Are they the ones looking for you?
They're the soldiers of Alba.
If we leave the forest they'll catch me.
Did you hear that?
What?
I don't know.
A kind of voice.
It's the forest that does that.
It gets inside you and makes you hear things that aren't there.
The fire burned him outside
and consumes him inside.
-The wound is festering. -Leave us alone.
Don't be afraid,
it's just me.
We're safe now.
Are you listening to me, Father?
I know you're listening to me...
I beg you,
for the Gods who now seem to be our enemies.
Don't let your lineage die out.
Don't leave me on my own.
Your strength keeps me alive.
Talk to those who defend us.
Your words are mine.
It's only the word of Amulius!
His word against all that I saw!
-What did you see? -You didn't see anything.
Silence!
Let the king speak.
Amulius says that Yemos was an ambitious man.
He wanted to reign alone,
and that's why he killed his brother Enitos.
And the Thirty believe him
because they're afraid.
He himself says that doubting his word is blasphemy.
But I tell you that the Gods are more powerful than kings,
and a perjured king is worth less than the last slave.
You say Amulius is a perjurer,
but our fields were burning
and now they produce spelt.
Amulius brought the rain.
Amulius brought the rain?
I don't think so.
I think we have to thank Numitor,
who accepted the response of the Gods
and left the kingdom without resisting.
Women are not allowed in the council.
I didn't come to tell you the words of a woman.
I bring a message from my father.
You are always welcome in this council.
What does the king say?
The king says...
he has accepted the exile that the Gods imposed on him.
That's why the rain returned.
A blessing for his grandchildren,
because they should have had the throne.
Amulius has seized this sign by deception.
He trampled human and divine laws underfoot
and proclaims himself king.
You can believe his lies,
or restore the order
that he broke.
If you choose the part of Numitor,
and his nephew Yemos,
my only surviving son,
the Gods will reward you.
If instead you choose Amulius...
You will be doing his wicked work.
I'm the mother of the legitimate king of Alba.
and the Thirty believe him because they're afraid.
Rufus...
Do you lack the courage?
And you, Hirtius...
If you believe Amulius, you know what you need to do.
Take it,
and kill.
But know that the Gods
will want to drink your blood on the day of revenge.
This is what my father says.
Do you know where we are?
This is the direction.
Gabi is where the sun sets.
You're tired,
I'll go ahead.
Yemos!
-Enitos! -Help me.
Enitos!
Yemos... What's wrong with you?
He's dying. I have to stop the blood, do you understand?
Enitos!
Enitos, don't die! Don't die again!
Don't die again, Enitos.
Yemos...
There's nobody here.
Not now, but he was here before.
Who?
It's not the fault of the forest, Wiros.
It was really him, my brother.
And the blood flowed from his side like a spring...
That's enough, Yemos, enough.
That's enough!
There's nobody here, see?
It's just you and me.
I saw him.
I should have saved him, and I wasn't able to.
This terrain is sacred.
Go away.
They make sacrifices to the Gods in every home.
They ask for Ilia to return.
Your daughter now belongs to Mars.
She will go into the darkness.
And you can't stop her.
Can I see her?
If she lives, you'll see her again.
And then she will be the strength of the God among men.
She will be terror and fury.
She will be the glory of Alba, and the death of its enemies.
Was it the God who brought her here?
Did he save her so she can avenge Enitos?
If that is so, it would be better if she had died.
Never say that again.
This is the first day.
If you endure the pain,
Mars will take possession of your heart.
Run!
Now!
Here! Quick!
Your blood will warm up in the hands of your new Lord.
Open your eyes, Ilia, and look!
This fire is not Vesta's,
this fire belongs to Mars!
Help us.
Don't leave us here!
Who are you?
We're merchants.
The spirits of the forest attacked us,
they killed our comrades
and they took our goods.
You have to believe me, we have no food, we have no weapons.
We have to get to Gabi, that's where we come from.
Take us with you.
And him?
He's my brother.
