himself.
00:02:33I simply had to see who...
00:02:45Morgana, was it?
00:02:47You are a guest in my halls.
00:02:49Drink.
00:02:54Your wine, my lady.
00:02:56A blind witch.
00:02:58This shall prove too easy.
00:03:09But...
00:03:10I told them to boil it!
00:03:12Dorish vintage.
00:03:14Pity it turned to vinegar.
00:03:16Masked with...
00:03:17Heavy spice.
00:03:19Poured from the rot.
00:03:21At the bottom of your cellar.
00:03:23Is this...
00:03:24How House Alistair hides its decay?
00:03:26How could she possibly smell that?
00:03:28She knows.
00:03:29How could she know?
00:03:31You insolent wretch!
00:03:33Keep your filthy mouth!
00:03:38By his wits alone did Lord Alistair survive.
00:03:42Isabella, your gown!
00:03:43A tragedy.
00:03:44His bloodline rots with me.
00:03:47How dare you!
00:03:49My husband may tolerate your delusions.
00:03:51But I will not!
00:03:52You just assaulted the future Crown Princess by royal decree!
00:03:56You will kneel!
00:03:57And you will bleed for it!
00:03:59She is a fool.
00:04:00You are worse.
00:04:02Even the gods of the underworld have yet to see me kneel.
00:04:07Why would you?
00:04:10We shall see.
00:04:12Gods!
00:04:13Take her!
00:04:18And break her legs.
00:04:19Do it!
00:04:24Seize her!
00:04:26Now!
00:04:27And break her legs.
00:04:34No!
00:04:34No!
00:04:34No!
00:04:38No!
00:04:40No!
00:04:40No!
00:04:41No!
00:04:42No!
00:04:43No!
00:04:45No!
00:04:50No!
00:04:52No!
00:04:54No!
00:04:58No!
00:05:23No!
00:05:25Let some go!
00:05:25She 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.
00:05:58You!
00:05:59Get out of my house!
00:06:00Silence your tongue!
00:06:03Morgana, please. How do we stop this?
00:06:06Call off the royal wedding.
00:06:09Break betrothal.
00:06:13Or...
00:06:13She dies.
00:06:23The royal escort led by the obsidian guard.
00:06:26Commander Cedric himself, the 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.
00:07:07You dare defy the throne over cheap parlor tricks?
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 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.
00:07:50I am perfectly safe with the commander.
00:07:50Have 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.
00:08:11Play the prophet.
00:08:13Watch her cross those gates alive.
00:08:18I will feel the blood.
00:08:22Bring the oracle a horse.
00:08:24That will help open a daughter.
00:08:30It will flee.
00:08:37Doing tours.
00:08:39Mygood.473
00:09:10Take them to the Iron Court.
00:09:13I want a name.
00:09:14Yes, Commander!
00:09:22Thank the gods Cedric was here.
00:09:25We're safe.
00:09:27He earned his coin.
00:09:31You fight well, mortal.
00:09:34Pity it changes nothing.
00:09:35I do not guess.
00:09:39The grave is dug.
00:09:41The hour is here!
00:09:42Step forward, future Empress!
00:09:51Isabella, my love, finally.
00:09:58No!
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.
00:10:20Lock it down!
00:10:22Double guards!
00:10:22Kill anything that moves.
00:10:24Nothing touched that carriage.
00:10:26Are we clear?
00:10:27Crystal clear, Captain.
00:10:28Consider it done.
00:10:29You're wasting men.
00:10:32The prophecy is spoken.
00:10:35The bride won't survive this journey.
00:10:37I am never wrong.
00:10:39Enlighten me then, Oracle.
00:10:40Give me a name.
00:10:42How exactly does she die?
00:10:44Give me real intel.
00:10:46Do that, I might believe you.
00:10:48Seeing the end requires a price.
00:10:50A transaction.
00:10:52I see the blood.
00:10:53The question is...
00:10:55Can you afford it?
00:10:58There it is.
00:10:59The classic shakedown we always get here.
00:11:01Just a beggar!
00:11:02I could watch the Duke's daughter in her wedding dress.
00:11:05Perfectly protected by your elite guards.
00:11:08Ride straight to her execution.
00:11:10Let me ride with your convoy.
00:11:13Take me.
00:11:14I'll prove you wrong.
00:11:19I see the threads.
00:11:22Every drop of blood before it falls.
00:11:25The end is written.
00:11:27You're just walking the path blind.
00:11:29Cut the riddles.
00:11:31You're in my cell now.
00:11:34If you see everything,
00:11:36then what happens next?
00:11:39Does the blade slip?
00:11:40Does the steel bite?
00:11:42Or maybe I'm just sick of your games
00:11:43and slit your throat right now.
00:11:45Did you see that?
00:11:50A seer is blind to her own end.
00:11:52That is the only law I obey.
00:11:56Then tell me how this ends.
00:11:59But you cannot kill me, Cedric.
00:12:04Let's put that to the test.
00:12:06Steel cannot touch me.
00:12:11By drawing it on me,
00:12:13you owe a deadly debt.
00:12:14Madness.
00:12:15I serve the crown.
00:12:17I don't fear witches.
