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, Valkyra has not seen the like of him. A true Lord of Dragons. Vidar of Valkyra,
01:48my firstborn!
01:50Lord of Dragons!
01:52From now on, you shall take my place as Chieftron of Valkyra.
01:56What is this, Father?
01:59The Father's already had the field cleared. The beasts that bent the knee were taken. The ones that would not?
02:04Well, you can see the rest.
02:08A dragon that will not submit has no place among us. That is the law of Valkyra.
02:21This is not taming. A crown raised on slaughter is no crown of mine.
02:28Vidar! Vidar!
02:30You ought to be the Chieftain of Valkyra. Would you turn your back on your own people?
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 Alderwill'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, Alderwin could crush anything in the sky.
04:11What's he doing in a frontier stable?
04:15Change 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. Five years gone, and I've
04:53finally 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. After that,
05:05you vanished without a trace.
05:08Vidar.
05:12I am asking you to join the Dragon Knights. I'd surrender the High Command itself to you.
05:19Everyone says I am Alderwin's great hope. But if war comes with the Valkyra, I know the truth. There is
05:25only one man alive who could lead us to victory. You.
05:32I said... I said you've got the wrong man, General.
05:48This is the High Master's Seal of Alderwin. If you change your mind, come to the Royal Fortress.
05:58This is the High Master's Seal.
06:25Has no one a free hand?
06:30I need something delivered.
06:35Word just came in. The militia riders are in urgent need of a saddle. Can you ride a Dragon?
06:40Not in five years.
06:41That means you can. Hurry up. They need it there at once.
06:49How fast?
06:50As fast as you can bloody make it.
06:56As far as the
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 miced.
07:41Huzzah!
07:43The camp belongs to Gareth Hort.
07:45The old wretch is stubborn, none too eager to bend the knee.
07:49Do 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.
08:00Faster, Knight! 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.
08:55You're in the way.
08:56Corrin! Go on!
08:59Too late!
09:02Too 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
09:27is something extraordinary.
09:32Believe it.
09:34We've worked to do.
09:41Hold it down!
09:42That's Sir Corrin'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!
09:50It's too strong!
09:51The chains won't hold!
09:53Where's the saddle?
09:54Why isn't it here yet?
09:55The stable's sending it across the Silent Gorge!
09:58Dangerous route!
09:59Even at full speed will take at least half an hour!
10:01I just released the messenger pigeon ten minutes ago!
10:06That 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!
10:15Wait!
10:16It really isn't!
10:35You rode this one?
10:37Aye.
10:39How'd you get here so fast?
10:43Well...
10:44I-I-I took a shortcut.
10:47Didn't know there's any shortcut through the gorge.
10:50Interesting.
10:53Step back, stable hand!
10:55Alara!
10:55Tighten it!
10:56Sir Corrin's knights will be here any moment!
10:58We can't let them see their dragon in a frenzy!
11:04Stop staring her down!
11:06In 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.
11:17I'm a religious-
11:18I am a warrior!
11:20I was trained for this.
11:20Ah!
11:20Yes!
11:25Ah!
11:26Yes!
11:28Ah!
11:29Lucan!
11:29Dammit!
11:30He actually called it.
11:35Woo!
11:36Come on!
11:41Oh!
11:42Damnit!
11:45Woo!
11:46Woo!
11:47Come for my dragon.
11:50What is this?
11:52That is a high war drac of the royal dragon knights.
11:55Is this how you mudblood villagers tend what is entrusted to you?
11:58You'll make restitution for that!
12:00Sir Corrin, it was an accident.
12:11Spare me your franel.
12:13My dragon is worth a fortune.
12:14You will make restitution.
12:16Your dragon went savage itself.
12:18Enough.
12:19However it happened, the beast was injured in our camp.
12:22The debt is ours.
12:23Name your price.
12:24You maimed my dragon.
12:26Then you pay me in dragons.
12:28Dragons?
12:30Father, no!
12:32Those dragons are all that stands between this village and the Valkyraids.
12:36How many?
12:37All of them.
12:39What?
12:40Never!
12:48This is a high-ranked war drac.
12:50Your whole yard of low-bred creatures is not worth a single span of his wing.
12:54And that says nothing of his bloodline, his royal commission, or his worth to the war ahead.
12:58I ask for your dragons, and I am already showing mercy.
13:01The upper wing is unbroken.
13:03The frame is sound.
13:05The shoulder joint and outer wing bone are true military stock.
13:09The wing alone is rare enough, and he has only just come of age.
13:12He has ten hard years of service in him yet.
13:16Commander Holt, if I remember rightly, you are master of this frontier dragon yard.
13:21Then pay what is owed.
13:23Bullshit!
13:24This was a setup.
13:26The grooming was only a pre-tent.
13:28You came for our stock.
13:29Nothing more.
13:31The royal dragon knights have no shame left at all.
13:34Hold your tongue!
13:36The royal knights have never spared a thought for the border villagers.
13:39You may take this camp and never look back, but the Valkyra have raided all year.
13:43Without our dragons, how are we meant to keep our people safe?
13:47And what concern is that of mine?
13:49Hand them over!
13:52That blind pack, Drage.
13:53The very one we saw in the gorge.
13:56The man who rode him must be here.
13:58Find that rider and bring him into the dragon knights,
14:00and he would be worth more than ten dragons taken in leather.
14:03Enough.
14:16Is that one yours?
14:18It is.
14:20So, Melita dragon riders, right?
14:24Since you are riders as well,
14:27I will offer you another road.
14:29Compete with us.
14:31Three trials.
14:32Best two of three.
14:34Win,
14:34and 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 who know how to master a dragon than just of dragons.
14:50Father,
14:51don't!
14:51The royal dragon knights stand second only to the lord of 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 a pack of high-born riders raised 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.
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