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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? Have 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.
00:00:44I'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.
00:00:58My 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.
00:01:48Mind the steps, my lady.
00:01:49Mind the steps, my lady.
00:01:54The 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.
00:02:26I 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...
00:02:36Moixest.
00:02:36Think is monsters.
00:02:45Ma'gana, was it?
00:02:47You are a guest in my halls.
00:02:49Drink.
00:02:54Your wine, my lady.
00:02:57A blind witch.
00:02:59This shall prove too easy.
00:03:10But... I told them to boil it!
00:03:12Dorish vintage. Pity it turned to vinegar. Masked with... heavy spice.
00:03:20Poured from the rot at the bottom of your cellar.
00:03:23Is this... how House Alistair hides its decay?
00:03:26How could she possibly smell that? She knows. How could she know?
00:03:31You insolent wretch! Keep your filthy mouth!
00:03:39By his wits alone did Lord Alistair survive. Isabella, your gown!
00:03:43A tragedy. His bloodline rots with you.
00:03:47How dare you! My husband may tolerate your delusions, but I will not!
00:03:52You just assaulted the future Crown Princess. By 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. Do it!
00:04:25Seize her! Now!
00:04:41Stop! Stop this at once! Fools!
00:04:50Morgana! They know nothing! They acted out of turn! Spare them! I beg of you!
00:04:57Alistair! Father!
00:04:59Both of you! You blind arrogant fools! She chose restraint! Or you would already be ashes upon this floor!
00:05:07On your knees! Beg for your lives!
00:05:12I bow to no one! I am the future Crown Princess!
00:05:17I will wear the crown! I will rule this realm!
00:05:23I am a queen! She is just a-
00:05:30A pity. No crown rests on a dead woman.
00:05:37You will die before the wedding bells ring.
00:05:41A pity.
00:05:58You! Get out of my house!
00:06:01Silence your tongue!
00:06:03Morgana, please. How do we stop this?
00:06:07Call off the royal wedding.
00:06:09Break betrothal.
00:06:13Or... she dies.
00:06:23The royal escort led by the obsidian guard.
00:06:27Commander Cedric himself, the reaper of the realm.
00:06:37The 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.
00:07:08You 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. Your blade is legendary.
00:07:23Your tactics flawless. The king trusts no other.
00:07:26She is safe with you.
00:07:29But... Morgana has seen it. She is our only hope.
00:07:33Alistair.
00:07:34Alistair.
00:07:35The king's patience is not infinite.
00:07:37Do not humiliate us for a blind witch.
00:07:39The crown's wrath will burn this castle to the ground.
00:07:43I 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. I 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.
00:08:12Play the prophet. Watch her cross those gates alive.
00:08:18I'll feel the blood.
00:08:22Bring the oracle a horse.
00:08:46To you please...
00:08:48Come on.kinson
00:09:02you too.
00:09:11Take them to the Iron Court.
00:09:13I want a name.
00:09:14Yes, Commander!
00:09:23Thank the gods Cedric was here.
00:09:25We're safe.
00:09:27He earned his coin.
00:09:31You 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!
00:10:23Kill 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.
00:10:33The prophecy has spoken.
00:10:35The Bride won't survive this journey.
00:10:37I am never wrong.
00:10:39Enlighten me then, Oracle.
00:10:41Give 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,
00:10:55can you afford it?
00:10:58There it is.
00:10:59The classic shakedown we always get here.
00:11:02Just 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.
00:11:30Cut the riddles.
00:11:31You're in my cell now.
00:11:35If 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.
00:11:53That 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, 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!
00:12:26We have a situation.
00:12:27The prisoners from the ambush, sir.
00:12:29They took poison.
00:12:31Hidden 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.
00:12:41You want the true killer?
00:12:43Stop 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.
00:13:33Just 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.
00:13:47Say 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.
00:14:08Name 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.
00:14:27If 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.
00:14:35You 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, my baby.
00:15:21Oh, God.
00:15:23Hold 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, let me through.
00:15:43Isabella, no.
00:15:45Look 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.
00:16:05You demanded proof, Commander.
00:16:07Behold the truth.
00:16:10You wove the crimson soul thread yourself.
00:16:14The bond is forged.
00:16:17Ask her.
00:16:19Isabella Alastom.
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.
00:17:06The crown is ours, father.
00:17:12Edmund Alaston.
00:17:18Now, confess.
00:17:24Edmund Alaston.
00:17:26Do you confess?
00:17:28I 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!
00:17:40This is madness!
00:17:42A father doesn't slaughter his own blood!
00:17:46Isabella 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.
00:17:56But what if that girl was never your blood at all?
00:18:01Eleanor, why 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.
00:18:28Give me the child I must see.
00:18:30Tell the truth.
00:18:32Is 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.
00:18:41Why me?
00:18:45The consort is waiting.
00:18:47If it's a boy, I'm ruined!
00:18:50Breathe, my lady.
00:18:51Panic is a luxury we can't afford.
00:18:53Duke Alistair has already arranged a solution.
00:18:56Bring the bundle inside.