00:12:20Still believe in hard facts, Commander?
00:12:24Commander!
00:12:25We have a situation.
00:12:27The prisoners from the ambush, sir.
00:12:29They took poison.
00:12:30Hidden in their teeth.
00:12:32They're all dead.
00:12:33Trails cold.
00:12:34Dead?
00:12:35You let our only witnesses die in chains?
00:12:37They were paid to die.
00:12:39They'd never talk.
00:12:40You want the true killer?
00:12:42Stop asking the living.
00:12:44They only lie.
00:12:45I'll make the dead speak.
00:12:58The prophecy.
00:13:00She knew.
00:13:01How?
00:13:03She was right there.
00:13:04The prophecy is fulfilled.
00:13:06Her blood is spilled.
00:13:08You killed my daughter!
00:13:10Your daughter's death was a tragedy.
00:13:12Eleanor, don't provoke her.
00:13:14Look at the carriage!
00:13:15The doors were sealed!
00:13:17Who else could bypass those locks?
00:13:19Enough!
00:13:20Seal the gates!
00:13:21Nobody leaves this yort yard!
00:13:23You're all suspects.
00:13:24Take them to the iron court!
00:13:31We're alone.
00:13:32Just tell me the damn truth.
00:13:34How did you reach inside a moving, heavily guarded carriage
00:13:38and take her head without a single sound?
00:13:41You mapped out her execution beforehand.
00:13:44Fine.
00:13:46Say you didn't swing the blade yourself.
00:13:50But you orchestrated this.
00:13:54If that comforts you, you may use it.
00:14:01You said you could make the dead speak.
00:14:03Name your price.
00:14:05There's always a price with you.
00:14:07Always.
00:14:07Name it.
00:14:09Whatever closes this investigation.
00:14:11I want your absolute obedience.
00:14:15When I speak, you do not question.
00:14:18When I point, you do not hesitate.
00:14:21My loyalty is to the crown.
00:14:23I don't give blind trust.
00:14:25I have the killer.
00:14:26If you put the murderer in front of me,
00:14:29then you have my trust.
00:14:32Don't make a vow you can't keep, Commander.
00:14:34You have my word.
00:14:36I won't break it.
00:14:41Take this.
00:14:43Sew her head back on.
00:14:45You want me to mutilate a royal corpse?
00:14:47Every second you wait, she fades.
00:14:53Her soul is bleeding out.
00:14:57It's done.
00:14:58What now?
00:15:00Open the doors.
00:15:02Bring them all.
00:15:04The grieving father.
00:15:06The weeping mother.
00:15:08Bring the prince who lost his bride.
00:15:10We are going to hold a court of our own.
00:15:19Isabella!
00:15:20My baby!
00:15:21Oh God!
00:15:22Hold her back.
00:15:23Don't let her touch the body.
00:15:24Let me go!
00:15:25That's my daughter!
00:15:27Why is she here?
00:15:28Why is that blind woman in the judge's seat?
00:15:31Commander Ashworth!
00:15:32She killed her!
00:15:34She cursed my daughter and you let her sit there!
00:15:37His Royal Highness Prince Kale!
00:15:40Isabella!
00:15:41Let me through!
00:15:43Isabella!
00:15:44No!
00:15:44Look what they did to you!
00:15:46My beautiful girl!
00:15:48The audience is here.
00:15:50Let the performance end.
00:15:53Flesh to thread.
00:15:56Bone to command.
00:15:58Rise.
00:15:59Rise.
00:16:04You demanded proof, Commander.
00:16:07Behold the truth.
00:16:10You wove the crimson soul thread yourself.
00:16:14The bond is forged.
00:16:16Ask her.
00:16:19Isabella Alastom.
00:16:20Is your killer here?
00:16:29No!
00:16:46Keep that thing away!
00:16:48She's bewitched!
00:16:55The crown is ours, father.
00:16:59Where's Mıma gendered?
00:17:02With the allegiance to the gymnast!
00:17:02Where's Myoung God's side?
00:17:11vampires.
00:17:26blossoming to the enemies.
00:17:28I remember telling you the details.
