(dramatic music)
I spent six winters with the Hill Folk
of the Hawk Fhain.
(thunder crashing) (people screaming)
In time, I began to sense a purpose
at work in my presence among them.
Does Pendaran still reign in Maridunum?
King Pendaran joined his fathers many years ago, Hawk.
Four.
Looking up there in your hovel,
did you not know that men mark their years differently?
Fisher King's sword.
Your sword.
They say Myrddin slew 70 men
with his own hands.
When the Arwin falls upon him,
he is given strength from heaven.
Whatever the future may hold,
I cannot take up that sword again.
(dramatic music continues)
You return North, Custennin will kill you.
50 years and never once a word.
We do not forget who we are or what has been done to us.
Do you know what the punishment was in Atlantis
for betraying a king?
(chains clanking)
(person screams)
And save him like you could have saved her.
Show me you could have saved her!
(dramatic music continues) (water whooshing)
Stay.
(dramatic music)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(awe-inspiring music) (wind whooshing)
(awe-inspiring music continues)
(grass crunching)
(awe-inspiring music continues)
(footsteps rustling)
(awe-inspiring music continues)
(footsteps thumping)
(person gasping)
(fire crackling)
(Gern-y-fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(person gasping)
Gern-y-fhain has said the child has passed.
(fire crackling)
She'll bear again.
(Gern-y-fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
She's beyond our healing.
If you would have called upon us sooner-
Do your magic.
I'm surprised to see the standard
of Magnus Maximus discarded so lightly.
Not as lightly as they discarded his head.
The fool had himself declared emperor and marched on Rome.
Maximus is dead?
Along with the last of the legions.
(fire crackling)
(person croaks)
(somber music)
(metal clangs)
What is this?
You've killed her.
She was bound for death.
I will have my gold and your flapping tongue.
(swords clanging)
(metal sizzling)
(swordsmen screaming)
I'll kill you-
(chieftain croaking)
(body thuds)
(somber music continues)
(wind whooshing)
(bird shrieks)
(flags flapping)
(Gern-y-fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(Myrddin speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(Gern-y-fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(somber music)
(Myrddin speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(Gern-y-fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(somber music continues)
(Gern-y-fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(somber music continues) (fire crackling)
(somber music continues)
(Gern-y-fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(somber music continues) (fire crackling)
(tack jingling)
(somber music continues)
(uplifting music)
(uplifting music continues)
(water whooshing)
(horse whinnying)
(stream burbling)
(boar groans)
(rider shouting)
(horse whinnies)
(hooves thudding)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(dramatic music)
(dramatic music continues)
(bright music) (horse whinnies)
(bright music continues) (hooves thudding)
(bright music continues) (hooves continue thudding)
(boar squeals)
(horse whinnies)
(bright music continues) (hooves thudding)
(birds chirping)
(birds continue chirping)
(horse snorts)
(birds continue chirping)
Her hide will make a fine trophy.
As would yours, wolf boy.
(birds continue chirping)
Is everyone in these lands as ill-mannered as you?
(gentle music)
(Ganieda chuckles)
I am admonished.
(gentle music continues)
Will you stand there like a stone
or will you help me carry back my kill?
(gentle music continues)
(ax thudding)
(tree crackles)
(ax thudding)
(gentle music continues)
(wood clattering)
(gentle music continues)
Where have you come from?
The hills to the north.
I know of no settlements in those hills.
That's the way they prefer it.
They?
The bhean sidhe.
Hill Folk?
I lived with the Hawk-fhain these last six years.
They're a secretive people.
How is it that you came to be with them?
In truth, I'm not sure the answer, myself.
Will you not tell me your name?
If I'm not to know the cryptic tale of your time
with the Hill Folk, then you're not to know my name.
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
After a hunt, I am accustomed to a swim.
You could do with a bath as well.
(gentle music continues)
But it grows late.