00:18:57Now.
00:19:01Look closely.
00:19:03Pure Alistair blood.
00:19:05A flawless son.
00:19:07Yours, if you dare.
00:19:10A son!
00:19:11From now on, you are mine.
00:19:14The true heir of this house.
00:19:17My son.
00:19:19My heir.
00:19:39You're telling this court I'm Duke Alistair's son?
00:19:43No.
00:19:44No.
00:19:45No, 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.
00:20:08You need proof to make such claims.
00:20:10This dark sorcery proves absolutely nothing.
00:20:13Lord Alistair.
00:20:15If I had to guess.
00:20:16The moment the Emperor degreed Isabella's marriage, you realized if she entered the royal court, the Crown would eventually discover
00:20:22her secret.
00:20:23So you hired a pack of mercenaries to 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 your hired killers wouldn't be able to finish the job, so you killed your own
00:20:34daughter before she left.
00:20:35And as for your loyal servants, they'd break much faster than paid assassins.
00:20:39Commander!
00:20:40Commander Ashworth!
00:20:41Lord Alistair's personal guard, they've confessed to everything.
00:20:43The signed confessions.
00:20:45They admit the Duke ordered them to silence Isabella before she even left.
00:20:53My entire life of scheming, all crushed by fate's cruel hand.
00:21:01The eye you granted us gave House Alistair absolute power, unmatched wealth, unmatched glory, but the Emperor still stood above
00:21:11me.
00:21:11Until that day, when I saw, I saw.
00:21:22I saw the truth.
00:21:24If my son took the cradle, he'd rule the world.
00:21:30But 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, he 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.
00:21:58I had to protect my family!
00:22:00My son will be Emperor!
00:22:02I had to!
00:22:04I had to!
00:22:07Morgana, I confess it all.
00:22:09Punish me alone.
00:22:11I 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!
00:22:22Take my life, but let them live!
00:22:24Granted.
00:22:25Thank you, Oracle.
00:22:28My life for theirs.
00:22:31Edmund!
00:22:32No!
00:22:33Edmund!
00:22:34No, Edmund!
00:22:36No, Edmund!
00:22:37Edmund!
00:22:38Please, stay!
00:22:41Wake up!
00:22:42Please don't leave me!
00:23:17I gave them my sight
00:23:18To watch the dark
00:23:21Instead
00:23:22They watched the throne
00:23:23Built a lie
00:23:25Thought they could cheat fate
00:23:27Thought they owned me
00:23:29They own nothing
00:23:31I'm taking it all back
00:23:33With blood
00:23:36Mortal hands cannot hold the weight of a god
00:23:39It crushes them
00:23:41The Alistair debt
00:23:43Is settled
00:23:43My sight is mine again
00:23:47Now
00:23:48We move to the next house
00:23:50Stop
00:23:51You can't just march in there
00:23:53This is treason
00:23:55I must alert the emperor
00:23:56No need to call the emperor
00:23:58He's already here
00:24:05God
00:24:07The emperor
00:24:11Your majesty
00:24:16By royal decree
00:24:17Prince Kale and the empress
00:24:19Are hereby spankstripped of titles
00:24:21They shall be cast into the black cells
00:24:23It shall be done
00:24:31Lady Morgana
00:24:33Lady Morgana
00:24:34It's you
00:24:35Careful sire
00:24:36Morgana
00:24:38Sire wait
00:24:39Lady Morgana
00:24:40Oh my lady Morgana
00:24:43Forgive me
00:24:44It's my fault
00:24:46I was blind to let them trouble you
00:24:49I wish to name you High Protector
00:24:52To guide the realm
00:24:53Every mage alive
00:24:55Will answer only to your command
00:24:59My rule is simple
00:25:00One shard
00:25:02For one question
00:25:03You want a prophecy?
00:25:05Give me your family's
00:25:06Ancient inheritance
00:25:08The crown shard in exchange
00:25:12Right
00:25:12If you wish to reclaim the shard
00:25:16I will gladly return it
00:25:18After all
00:25:19My family owes our throne to you
00:25:21Power is a debt
00:25:22When I give
00:25:23And when I take
00:25:24Is my choice alone
00:25:26Why the rush?
00:25:28Yes
00:25:29You are completely right
00:25:30Please
00:25:31Rest at Ashermythe palace
00:25:33Everything will grant her than
00:25:35No no
00:25:36Higher than imperial standards
00:25:37No need
00:25:39I am going to Ashworth keep
00:25:41Besides
00:25:43My heart
00:25:45Currently belongs to him
00:25:53Yes, yes, of course
00:25:55Take my royal carriage
00:25:59Please, my lady
00:26:00After you
00:26:01Your grace
00:26:02That is the sovereign's carriage
00:26:03It breaks royal protocol
00:26:05Shut your mouth
00:26:07Lady Morgana is the law
00:26:09Her word is absolute
00:26:10There is no protocol in this world
00:26:12That outrants her
00:26:13Isn't that right, my dear lady?