00:17:29nothing you sick witch you killed her you puppeted her corpse to frame us he took you in
00:17:37you repay us with blood this is madness a father doesn't slaughter his own blood
00:17:45isabella was my pride why would i destroy my own future see the truth his own blood that's true
00:17:55but what if that girl was never your blood at all eleanor why did the emperor betroth isabella to
00:18:04prince kale it was destiny the emperor declared it they were born the exact same hour blessed by the
00:18:13gods wait it's impossible edmund tell me you didn't i had to secure our bloodline
00:18:27give me the child i must see tell the truth is it a boy a girl my lady a girl
00:18:36no you're lying
00:18:37a daughter just as i said why me
00:18:45the consort is waiting if it's a boy i'm ruined breathe my lady panic is a luxury we can't afford
00:18:53duke alistair has already arranged a solution bring the bundle inside now
00:19:01look closely pure alistair blood a flawless son yours if you dare
00:19:09a son from now on you are mine the true heir of this house my son my heir
00:19:39you're telling this court i'm duke alistus's son
00:19:43no no no no no i am the crown prince
00:19:51it can't be how could my husband do such a thing this is treason what could he possibly want to
00:19:58risk
00:19:58all our lives what did he want your son sitting on the throne that's what he wanted
00:20:07you need proof to make such claims this dark sorcery proves absolutely nothing lord alistair if i had to
00:20:16guess the moment the emperor decreed isabella's marriage you realized if she entered the royal
00:20:20court the crown would eventually discover her secret so you hired a pack of mercenaries to stage
00:20:25a bandit raid on the carriage but morgana's warning put my guard on alert you feared with extra men your
00:20:31hired killers wouldn't be able to finish the job so you killed your own daughter before she left
00:20:35and as for your loyal servants they break much faster than paid assassins commander commander ashworth
00:20:40lord alistair's personal guard they've confessed to everything the signed confessions they admit
00:20:45the duke ordered them to silence isabella before she even left
00:20:53my entire life of scheming all crushed by fate's cruel hand the eye you granted us gave house alistair
00:21:04absolute power unmatched wealth unmatched glory but the emperor still stood above me until that day
00:21:13day when i saw i saw
00:21:22i saw the truth if my son took the cradle he'd rule the world but the vision didn't end there
00:21:31i saw the floor that would kill us the decree the royal wedding if isabella entered that palace
00:21:39he would see my daughter he'd see the exact face of the young empress he's not blind
00:21:49he'd know exactly what i did i had no choice you must see that i had to cut the rot
00:21:57out
00:21:58i had to protect my family my son will be emperor i had to
00:22:07morgana i confess it all punish me alone i beg you look at me remember my father's loyalty
00:22:15spare my wife he's lying we knew nothing please i'm begging you take my life but let them live
00:22:24granted thank you oracle my life for theirs
00:22:31edmund no edmund no edmund
00:22:37edmund please stay wake up please don't leave me
00:22:53edmund no edmund no edmund no edmund i gave them my sight to watch the dark
00:23:21instead they watched the throne built a lie thought they could cheat fate
00:23:27thought they owned me they own nothing i'm taking it all back with blood
00:23:36mortal hands cannot hold the weight of a god
00:23:38it crushes them the alistair debt is settled my sight is mine again
00:23:47now we move to the next house stop you can't just march in there this is treason i must alert
00:23:55the
00:23:56emperor no need to call the emperor he's already here
00:24:04god the emperor
00:24:11your majesty
00:24:15by royal decree prince kale and the empress are hereby spank stripped of titles they shall be cast
00:24:22into the black cells
00:24:23it shall be done
00:24:32lady morgana lady morgana it's you
00:24:35careful sire morgana sire wait lady morgana
00:24:41oh my lady morgana forgive me it's my fault i was blind to let them trouble you i wish to
00:24:50name you high
00:24:51protector to guide the realm every mage alive will answer only to your command
00:24:59my rule is simple one shard for one question you want a prophecy give me your family's
00:25:06ancient inheritance the crown shard in exchange
00:25:12right if you wish to reclaim the shard
00:25:15i will gladly return it after all my family owes our throne power is a debt when i give and
00:25:23when i take
00:25:25is my choice alone why the rush
00:25:28yes you are completely right
00:25:31please rest at ashamyth palace everything will grant her than no no higher than imperial standards
00:25:37no need
00:25:39i am going to ashwith keep besides my heart
00:25:45currently belongs to him
00:25:53yes yes of course take my royal carriage
00:25:59please my lady after you your grace that is the sovereign's carriage
00:26:04it 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 her
00:26:13isn't that right my dear lady please mind the step my lady careful now very careful
00:26:21commander ashworth your grace if she suffers even a scratch i swear to god i will hang every
00:26:27last member of your retted house do i make myself clear crystal clear your grace my dear lady morgana
00:26:34i have just remembered some urgent matters of state 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 60 years ago
00:26:58my heart was carved from my chest it is not with you it is in your house my house
00:27:11this way lady morgana thanks to your grace 60 years ago when you bestowed the heart men
00:27:16shard upon us the ashworth name is now renowned for our healing arts you see these afflicted souls
00:27:22travel from the furthest corners of the kingdom seeking our aid so the legendary ashworth healing arts
00:27:30actually came from you tell me then just how old are you exactly does it matter to you
00:27:39please my lord save my mother wake up mama somebody help her have mercy