I suppose you have earned a crust by the fire
and a pallet in the stables for your good deed.
You'd better come with me, wolf boy.
(gentle music continues)
(water whooshing)
(gentle music continues)
(awe-inspiring music)
(thunder rumbles)
(awe-inspiring music continues)
A mighty kill, Princess!
(awe-inspiring music continues)
Welcome to my father's house, wolf boy.
Come. Let's get you inside.
(rain whooshing)
(fire crackling)
Any man who turns against his own
is as much an enemy as the Sea Wolf
who comes in his war boats
or the Saecsen and his army.
(fire crackling)
Is this not true, Loeter?
(fire crackling)
How did you come to wear that gold upon your arm?
These were a gift-
A gift?
Oh yes, that is true enough.
A gift from the Irish and the Saecsens!
The same who even now lie encamped within our borders,
planning another raid! Let us go from here.
It does not concern us.
You bargained with those who seek our death.
Your greed has weakened us all.
I gave them nothing.
You gave them shelter
where they should find none!
Babes sleep tonight without their mothers.
Wives weep for their husbands.
House timbers smolder and ashes grow cold
where once hearth fires burned.
(ominous music)
People under my care
lie in death's dark hall tonight because of you!
(dog growls)
Loeter.
I say you shall join them.
I beg you, my lord.
Spare me!
(ominous music continues)
(dog growls) (Loeter screams)
This is what your gold has brought you, Loeter.
Was it worth it?
(dog growling) (Loeter groaning)
Blood for blood.
It is the only way for a king...
(footsteps thudding)
Daughter, I thought you were meant to be hunting.
I was.
Ah, and I see you've brought your quarry back alive.
Father, he helped me.
(Custennin speaking in Atlantean)
I wasn't aware there were Faer Folk this far north.
What might a savage like you know of the Faer Folk?
(Myrddin speaking in Atlantean)
(uplifting music)
Savior of Atlantis.
Our ships, they were separated by the storm.
Two ships landed in Lyonesse.
King Avallach, and his brother, King Belyn.
They assumed they were the only ones as well.
Two! Two ships...
Now this is a day for feasting and revelry.
We must send word to our brothers in Lyonesse, eh?
Oh, what a glad reunion awaits us.
Belyn still dwells there.
My mother and King Avallach dwell in the Summerlands
with my father's father, King Elphin.
Royalty on both sides, eh?
Good enough.
I am Custennin, King of Goddeu and Celyddon.
You've met my daughter, Ganieda.
Ganieda.
(uplifting music continues)
You must stay with us this night, Son of Charis.
I am eager to return home.
But the sun will soon set and darkness makes
for treacherous travel.
My hill pony is surefooted.
Yet by now, he will have been washed and stalled.
You would not deprive him of a good night's rest?
Well, it's settled then.
You'll stay with us this night.
It is a shameful business.
Forgive me, lad, it could not be helped.
Ganieda, make sure the Son of Charis wants for nothing
while he's under my roof.
(Custennin chuckles)
(dog growls)
My father likes you, wolf boy.
You are welcome here.
Am I?
I have said so, have I not?
Is that from your home?
It was a gift from a wise woman of Hawk Fhain.
As was this, I imagine...
(gentle music)
Those eyes...
Wolf's eyes.
Hawk's eyes.
I have never seen eyes like that in a man before.
I find myself endlessly curious about you, Myrddin.
And yet you do not reveal your secrets.
You need only ask.
I will call to have a bath to be drawn for you.
You need one.
Come.
(feasters laughing)
Myrddin lad, is it true
that you spent these last years among the Hill Folk?
I was taken as a child.
Well, surely a canny lad such as you
must have found plenty of chances to escape.
Oh, escape was there if I wanted it,
but I began to believe I had a purpose among them.
What purpose was that, then?
I do not know.
He will not say, Father.
He is as secretive as the bhean sidhe.
So, are you now to return to your people in Ynys Avallach?