00:26:15Please
00:26:17Mind the step, my lady
00:26:18Careful now
00:26:19Very careful
00:26:22Commander Ashworth
00:26:23Your grace
00:26:23If she suffers even a scratch
00:26:25I swear to god
00:26:26I will hang every last member
00:26:27Of your retted house
00:26:29Do I make myself clear?
00:26:31Crystal clear, your grace
00:26:32My dear lady Morgana
00:26:34I have just remembered
00:26:36Some urgent matters of state
00:26:38To attend to
00:26:38I must take my leave
00:26:44You serve lady Morgana now
00:26:46Farewell
00:26:47Have a pleasant journey
00:26:51Earlier you said
00:26:53That I had your heart
00:26:54What the hell does that mean?
00:26:56Sixty years ago
00:26:58My heart was carved from my chest
00:27:01It is not with you
00:27:04It is in your house
00:27:07My house?
00:27:11This way, lady Morgana
00:27:13Thanks to your grace
00:27:14Sixty years ago
00:27:15When you bestowed
00:27:16The Heartmen Shard upon us
00:27:17The Ashworth name
00:27:18Is now renowned
00:27:19For our healing arts
00:27:20You see?
00:27:21These afflicted souls
00:27:22Travel from the furthest
00:27:23Corners of the kingdom
00:27:24Seeking our aid
00:27:26So
00:27:27The legendary Ashworth
00:27:29Healing arts
00:27:30Actually came from you
00:27:33Tell me then
00:27:34Just how old are you exactly?
00:27:37Does it matter to you?
00:27:39Please my lord
00:27:40Save my mother
00:27:41Wake up mama
00:27:42Somebody help her
00:27:43Have mercy
00:27:44Please help my mother
00:27:45I beg of you
00:27:46This is all the coin I have
00:27:48Please
00:27:50Show some mercy
00:27:52A handful of dirty coppers
00:27:54And you expect the master's healing
00:27:56For that
00:27:56Get out of here
00:27:58Now
00:27:58Stop wasting everyone's time
00:28:00Selina
00:28:03Cedric
00:28:04You're finally home
00:28:06When I gave your family the shard
00:28:08It was to heal the broken
00:28:10To serve the realm
00:28:11Not to exploit the weak
00:28:13You have broken the pact
00:28:14Give the fragment back
00:28:16Who do you think you are?
00:28:18How dare a commoner like you
00:28:20Make demands in Ashwild keep
00:28:21Silence!
00:28:22Show her respect
00:28:25This is Selina Frost
00:28:27A ward
00:28:28Taken in by my father
00:28:30Selina
00:28:31We heal the sick
00:28:32Regardless of coin
00:28:33Have you forgotten?
00:28:35Go to the chapel
00:28:36Pray
00:28:37Beg her forgiveness
00:28:38You heard him
00:28:39To the chapel now
00:28:42I beg your pardon my lady
00:28:44I had no idea she was extorting them
00:28:48Rest assured
00:28:49The Ashwilds honor your gift
00:28:51We'd never turn away the poor
00:28:52Most days
00:28:54We treat all these commoners
00:28:55Without asking for any money
00:28:58I said return the shard
00:29:02Or do you mean to defy me?
00:29:04No, no
00:29:05The relic
00:29:06Is rightfully yours
00:29:07Because I will return it to you immediately
00:29:09It is just
00:29:10The Hartman Shrad is kept safe by my eldest Marin
00:29:14She's been in seclusion at a distant abbey for years
00:29:17Once she returns from her retreat
00:29:18I will present it to you myself
00:29:20Fine
00:29:21I will wait
00:29:27Every time I return
00:29:29She still won't see me
00:29:32Fifteen years
00:29:33Fifteen years since I've laid eyes on her
00:29:35Does 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
00:29:44She hates me
00:29:45When I was a boy
00:29:47I almost died
00:29:49My sister came for me
00:29:51And the iron drove through her right arm in my place
00:29:53She was never the same again
00:29:58She was a master healer
00:30:00Those gifted hands
00:30:02She could bring the dying back to life
00:30:04But because of me
00:30:05The 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 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
00:30:20To a quiet abbey
00:30:21Where she could practice in peace
00:30:23But I know the truth
00:30:25That day
00:30:27Became a thorn in her heart
00:30:29One that will never be pulled out
00:30:31Every time she looks at me
00:30:32She remembers what saving me cost her
00:30:34Everything is bound by consequence, Commander
00:30:37You see only the branches above the soil
00:30:40But you are blind to the roots below
00:30:43What is that supposed to mean?
00:30:45You will know soon enough
00:30:51My knees are hurting
00:30:52I'll fetch the salve
00:30:55Cedric just got back
00:30:56And 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
00:31:06She 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?