00:27:44please help my mother i beg of you this is all the coin i have please show some mercy a
00:27:53handful of
00:27:53dirty coppers and you expect the master's healing for that get out of here now stop wasting everyone's
00:27:59time selena
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 back who do
00:28:16you
00:28:16think you are how dare a commoner like you make demands in ashwild keep silence show her respect
00:28:24this is selena frost a ward taken in by my father selena we heal the sick regardless of coin have
00:28:34you
00:28:34forgotten go to the chapel pray beg her forgiveness you heard him to the chapel now
00:28:42i beg your pardon my lady i had no idea she was extorting them rest assured the ashwilds honor your
00:28:50gift we'd never turn away the poor most days we treat all these commoners without asking for any money
00:28:57i said return the shard
00:29:01or do you mean to defy me no no the relic is rightfully yours i will return it to you
00:29:08immediately
00:29:09it is just the hartman shroud is kept safe by my eldest marin she's been in seclusion at a distant
00:29:16abbey for years once she returns from her retreat i will present it to you myself fine i will wait
00:29:27every time i return she still won't see me 15 years 15 years since i've laid eyes on her
00:29:35does she really despise me that much why do you think she treats you with such coldness
00:29:42because of what i did she hates me when i was a boy i almost died my sister came for
00:29:50me and the iron
00:29:51drove through her right arm in my place she was never the same again
00:29:58she was a master healer those gifted hands she could bring the dying back to life but because of me
00:30:05the scar on her arm never faded and she was taken from me forever she became a completely different
00:30:11person after that the hartman's shard was hers by birthright with its power she became the greatest
00:30:17healer in the kingdom and then they sent her far away to a quiet abbey where she could practice in
00:30:22peace but i know the truth that day became a thorn in her heart one that will never be pulled
00:30:30out
00:30:30every time she looks at me she remembers what saving me cost her everything is bound by consequence
00:30:36commander you see only the branches above the soil but you are blind to the roots below
00:30:43what is that supposed to mean you will know soon enough
00:30:51my 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 even lord ashworth had to apologize to her master cedric serves her
00:31:05people are whispering she might be his future bride his future bride look at her she's a freak
00:31:13with that filthy black rags she doesn't deserve cedric
00:31:21crone what is that honey cakes master cedric's favorite and imperial spiced wine for lady morgana
00:31:30halt imperial spiced wine a gift from the emperor himself it's worth a fortune you really know how to
00:31:39growl give it here healers always keep the best poisons this widow's kiss is lethal
00:31:50no taste no cure drink up morgana go take it to her i cannot my lady she is master cedric's
00:32:00guest
00:32:03know your place without ashfield charity a useless old crone would be rotting in the gutter pathetic
00:32:17i am disciplining a servant since when does a blind freak interfere with ashfield affairs
00:32:22if your tongue serves only to offend then you should not speak at all
00:32:30morgana you little piece of my lady what is it my lady what's wrong please say something what's
00:32:37doing this guards help us get lord aldrich she's choking she can't breathe lord aldrich please hurry
00:32:44i'm right here just breathe she suddenly lost her voice celine is just a foolish girl she didn't
00:32:52mean to offend you i will make her apologize to you at once what are you waiting for apologize now
00:32:57are you
00:32:58deaf do you want to be mute forever my lady i don't want your apology kneel to the one you
00:33:11truly wronged
00:33:12please no i'm nobody a lady cannot kneel to me i'm just a servant silence just be grateful every brick
00:33:21in
00:33:21this house rests on the hartman shard she built our legacy oracle i beg you she's terrified let it be
00:33:31enough please have mercy
00:33:39your mercy is boundless my lady i will discipline the girl at once come my lady let us go
00:33:50are you hurt i am fine my lord you've grown so thin the northern winds have been cruel to you
00:33:59you must stay longer this time your name day is soon i knitted you a pair of thick winter gloves
00:34:06let me fetch them for you wait right here for me
00:34:11that old woman her devotion to you is genuine it is she has been here since i was a boy
00:34:19always kind to me when i was injured as a boy she sneaked me pouches and every year on my
00:34:25name day
00:34:25when my own sister was lost to me she brought me warm broth and fresh bread with her i almost
00:34:33remember what having a sister felt like if that is true you should show her more grace while you can
00:34:38i have seen the shadow on her she has but a few days left do not wait until tomorrow to
00:34:47realize what you have lost
00:34:51listen to me child never cross paths with morgana again she thinks she owns us patience
00:34:58my sweet girl i'm securing your future play the game let her think she's win soon everything will be
00:35:07i will be yours lady morgana lady ashfield has sent me to return the hartman shard to its rightful owner
00:35:15we have heard when you take back what is yours you offer a reading in return lady ashworth has written
00:35:23her question right here on this parchment take it cedric
00:35:32i will not answer this question because the hartman shard is a fake what a fake someone must have
00:35:42switched it when she wasn't looking i'll get to the bottom of this tonight don't what is mine
00:35:50will always return to my hands lady morgana commander ashford
00:35:57the emperor begs your aid the empress door wager is dying the royal physicians can do nothing for her
00:36:03his majesty demands you come at once please my lady you are her only hope