That is my intention.
The weather's gonna break any day now.
The frost will catch you up.
All the more reason to go quickly.
You are likely to find your death
at the end of a Sea Wolf's spear.
They'll have to catch me first.
Are you really so invincible, wolf boy?
Look, if he wants to go, he wants to go.
(Custennin coughs)
Yet I would ask you to winter here with us.
Continue your journey after the frost melts,
then I can send a proper emissary to,
you know, parlay with our brothers in the South.
I thank you for your offer, Lord Custennin.
I will consider it.
(Custennin chuckles)
(fire crackling)
(voices murmuring)
(fire crackling) (insects chirring)
(fire continues crackling)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
Stay.
(gentle music continues)
(villagers chattering) (uplifting music)
(uplifting music continues)
(door creaks)
(birds chirping)
(Ganieda giggling)
(gentle music)
Surely this cannot be the great huntress,
slayer of the Lord Boar of Celyddon
whose footsteps I heard coming from a great distance?
(gentle music continues)
Where does the king intend ride today?
It is custom for him to meet with his chiefs.
What will you do?
I thought I could find something I might use to paint.
To make this a proper home.
This is not the life I promised you.
That is not what I meant.
I do not need riches to be happy, husband.
You bring me more joy than gold ever could.
But I will not live on berries and fish
in a mud hut with you forever.
So ride out and win me a kingdom!
Of course, my lady.
(door creaks)
(door thuds)
(villagers chattering)
Perhaps-
If you mean to suggest that I stay behind,
I would save you the trouble.
I would never suggest such a thing, lord.
Be grateful, Myrddin,
that you will not bear these trivial pains as I do.
It is true the Faer Folk live long lives,
but we are not immortal.
You forget that I knew your father.
I am yet convinced he was not of this world.
You have his presence.
(horse whinnies)
(hooves thudding)
(horse whinnies)
(hooves thudding)
(insects chirring) (cows lowing)
(tools thudding)
How fares the Fisher King?
Dafyd is taken to reading him from one of the Holy Texts
that he brought with him from Rome.
My mother says it soothes my grandfather greatly.
The grandson of King Avallach
should not dwell in a hovel with his Faer Folk wife.
You and yours ought to be under my roof.
We desire to make our own way.
A noble thought.
And that you shall.
I have no doubt that you will fare
far better than me, Myrddin.
Already you have a wife and the promise of heirs.
There is no greater blessing
than to leave behind a legacy
of both justice and righteousness.
You continue to confound me, boy.
(insects chirring) (cows lowing)
(insects chirring)
(wood creaks)
(horse whinnies)
(gentle music)
(horse whinnies)
(gentle music continues)
(fire crackling)
(gentle music continues)
(villagers chattering) (pump creaking)
(chickens clucking)
Bebbin!
Do you see this?
Toiling away.
When the Romans were here,
it was the men who handled this work.
Ah, yet the Romans have gone.
Perhaps we can convince them to return.
(friends laughing)
(swords clattering) (soldiers grunting)
(horse whinnies)
(voices murmuring) (wind whooshing)
(ominous music) (voices murmuring)
(water burbling) (villagers chattering)
(villager screaming)
(villagers shouting)
(arrows whistling)
(villagers screaming)
(ominous music continues) (Saecsens shouting)
(ominous music continues) (boots thudding)
(soldiers screaming) (ominous music continues)
(villagers screaming)
(soldier screams)
(fire crackling) (ominous music continues)
(horses whinnying) (hooves thudding)
(villagers screaming)
(battering ram thudding) (Saecsens shouting)
To the gates!
Come quickly, men!
Hold the gate!
(battering ram thudding)
Hold the gate!
Here! Help me! Hold it!
(hooves thudding) (villagers screaming)
Ganieda.