00:31:24Honeycakes
00:31:25Master Cedric's favorite
00:31:27And Imperial Spiced Wine
00:31:29For 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
00:31:45Healers always keep the best poisons
00:31:47This widow's kiss is lethal
00:31:51No taste, no cure
00:31:53Drink up, Morgana
00:31:55Go, take it to her
00:31:56I cannot, my lady
00:31:59She is Master Cedric's guest
00:32:03Know your place
00:32:04Without Ashfield Charity
00:32:07A useless old crone
00:32:09Would be rotting in the gutter
00:32:12Pathetic
00:32:17I am disciplining a servant
00:32:19Since when does a blind freak
00:32:21Interfere with Ashfield affairs
00:32:22If your tongue serves only to offend
00:32:25Then you should not speak at all
00:32:30Morgana
00:32:31You little piece of
00:32:33My lady, what is it?
00:32:35My lady, what's wrong?
00:32:36Please, say something
00:32:37What's doing this?
00:32:38Gert, help 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
00:32:50Selene 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, now
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
00:33:09Kneel to the one you truly wronged
00:33:13Please, 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
00:33:21Rests on the Hartman Shard
00:33:24She built our legacy
00:33:27Oracle, I beg you
00:33:28She's terrified
00:33:30Let it be enough
00:33:32Please, have mercy
00:33:39Your mercy is boundless, my lady
00:33:41I will discipline the girl at once
00:33:45Come, my lady
00:33:46Let us go
00:33:51Are 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
00:34:05Let me fetch them for you
00:34:07Wait right here for me
00:34:11That old woman
00:34:13Her devotion to you is genuine
00:34:15It is
00:34:17She has been here since I was a boy
00:34:19Always kind to me
00:34:20When I was injured as a boy
00:34:22She sneaked me pouches
00:34:24And every year on my name day
00:34:25When my own sister was lost to me
00:34:28She brought me warm broth
00:34:30And fresh bread
00:34:32With her
00:34:33I almost remember what having a sister felt like
00:34:35If that is true
00:34:37You 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
00:34:46To realize what you have lost
00:34:51Listen to me, child
00:34:54Never 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
00:35:03Play the game
00:35:04Let her think she's win
00:35:05Soon, everything will be yours
00:35:09Lady Morgana
00:35:10Lady Ashfield has sent me
00:35:12To return the Hartman Shard
00:35:14To its rightful owner
00:35:15We have heard
00:35:16When you take back what is yours
00:35:19You offer a reading in return
00:35:21Lady Ashworth has written her question
00:35:24Right here on this parchment
00:35:25Take it, Cedric
00:35:32I will not answer this question
00:35:34Because the Hartman Shard is a fake
00:35:37What?
00:35:40A fake?
00:35:41Someone must have switched it when she wasn't looking
00:35:44I'll get to the bottom of this
00:35:45Tonight
00:35:46Don't
00:35:47What is mine
00:35:49Will always return to my hands
00:35:52Lady Morgana
00:35:54Commander Ashford
00:35:58The Emperor begs your aid
00:35:59The Empress door wager is dying
00:36:02The Royal Physicians can do nothing for her
00:36:03His Majesty demands you come at once
00:36:06Please, my lady
00:36:07You are her only hope
00:36:12Lead the way
00:36:15Useless fools
00:36:16What good are you if she dies?
00:36:18Your Majesty
00:36:20Lady 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
00:36:44Morgana
00:36:44If you can't save her
00:36:46Stop making pathetic excuses
00:36:48I say
00:36:50You have no real power
00:36:51You're nothing but a fraudulent witch
00:36:54Selina
00:36:55This is a royal chamber
00:36:56Not 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
00:37:06Are never wrong
00:37:07Care to make a wager then?
00:37:09On what?
00:37:10If I win
00:37:11I want the Emperor
00:37:12To decree my marriage to Cedric
00:37:14And
00:37:15I want your head
00:37:17Severed 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
00:37:31Give it a try
00:37:33If you truly cure my mother
00:37:36I will grant your every wish
00:37:45So you stole the Hartman Shnar
00:37:47Cedric
00:37:48I'll be a master healer
00:37:50Just like your sister
00:37:52Then you'll finally see
00:37:54I'm the only one for you
00:37:56Forcing fate
00:37:58Only brings ruin
00:37:59If you insist on this path
00:38:02You alone will choke on the ashes
00:38:06Save your cheap parlor tricks
00:38:08Healing the sick is God's work
00:38:10There's no price for that
00:38:13By the old blood
00:38:14I command the vessel
00:38:16Take the living spark
00:38:18Feed the dying flame
00:38:22Awaken
00:38:27Wake up
00:38:30Wake
00:38:31Wake
00:38:35Wake
00:38:36Wake
00:38:41What's happening?
00:38:44It burns
00:38:45It burns
00:38:46It burns
00:38:47It burns
00:38:48Oh God
00:38:52Water
00:38:53Please
00:39:01Mother! Mother! Wake up!
00:39:06My face! No! How did this happen?
00:39:13You stole my magic, but you never asked, when the spell steals a living spark, whose spark does it take?
00:39:23Move along. Get out. Move, before I drag you out!
00:39:29Know who stands before you.
00:39:32My lord, I did not know...
00:39:34Maren.
00:39:35My lord, you're mistaken. She's not Maren. She's just an old crone. Nothing more.
00:39:41My lord!
00:39:41Get out.
00:39:42Yes, my lord!