00:36:12lead the way useless fools what good are you if she dies your majesty
00:36:19lady morgana has arrived morgana thank the gods you have come
00:36:27please you must help her mother is her flame has burned out her time is over
00:36:33prepare the crypt lies that is a lie your majesty
00:36:40i can save the empress
00:36:43morgana if you can't save her stop making pathetic excuses i say you have no real power
00:36:51you're nothing but a fraudulent witch selena this is a royal chamber not your playground your grace
00:36:58i can heal her on my life selena frost you should know cedric knows it well my prophecies
00:37:06are never wrong care to make a wager then on what if i win i want the emperor to decree
00:37:13my marriage to
00:37:14cedric and i want your head severed from your neck your grace madness this is absolute madness
00:37:21god drag this mad woman away i accept
00:37:30very well give it a try
00:37:33if you truly cure my mother i will grant your every wish
00:37:45so you stole the hartman schnar
00:37:47cedric
00:37:49i'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 if you insist on this path you alone will choke on the ashes
00:38:06save your cheap parlor tricks healing the sick is god's work there's no price for that
00:38:13by the old blood i command the vessel take the living spark feed the dying flame
00:38:22awaken
00:38:26wake up
00:38:30wake
00:38:42what's happening
00:38:49wake up
00:38:52water
00:38:53please
00:39:00mother
00:39:01mother wake up
00:39:06my face
00:39:07no
00:39:09how did this happen
00:39:13you stole my magic
00:39:15but you never asked when the spell steals a living spark whose spark does it take
00:39:23move along
00:39:24get out
00:39:25move
00:39:26before i drag you out
00:39:29know who stands before you
00:39:31my lord
00:39:32i did not know
00:39:33marin
00:39:35my lord you're mistaken
00:39:36she's not marin
00:39:37she's just an old crone
00:39:39nothing more
00:39:41my lord
00:39:41get out
00:39:42yes my lord
00:39:49i'm nobody
00:39:50i'm nobody
00:39:50just an old crone
00:39:51nobody of importance
00:39:54just a servant
00:39:55this is the inner sanctum
00:39:56only the bloodline
00:39:58only the hartmann shard bearer can come here
00:40:02let me see
00:40:03let me see you
00:40:12that scar
00:40:15where did this scar come from
00:40:17only marin bore this mark
00:40:21marin
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
00:40:37it trades your years for theirs
00:40:39a simple fever costs you a month
00:40:43a fatal wound
00:40:45strips the youth right off your bones
00:40:48sick empress was already dead
00:40:50her time was up
00:40:52give her every hour you have left
00:40:55it won't buy her a single day
00:40:57then what about marin
00:40:59explain marin
00:41:00she bore the shard for 30 years
00:41:03pulled thousands from the grave
00:41:05then she should be dust
00:41:06she 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
00:41:14my skin
00:41:16my life
00:41:18why just me
00:41:19you said she was perfect
00:41:22cedric
00:41:23you believe she hid from you for 10 years
00:41:26it never crossed your mind
00:41:27that the woman she became
00:41:29was standing right in front of you
00:41:32and you looked right through her
00:41:35stop
00:41:36what does that mean
00:41:37you're a commander
00:41:39open your eyes
00:41:41every year on your birthday
00:41:42that old servant
00:41:43the 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
00:42:02marrin
00:42:03gods
00:42:05it's really you
00:42:09why
00:42:09all these years
00:42:11why didn't you tell me
00:42:13every time i used the shard
00:42:15it stole a year of my life
00:42:17burned away
00:42:19then one morning
00:42:20i looked in the glass
00:42:22white hair
00:42:23hands shaking like a crone
00:42:25marrin
00:42:26let me in
00:42:27my lord no
00:42:27get off
00:42:29i want my sister
00:42:31let me go
00:42:33marrin
00:42:34i couldn't let you see a monster
00:42:36no
00:42:37stop it
00:42:39don't ever say that
00:42:40look at me
00:42:41you are marrin
00:42:43the bravest person i know
00:42:45but i abandoned you
00:42:47you gave me your entire life
00:42:49and i was blind
00:42:51i didn't see my own sister
00:42:53i'm sorry
00:42:54oh my brave little brother
00:42:56it's all right now
00:43:05cedric tomorrow is your name day
00:43:08i haven't made your broth yet
00:43:10marrin please
00:43:12just rest
00:43:13you made it for me every year
00:43:15my whole life
00:43:16tomorrow
00:43:17i'll make it for you
00:43:24this is my fault
00:43:25i looked right at her
00:43:26and saw nothing
00:43:28she hid her hands
00:43:29traded her life away
00:43:30and i just stood there
00:43:31he used the heart men's shard
00:43:33to drain her year by year
00:43:34while i watched and called it nothing
00:43:36she made a choice
00:43:38the shard needed a vessel
00:43:40she offered herself
00:43:42she healed them
00:43:43she gave them time
00:43:45she gave you time
00:43:47that was all she ever wanted
00:43:49i looked right past her for years
00:43:52thank you
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
00:44:03i don't know if she'll want it
00:44:04but i need to give her something
00:44:06i'm gonna take it to her now
00:44:07wait
00:44:09something wrong
00:44:12it's nothing
00:44:13go to her
00:44:14i won't be long
00:44:29the scale always balances
00:44:35Get away from me!
00:44:38Don't touch me!
00:44:40I want my sister!
00:44:43Get away!
00:44:44Where is she?
00:44:49I want my sister!
00:44:52Cedric.
00:44:53I'm here. Look 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. Everyone 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. I've got you.
00:45:23Lord Ashworth.
00:45:24She saved my family.
00:45:26She saved so many.
00:45:28We had to come.
00:45:30Everyone knew how much she meant to you, my lord.
00:45:32Her loss leaves a wound in all of us.
00:45:35She gave everything.
00:45:37Healed strangers.
00:45:39Never once asked for anything in return.
00:45:41Even when it broke her.
00:45:44Even when it cost her.
00:45:46Her life.
00:45:48I watched her disappear.
00:45:51Day by day.
00:45:52If the gods would take me instead.