(villagers screaming) (ominous music continues)
(Ganieda screaming)
(hooves thudding) (solders shouting)
(hooves thudding) (soldiers shouting)
(Ganieda gasping)
(weapon thuds) (flesh squelching)
(villagers screaming)
(dramatic music) (soldiers screaming)
(dramatic music continues) (soldiers continue screaming)
(weapons clattering) (soldiers shouting)
(ax thuds) (bones crunching)
(sword thuds)
(weapons clattering) (soldiers shouting)
(Pendaran shouts)
(dramatic music)
(heartbeat thudding)
(Pendaran screams)
(dramatic music continues) (heartbeat thudding)
(Pendaran screams)
(dramatic music continues) (heartbeat continues thudding)
(dramatic music continues)
(heartbeat thudding)
(blows thudding) (raiders screaming)
Myrddin...
(Myrddin panting) (heartbeat thudding)
Myrddin...
(soldiers murmuring)
Myrddin!
(bystanders murmuring)
There are no words to describe
what has happened today, Myrddin.
None but to say thank you for saving my life
and for saving Maridunum.
(gentle music)
(sword clangs)
Lord, no.
The honor is yours.
Let be.
(gentle music continues)
(swords clattering)
(gentle music continues)
(swords clattering)
The warriors have chosen this day whom they will follow.
My people. Look upon the one you honor.
You have made him your battlechief.
And this day I make him my son.
(gentle music continues)
Myrddin ap Taliesin, will you accept the honor of sonship
and become heir to my lands and possessions?
(gentle music continues)
As you have accepted me, so I will accept you.
(uplifting music) (soldiers cheering)
If I had known all I needed to do was ask,
I would have asked you to win me a kingdom long ago.
(uplifting music continues)
Myrrdin! Myrddin! Myrddin!
Myrrdin! Myrddin!
(villagers chattering) (gentle music)
Well done, champion.
(gentle music continues)
The hearts of men are willing, Hawk.
All men want to believe.
Very few can follow a dream-even a true and beautiful dream.
But they will follow a man with a dream.
So give them a man.
(gentle music continues)
(uplifting music)
(Charis speaking in Atlantean)
[Mysterious Voice] Take me up.
(uplifting music continues)
(nobles cheering)
(uplifting music continues)
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(stream burbling)
(bird chirping)
(cow lows)
(gentle music continues)
(horse whinnies)
(Pelleas grunting)
Has your horse already bested you, Steward?
The mare has simply decided to play coy, my lord.
I admire her spirit.
I hate to send you north with so few men.
It is early for raiders, and the road is well traveled.
You could wait a few more weeks for warmer weather.
A few more weeks, and I won't be able to sit a horse!
Are my plans that obvious?
We will hold the peace until you return.
Bring us home a prince.
(gentle music)
(gentle music continues)
(hooves clopping)
(gentle music continues)
(Ganieda chuckles)
(gentle music continues)
(soldiers chattering)
(gentle music continues)
This is not unlike the glade where we met.
Do you remember?
Terror turned to awe in a moment.
Terror?
Of course.
Of me? I'm flattered.
Of the boar.
(Ganieda scoffs)
(birds chirping)
What?
(ominous music)
What do you see?
Old friends.
(ominous music continues)
(birds chirping)
(horse whinnies)
They are the Wolf Fhain.
They came seeking Ken-ti-Gern.
You.
They bring news from my people, the Hawk Fhain.
Our Gern has fallen ill and will soon return to the Mother.
Are they worthy of our trust?
More so than any people in the Island of the Mighty.
Then I will ride with you.
In case you have need of arms.
I admire your loyalty, Pelleas.
I do apologize for this delay.
You are a man of many tribes, Myrddin Wylt.
And many obligations.
You are my first obligation.
And our child.
Then do not tarry long,
and I will meet you in two days time
at the stream where I first laid eyes on you.
At the stream.