00:39:48My lord, I'm nobody. Just an old crone. Nobody of importance. Just a servant.
00:39:55This is the inner sanctum.
00:39:57Only the bloodline, only the Hartmann Shard-bearer can come here.
00:40:03Let me see you.
00:40:13That 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?
00:40:29Who's life did you think you were spending?
00:40:32The Ashworth Empire isn't built on medicine.
00:40:34It's built on a parasite.
00:40:37It trades your years for theirs.
00:40:40A simple fever costs you a month.
00:40:43A fatal wound...
00:40:45Strips the youth right off your bones.
00:40:49The sick empress was already dead.
00:40:51Her time was up.
00:40:53Give her every hour you have left.
00:40:55It won't buy her a single day.
00:40:58Then what about Maren?
00:40:59Explain Maren!
00:41:01She 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?
00:41:13Look at me!
00:41:14It took everything!
00:41:15My...
00:41:16My skin!
00:41:17My life!
00:41:18Why just me?!
00:41:19You said she was perfect.
00:41:22Cedric...
00:41:23You believed 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!
00:41:54She 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?
00:42:14Why didn't you tell me?
00:42:14Every time I used the shard,
00:42:16it stole a year of my life.
00:42:18Burned away.
00:42:19Then one morning,
00:42:21I looked in the glass.
00:42:22White hair.
00:42:23Hands shaking like a crone.
00:42:26Maren!
00:42:26Let me in!
00:42:27My lord, no!
00:42:28Get off!
00:42:30I want my sister!
00:42:32Let me go!
00:42:33Maren!
00:42:34I couldn't let you see a monster.
00:42:37No.
00:42:38Stop it.
00:42:39Don't ever say that.
00:42:41Look at me.
00:42:42You 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 all right now.
00:43:06Cedric, tomorrow is your name day.
00:43:08I haven't made your broth yet.
00:43:11Maren, please.
00:43:12Just rest.
00:43:13You made it for me every year.
00:43:15My whole life.
00:43:17Tomorrow, I'll make it for you.
00:43:24This is my fault.
00:43:25I looked right at her and saw nothing.
00:43:28She hid her hands, traded her life away and I just stood there.
00:43:32He used the Heartmen Shard to drain her year by year while I watched and called it nothing.
00:43:37She 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,
00:43:59I swear on my blade I will repay that debt.
00:44:01She hasn't eaten in days.
00:44:03I made this for her.
00:44:04I don't know if she'll want it,
00:44:05but I need to give her something.
00:44:06I'm gonna take it to her now.
00:44:08Wait.
00:44:09Something wrong?
00:44:12It's nothing.
00:44:13Go to her.
00:44:14I won't be long.
00:44:15No, no.
00:44:25Maren!
00:44:26Maren wake up.
00:44:28No, no please!
00:44:29Maren!
00:44:31The scale always balances.
00:44:36Get away from me!
00:44:38Don't touch me!
00:44:40I want my sister!
00:44:43Get away!
00:44:45Where is she?
00:44:49I want my sister!
00:44:52Cedric.
00:44:54I'm here. Look at me.
00:44:56Don't touch me!
00:44:58You old witch!
00:45:02She's dead, isn't she?
00:45:04She left me!
00:45:06Everyone 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.
00:45:25She 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.
00:45:42Even 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.
00:45:55I'd go willingly.
00:45:57And 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.
00:46:16He 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.
00:46:42Every name.
00:46:43Every debt you buried.
00:46:59These are property deeds.
00:47:01Hundreds of them.
00:47:02The Ashhouse fled the Highlords dry.
00:47:04In secret.
00:47:05They 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.
00:47:19And left her to rot in the dirt.
00:47:21She 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.
00:47:35A secret mistress.
00:47:37A hidden life.
00:47:38There is no one!
00:47:40You are lying!
00:47:41The child you had with her has 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?
00:47:53You 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.
00:48:07I am innocent if there was money missing from the patients.
00:48:11Maren did it herself.
00:48:12Plain greed.
00:48:14She 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!
00:48:59Be reasonable!
00:49:00Look 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.
00:49:27I 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 and found nothing at all.
00:49:40You let a child wither in your place and called it fate.
00:49:45You 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.
00:50:06Very well.
00:50:31No! Get off me! I am the lord of this!
00:50:37No! No!
00:50:51Every year he stole from Maren. They just ripped it back.
00:51:15Maren! Can you hear me? Look 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. You took another piece of your power straight into yourself. Will
00:51:50you absorb this one too?
00:51:55The Hartman Shard.
00:51:57The Hartman Shard.
00:52:21Please help us have mercy.