00:45:54I'd go willingly.
00:45:56And yet you stood there.
00:45:58Every scar on her body.
00:46:00Every year taken from her.
00:46:02His hands did that.
00:46:04All of it.
00:46:06Every shriveled vein on Maren's hands.
00:46:09Every year carved from her face.
00:46:11He arranged all of it.
00:46:13Her life meant nothing to him.
00:46:15He only cared about the gold.
00:46:17The price her dying breath could buy.
00:46:20Oracle, please.
00:46:22Everyone here knows the Ashworth name.
00:46:25We heal the sick.
00:46:26We never ask for coin.
00:46:28We 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.
00:46:41Every name.
00:46:43Every debt you buried.
00:46:59These are property deeds.
00:47:01Hundreds of them.
00:47:02The Ash House fled the High Lords dry.
00:47:04In secret.
00:47:04They traded healing for mansions.
00:47:07For land.
00:47:08We thought you were a saint, Aldric.
00:47:10You're nothing but a leech.
00:47:12A parasite.
00:47:13You stole my sister's life.
00:47:15You drained Maren dry to build your filthy empire.
00:47:18And left her to rot in the dirt.
00:47:20She gave everything.
00:47:22And you ground her bones into your crown.
00:47:25That is not the whole of his sin.
00:47:27When Maren's face withered from what he forced on her.
00:47:30He turned away from her.
00:47:32He took a lover in secret.
00:47:34A secret mistress.
00:47:36A hidden life.
00:47:38There is no one.
00:47:39You are lying.
00:47:41The child you had with her.
00:47:42Has been living under this very roof.
00:47:44You call her your ward.
00:47:46You let her do as she pleases.
00:47:48Do you deny that Selene is your blood?
00:47:52You gave Selene full run of this house.
00:47:55Is she your bastard?
00:47:57Is that why you let her destroy my sister?
00:48:00Oracle.
00:48:02I have always bowed to your vision.
00:48:04You cannot lay this at my feet.
00:48:06I am innocent if there was money.
00:48:09Missing from the patients.
00:48:10Maran did it herself.
00:48:12Plain greed.
00:48:13She used the sick to line her own pockets.
00:48:23Look out!
00:48:24Get back!
00:48:26That's gold!
00:48:28He hid it in the tablet!
00:48:32The heavens don't care for your lies.
00:48:35But I do.
00:48:36You built a dynasty on stolen breath.
00:48:39You are no heir to what I left here.
00:48:42You are a parasite.
00:48:46My sister is dead.
00:48:49She died a ruined servant under your roof.
00:48:52And you dare stand over her coffin and call her a thief!
00:48:56I will cut you apart right here!
00:48:58Cedric!
00:48:58Be reasonable!
00:48:59Look at what she had become!
00:49:01Who could look at that face and not be sickened?
00:49:04You are no blood of mine.
00:49:06You are nothing to me.
00:49:08Is this my fault?
00:49:09I would have taken the burden on myself!
00:49:11I swear it!
00:49:12But the healer's grace, it binds only to the women.
00:49:15It rejected me.
00:49:16It was never my choice.
00:49:18We kept her fed.
00:49:19Kept a roof over her head.
00:49:21She owed this family her service.
00:49:23It was her duty to plead for us!
00:49:26A lie.
00:49:26I forged the healer's grace.
00:49:29I wrote its laws.
00:49:30It does not choose by blood or gender.
00:49:33It chooses by the will to sacrifice.
00:49:35It rejected you because it looked inside your chest
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!
00:50:32Get off me!
00:50:33I am the lord of this!
00:50:35No!
00:50:37No!
00:50:39No!
00:50:40No!
00:50:41No!
00:50:42No!
00:50:43No!
00:50:51Every year he stole from Maren.
00:50:54They just ripped it back.
00:50:56Tick!
00:50:56No!
00:50:58No!
00:50:58No!
00:51:07No!
00:51:10No!
00:51:14No!
00:51:15No!
00:51:15Maren!
00:51:15Can you hear me?
00:51:16Look at me!
00:51:20You... you came back.
00:51:27Remember your oath.
00:51:42The Hartman Shard. It's time it returned to you.
00:51:45You took another piece of your power straight into yourself.
00:51:49Will you absorb this one too?
00:52:21Please! Help us! Have mercy!
00:52:28You'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.
00:52:45Her face still carries what the years cost her. But the thirty 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.
00:53:05Oracle. 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.
00:53:24Every breath I 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. There'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
00:54:02question.
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.
00:54:30If 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.
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. It doesn't matter.
00:55:00You are ordered to stay behind.
00:55:02I walk into Ironwall alone. I 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. I 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. It's just...
00:55:55Lately. The moment the sun sets, the dead walk.
00:55:58Vesta fears the undead soldiers.
00:56:00Breaching 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. Not 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. This 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.
00:56:56The 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.
00:57:16Tell 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.
00:57:24Win, 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.
00:57:35Ha ha ha, good!
00:57:36A real man!
00:57:37Bring me my steel!
00:57:49Hold the gate!
00:57:51I am Cedric Ashworth, Commander of the Obsidian Guards.
00:57:54Hold the gates!
00:57:55God!