(birds chirping)
(birds continue chirping)
(footsteps thudding)
(wind whooshing)
(wind continues whooshing)
(fire crackling)
(water whooshing)
(Gern-y-Fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(Myrddin speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(Gern-y-Fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(wind whooshing) (fire crackling)
(Gern-y-Fhain gasps)
(Gern-y-Fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(somber music)
(Gern-y-Fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(Myrddin speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(Gern-y-Fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(fire crackling)
(Myrddin speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(Gern-y-Fhain speaking in Hill Folk tongue)
(somber music continues) (fire crackling)
(hooves thudding)
(somber music continues)
(Ganieda gasping)
(somber music continues)
(ominous music)
(ominous music continues)
(somber music continues)
(hooves thudding)
(ominous music continues)
(horse whinnies)
(ominous music continues) (hooves thudding)
(ominous music continues)
(somber music)
(somber music continues)
Oh, my love.
Wolf boy.
(somber music continues)
I'm here.
(somber music continues)
Ganieda?
(somber music continues)
(Myrddin humming) (somber music continues)
(Myrddin continues humming) (somber music continues)
(Myrddin humming)
(Myrddin sobbing)
I'm sorry.
(somber music continues)
(Myrddin panting) (somber music continues)
(Myrddin screaming) (dramatic music)
(dramatic music continues)
(Saecsen raider coughing)
(dramatic music continues)
(sword scraping) (voices murmuring)
(dramatic music continues)
(water whooshing)
(Saecsen raider coughing)
(dramatic music continues)
(bones crunching) (flesh squelching)
(sword scrapes)
(dramatic music continues)
(Saecsens screaming)
(dramatic music)
(heartbeat thudding) (dramatic music continues)
(heartbeat continues thudding) (dramatic music continues)
(flesh squelches)
(sword scrapes)
(flesh squelching) (dramatic music continues)
(heartbeat continues thudding) (dramatic music continues)
(Myrddin screaming)
(Saecsens shouting)
(metal clangs)
(Saecsens screaming)
(flesh squelching) (dramatic music continues)
(blows thudding) (Saecsen grunting)
(flesh squelching) (dramatic music continues)
(sword scrapes)
(Myrddin screams)
(dramatic music continues)
(sword thuds) (Saecsens yelling)
(dramatic music continues)
(Myrddin screams)
(sword clangs)
(fire crackling) (dramatic music continues)
(Saecsens screaming)
(horse whinnies)
(fire crackling) (Saecsens screaming)
(dramatic music continues) (fire crackling)
(Saecsens shouting) (boots thudding)
(dramatic music continues)
(flesh squelching) (dramatic music continues)
(Saecsen groans) (sword scraping)
(Myrddin screaming)
(Myrddin screams) (flesh squelching)
(body thuds)
No, Myrddin.
No, Myrddin!
My Lord!
Myrddin!
Lord!
Come up! Come!
Help me!
Put a blade in the fire.
[Mysterious Voice] Cast me aside.
(sword clangs)
(somber music)
Myrddin, don't let me die like this.
Lord?
Myrddin!
(somber music continues)
(birds chirping) (wind whooshing)
(dramatic music)
Tomorrow, we make war.
(dramatic music continues)
I think it's a desperate plan and foolish.
(dramatic music continues)
I would save my people from destruction.
So should you.
This new faith has clouded his judgment.
He's waiting on a miracle.
And why do you tell me this?
Because I think you can give him one.
If I lead you into victory, Uther,
the men of Britain will proclaim me king.
He seeks our deliverance from God
when he could so easily just give it to us
with his own hands.
(dramatic music continues)
How long ago you offered me the Fisher King's sword?
I've always believed you were meant to be High King.
How many lives must be lost
before you accept the power you were born to wield?
For Britain!
(soldiers shouting) (dramatic music)
How are we to drive out 15,000 Saecsen
with only 2 1/2 thousand men?
(soldiers screaming) (dramatic music continues)
Today, Britain dies!
(dramatic music)
(Myrddin screams)
(dramatic music)