00:52:29you're breathing i watched you stop i thought you were gone you're shaking
00:52:34your birthday is soon i still owe you bread and broth i'll make it myself just don't close
00:52:42your eyes again promise me that her face still carries what the years cost her but the 30 years
00:52:50aldrich took from her have been stripped from his bones they're hers now her hand is healed
00:52:55the debt is paid she will never serve in the dark again she lives the transaction is complete
00:53:07oracle 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 every breath
00:53:24i
00:53:24draw belongs to your cause i am your shield your blade point me at your enemies wherever you walk
00:53:31i walk with you until my blood runs cold
00:53:38talk to me did the exorcism drain you are you hurt i am not hurt when i pulled the heartman
00:53:46shard from your sister i absorbed 30 years of her memories every single day she spent trapped in
00:53:51that house there's an echo now a pressure in my chest you have a rule you reclaim a piece of
00:53:58your
00:53:59power you owe the bloodline one truth one ember one question maran gave her whole youth to keep me
00:54:06alive she never got to ask her question maran so i'll ask it for her look into your prophecy morgana
00:54:15did my sister's sacrifice mean anything tell me your 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 there is a line drawn across your
00:54:28fate
00:54:28a terminal point if you follow me to ironwall if you walk into ravencrest at my side you will
00:54:35stand before someone and bleed until there is nothing left and you will die that is the end of
00:54:41it in front of who who do i bleed for me knowing this knowing that every step north is a
00:54:51step towards
00:54:52your own grave and you still want to come with me forget it it doesn't matter
00:55:00you are ordered to stay behind i walk into ironwall alone i don't need a shield
00:55:06i swore an oath to you i stand between you and whatever comes i'm going
00:55:17i told you how this ends are you not afraid i lead the obsidian guard i have walked into the
00:55:26dark more
00:55:26times than i can count every time they said i wouldn't walk out every time they said the odds
00:55:33were broken and i am still standing here let them come i will survive it and i will walk you
00:55:40out of ironwall myself
00:55:44you must think i'm completely useless with a blade i've been sickly since childhood my sister-in-law
00:55:50handles the killing she lets me read instead i apologize for the gate it's just lately the moment
00:55:56the sun sets the dead walk vesta fears the undead soldiers breaching the walls slaughtering our people
00:56:03please forgive the lock gates my lady these undead outside your walls what is their origin we don't
00:56:09know not since my grandfather fell they don't discern friend from foe they just butcher for six months
00:56:15we've been trapped here powerless thorn was injured yes ambushed by the dead weeks ago
00:56:22he hasn't woken since take me to him of course
00:56:34you dare test me boy who authorized you to breach the protocol who gave you leave to welcome stray vagras
00:56:43into my fortress do frost stokes laws mean nothing to you vespa wait this is lady morgana grandfather foresaw
00:56:50this he said a woman named morgana would come for the shard we must show her absolute respect the
00:56:56patriarch is dying he needs silence not scavengers chasing fairy tales commander vespa even the emperor
00:57:03bows to lady morgana i suggest you mind your tone before i cut out your tongue damn your southern king
00:57:11here we
00:57:12follow north laws your laws tell me what does the north demand you want to see him bleed for it
00:57:23best me in combat win and you get your audience and your precious shard lose and you crawl back south
00:57:31frostbite does not serve the weak i'll gladly test your iron commander good a real man bring me my steel
00:57:39lord
00:57:49hold the gate i am cedric ashworth commander of the obsidian guards hold the gates god they're here fall back
00:57:57fall the gates
00:58:12ring of steel protect morgana
00:58:15lord
00:58:21boot
00:58:23bugger
00:58:25been
00:58:26me
00:58:27gardens
00:58:28me
00:58:28me
00:58:30me
00:58:36me
00:58:37me
00:58:41me
00:58:42me
00:58:45me
00:58:45me
00:58:45me
00:58:45this malice I know it she broke them who goes there Morgana lady Morgana
00:58:55forgive me my grandfather speaks of you often and you are Finn Raven Kest my
00:59:01lady grandson to Patriarch Thorn Morgana smile for me
00:59:20Morgana my sister-in-law is a monster on the battlefield she holds the true
00:59:24bloodline no one beats her is this it then the day you foreseen I would die
00:59:49he's hurt he will not die
01:00:01well fought
01:00:14well fought your form is decent but you fight like you fear death always
01:00:20leaving room to retreat remember a real enemy won't give you quarter the only
01:00:26way to outlive them is to care less about dying
01:00:35there's my little bird you promised me we practice archery today I know go grab
01:00:42your bow I'm coming okay
01:00:48when you have something you can't leave behind then teach me to fight tomorrow I
01:00:53will grant you an audience of Patriarch
01:00:58you see I am still breathing if you had truly defied my vision
01:01:04now that would be interesting
01:01:10two years ago at the blood water siege
01:01:12Vesta's husband begged the emperor for reinforcements but the royal court was busy preparing the emperor's jubilee the army never
01:01:19marched her husband died in the mud left her and the child alone
01:01:25Vesta has every reason to hate the crown she struck a deal with the enemy you are wrong
01:01:33you said we were seeing the Patriarch why bring us to a crypt whatever you see in there hold your
01:01:38nerve
01:01:39my grandfather rest inside please this way
01:02:02my lady the north is freezing I brought you these heavy furs your concern is noted boy but she has
01:02:09no need for such common scraps these are royal
01:02:12pelts from
01:02:16gods
01:02:17gods
01:02:18what in the world is this
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 frost spike
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
01:02:48help us reclaim the sherd from your keep
01:02:51and this mantle
01:02:53is yours to keep
01:02:54truly
01:02:55you swear on your honor?