00:57:55They're here!
00:57:56Fall back!
00:57:57Bar the gates!
00:57:58Drunk of the Wind.
00:57:59Stir!
00:57:59Stir!
00:57:59Stir!
00:58:10Brick!
00:58:11Ring of Steel!
00:58:13Protect Morgana!
00:58:15Keep up!
00:58:17Did her?
00:58:17Aelma!
00:58:22Ass to Ass.
00:58:24Darkness Brick!
00:58:26Sign.
00:58:45This malice. I know it.
00:58:48She broke them. Who goes there?
00:58:51Morgana.
00:58:52Lady Morgana!
00:58:54Forgive me. My grandfather speaks of you often.
00:58:59And you are?
00:59:00Finn Ravenkest, my lady. Grandson to Patriarch Thorn.
00:59:04Morgana. Smile for me. You look best when you smile.
00:59:09Foolish.
00:59:19Morgana. My sister-in-law is a monster on the battlefield.
00:59:23She holds the true bloodline. No one beats her.
00:59:26Is this it, then? The day you foreseen I would die?
00:59:50He's hurt.
00:59:51He will not die.
00:59:55Playing with time!
01:00:14Well fought. Your form is decent.
01:00:17But you fight like you fear death. Always leaving room to retreat.
01:00:22Remember, 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.
01:00:43Okay.
01:00:48When you have something you can't leave behind, then teach me to fight.
01:00:52Tomorrow, I will grant you an audience with a Patriarch.
01:00:58You see? I am still breathing.
01:01:00If you had truly defied my vision.
01:01:04Now that would be interesting.
01:01:09Two years ago, at the Bloodwater Siege, Vesta's husband begged the Emperor for reinforcements.
01:01:15But the Royal Court was busy preparing the Emperor's Jubilee.
01:01:19The army never marched. Her husband died in the mud, left 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.
01:01:32You said we were seeing the Patriarch. Why bring us to a crypt?
01:01:35Whatever you see in there, hold your nerve.
01:01:39My grandfather rests inside. Please, this way.
01:01:58What?
01:02:02My lady, the North is freezing. I brought you these heavy furs.
01:02:06Your concern is noted, boy.
01:02:08But she has no need for such common scraps.
01:02:11These are royal pelts from...
01:02:16Gods.
01:02:18What in the world is this?
01:02:19It's...
01:02:20It's so soft. It 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, the winter never ends.
01:02:42The ground is iron.
01:02:43Nothing this fragile could ever survive the frost.
01:02:47If it pleases you, boy.
01:02:48Help us reclaim the shard from your keep.
01:02:51And this mantle is 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.
01:03:05You barter with the boy because you are certain that Vesta will not surrender the shard.
01:03:14Is this?
01:03:15It is Thorn.
01:03:17Yes.
01:03:18Since the ambush six months ago, this crust began to form.
01:03:22It started around his wounds.
01:03:24Then it spread.
01:03:26Swallowing him whole.
01:03:27How many healers have you called?
01:03:29All of them.
01:03:30None could break it.
01:03:39None.
01:03:47This isn't a sickness, is it?
01:03:49It is his own madness.
01:03:51His madness.
01:03:52Thorn's natural life ended in the snow six months ago.
01:04:00But his fury anchored him here.
01:04:03He refuses to pass on.
01:04:05And the shard buried within him gave his wrath a physical form, spawning the dead that batter
01:04:12your gates, while this stone shell devours his remaining soul.
01:04:17The undead?
01:04:19They came from my grandfather's own mind?
01:04:23What kind of nightmare could be powerful enough to breed an entire army of corpses?
01:04:32What is happening?
01:04:37The dead are marching in daylight.
01:04:42I'll hold the line.
01:04:43Gather the men.
01:04:45My lady, I'm begging you.
01:04:47Save Frostbike.
01:04:48Take the shard back.
01:04:50It's right there in his chest.
01:04:51Please, just take it.
01:04:52I beg you.
01:04:55Yes.
01:04:56But the shard must be freely given.
01:04:59Even I cannot carve it out by force.
01:05:01I will pull Thorn back from the dark.
01:05:04Do not let them interrupt me.
01:05:06This pennant will hold the dead.
01:05:08Plant it beyond the gates.
01:05:09It will buy me time.
01:05:12If the ward fails, if the dead breach the line, or if you are overrun, do not die for me.
01:05:20Leave.
01:05:21My 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, always begging for stories.
01:05:48Now, reduced 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!
01:06:20Shit.
01:06:32Finn, what are you doing?
01:06:34I'm done pretending, Commander.
01:06:37Did 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.
01:06:47Slaughtered your own brothers.
01:06:48They bled Frostbear dry.
01:06:50And you sold us out to the monsters?
01:06:54Sold us out?
01:06:55Monsters?
01:06:55Better than being the crown's lapdog.
01:06:58Why should we bleed for them?
01:06:59Our ancestors all followed Morgana.
01:07:01We were equals once.
01:07:03But because they got different shards, some get to rule the capital.
01:07:06Some get the gold.
01:07:07And what did the rain creeps 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.
01:07:15Waiting to be wiped out.
01:07:17I won't let it end like this.