Are you merchants as well?
We have sheep,
we're returning from the lands of the Greeks,
there we bartered the wool from our animals.
We had three wagons loaded with oil,
but we have nothing left.
-Where are you going to? -To the largest city ever seen.
It has stone walls higher than the trees in the forest.
Veio, nobody can conquer it,
and nobody there is afraid.
Once,
many years ago,
I had a family.
A young wife
and three children.
The war had taken me far from Alba for a long time.
30, 40 days.
When I got back,
I found my house burned down.
The bodies of my children torn apart.
Only my wife was still alive,
they had burned her,
but she was still breathing.
She asked me about our children.
I told her they were alive, safe.
I put a hand over her mouth.
I killed her to spare her the pain.
Who killed your children?
Five Sabine warriors, born in Cures.
For ten years I could only think of them.
I asked Mars to give me strength.
I went through the pain.
I searched for them
and I found them all.
I killed them
one by one.
And then I killed their wives, their fathers, their children.
Has your pain healed now?
The God Mars doesn't heal pain.
If the pain doesn't heal,
why are you seeking revenge?
If you're looking for peace of heart, this isn't your place.
Mars offers no peace.
He offers justice.
What do you want?
Peace or justice?
Thank you.
There are soldiers along the wagon trail.
They're from Alba.
We saw them as well.
-What are they looking for? -Yemos from Alba.
Who?
He was Numitor's heir.
Whoever finds him
will be given 20 sheep.
Why are they looking for him?
He killed his brother.
We keep him in the cold.
That way the worms take longer to eat him.
Who is it?
He's my brother.
He died during the journey,
I have to bring him back to Veio.
I don't want to leave him to the Lady of the Wolves.
God of revenge,
who punishes traitors and rises up from defeat.
Instil in me courage and ferocity. Don't let me forget.
God of revenge, who punishes traitors and rises up from defeat.
Instil in me courage and ferocity. Don't let me forget.
On your feet!
Respect the God!
Get up!
This is the second day:
the God will show you what never happened.
Stamp your feet!
Yemos...
You said that without me you would have killed yourself.
What are your words worth?
Wait.
Don't leave me.
Don't leave me, Enitos.
Enitos!
Forgive me.
Give me your other hand.
I can't do it like this!
Give me your other hand!
The time has not yet come to die, Yemos.
God of revenge,
who punishes traitors and rises up from defeat.
Instil in me courage and ferocity.
Don't let me forget.
I don't want peace.
I want justice.
You'll find your friends in Gabi,
you could ask for pigs for me.
I could raise them. It is the only job I can do.
You have driven death away.
I owe you my life.
You don't owe me anything.
Your brother came back to get you because of me.
Because I told the merchants that we're brothers.
That wasn't my brother.
He had assumed his appearance and his voice,
but it wasn't him.
My brother loves me,
he would never ask me to die.
He sent you to me as a second chance,
to save me from the spirits that were killing me.
Are you Yemos of Alba?
Neither of us bears that name.
Tie them up.
What do you want from us? We didn't do anything!
The shadows return to ask for justice.
My son heard you, before moving away you shouted 'Enitos'.
What are you talking about? We come from Gabi, we're brothers.
Boy, I know Gabi,
and I know its merchants. I've never seen you.
This man comes from Gabi.
He insisted on seeing you.
I bring bad news from my city.
Speak.
Ertas and his children welcomed Numitor
to Gabi.
I am here so that my city be spared the curse of the Gods.
Is Numitor accompanied by his grandson? Yemos?
No,
only his daughter, Silvia.
But they both say Yemos is innocent,
and that the throne of Alba should be his by law.
Give this man food and wine.
Help us,
Amulius,
save my people from the fury of the Gods.
Go now, rest.
I will wait for the signs.
Then I will leave for Gabi.
Ertas has to pay.
An old woman told me
that the dead come back to life
if you feed them with human blood.
I think I'll tear you apart.
What's that?
Subtitles: Issaverdens - Rome