01:02:58on my blood
01:03:00done
01:03:00I'll get ready
01:03:05you barter with the boy
01:03:06you barter with the boy
01:03:07because you are certain
01:03:08that Vesta will not surrender the shard
01:03:14is this?
01:03:16it is Thorn
01:03:17yes
01:03:18since the ambush six months ago
01:03:20this crust began to form
01:03:22it started around his wounds
01:03:24then it spread
01:03:25swallowing him whole
01:03:27how many healers have you called?
01:03:29all of them
01:03:30none could break it
01:03:47this isn't a sickness is it?
01:03:50it is his own madness
01:03:51his madness?
01:03:52Thorn's natural life
01:03:55ended in the snow
01:03:56six months ago
01:04:00but his fury
01:04:02anchored him here
01:04:03he 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
01:04:16the undead?
01:04:19they came from my grandfather's own mind?
01:04:23what kind of nightmare
01:04:24could be powerful enough
01:04:26to breed an entire army of corpses?
01:04:32what is happening?
01:04:38the dead are marching in 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 in 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 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
01:05:13if the dead breach the line
01:05:16or if you are overrun
01:05:18do not die for me
01:05:19leave
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
01:05:43one who chased my shadow
01:05:46always begging for stories
01:05:48now
01:05:49reduced to stone
01:05:54veil lift
01:05:57flesh bind
01:05:59awaken
01:06:02thorn
01:06:05ashworth
01:06:06her magic broke
01:06:07she's bleeding
01:06:18a
01:06:32shit
01:06:33finn
01:06:33what are you doing
01:06:35i'm done pretending commander
01:06:37did you honestly think vespa was the one who crippled my grandfather
01:06:40it was me
01:06:41who left the gate wide open
01:06:43so
01:06:44you're the rat
01:06:45they butchered your parents
01:06:47slaughtered your own brothers
01:06:48they bled cross bear dry
01:06:50and you sold us out to the monsters
01:06:54sold us out
01:06:55monsters
01:06:56better than being the crown's lap dog
01:06:58why should we bleed for them
01:06:59our ancestors all followed morgana
01:07:02we were equals once
01:07:03but because they got different shards
01:07:04some 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
01:07:16i won't let it end like this
01:07:19i'm going to tear frost fire down
01:07:22break 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
01:07:37isn't that right
01:07:38destroy
01:07:39ROOOOOOON!
01:08:07Yes.
01:08:11I remember the vow I gave you my word to hold this fortress, to bleed for the innocent.
01:08:21But the dead are here. The wolves are at the gates. I dare not leave.
01:08:29Enough, Thorn. You have bled enough. Your bloodline. Your men.
01:09:01I fell captive against her.
01:09:01And I wrath you.
01:09:07I'll take you back over the years.
01:09:08I'll take you back to a house.
01:09:08I'll take you back over the years.
01:09:09I'll take you back over the years.
01:09:12Let the Obsession die.
01:09:16You must go.
01:09:18Whatever my sister commands,
01:09:22Thorn will always obey.
01:09:26But before I return the Shard,
01:09:30Morgana, may I ask you one question?
01:09:44I don't know.
01:10:35Sis, you came.
01:10:39Sister, I... what is happening to me? Where are we?
01:10:43Your mortal life is ended, but your obsession anchored you here.
01:10:49Your soul was twisted by inner demons and the Shard.
01:10:53You are nothing but a lingering phantom now.
01:11:09What did you want to ask?
01:11:12All these years, alone in the dark.
01:11:20Were you alright, Morgana?
01:11:36You won't touch her!
01:11:40I was fine.
01:11:45That is... good.
01:12:24A 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.
01:12:50Take back what is yours.
01:13:09Again...
01:13:10I make no grand claims.
01:13:12But I swear, I will help you take it all back.