01:07:19I'm going to tear Frostfire down.
01:07:22Break the chains they put on us.
01:07:25I saw Morgana use this.
01:07:28It commands the dead.
01:07:30I hold the power now.
01:07:37Isn't that right?
01:07:41Break the chains.
01:08:08Yes.
01:08:10I remember the vow.
01:08:13I gave you my word.
01:08:15To hold this fortress.
01:08:17To bleed for the innocent.
01:08:21But the dead are here.
01:08:23The wolves are at the gates.
01:08:26I...
01:08:27I dare not leave.
01:08:29Enough, Thorn.
01:08:30You have bled enough.
01:08:33Your bloodline.
01:08:35Your men.
01:08:36Iron.
01:08:38I know.
01:08:39Ow.
01:08:40Oh.
01:08:42Ah.
01:08:46Ow.
01:08:55Ah.
01:08:59Ah.
01:09:12Let the obsession die
01:09:16You must go
01:09:17Whatever my sister commands
01:09:22Thorn will always
01:09:23Obey
01:09:25But before I return
01:09:28The shard
01:09:30Morgana
01:09:31May I ask you one question?
01:10:07Oh
01:10:07Oh
01:10:07Oh
01:10:07Oh
01:10:08Oh
01:10:08Oh
01:10:16Oh
01:10:35Sis you came
01:10:38Sister I what is happening to me where are we your mortal life is ended
01:10:45But your obsession anchored you here your soul was twisted by inner demons in 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 in the dark
01:11:20Were you all right Morgana
01:11:36You won't touch her
01:11:40I was fine
01:11:45That is good
01:11:50I have enjoyed
01:11:51The pit
01:11:52WhoThe moment
01:11:52Is that even a vintage
01:11:53Or a white
01:12:00I wanted to see you
01:12:02could not Just
01:12:03wanted to buy this Thick
01:12:12If you
01:12:13are Are you
01:12:13Are you
01:12:15you I've
01:12:17I've
01:12:25The witch.
01:12:38So, this is the death you saw for me.
01:12:42You are never wrong.
01:12:46Morgana, it seems I won't be here to help you take back what is yours.
01:13:08Morgana.
01:13:10I make no grand claims, but I swear I will help you take it all back.
01:13:16I make no grand claims, but I'll be here to help you take it all back.
01:13:33Monster!
01:13:34Monster! You godless monster!
01:13:37A monster.
01:13:50This world is sick.
01:13:58Finn, why would you do this?
01:14:02My brother, he died because the crown...
01:14:07...because the crown never sent reinforcements.
01:14:10He bled out in the snow.
01:14:12And ever since then, I haven't seen you smile.
01:14:16Not truly.
01:14:18I was so close.
01:14:21Just a little more than I could have taken you...
01:14:25...away from this prison.
01:14:29You foolish boy.
01:14:32Frostfire is no prison.
01:14:34Look at the people behind these walls.
01:14:36The thousands we pulled from the slaughter.
01:14:39The soldiers I trained with my own hands.
01:14:42Every block of black stone, every frozen inch of the north, holds 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.
01:15:20So the children here.
01:15:21So my own daughter can sleep without fear of the slaughter.
01:15:25So it was just me.
01:15:27I was the only one who couldn't let go.
01:15:32Take me away.
01:15:34I will.
01:15:35I'll take you south.
01:15:38I want to sleep beneath the roses.
01:15:47Sixty years ago.
01:15:48To buy this realm a breath of life.
01:15:52I gave my own flesh and soul to the forge.
01:15:56No attachments.
01:15:58No desires.
01:15:59I told you to run.
01:16:02But of course, fate 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.
01:16:24I'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.
01:17:03Your blood?
01:17:04No wonder your skin is like ice.
01:17:07Morgana.
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.
01:17:20I stripped everything away.
01:17:22Bound it to the obsidian.
01:17:24Twelve fragments.
01:17:25Given to twelve disciples.
01:17:28To save this world.
01:17:30Sixty years have passed.
01:17:32My students took that power.
01:17:34And forged twelve great bloodlines.
01:17:37And now, there is peace.
01:17:40Now I take back what is mine.
01:17:44Morgana.
01:17:45What else are you missing?
01:17:46You never change your boots.
01:17:48I've never seen you eat.
01:17:49Or sleep, for that matter.
01:17:52Your hair turned white.
01:17:53Silence.
01:18:02Morgana.
01:18:05I will help you get it all back.
01:18:08Every last piece.
01:18:11You have my word.
01:18:13No matter what it takes.
01:18:16No matter the cost.
01:18:23that shard of the crown was torn from my own veins 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
01:18:45the 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
01:20:50be 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 the 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
01:21:26why 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
01:21:40what'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
01:21:51eccentric
01:22:07we must push forward
01:22:08wherever 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
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
01:22:39hundreds 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 owes 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
01:23:14since when does my father kneel for peasants
01:23:18the iris ember
01:23:19my lady
01:23:20a covenant is a trade
01:23:22i take back what is mine
01:23:24and i leave you one truth
01:23:27the 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
01:24:03tell 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
01:24:26she is
01:24:26and
01:24:26she is
01:24:29she is
01:24:29she is
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