01:13:33monster monster you godless monster monster
01:13:51this world is sick
01:14:02my brother he died because the crown because the crown never sent reinforcements
01:14:10he bled out in the snow and ever since then i haven't seen you smile
01:14:16not truly i was so close just a little more than i could have taken you away from this prison
01:14:29you foolish boy frostfire is now prison look at the people behind these walls the thousands
01:14:37we pulled from the slaughter the soldiers i trained with my own hands every block of black
01:14:43stone every frozen inch of the north holds my blood nothing has ever trapped me this is
01:14:50the line i chose to hold frostfire is my home fin and i will defend it until i break
01:15:00i thought i thought you hated the crown
01:15:05i only wanted to break your chains
01:15:12i do hate the crown but i love the north i love our people
01:15:18i am holding this line for your brother so the children here so my own daughter can sleep without
01:15:24fear of the slaughter so it was just me i was the only one who couldn't let go
01:15:32take me away
01:15:35i will i'll take you south
01:15:37i want to sleep beneath the roses
01:15:4760 years ago to buy this realm a breath of life i gave my own flesh and soul to the
01:15:55forge
01:15:55no attachments no desires i told you to run but of course fate demands its due
01:16:14would you still draw your blade for me knowing it will only lead to your grave i am going
01:16:21i've commanded the vanguard for years i've faced death more times than i can count
01:16:27but i have never lost and i will not lose this time either
01:16:47why the frost spire why thorn ravencrest my youngest student still breathes i need to see him
01:16:56and the ravencrest piece of the crown what is it exactly a drop of my own blood the undying spark
01:17:03your blood no wonder your skin is like ice morgana how did you lose your eyes
01:17:0960 winters ago the realm was drowning in its own blood
01:17:15to buy them a dawn i offered my own flesh and soul
01:17:19i stripped everything away bound it to the obsidian
01:17:2412 fragments given to 12 disciples to save this world
01:17:2960 years have passed my students took that power
01:17:34and forged 12 great bloodlines
01:17:37and now there is peace
01:17:40now i take back what is mine
01:17:44morgana what else are you missing you never change your boots
01:17:48i've never seen you eat or sleep for that matter your 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
01:18:14no matter what it takes
01:18:16no matter the cost
01:18:24that shard of the crown was 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 i never thought i'd even be
01:18:40alive
01:18:41my lady you always said your prophecies are absolute never wrong to give me the shard to force me to
01:18:47live
01:18:48isn't this defying the gods themselves
01:18:50taking the heart back was a mistake
01:18:58morgana
01:19:00morgana
01:19:01morgana
01:19:04morgana
01:19:25My lady, forgive me.
01:19:28Assassins!
01:19:44This... southern blood magic.
01:19:47They say one puppet butchers ten men.
01:19:49And I tore them apart before they could even blink.
01:19:52I feel like I could rip through solid iron.
01:19:54You 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.
01:20:02With my power in your veins, no mortal man can stand against you.
01:20:07You could have run.
01:20:09You chose to stay.
01:20:12You accepted my gift.
01:20:14From now on, you are bound to my will.
01:20:17Are we clear?
01:20:21So I am no better than these husks?
01:20:23I'm just your puppet?
01:20:25Do not compare yourself to such pathetic trash.
01:20:29They are nothing like you.
01:20:33You... you are my masterpiece.
01:20:39Hmm.
01:20:41I will be clear.
01:20:46I will be clear.
01:20:49I will be clear.
01:20:49I will be clear.
01:20:50I will be clear.
01:20:50Farewell.
01:20:51Be wary.
01:20:52Without the Primordial Crown's Shard, the Horde will show no mercy.
01:20:58I know the risks, but I command this gate. Shard or no shard, the Ravencrest will hold this line. To
01:21:06the last breath.
01:21:10The Horde is at our walls. I ride with the Vanguard.
01:21:13Godspeed.
01:21:27Why didn't you tell her about the warding spikes you planted?
01:21:31The wards are nothing, compared to the primordial blood, still boiling in their veins.
01:21:37They will survive.
01:21:41What's happening? Are you alright?
01:21:43I feel a disturbance. A forbading sensation. I have looked ahead. I wish I had not. The road before us
01:21:50is dark, Cedric.
01:22:07We must push forward.
01:22:09Wherever you go, I will follow.
01:22:12Where to next?
01:22:15South. To the Scarlet Lands.
01:22:17I want to meet the fool who thought they could kill me.
01:22:22My lady, please. Rest inside. I will bring it to you myself.
01:22:27It is exactly where you left it, my lady. Untouched.
01:22:31You give it up so easily.
01:22:33It was never mine to keep.
01:22:35You know what it built. Your entire dynasty.
01:22:39Hundreds' years of power. Titles. The Crown's favor. The gift of seeing into men's hearts.
01:22:45Without it, you are nothing but a blind man stumbling in the dark.
01:22:49The blood covenant my grandfather sworn binds every generation after him.
01:22:53House Alistair owes you everything it has. And everything it is.
01:22:58You have my word. I will honor the pact. Willingly.
01:23:04The old man bred well. An obedient heir.
01:23:14Since when does my father kneel for peasants?
01:23:18The iris ember, my lady.
01:23:21A covenant is a trade. I take back what is mine. And I leave you one truth.
01:23:28The old laws demand it. Ask your question.
01:23:32My lady. In a few days, Isabella weds the Crown Prince.
01:23:37I need to... I need to know what waits for her.
01:23:41You want to know if she lives.
01:23:44Without my ember watching over her, what her crown will cost.
01:23:48Yes. Please, tell me her fate.
01:23:52Bring the girl to me.
01:23:54Mother! The night before my royal wedding, some blind woman in funeral rags walks into our home.
01:24:01And father knelt for her.
01:24:04Tell me the truth.
01:24:05Is she one of his lowborn mistresses?
01:24:08Crawling here to beg for coins?
01:24:11If we allow that woman to stand in our halls, without putting her on her knees,
01:24:16she will believe she belongs here.
01:24:20And we cannot have that.
01:24:22Then let's remind her how this house treats beggars.
01:24:26.
01:24:27.
01:24:28.
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